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allows users to create animated visualizations of development data. To use Better World Flux (no registration required) all you have to do is select a data set from the menu provided and select a country or countries from the menu provided. From there Better World Flux creates an animated data visualization for you. The visualization will change as the years on the timeline at the bottom of the visualization change. This way users can see growth and recession of a statistic over time.

"9 Maps to Change How You See the World"

I found this page to be a useful tool to show students the complexity of determining levels of development. In addition, if you hover the mouse over the link you get a definition!

On Dec 7th 2009 at 1.30pm GMT people in 156 countries all sang 'All You Need Is Love' to raise awareness of AIDS Africa. Starbucks will donate every time this is watched (up to a million times).

poss starter for mortality.

Very interactive map of migration in the US 2005-2009,  Shows in and out migration.  If you needed a better demonstration of the Gravity Model or Ravenstein....this is it.

I wanted to alert you to an excellent source that would fall directly under the new IB syllabus for Patterns in Env Quality and Sustainability.  When asking for a case study on sustainable management strategies, I'm using China's Loess Plateau.  There is an excellent film (on youtube and on the website) of a watershed rehabilitation project that has been incredibly successful.  This case study connects concepts of soil erosion, watersheds, climate change, and the social/econ and environmental consequences of this World Bank/Chinese gov't project.

Good blog post about not trusting global stats on poverty etc. 

And as you might imagine, it's not pretty- climate change's usual suspects like more severe tropical storms, drought, and raising sea levels make appearances, but it's some of the lesser-known threats detailed here that make the report truly scary

Find out the cold, hard numbers on how much you can reduce your numerical carbon footprint and your grocery bill by switching to these seven low emission eats.

The Global Campaign for Climate Action is running the "Human Voices" campaign, a key component of which is the Climate Orb over on the TckTckTck website. It just went live at the end of last week and now you can add your experience to the project.

Awsome story about life cycle of plastic bag. You need to see it

Great visualizations of water usage, trade, footprint, etc.

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Reverse Migration Trends - UK to India

Afforestation and Deforestation 2000 - 2012 interactive map, updated monthly. Shows real time changes in tree cover and is linked to Google maps, so you can zoom to the local, regional or global scale.