Thanks to Coolhunting for pointing out an interesting new book "Cartographies of Time", by Daniel Rosenberg and Anthony Grafton, which "dissect[s] and track[s] the methods people used when attempting to record the passage of time."

Some examples:

"Relying on symbolism rather than scholastic precision to recreate a moment in time, Johannes Buno helped redesign and redefine the timeline."

Katie Lewis, 201 Days (2007).

"Lewis used pushpins to represent significant 'sense events' and connected them together with red thread. The result is a precise yet jumbled representation of Lewis' bodily experiences. "

The following map shows the flow of carbon emissions in traded goods, and which countries are major exporters and importers of carbon emissions.

As GOOD reports: “When someone in the States buys shoes that were made in China, the carbon emitted in their production gets added to China's tally, despite the fact that the shoes get exported.”

The visualization and study shows that looking only at domestic emissions is pretty misleading and doesn’t capture the true emissions caused by particular country’s total activity. It also makes a case for changing the way we think about allocating responsibility for products to consumers. Read the full story.

Really, check it out.

Via Worldchanging.