The Tiny Life

Here is a graphical representation on how US tax dollars will be spent in 2010.  Notably is that money to green energy has been increased 92% while nuclear has decreased by 10%.  The largest portion of the budget (62% or 901 Billion), not surprisingly, is going to Defense, this is pretty standard for US spending trends.  National Parks revived a boost of 5%.  Interestingly The Department of State, has also a brand new line item called “Clean Technology Fund” at a half a billion.

Take some time and check it out.  What would you change?  What are your reactions?

So I found the article below this post and wrote up the post, then as I ventured out to find tomorrow’s post, I discovered everyone and their brother also had posted it!  Being that I hate to post what the other guys post, don’t get me wrong the other Tiny House bloggers rock,  I felt that I should always have original stuff.   So today you get two posts!

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I have this obsession with infographics.  What are infographics, for those of you who might not know, its pretty simple.  It is a graphic that presents information in an interesting and visually stimulating way.  I love it.  While me being a nerd and I love a good data matrix, sometimes the columns bleed together till you want to tear out your eyes.

This infographic is about how people around the world spend on common goods.  It is really interesting to see how much and of what proportion of money we spend on things like clothing, entertainment, alcohol and electronics.  It also serves as a humble reminder that there is much we could do without like people in other countries do.

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