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Our Choice: Interactive, Infographic iPad book - Blog About Infographics and Data Visualization. Our Choice, is a new ebook for the iPad and iPhone by Al Gore that includes many infographics and interactive data visualizations that the readers can interact with.

Our Choice: Interactive, Infographic iPad book - Blog About Infographics and Data Visualization

Intended to be the sequel to his book and presentations, An Inconvinient Truth, Our Choice brings a lot of the global warming data to life. Mike Matas presented the book design in the TED Talk video above, and he’s the co-founder of Push Pop Press, a new digital publishing company. This is the first book from Push Pop Press, but they are working to make the software tools used to make this ebook app available to produce more ebooks. Ignoring the message and any controversy this book will inspire, the use of data visuals in a ebook format like this is a sign of many more data visualizations to come. Al Gore’s Our Choice will change the way we read books. The app is $4.99 in the iTunes Store, and if you purchase through this link, Our Choice ebook, a small portion will go to helping maintain the Cool Infographics site. Search. Comisión Nacional de Áreas Naturales Protegidas. El instrumento de política ambiental con mayor definición jurídica para la conservación de la biodiversidad son las Áreas Protegidas.

Comisión Nacional de Áreas Naturales Protegidas

Éstas son porciones terrestres o acuáticas del territorio nacional representativas de los diversos ecosistemas, en donde el ambiente original no ha sido esencialmente alterado y que producen beneficios ecológicos cada vez más reconocidos y valorados. Se crean mediante un decreto presidencial y las actividades que pueden llevarse a cabo en ellas se establecen de acuerdo con la Ley General del Equilibrio Ecológico y Protección al Ambiente, su Reglamento, el programa de manejo y los programas de ordenamiento ecológico. Están sujetas a regímenes especiales de protección, conservación, restauración y desarrollo, según categorías establecidas en la Ley. La Comisión Nacional de Áreas Naturales Protegidas administra actualmente 176 áreas naturales de carácter federal que representan más de 25,394,779 de hectáreas.

Top 10 Surprising Results of Global Warming. Landscape gif image by Keefers_ on Photobucket. The Zero-carbon Underground Eco Home. This new, flower-shaped 8,000 square foot house, which is being built for soccer star Gary Neville by Make Architects, is promising to be zero-carbon.

The Zero-carbon Underground Eco Home

Here's how they say they're going to fulfill that promise: It's underground, which will keep it cool in summer, a ground-source heat pump will provide heat, and energy comes from solar panels and an on-site wind turbine. Lots of skylights obviate the need for electricity during the day, and building materials will be local and sustainable. Also awesome is that "whenever possible," they will use traditional building methods.Since I can't find much writing about it, pictures will have to do for now.

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Top 15 Most Beautiful Lakes Around The World. We collected an amazing collection of most beautiful lakes around the world listed as some of the best earth pictures.

Top 15 Most Beautiful Lakes Around The World

All of them will be perfect spot for weekend getaway from stressful life, job and obligations. In the next lines you can see listed 15 of the most beautiful lakes around the globe: 1.Edith Lake Edith Lake is a glacial fed lake about 8-10 kilometers from Jasper town site in Canada. 2.Plitvice Lakes Plitvice lakes are oldest national park in Southeast Europe located in Croatia. 3.

Lake Tekapo is located at Mackenzie Basin in the South Island of New Zealand. 4. The Blue Lake in Mount Gambier, South Australia is a large monomictic lake located in an extinct volcanic maar associated with the Mount Gambier maar complex. 5. Top 20 Earth Pictures found on Stumble Upon. Everybody knows that Stumbleupon is an great source for beautiful photography, nature, pets, arts and much more.

Top 20 Earth Pictures found on Stumble Upon

They have millions of users and they are probably the most wide used source for finding quality content. Today, we collected 20 popular photographs from Stumbleupon. Most of them have been seen for more than million times each. We hope you’ll enjoy… Photo Source Photo Source Photo Source Photo Source Photo Source Photo Source Photo Source Photo Source. Solar990px.jpg (990×3675) Oil-affected wildlife in the Gulf of Mexico – in pictures. 36 Jaw-Dropping Nature Photos. La mejor publicidad de CONCIENCIA. Mosquitoes, Mosquito Pictures, Mosquito Facts. Few animals on Earth evoke the antipathy that mosquitoes do.

Mosquitoes, Mosquito Pictures, Mosquito Facts

Their itchy, irritating bites and nearly ubiquitous presence can ruin a backyard barbecue or a hike in the woods. They have an uncanny ability to sense our murderous intentions, taking flight and disappearing milliseconds before a fatal swat. And in our bedrooms, the persistent, whiny hum of their buzzing wings can wake the soundest of sleepers. Beyond the nuisance factor, mosquitoes are carriers, or vectors, for some of humanity’s most deadly illnesses, and they are public enemy number one in the fight against global infectious disease.

Mosquito-borne diseases cause millions of deaths worldwide every year with a disproportionate effect on children and the elderly in developing countries. There are more than 3,000 species of mosquitoes, but the members of three bear primary responsibility for the spread of human diseases. Mosquitoes transmit disease in a variety of ways.