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CarbonVisuals: Making Carbon Dioxide Emissions more Graspable - information aesthetics

CarbonVisuals: Making Carbon Dioxide Emissions more Graspable - information aesthetics | Sustain Our Earth | Scoop.it

CarbonVisuals [carbonvisuals.com] is the "world leader" visualizing carbon dioxide emissions and other greenhouse gases.
Accordingly, CarbonVisuals have already developed several visualizations that aim to make such emissions feel more real, and in particular more graspable, as it compares the physical dimensions of several tons of CO2 emissions to everyday objects.
For instance, the CO2 emissions of the city of New York has been represented as a huge mountain of blueish balls - each basically representing 1 ton - that overgrow a 3D virtual city model of New York, while the according emissions statistics of its buildings has been turned into life-size - or huge-size - bar graphs. Alternative renditions, ranging from the level of a city- to that of a single potato, exist as well.


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What caused the obesity crisis in the West?

What caused the obesity crisis in the West? | Sustain Our Earth | Scoop.it

When and why did food became an addiction? And is fat consumption or sugar consumption the greater culprit? Jacques Peretti (pictured above) investigates.

 

"Genetically, human beings haven't changed, but our environment, our access to cheap food has," says Professor Jimmy Bell, obesity specialist at Imperial College, London.

 

"We're being bombarded every day by the food industry to consume more and more food."

 

One of the biggest changes in our modern diet stems back to the 1970s when US agriculture embarked on the mass-production of corn and of high-fructose corn syrup, commonly used as a sweetener in processed foods. . . .

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