GEOGRAPHY EDUCATION

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The Palestinian territory is in the midst of a construction boom, more than three years after a major Israeli assault that left much of the territory in ruins.

There has been a formal ban on building materials entering Gaza since 2007 (when Hamas took over the territory) since the Israeli government fears they could be weaponized or aid the military efforts.  Still, if the demand is high enough, some of the supply will still enter as we goods entering Gaza through smuggling tunnels from the Egyptian city of Rafah. 

Via www.npr.org

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Joe Luehrmann likes American cars, has owned a string of them and is considering buying another. But he faces a problem in trying to figure out what’s American anymore.

The globalization of industrial output and manufacturing had erased much of the meaning between ‘foreign’ and ‘domestic’ products.  Is it foreign if the company is headquartered in Japan, but has a manufacturing plant in California?  Is it domestic is Detroit company produces the car the maquiladora region of Northern Mexico?  This doesn’t even address this issue that any one vehicle with parts that are literally made all over the world.  Interestingly truck buyers are seen as the more patriotic, and companies emphasize their “Americanness” to cater to the cultural and economic sensibilities of their key demographic. 

Via www.usatoday.com

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USA:  The unseasonable warmth broke temperature records in more than 1,054 locations between March 13–19, as well daily lows in 627 locations, according to Hamweather. Cities as geographically diverse as Chicago, Des Moines, Traverse City (Michigan), Myrtle Beach, Madison (Wisconsin), Atlantic City, New York City, and Duluth, (Minnesota) all broke records for high temperatures in recent days.

Via earthobservatory.nasa.gov

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TheNational Geospatial-Intelligence Agency’s (NGA)  new director, Letitia Long, unveiled her new vision.

1)–Provide online, on-demand access to GEOINT knowledge by giving users access to all GEOINT content, services, expertise and support, while providing tools that allow them to serve themselves.

2)–Create new value by broadening and deepening NGA’s analytic expertise, through a deeper contextual analysis of places informed not only by the earth’s physical features and imagery intelligence, but also by “human geography.”

Via www.imagingnotes.com

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Learn more about the ethnic, religious and political powerplays in and around Iraq during a virtual tour of the region led by NBC’s Richard Engel.

This is an incredibly well-put together, video/slideshow about the complex geography of within Iraq that has lead to so many difficulties in the post-Saddam Hussein era. 

Via www.msnbc.msn.com

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“Teaching sustainability invariably involves teaching about energy – its use, its sources, its environmental impacts, and its social implications. This paper explores how one renewable energy alternative – biogas – is adapted and applied across scale and culture.”

This scholarly article (produced by an AP Human Geography reader and Penn State Geographer) in the Journal of Sustainability Education has many different applications: development, renewable energy usage and environmental sustainability. 

Via www.jsedimensions.org