The Double Food Pyramid

The newly formed Barilla Center for Food & Nutrition unveiled a new food pyramid last week, showing the environmental costs of the more familiar-looking food pyramid. No real surprise, then, that the inverted environmental food pyramid illustrates how the most environmentally-friendly foods also tend to be the healthiest.

via www.barillacfn.com
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Small Scale (energy) Harvesting

A small collection of objects that analyses the possibility of collecting energy from everyday actions using developed alternative technologies applied in simple, uncommon, rhetorical ways.

This super tall and creative infographic made by Francesco Zorzi product / graphic designer based in Milan, Italy. You can see more of his work from here.

via Francesco Zorzi

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The Growing E-Waste Situation

As technology advances and we build more and more devices, the number of obsolete electronics in need of disposal is growing as well. The issue of global e-waste is a mounting concern. And as the problem piles up, many countries are finding it easiest to just ship their e-waste overseas.

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Americans Are Losing Faith in Climate Change

The ever-controversial topic has become increasingly politicized in recent years, with thousands of different theories and statistics circulating at any given moment. It is in this polarized environment that Americans form their opinions of climate change, and its importance as a legitimate threat to the future of life on our planet. Here we look at how these views have shifted over the last decade, and where Americans stand today on the issue of climate change.

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