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Tuesday, November 25th, 2014



There is a multitude of internationally-agreed environmental goals and objectives, which are part of outcome documents of relevant United Nations summits and conferences, resolutions of the General Assembly, decisions of other global intergovernmental conferences, multilateral environmental agreements and decisions of their governing bodies. The compendium of those goals and objectives is called the Global Environmental Goals (GEGs).
The purpose of the GEGs-Live website is to provide up-to-date information on the progress towards achieving these GEGs. In addition, it puts the information into the context of the currently elaborated Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The variables and data are mainly drawn from UNEP’s Environmental Data Explorer.
Users can access the information they are searching for either through the GEGs or the SDGs, as parallel points of entry. Based on the user’s choice, the website shows the direct interlinkages between politically-agreed goals and targets on the one hand, and relevant underlying data for monitoring these on the other.
This website is a value judgment-free effort by UNEP to provide up-to-date information to show progress achieved on issues identified in the GEGs and the currently elaborated SDGs. It is intended to better inform both decision-makers and the general public.
Posted in Blogroll, Design, Programming, WWW | Comments Off on Website launched: Global Environmental Goals (GEGs) Live
Friday, November 14th, 2014
Posted in Divers, Programming | Comments Off on Testing EDE’s graph inclusion
Tuesday, May 13th, 2014

Interesting, very interactive site of automatic information collection/harvesting on specific environmental topics or keywords. The engine behind runs through all major social platforms and collects information and puts it into the right perspective, respectively inserts it into its larger database for connecting the dots (that is, the environmental themes, keywords, products).
Posted in Divers, Programming, WWW | Comments Off on Environmental Change Media Watch
Friday, March 14th, 2014
Posted in Design, Programming | Comments Off on Simulation of Flight Routes
Wednesday, November 27th, 2013

Interesting website which “tracks” the impact on biodiversity loss through consumption.
Posted in GIS, Programming, Science | Comments Off on Mapping the Global Footprint (on Biodiversity Loss)
Wednesday, November 20th, 2013

Really nice tool to turn JSON into a readable format. Great!
Posted in Mac, Programming | Comments Off on JSON/XML Viewer Plugin for Safari
Tuesday, September 17th, 2013


Nice example of an attractive and both visual and textual display of indicators.
Posted in Design, Excel, GEO, Programming, WWW | Comments Off on Indicator Display
Monday, September 2nd, 2013

Nice way of showing how much time and effort goes when into a website design.
Source
Posted in Design, Programming, WWW | Comments Off on A Web Site Designed
Friday, July 5th, 2013

It’s not really an editing tool. But it can be used a bit as such. And you can read really big files (several GB large) with it. Really helpful. HexFind.
Posted in Mac, Programming | Comments Off on HexFiend – Editing In Really Large Files
Wednesday, May 15th, 2013

Cool tool which enables one to convert almost anything, SVG to image, Image to SVG, Music formats, …. Great! Or here for audio/video files if the file is larger.
Posted in Divers, Programming, Technology | Comments Off on Convert Almost Anything
Friday, February 15th, 2013
Nice little plugin, which avoids searching on the Net for the right HTML code for characters like “ö”, “Ü”, “è”… for Coda developers.
Posted in Programming | Comments Off on Replace Special Characters With HTML Code; Plugin For Coda
Monday, December 3rd, 2012

A clickable guide to the world’s energy use. Nice animation from Nature.
Posted in Design, Programming, WWW | Comments Off on A Clickable Guide to the World’s Energy Use
Friday, November 23rd, 2012

Nice tool to find a wide range of icons.
Posted in Design, Programming, WWW | Comments Off on Icon-Finder
Monday, August 13th, 2012
Since a couple of years I have the idea to produce an interactive book with great photos, videos and really interactive charts. Here is one which seems to be very good…
Posted in Books, Design, Programming, WWW | Comments Off on Al Gore’s Our Choice
Thursday, July 12th, 2012

Very nice interactive graph, which shows the energy flows. Transport, heating, etc.
Posted in Design, Programming, WWW | Comments Off on Energy Flows
Monday, June 25th, 2012
Interesting source, and nice presentation as well as infographic on land grabbing.
Posted in Divers, Programming, Science, WWW | Comments Off on Land Grab
Monday, June 25th, 2012
Very interesting website, where one can search for alternatives for specific software products. Type in ArcGIS, and one gets a full load of alternative software packages.
Posted in Divers, GIS, Mac, Programming, Technology | Comments Off on Software Alternatives
Monday, June 4th, 2012
( find ./ -name '*.php' -print0 | xargs -0 cat ) | wc -l
Count’s the number of lines in any PHP files of a directory and it’s subdirectories. Via.
Posted in Divers, Programming | Comments Off on Linux: Count the Number of Lines
Friday, March 2nd, 2012
Bret Victor demos some great looking software that connects code to the visual, making the creation process more visceral, and he finishes up with worhtwhile thoughts on the invention process.
Posted in Design, Programming | Comments Off on Dynamic Coding
Monday, January 16th, 2012
I’ve build a neat SVG application. It uses data (via a direct database connection) from the UNEP Environmental Data Explorer (ex-GEO Data Portal). Lots of possibilities to play around with the data, for each variable some 40.000 data points.
Posted in Divers, GEO, Programming | Comments Off on SVG and Environmental Statistics