“An interactive map to explore history’s greatest journeys, from Magellan to Kerouc.”
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This use-to-use interactive map let’s users digitally walk in the footsteps of some of the greatest explorers ever. Some of the pivotal moments in history was when geographers sought out lands that were unknown to them.
“Louise Fresco argues that a smart approach to large-scale, industrial farming and food production will feed our planet’s incoming population of nine billion. Only foods like (the scorned) supermarket white bread, she says, will nourish on a global scale.”
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Many advocates of local foods favor a small-scale approach to farming and are opposed to large-scale agribusiness. It might be easy for those disconnected from the food production system (like me) to romanticize and mythologize the farmers of yesteryear and yearn to return to this past. This talk highlights how essential large-scale farming is absolutely critical to feeding the global population; this other TED talk discusses many of the hunger problems especially the uneven access to food. Here are some other pro-agribusiness resources.
Tags: agriculture, food production, food distribution, agribusiness, TED.
For more than 50 years, the Jondahl family raised horses, sheep and chickens, grew corn, beans and berries on their farm in Minnetonka — all the while watching as Hwy
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“A former gang member from Long Beach, California, teaches break dancing to at-risk youths in Cambodia.”
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“By 2050, the world’s population will likely increase 35 percent. But is growing more food the only option—or even the best? National Geographic investigates the challenges and solutions to feeding everyone on our planet, based on an eight-month series in National Geographic magazine. Visit http://natgeofood.com for ongoing coverage of food issues as we investigate the Future of Food today on World Food Day.”
Tags: sustainability, agriculture, food production, unit 5 agriculture.
“Watch along with Expedition 38 crew members Mike Hopkins and Rick Mastracchio as they look at various cities across the globe from the vantage point of the cupola on board the International Space Station.”
Tags: mapping, perspective, images, remote sensing, geospatial, unit 1 Geoprinciples.
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How alarmist, racist coverage of Ebola makes things worse. A dressing down of the latest #NewsweekFail.
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The recent Newsweek Cover showing a Chimpanzee for the article, Smuggled Bushmeat Is Ebola’s Back Door to America, has received a lot of criticism for being factually inaccurate, but also for it’s portrayal of Africa that taps into deep-rooted cultural anxieties about Africa in United States. Western writers have use many cultural conventions to talk about “the Dark Continent” stemming from a long colonial tradition. Africa had been developing rapidly in the last decade and how Ebola fares seems to be a referendum on the continent for many cultural commentators. This great Washington Post article is less about Ebola, but uses the outbreak to analyze how we think about Africa, and sometimes it isn’t a pretty reflection. The Ebola outbreak is teaching us how we perceive Africa as much as it is about Africa itself.
Tags: Ebola, Africa, colonialism, regions, perspective.
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This simple WebApp allows the user to compare areas that are hard to compare on a map or globe because of distance or the map projection. Competitive students love to hypothesize and then verify. This helps strengthen student’s mental maps and their ability to make regional comparisons.
Tags: mapping, K12, perspective, scale.
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What would Earth be like if all humans suddenly disappeared? This question posed on the YouTube series Earth Unplugged, has many intriguing ecological and biogeographic ramifications that are worth considering to explore how systems are interconnected.
Tags: biogeography, environment, ecology, video.
