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Efas Frozen Yogurt Infographic Animation. Infographic of the Day: How the Global Food Market Starves the Poor. To understand the complexities of the international food market--and how traders in Chicago can cause Africans to starve--you could get a ph.D. in economics, or read a 400-page report from the World Bank.

Infographic of the Day: How the Global Food Market Starves the Poor

Or you watch this superb nine minute video, directed by Denis van Waerebeke. Though ostensibly created for a science show in Paris for 12 year olds, it's actually probably waaaay over a kid's head. Interactive Infographic: The Small Businesses of America. Interactive Infographic: Your Daily Dose of Water. Celebrity Photographs Make Trade Fair. Oxfam‘s set of celebrity dump photographs continues to pay dividends in the campaign for fair trade around the world.

Celebrity Photographs Make Trade Fair

Colin Firth, Antonio Banderas, Gael Bernal Garcia, Chris Martin, Michael Stipe, Thom Yorke, Damon Albarn and Jamelia are being joined by other singers and actors in a series coordinated by photographer/creative director Greg Williams. The photographs for the campaign are hosted on the celebrity page of Oxfam’s Make Trade Fair website. Thom Yorke, lead singer with Radiohead, said, “How sweet does your chocolate taste when you know the producer in a country you will never see did not even get paid enough to feed his family? How sweet does it taste, exactly, to know our own governments prevent these countries from ever getting off their knees & from ever being able to compete and get PAID, erecting barriers and then DUMPING on them from a great height whilst feigning concern?” Farm Folk City Folk. By reducing the amount of food you throw away you can help the planet, save money and have fun doing it.

Farm Folk City Folk

Here's the short course on how! The planet is only so big. Wasting food means more has to be produced than is actually needed. Food production uses valuable resources including water, energy, and land. Five principles for feeding the planet. Oxfam's GROW campaign is rolling out five easy ways for people who care about hunger to help.

Trying any of these principles, and encouraging your friends and family to as well, could make a real impact and help address the problem of millions of people that still don’t have enough food on their plates. Check out our guide to learn more about the five principles and how you can help. Taking the time to try any of these simple principles will really help people around the world who are struggling to grow food because of over demand for essential resources – like land and water – and changing weather patterns due to climate change. Collectively, we have the power to change things. Vermont Food System Atlas. Buy BC Food - Taste. Smile. Repeat. The True Cost Water – Video Infographics.

The Economic Cost of Obesity. About the Video According to Dr.

The Economic Cost of Obesity

James Hill, director of the Center of Human Nutrition at Colorado Health Sciences University, “Genes don’t make us obese. ‎www.esri.com/%7E/media/c371f47805c345fa84d32ac8a675046e.pdf. Blacknegative. Dangers of Fracking. New York City's greenhouse gas emissions as one-ton spheres of carbon dioxide gas. Here At Home - NFB/interactive - National Film Board of Canada. 108 years of Herman Miller in 108 seconds. Map and Estimates of the Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico - Interactive Map. About the Oil Slick and Landfall Locations The “estimated extent” of the oil slick is an estimate by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration of where oil is mostly likely to go based on wind and ocean current forecasts, as well as analysis of aerial photography and satellite imagery.

Map and Estimates of the Oil Spill in the Gulf of Mexico - Interactive Map

The “surveyed extent” shows areas where oil was visible on the water surface during aerial and satellite surveys of the Gulf. Oxfam NZ. Oxfam's campaign for a future where everyone on the planet has enough to eat, always.

Oxfam NZ

Interactive websites like Slaveryfootprint. South of Here. Reframing Mexico. SBS - The Other 9/11. After a formal request from the United States, two officers from the Australian Secret Intelligence Service, or ASIS, were stationed in Santiago.

SBS - The Other 9/11

By 1972, the officers had agreed to manage three agents on the CIA’s behalf and to relay information to Washington. “The idea of taking over for one of the allies in Chile wasn’t a new thing – it was the pattern of helpful smaller ally being given pieces of work,” says Nicky Hager, author and journalist specialised in intelligence. In 1972, Labor’s Gough Whitlam became Prime Minister, bringing progressive politics to Canberra after more than two decades of conservative government. One of the things set to change was foreign policy. Bill Robertson, then head of Australia’s Secret Service, had the unhappy task of informing Mr Whitlam that his spies were helping the CIA to undermine a fellow progressive, left-wing government in South America. Welcome to Pine Point. Welcome to Pine Point. Meal Exchange - An Introduction to Food Security.

The simple case for investing in girls. Here are three solid reasons why we want you to invest your time, energy and capital in an adolescent girl 1.

The simple case for investing in girls

Girls are agents of change They play a crucial role in solving the most persistent development problems facing the world today. By investing in their economic potential through education and by delaying child marriage and teen pregnancy, issues such as HIV and AIDS can be resolved and the cycle of poverty can be broken. To learn how a girl's success is the world's success, watch the girl effect films above. John Lennon 1969 Interview I Met the Walrus. Wealth Inequality in America. FOOD FIGHT: Bullies Poisoning The 'Hood Get Splattered! The UK Energy Consumption Guide from Evoenergy. Impacts of Meat Consumption « Seed Map Seed Map. ‎usc-canada.org/UserFiles/File/rice-web-activity-2013-05.pdf. Food System Bean Vote Plinko Game at the Minnesota State Fair.

Statement This interactive food system game plays on the idea of the “corn vote,” a popular form of fair opinion polling, in which participants vote by placing corn kernels in mason jars.

Food System Bean Vote Plinko Game at the Minnesota State Fair

The game is built in the form of a Plinko Board with mason jars at bottom representing different components of the food system (healthy eating, vibrant farms, thriving economies, etc.) Kid's Corner - Food Chain Game. Kid's Corner - Food Chain Game. ‎sustain.ubc.ca/sites/sustain.ubc.ca/files/seedslibrary/2013-LFS450-Grp6-Map-Original.doc_.pdf. Open Green Map. ‎www.uvm.edu/sustainableagriculture/Documents/SACMappingreduced.pdf. Suburban areas of british columbia. Slavery Footprint - Made In A Free World. Angela Morelli » The Global Water Footprint of Humanity. World Water Day - Barilla CFN. Maryland Food System Map. World-resources-map-r2.gif 1,450×1,450 pixels.

Nutrition Analysis Tool. Trace Product. Maria Zenkevich. Vegetable Gardening for novice gardeners by Maria Zenkevich. Tomorrow's agriculture / News / HOME - Food We Want. Opportunities for sustainable agriculture: biodiversity, food sovereignty, security.

Tomorrow's agriculture / News / HOME - Food We Want

And the crucial role of small farmers The future: sustainable agriculture and what we can do ourselves Consumers worldwide have the right to choose what type of agricultural model to support, by making specific day to day choices. The result will be global. The sustainable agriculture approach promotes the ability of small agricultural producers to access and own their production resources and to use them to ensure sustenance. The future: sustainable agriculture is what we can create. PIG 05049 – Christien Meindertsma. Dutch artist Christien Meindertsma made this beautiful book about all the products that were made from one pig, nr. 05049. ‎thefoodproject.org/sites/default/files/5Trace%20the%20French%20Fry08.pdf. Molleindustria. TEDxOslo - Angela Morelli - The Global Water Footprint of Humanity. Arlene Birt - Northern Lights.mn.

Visualizing Grocery Impacts Visualizing Grocery Impacts is a data-driven and interactive installation that will help individuals better understand how their daily purchases have global social and environmental impact. In an installation which mimics a super-market, products with custom labels can be collected from the shelves by visitors, and scanned with a barcode reader that will project interactive and visual information on the productʼs background impacts (including global, ecological, political, social and cultural impacts) onto a nearby wall.

The variety of visual background stories presented will display information with an activist intent as well as in a positive light to motivate consumers toward more conscious purchasing decisions. The installation will provide an innovative approach to understanding sustainability: as an intersection between digital data and the physical world. Artist statement (extract) Reconstructing our food system. 13 Reasons Why Your Brain Craves Infographics [HTML 5]