Human Geography
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general, Hardware, Human Geography, Physical Geography
Japan Wants 30% of Housholds to Go Solar by 2030
Japan has set a target to increase it’s number of solar powered houses to 14 million by 2030. It’s a fairly lofty goal. The exceptionally noteworthy part of this is […]
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general, Hardware, Human Geography
UK Homes Wind Powered by 2020
Engadget is reporting a news item that the UK is planning on powering all the home in Britain via off shore wind power by 2020. That’s a pretty ambitious project. […]
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general, Human Geography, Physical Geography
Google Throws Weight Behind Renewable Energy
In other Google news, they have decided to invest some of their billions into renewable energy sources, like solar and wind. The plan is to make renewable sources cheaper than […]
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America’s Most Obese Cities
Forbes has a run down of the most obese cities in the US. Suffice to say I have a few issues with their methodology, but it is interesting to see […]
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Columns, GeographyAwareness, Human Geography
Human Systems
We are back with day four of the Geography Standards which brings us to the humans. Element 4: Human Systems contains 5 standards on its own, which makes sense since […]
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Historical GIS in Great Britain
I just finished my oral exams and passed, so just that little hurdle of a dissertation between me and those three very expensive and time consuming letters: PhD. One of […]
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general, Human Geography, Physical Geography
Ten Most Polluted Places
National Geographic has a photo essay/article about the top ten most polluted places on Earth. It’s unfortunate how many of them are located in the former Soviet Union areas. I […]
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US Commutes Getting Longer
The USA Today ran an story a little over a week ago about the changing lifestyle of Americans based upon the longer and longer commute. The data has been clear […]
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general, GeographyAwareness, Human Geography
Hispanic Heritage Month
Apparently the hispanic community doesn’t even warrant an actual month for Hispanic Heritage Month since it runs from Sept 15 to Oct 15. In recognition of our friends who hablan […]
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General, general, Human Geography
China’s own version of Paris – complete with Eiffel Tower replica
A while back I blogged about the planned suburb of Songjiang outside of Shanghai, China called Thames Town, which was built to replicate an English town, complete with shops and […]
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