Monday, November 25, 2013

Which fossil fuel companies are most responsible for climate change? – interactive | Environment | theguardian.com

Which fossil fuel companies are most responsible for climate change? – interactive | Environment | theguardian.com

This is a great piece of visualisation and the companies have to be held to account by their investors, users and employees in order to make the changes the planet needs!
http://www.theguardian.com/environment/interactive/2013/nov/20/which-fossil-fuel-companies-responsible-climate-change-interactive

Wednesday, November 20, 2013

4 World-Changing Products Dreamed Up by Bill Gates | Wired Design | Wired.com

4 World-Changing Products Dreamed Up by Bill Gates | Wired Design | Wired.com

This is a real insight to some global problems and potential solutions from energy to agriculture, new born health to cloud based diagnostics!

Thursday, November 07, 2013

Mega cities, Charter Cities!! Climate - Smart Urbanisation

This connected to the charter cities posts ive done before going back to about 2009 is a very interesting angle on this development. International development and children in the context of eco and construction industry interests. Childrens Investment Fund Foundation CIFF:

Climate - Smart Urbanisation » CIFF

The problem

The world is rapidly urbanising. By 2050, 70 per cent of the world’s population will live in cities. Cities with more than ten million inhabitants - megacities - are forecast to double in number by 2030. Megacities create significant greenhouse
gas emissions, comparable to those of large countries, and are wasteful of resources. If emerging megacities follow the current pattern of urban development, citizens will be locked in to carbon and resource intensive lifestyles.

The transformation we want to see

Emerging megacities are low carbon and resource efficient by 2030.

The impact we seek

The adoption of climate-smart principles in urban planning, transportation, waste and air quality management systems by megacities in Latin America and China.

How we'll measure impact

  • 1 The percentage of megacities with integrated transport and urban planning strategies
  • 2 The number of megacities with development plans based on climate-smart principles
  • 3 The proportion of megacities with integrated waste management plans
  • 4 The percentage of megacities with world-class air quality management systems

Chemists Without Borders - Mission & Vision

As a chemist myself, I was delighted to be contacted by an old American colleague who was aware of some of my international development interests and the fact that I try and tie healthcare, education and technology together in this area.

I'm a chemistry graduate of old but I married a pharmacist 30yrs ago and we own our own business. We help via Skype some people with pharmacy questions in Africa. I'm also a strong advocate of the "school in the cloud" hence the TED2012 prize winner links on my blog. I've thought of the "clinic in the cloud" from what we do as #digitalDIYaid but the "lab in the cloud" is a new one.

Chemists Without Borders - Mission & Vision

I must discover more experts and professionals running such portals and try and list them all somewhere. In the would of social enterprise, charity and voluntary work not to mention NGO, Govt and Private business this is so encouraging!!

I know through MSF there is doctors without boarder and other great plans around like http://1millionhealthworkers.org/about-us/
keeping track of them or signposting others to them has to be worth while!!

Tuesday, November 05, 2013

Big History Project

This is a great update and spans a much longer time frame that the Bradshaw link I blogged years ago but the link of science and history is great
Big History Project
while http://www.bradshawfoundation.com/journey/ does a great job of illustrating the science of mitochondria DNA and the link to geography, geology and sociology BOTH are really worth hitting the play button!!

Monday, November 04, 2013

Twitter visualisation: mentionmapp

http://www.mentionmapp.com
Another great tool (beta) to visualise your social media connections and hashtag topics in real time
#user-mentionmapp

Interactive Friend Wheel for Nick Horslen - Facebook Friend Relationships

My interest in Visualisation tools is given another stroke today!

Interactive Friend Wheel for Nick Horslen - Facebook Friend Relationships

http://friend-wheel.com