Washington Post: “…War is 24/7. There’s an unrelenting flow of images, videos and graphic updates out of Ukraine, filling social media, messaging apps and news sites. Then there’s covid, climate change, natural disasters and every new or ongoing humanitarian crisis that feels impossible to look away from. It’s important to stay informed, engaged and even… Continue Reading
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Environmental Groups Pressure Bitcoin Community to Lower Energy Use
WSJ – Consortium launches effort advocating changes to the cryptocurrency’s code – “A consortium of environmental groups launched a campaign on Monday seeking to change bitcoin’s code to decrease its energy use, which has grown substantially in the past few years. Bitcoin is popular among some investors, but its energy use has riled environmental groups,… Continue Reading
Visualizing Sunrise Times with Permanent Daylight Savings Time
Center for Data Innovation: “The Washington Post has created a series of visualizations showing how keeping daylight savings time all year around would affect sunrise and sunset times across the United States. One visualization groups sunrise times into half-hour increments from 7:30 a.m. to 10 a.m., shown by increasingly darker colors, and displays the correlating color… Continue Reading
Fire Information for Resource Management System
NASA FIRMS: Providing Active Fire Data for Near-Real Time Monitoring and Applications. “The Fire Information for Resource Management System (FIRMS) distributes Near Real-Time (NRT) active fire data within 3 hours of satellite observation from the Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) aboard the Aqua and Terra satellites, and the Visible Infrared Imaging Radiometer Suite (VIIRS) aboard… Continue Reading
Catalog of Open Federal Datasets Available on EEW’s Site
EDGI’s Environmental Enforcement Watch’s catalog of open federal environmental datasets. View the page here. “We are excited to announce a newcatalog of open federal datasets now available through EDGI’s Environmental Enforcement Watch (EEW) website. EEW works with members of the public to analyze and present EPA data on violations of environmental laws, inspections of polluting… Continue Reading
electricityMap
electricityMap – “The leading resource for electricity CO2 data. We provide actionable data quantifying how carbon intensive electricity is on an hourly basis across 50+ countries. The data can be accessed historically, in real time, or as a forecast for the next 24 hours. You can also explore the real time data on the electricityMap… Continue Reading
Over 400 Companies Have Withdrawn from Russia—But Some Remain
@JeffSonnenfeld: There are 33 companies that are defying demands for exit/reduction of activities from Russia [“The list is updated continuously by Jeffrey Sonnenfeld and his research team at the Yale Chief Executive Leadership Institute to reflect new announcements from companies in as close to real time as possible.”] Click here to read the March 17th… Continue Reading
ProPublica Releasing Data Behind Our Toxic Air Analysis
“Today ProPublica is releasing the data behind our investigative series “Sacrifice Zones,” which revealed more than 1,000 hot spots of cancer-causing industrial air pollution around the country. Researchers can now download the principal data files behind our investigation from our Data Store. The data that we used for the analysis is based on the Environmental… Continue Reading
2022 10 Breakthrough Technologies
MIT Technology Review: “Our annual list of 10 Breakthrough Technologies highlights the technological advances that we think will have the biggest impact on the world in the years to come. Every year, our reporters and editors survey a wide range of topics, from medicine to energy to digital technologies, to select advances that will affect… Continue Reading
Stanford Methane Study | Social Pack
Via Marcelo Gonzales Montoya, ClimateNexus.org: “New research from Stanford University finds that the EPA dramatically undercounts and undervalues methane’s climate impact. The study finds that methane’s impact on warming is best considered over the short-term – just 24 years – rather than the EPA’s preferred method, which calculates its impact over 100 years. Methane is a… Continue Reading
These maps from satellite data show how much Earth has changed in only five years
Fast Company: “In a new global map based on the European Space Agency’s Sentinel-2 satellite data from 2017-2021, the mapping company Esri has created a detailed rendering of the current state of the planet that anyone can explore. In the past, land use mapping has been slow, because it’s done pixel-by-pixel and requires a long… Continue Reading
Our 23 Favorite Products Made of Recycled and Upcycled Materials
Wired: “Tread lightly on the planet with shoes made from repurposed plastic, and many other Earth-friendly picks. Humans haven’t been kind to the planet. Climate change is out of control, and microplastics are poisoning our oceans. But even when we try to tread lightly, we still need to wear shoes and clothes and occasionally drive… Continue Reading
