Labor and Workers in the Food System

Sustainable food must be produced in a way that takes not only the environment and consumers into account, but also the people who grow, harvest and process it (Source). Resource Creator(s) FoodPrint is a project of GRACE Communications Foundation. GRACE Communications Foundation develops innovative strategies to increase public awareness of the critical environmental and public health […]

What is food waste?

Food waste is a massive problem. The U.S. government estimates that food waste makes up 30 to 40% of the food supply. In this video, Rubicon partners discuss how food waste is created and the solutions we can adopt to keep it out of landfills (Source). Resource Creator(s) Rubicon is a digital marketplace for waste […]

Food Waste 101

Food waste is a huge issue piling up on the world’s dinner plate. Amounting to major environmental, sustainability, and financial losses, Americans throw out 35 million tons of food a year, costing the U.S. around $161 billion annually. While these numbers are startling, they also mean that you, a consumer, can play a huge role […]

Global Carbon Atlas

The Global Carbon Atlas is a platform to explore and visualize the most up-to-date data on carbon fluxes resulting from human activities and natural processes. Users can explore and download global and country level CO₂ emissions from human activity and look at the latest global updates that affect carbon emissions such as the Global Greenhouse […]

The Carbon Map

The Carbon Map provides current and historical carbon emission, extraction, consumption, and reserve data. The traditional Robinson map is used to start but can be shifted to show actual land area, population, wealth, people at risk, sea level, and poverty – helping students visualize and make connections between carbon emissions and the above listed factors. […]

World Air Map

This map shows population size, city pollution, background pollution, and plume AQI index in cities in every part of the world. Resource Creator(s) PlumeLabs’ mission is to make air quality information accessible and empowering. Every year, across every border on this planet, air pollution causes more than 7 million premature deaths. The magnitude of the […]

IQAir Earth

This resource is an interactive map that shows the Air Quality Index in cities all over the world. It also provides a daily world AQI ranking. Organization: IQAir Every year, 7 million people die from air pollution, and billions suffer unnecessarily from the effects of poor air quality. Yet many of people don’t have access to […]

The Weight of Numbers: Air Pollution and PM2.5

Emanating from smokestacks, vehicle engines, construction projects, and fires large and small, airborne pollution – sometimes smaller than the width of a human hair, and very often the product of human activity – is not just contributing to climate change. It is a leading driver of heart disease and stroke, lung cancer, and respiratory infections the […]

Me + Tree

ME + TREE reimagines what happens to the Giving Tree many years on, when a girl new to the city befriends an old tree at the playground. In sharing their stories and revealing their joys and sorrows, they see into each other’s lives, discovering, as all true friends do, that being seen and understood is […]

Our Animal Neighbors

A story for children about the fundamental connection between animals and people and how we can treat all of Earth’s creatures with compassion and empathy. Furry polar bears, playful sea otters, slow sloths, prickly porcupines, and slimy snakes are just a few of the many animals we share our world with. And even though we […]