OTW Blog

Something for the Ponsonby tractor (aka 4WD) drivers to think about – this graphic was developed from a New Scientist article (via the good.is blog) to illustrate the relative impacts on the environment of pets versus motor vehicles.

The impact from pets includes the manufacture of their food sources.

It’s taken some heat from the various counter-conspiracists (for example it assumes the car only does 10,000km per year) but is a thought provoking use of graphics.

Hamster and a bicycle anyone?

It is with amazement that we now hear the word ‘billion’ mentioned in NZ government and political circles with regularity – a billion dollar stimulus package; a billion dollars on roads; a billion dollars of debt, companies with market caps of billions, NZ tax receipts short of forecast by half a billion dollars.

We found this great graphic on a blog we follow called Information is Beautiful that pictures what billions of dollars look like in a global sense.

You can see the full-size one by clicking here.

Hmmm – seems like online advertising hasn’t quite sunk the offline modes just yet.