The Year in Infographics

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• News

  

  Infographic: Two Years Later, Where Are the Haitian Recovery Funds?

  A significant fraction of the $2.1 billion for Haitian recovery efforts has yet to be spent.

  by Column Five Media

• Lifestyle

  

  Year in Review 2010: The Year in Food

  From foraging to First Lady's anti-obesity campaign, the year in good eating, drinking, and thinking.

  by Peter Smith

• Business

  

  Five Infographics on the Ripple Effects of Gas Prices

  It may feel like paying for gas only recently turned into an act of masochism, but prices have been on a steady march north for years (if you...

  by Alex Goldmark

• Education

  

  Mind the Gap Year: Global Citizen Year Turns 18-Year-Olds into Future Leaders

  Abby Falik wants a year abroad between high school and college to be as mainstream a pursuit as Teach for America.

  by Zak Stone

• Environment

  

  Everything You Want to Know About Energy in China in One Infographic

  A ridiculously comprehensive infographic about energy production and use in China.

  by Ben Jervey

• Environment

  

  More Oil Spilled in Nigeria Every Year than in the Gulf of Mexico

  From Boing Boing comes this video, by Al Jazeera, which offers one look at a legal battle between a resident of the polluted Niger Delta and...

  by Patrick James

• Education

  

  Year in Review 2010: Urban School District Leadership in Transition

  Almost every major urban school districts saw leadership shakeups this year. Here are some of the biggest.

  by Liz Dwyer

• News

  

  One Night in Bangkok, 500 Years in a Refugee Camp

  Samy is in Bangkok—over 100 miles away from the one place he’s ever legally allowed to be. After Google Latitudes abruptly alerted me to the...

  by Brian Merchant

• Education

  

  Year in Review 2010: California Set the Trends in Education

  The state that brought you Lauren Conrad, the Black Eyed Peas, and gangster rap goes hard with education reform, too.

  by Liz Dwyer

• Environment

  

  Infographic: Waste in Space

  A look at the massive amount of space garbage orbiting the planet.

  by Column Five Media, GOOD

• Education

  

  Infographic: Unhappy in the Classroom

  Just 44 percent of American teachers say they're satisfied with their jobs, the lowest number in two decades and an 18-point drop since 2008.

  by Column Five Media

• Culture

  

  The People We Said Goodbye To in 2011

  This year we say goodbye to addicts and martyrs, survivors and killers. 2011, we'll miss you and (some of) the people you took with you.

  by Zak Stone

• Design

  

  The State of the Internet, in Infographics and Video

  "The State of the Internet" by Jess3 counts and assesses our astounding internet usage-with infographics. Watch it after the jump. That's a...

  by Patrick James

• Culture

  

  GOOD Infographic in Meatpaper's Sandwich #1

  Sandwiched between the pages of Meatpaper 13 is issue one of Sandwich, for which GOOD designed a complex infographic on sammy interconnectedness.

  by Patrick James

• Education

  

  Infographic: Teaching in Higher Education

  What type of educational background do college professors have and what's the most popular subjects they teach?

  by GOOD, Hyperakt

• Design

  

  The Year In Photos

  Check out the Reuters year in pictures (barring some major news event in the next two weeks). It's a nice way to zoom through the year in a few...

  by Morgan Clendaniel

• Lifestyle

  

  The Year in Dealbreakers

  The writers of our Dealbreakers series talk about what it's like to air their dirty laundry.

  by Amanda Hess, Liz Mamont

• Lifestyle

  

  Kim, Hobos, and Flash Mobs: The Year in Marriage

  We fiercely defend marriage even as we perpetually redefine it. This year was no exception.

  by Nona Willis Aronowitz

• News

  

  The Year in Protest

  A look back at a year in which a Tunisian man lighting himself on fire resulted in a group of students being pepper sprayed in California.

  by Cord Jefferson

• Lifestyle

  

  Infographic: Not a Drop to Drink

  Across the world, people are dying from lack of access to potable water.

  by Column Five Media