GeographyAwareness

October 2, 2009general, GeographyAwareness, Physical Geography

Great California ShakeOut – World’s Largest Earthquake Drill

With the recent devastating earthquakes in the Pacific region, the Great California ShakeOut is a very timely event. On October 15th, at 10:15am local time, millions of Californians are going […]
September 28, 2009general, General, GeographyAwareness

Google’s Project 10 to the 100 – Vote for your favorite idea!

You may remember Google’s Project 10 to the 100, which invited everyone around the world to submit ideas that “to change the world by helping as many people as possible.” […]
September 25, 2009general, GeographyAwareness

License plate spotting – a fun way to learn about geography

Once a week, I like to check out my hometown newspaper’s website, and enjoy the fun small town stories (some of which are about people I went to high school […]
September 19, 2009Events, general, GeographyAwareness

Museum Day 2009- Free admission to participating US museums and parks!

Smithsonian Magazine, is sponsoring a great event here in the US on September 26th, Museum Day 2009. Over 1250 participating museums around the country will be offering free admission, which […]
September 8, 2009Environmental, general, Physical Geography

Climate friendly news stack

When I sat down with the BBC News site today I was struck by the number of articles that are related to attempts to create green energy or cut greenhouse […]
August 25, 2009general, Groups

Associations/Groups – GISCI

Since I finished my GISP application and FINALLY sent it in I thought it was probably time to highlight the GIS Certification Institute. From their web site the GISCI “provides […]
June 9, 2009Environmental, general

NYC’s High Line Park opens – cool new use for abandoned urban rail line

I was browsing through some blog entries this evening, and saw a post from Inhabitat about the opening of the High Line Park in New York City, which is an […]
May 22, 2009Education, general, GeographyAwareness

Congratulations to Geography Bee Winner Eric Yang!

Once again it’s time for the annual National Geographic Bee. Eric Yang has won this year’s contest with a perfect score. Pretty impressive! Congratulations to Eric and let’s hope he […]
April 28, 2009Environmental, general, WebMapping

ToxicRisk – mapping Toxic Release Inventory data

Mike from MapCruzin sent us this comment based on our December 2007 post on the MapEcos project, in order to let us know about a project he’s working on called […]
April 22, 2009Events, general, GeographyAwareness

Celebrate Earth Day – because Earth Rocks!

For my own little Earth Day shoutout, I thought I’d share actor Paul Rudd’s awesome musical tribute to our planet – “Earth Rocks” from his time collaborating with the great […]