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Plans for a rooftop farm are the largest in the world.
Brooklyn Grange Farm is Expanding to a 45K Square Foot Rooftop in the Brooklyn Navy Yard. This is a stunning example of urban agriculture designed to produce local food, even with limited spatial resources. There is also a 3.5 minute video clip attached to the article.
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The Guardian’s health editor introduces our health factfile – and the full dataset behind it…
Discussion questions: What regional patterns are there in the per capita healthcare spending? What connection would you expect between per capita health care spending and the quantity of doctors? What areas spend the least on healthcare? How come?
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This blog post outlines an excellent craft activity designed for K-6 students to teach the concept of scale.
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by The East India Company with Sam Joyce Conduit Street, Mayfair…
This London Egg is fantastic. Happy Easter.
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You may be focussing on chocolate over the weekend – but where does it come from? A global trade analysed. In chocolate (this is what maps are made for!
What is the geography of chocolate like? There is a dark side (no pun intended) to the production of cocoa in many places such as West Africa.
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Between 1990 and 2009, cigarette consumption in regions of the world like Western Europe dropped by more than 25% – but that is only one side of the coin. Historically, cigarette consumtion has been a privilege to the rich and high-income countries. Now, with those countries understanding the risks of cancer and the dangers of smoking, the number of smokers decline. But in the past twenty years, for example, the use of cigarettes in the Middle East and Africe has increased by 60%: “Among the 14 countries where 50% or more of men smoke all but one country (Greece) are classified as low- or middle-income.”
“As consumption rates continue to increase in low- and middle-income countries,” the ACS report reads, “these countries will experience a disproportionate amount of tobacco-related illness and death.” In 2009, China consumed 40% of the world’s cigarettes.
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The latest data from the U.S. Census´s American Community Survey paints a fascinating picture of the United States at the county level. What are the connections between place, education and earning power? What patterns are what you would imagine? Why? Any shocking patterns that emerge from this dataset?
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As a team works to restore the North Carolina-South Carolina border to the original 1772 lines, some worry about the consequences.
Old maps and borders where often determined by local landmarks like trees, rivers, roads, fences, etc. Trees get uprooted and over time, rivers will wend their way down slightly different paths and the informal old borders get called into question. The border between North and South Carolina, traversing through swampy forested area was imperfect and now that they are trying to rectify it, some South Carolina residents face the prospect of needing to be North Carolina residents…not a small thing when you consider the utilities, government documents, taxes and voting.
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50 Pictures Of Chernobyl 25 Years After The Nuclear Disaster: Today marks the 25th anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear disaster. …
A haunting gallery that displays the effects of environmental and political mismanagement.
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