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Infographic Visualizes The Greenhouse Gas Emissions of 20 Popular Proteins
Last week, Environmental Working Group released Meat Eater’s Guide to Climate Change+Health, to make it easier for consumers to green their diet and the planet. They partnered with environmental analysis firm CleanMetrics to conduct lifecycle assessments for 20 kinds of meat, dairy, and vegetable proteins. Using a systems approach to conduct the assessments, they calculated the
[Infographic] Making The Case For Buying Local
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Online business directory eLocal USA created the following infographic to visualize the true environmental, social, and economic impacts of our purchases. (Click to enlarge) Source: eLocal.com
iTools: Building A System; Part 1 – The Dilemma
In this five part series, Bob Wall breaks down how created the interactive mapping system for the food sovereignty, urban agriculture zoning, and food policy council maps. In part 1, he discusses the dilemma that all those working with data face when they look to share it.
Why I Write About Food: Creating Community
What does—or could, or even should—it mean to write about food today? I am honored to join more than 40 amazing writers in a conversation about this question as part of a multi-site discussion hosted by Food Editor Nicola Twilley, in honor of the re-launch of GOOD magazine’s food section. It’s funny, in a million
Visualizing The Honey Bee Extinction
User interface and data visualization design firm FFunction created this infographic to visualize the severe decline of the honey bee population (Colongy Collapse Disorder) over the last 5 years, how it affects us, and why it matters. Why should we care? According to the infographic, bee-pollinated crops account for 1/3 of our diet and represent
Slate Visualizes Diabetes
This interactive visualization by SlateLabs demonstrates the rise in diabetes diagnoses among adult Americans. Slate used data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention to look at county estimates between 2004 and 2008. Mapping this data reveals that the highest concentrations of diabetes are in states like Alabama, Mississippi, and South Dakota. Click here
Open Sourcing The Food+Tech Connect Business Plan
I am thrilled to introduce Christine Rico, my business and idea weaving advisor. Christine and I have been working together to take all of my ideas and the amazing people and opportunities coming my way, and build a cohesive business plan. I feel very fortunate to be working with her. So, I’ve decided to spread
Open Data + Food Ontology+ Semantic Web Primer
Thank you so much to everyone who came out yesterday for the inaugural Food+Tech Hackathon! I will be covering all of the interesting people, projects, and outcomes from the event over the next week, but wanted to get you started with this awesome video. We were extremely lucky to have Dominic DiFranzo join us for
Infographic: School Lunch Food For Thought
Infographic about the health and fiscal cost school lunches using USDA, Let’s Move & Slow Food USA data
USDA Built The Dataset & Map, Now You Can Design a Farmers Market App!
In 2010, the USDA National Farmers Market Directory counted over 6,200 operational farmers markets in the country. That’s more than a 16 percent growth in farmers markets from 2009. In every state and season, shoppers flock to nearby farmers markets in search of healthy, fresh foods. Farmers markets can offer it all: from seasonal, fresh
Food+Tech Bites- 2nd Newsletter
Email not displaying correctly? View it in your browser. This weekly newsletter was started to help you keep up-to-date with interesting events, companies, and research that are changing the way we produce, distribute, and consume food. Have an idea, feedback, or an event coming up? Share it with me at danielle [at] foodtechconnect [dot] com.
Information Management With Miquel Ros: From Bloomberg to GourmetOrigins
Miquel Ros had been an information manager at Bloomberg when he started on a ‘side project’ to create an interactive map of his favorite cheeses, their origins, and their stories. Now, a year later, Ros, with digital design firm AIW Media, has developed GourmetOrigins.com, a platform that’s mapped more than 1,000 producers of gourmet food products
Weekly Newsletter: Food+Tech Bites
I’ve started a weekly newsletter to help you keep up-to-date about interesting events, companies, and research that are changing the way we produce, distribute, and consume food. My goal is to help you get your week started off right with deliciously interesting food+tech bites delivered right to your inbox. I have posted this week’s newsletter
Lessons From Charity : Water
Last week was Blog Action Day, a day where 4,319 Blogs and 33.2 million readers from 131 different countries came together virtually to highlight and read about clean water. In all honesty, most of us probably don’t care very much about the water crisis in Africa. It’s not something that affects us on a daily
Digging Deeper Into Obesity Visualizations
Rina Peterson’s “Fit & Fat in America” enable users to examine various factors associated with obesity
