Visualising consumption

Just back from a trip to San Jose (yes, I have offset it), where I picked up a copy of a magazine called "Good". It seems to be about a wide range of issues that people care about, and has some interesting articles and pretty graphs (always hard to represent data visually in an entertaining way, sometimes they lost clarity for style but at least they tried).

One article I enjoyed was about a photographic artist Chris Jordan who is using his art to help people visualise numbers that are hard to appreciate, for example the 60,000 plastic bags used by Americans every 5 seconds (below). He's also done a series on American mass consumption. Worth checking out.