Kiva, a leading Microfinance organization, recently published a video which depicts the sum total of their loans and repayments overlayed upon a map of the globe.
Archive for tag: economics
This Guy Really Hates Pennies!
Apparently it costs $.017 to create the $.01 penny. Some $70 million goes towards subsidizing the existence of this coin each year.
U.S. Unemployment Visualization: Jan 2007 – Sept 2009
A stark visual interpretation of how unemployment swept the U.S. during the past couple years.
Consumerism Affects Us All Negatively
Consumerist culture has negative effects across the globe.
G20 Protest – What does this mean?
A pink-suited and helmeted Storm Trooper faces off against British Police.
Rob lives and works in the town of Jackson, MS where he leads the interactive department at an awesome advertising and branding agency. Life is slower than most places in Mississippi, and Rob tends to like it that way. Some of his favorite life experiences include sailing across the Atlantic Ocean in a 44ft sloop, learning to speak Swahili while living along the lower slopes of Mt. Kilimanjaro, and zipping along the curviest of Mississippi country roads in his VW Rabbit.