Re: "Sticky Power," plus other miscellaneous class links

• Re: Global Urbanization - "The Sound of the City"

"This year, for the first time in human history, more people will live in urban areas than rural areas. Some of the quantitative statistics are staggering. Every day in the world, 200,000 people migrate to cities. Half the new buildings in the world in the next 10 years will be built in China. Mexico City has gone from three million to 20 million. In 1950 50 million people a year crossed national borders mainly from cities - last year it was 840 million." (via Linkfilter)

• Re: Global Warming - Cool the Globe!
  
• Re: Bottled Water's Global "Footprint" - "The True Cost of Bottled Water"

"In summary, the manufacture and transport of that one kilogram bottle of Fiji water consumed... 849 Kilograms of fossil fuel (one litre or .26 gal) and emitted 562 grams of Greenhouse Gases (1.2 pounds). [Plus. uses] nearly seven times as much water used to make it than you actually drink! Staggering is an understatement..."

• Re: World Poverty (about recently released global poverty map)

Re: World population - KQED You Decide: Overpopulation & Chinese one-child laws produce scary results

Re: World Diet - "Hungry Planet" - A photographer visited 24 countries and photographed what 30 different families eat during the course of a typical week... (via Yahoo! Link of the Day) At left, the US. At right, Chad.








• Re: Garrett - "Convince Me" Debate online, all the time!

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