News 21 Seminar

Below is a compilation of all the links on the topic of energy and innovation.  Addditional links will be added throughout the semester.

Books

• Creating a Climate for Change

Cool facts

• Argentina Joins Ban Against Incandescent Lightbulbs

• Water: The hidden cost of your food and drink

Interactivity

• TryDrugs.net

Insipration/cool stuff

• Nigel Holmes, principal Explanation Graphics

• Flash Forward Conference winners

• Interactive Narratives

Navigation ideas

• The Debt Trap (nytimes.com presentation)

• Visual Thesaurus

Organizations

• LEED program (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design)

Presentations/stories about energy

• Mister Trash Can (animated graphics)

• Vampire Energy (motion graphics)

• Is Your Home a Green House? (interactive)

• Climate change: The carbon atlas (interactive)

• Oil Shale and Tar Sands Programmatic Environmental Impact Statement

• Nancy Pelosi's plans to introduce a cap-and-trade bill this year

• China - Choking on Growth

Reducing energy use

• Blackle energy-saving search engine

• Project Laundry List is making air-drying laundry acceptable and effective way to save energy.

• Architecture 2030 is a nonprofit organization proposing a mortgage buy-down program that would incentivize homeowners to improve the energy efficiency of their homes.

• Article about Architecture 2030