Calling their work “possibly the highest resolution and most detailed view of forest structure and carbon storage ever assembled for any country,” the NASA Earth Observatory has released a map that includes measurements of about five million trees. With a scale of 30 meters, 4 computer pixels represents an acre of land. As the Earth Observatory states, The [...]
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Where the Trees Are: New Biomass Map Shows Forest Cover Across the U.S.
January 18th, 2012 
Justin Manger 
Posted in Conservation, Graphics, Justin Manger, News, Sustainability 
Tags: Biomass, Carbon Dioxide, Conservation, Environment 
1 Comment »Five Friday Facts/Infographic: Obama’s 2035 Energy Goals
August 19th, 2011 Justin Manger Can the U.S. really get 80% of its electricity needs from clean energy sources as proposed by president Obama? We currently get about 50% of our electricity from coal fired power plants, so roughly two-thirds of that coal based energy would have to change to clean energy sources in order to reach that goal. Here’s what it [...]
Let’s Set This Straight Once and For All: Climate Change Does Not Cause Tsunamis
March 15th, 2011 Justin Manger Eric touched on this in his earlier piece on renewable energy and disasters: the tsunami that literally erased some towns in Northeastern Japan has nothing to do with climate change. There are still people who, through their own deliberately misleading bloviation or due to misinformation from others, think and/or promote the false notion that there [...]
Posted in 2nd Green, Education, Graphics, Japan, Justin Manger, Oceans Tags: Science, Water No Comments »Infographic: Corn Based Ethanol
March 5th, 2011 Eric Wilson The following infographic came to our attention via Kevin Guy. It is hosted by the folks at Ecopolitology.org. It takes a look at the pros and cons of corn based ethanol. Check it out: Via: Online Schools
Infographic: The Internet and the Environment
December 30th, 2010 Justin Manger Most of us are online a lot these days. Not only is the digitization of communication, work, and play convenient and relatively cheap, it has had a profound impact on the “brick and mortar” world. Take the publishing industry, for example. Aside from the personal preferences that go along with reading real ink on paper [...]
Infographic: What if solar power grew as fast as Facebook?
August 21st, 2010 Justin Manger The following interesting graphic comes from 1BOG (One Block Off the Grid), a company that helps consumers pool together to get discounts on solar panel installation. The graph extrapolates the growth of solar power if its use were increasing at the rate of Facebook’s growth. Currently, solar power grows 60% each year, according to 1BOG. [...]
Global Forest Heights Depicted in First-of-Its-Kind Map; Implications for Measuring Carbon
July 27th, 2010 Justin Manger Data from NASA has been used to create the first map that shows the height of forests around the world. This article from NASA’s earth science team lays out the implications for measuring the amount of carbon in the atmosphere and for studying carbon uptake by trees. Scientific interest in the new map goes far beyond [...]
Posted in Conservation, Graphics, Justin Manger, Sustainability Tags: Biomass, Carbon Dioxide No Comments »U.S Energy “Use” in 2008 Mostly “Loss”
June 8th, 2010 Justin Manger This “Spaghetti Energy Chart” represents estimated U.S. energy use in 2008. Notice the minuscule proportion of solar energy (yellow line at the top ) and wind energy (purple line). The huge light gray sections on the right side labeled “Rejected Energy” is another way to say “Lost Energy”. The amount of lost energy through inefficient [...]
