-
Your Community Scorecard (US-based)
(Link)
Put your zip code in at Scorecard: The pollution information site and explore pollution information in your own community. OR, try looking for a business or industry that may be involved in your team's solution. Is the data accurate or out of date and does it raise more questions for you that you want to follow-up on?
-
Die Off
(Link)
Petroleum geologists have known for 50 years that global oil production would "peak" and begin its inevitable decline within a decade of the year 2000. Moreover, no renewable energy systems have the potential to generate more than a tiny fraction of the power now being generated by fossil fuels.
In short, the end of oil signals the end of civilization, as we know it.
-
Tragedy of the Commons
(Link)
What Shall We Maximize? Population, as Malthus said, naturally tends to grow "geometrically," or, as we would now say, exponentially. In a finite world this means that the per-capita share of the world's goods must decrease. Is ours a finite world?
This classic article helps define a dynamic systems approach to complex problems.
-
Can Selfishness Save the Environment?
(Link)
Conventional wisdom has it that the way to avert global ecological disaster is to persuade people to change their selfish habits for the common good. A more sensible approach would be to tap a boundless and renewable resource: the human propensity for thinking mainly of short term self-interest
-
Global Warming Interactive
(Link)
A dynamic model of global climate change that captures current thinking on the carbon cycle and fossil fuels. It produces estimates of the CO2 emissions in one or more countries over a period of 100 years. The model also takes into account social and economic variables such as development of alternative energy sources, taxes on carbon production, unemployment levels, and even public opinion.
-
World View of Global Warming
(Link)
In witnessing and photographing climate change, I traveled to seven continents. Now the LIVE EARTH concerts produced by Kevin Wall, Al Gore and their organizations took place on seven continents. Global warming is having worldwide effects and everyone has a role to play in reducing the dangers that are looming everywhere. I recommend this pledge from Live Earth as a guide to what we all should be doing.
-
Your Footprint - My Footprint
(Link)
This "Earth Day Network" site is awesome! Find out how much YOU add to the problem (argh).
-
What Can You Do?
(Link)
It turns out...a LOT! See this Time-CNN page called "The Global Warming Survival Guide"
-
Stabilization Wedges: A Concept and Game (pdf)
(PDF)
The Carbon Mitigation Initiative is a joint project of Princeton University, BP, and Ford Motor Company to find solutions to the greenhouse gas problem. To emphasize the need for early action, Co-Directors Robert Socolow and Stephen Pacala created the concept of stabilization wedges – 25 billion ton “wedges� that need to be cut out of predicted future carbon emissions in the next 50 years to avoid a doubling of atmospheric carbon dioxide over pre-industrial levels.
-
Worldmapper
(Link)
Worldmapper is a collection of world maps, where territories are re-sized on each map according to the subject of interest.
There are 366 maps, also available as PDF posters. Use the menu above or click on a thumbnail image below to view a map.
-
Many Eyes - IBM Data Visualization Software