Digital Atlas Project
It’s time . . . After a twenty-year run, the web and web authoring have moved on, so it’s time to retire GeoKnow.net. However, all the great resources you have come to expect will now be found at the Digital
The Digital Atlas Project is LIVE!
Finally! An up-to-date digital atlas available online, anytime, anywhere you have an internet connection – without having to lug an out-of-date book atlas around with you! And it’s completely FREE with NO ADVERTS! The Digital Atlas Project is here! Maps,
Great overview of the hydropower (HEP) potential
Harnessing the power of the movement of water is called hydropower or hydroelectric power (HEP). It’s the single largest contributor of renewable energy in the world, dwarfing the much more talked-about solar and wind. Of course, the other advantage is
Palm oil is not the culprit Coconut oil is
I was shocked enough by this headline that I really had to share it: Coconut oil production threatens five times more species than palm oil – new findings The Conversation And here we thought palm oil was the ‘bad guy’,
The true size of countries on a world map – more on Mercator
We’ve known for some time now how the Mercator Projection distorts land masses and the sizes of countries further from the Equator. You’ve probably all seen the humorous portrayal on West Wing. I even wrote a post featuring the Google
News Feature: The quest for the sustainable city | PNAS
Cities have become epicenters for confronting climate change, harnessing renewable energy, and mitigating pollution. The city plans striving for sustainability are many. Easy solutions are few. New York, London, Copenhagen, and most of the other large cities in the developed
The Aurora Forecast is Excellent! –Geophysical Institute
If you have a clear sky tonight and tomorrow night, get out of the city and look up, look way up, to the north and you might just be treated to the Aurora Borealis – the Northern Lights. Forecasts of
Where’s the Geography in it?
As teachers, we are always looking for two things: how to start the year off and how to connect the everyday to our subject. Here’s an activity I have my students complete at the beginning of the year. It’s a
The Amazon Is on Fire, but Earth Has Plenty of Oxygen – The Atlantic
Despite what teachers, textbooks, authors, environmentalists and media commentators have been saying for decades, the fact is, most of the oxygen produced on Earth by photosynthesis is NOT from rainforests but from phytoplankton in the oceans. How many of you
‘Plastic recycling is a myth’: what really happens to your rubbish? | Environment | The Guardian
You sort your recycling, leave it to be collected – and then what? From councils burning the lot to foreign landfill sites overflowing with British rubbish, Oliver Franklin-Wallis reports on a global waste crisis — Read on www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/aug/17/plastic-recycling-myth-what-really-happens-your-rubbish
There are no passengers on
Spaceship Earth. We are all crew.
– Marshall McLuhan
