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Not the end of the world: nine data-driven reasons to look beyond doomsday headlines, positive.news (Jan 16, 2024) - Assumptions and omissions challenged, response to: “Not the End of the World: How We Can Be the First Generation to Build a Sustainable Planet.” book by Hannah Ritchie, news.mongabay.com (Jan 16, 2024)
- ‘Ours could be the first generation that leaves the environment in a better state than we found it’, positive.news (Jan 16, 2024)
- I thought most of us were going to die from the climate crisis. I was wrong, Hannah Ritchie, theguardian.com (Jan 02, 2024)
2022-2023[edit | edit source]
- Collaboration involving local fishing communities helps save manatees stranded in Colombia, news.mongabay.com (Dec 18, 2023)
- Surveying the Open Climate Data Landscape, creativecommons.org (Aug 08, 2023)
- Children and teenagers can carry out valuable wildlife research – here’s how, The Conversation (Mar 06, 2023)
- Forests in the tropics are critical for tackling climate change – yet the people showing how are being exploited, The Conversation (Apr 28, 2022) — Fair deal for field workers needed
- If you want your place to practice doughnut economics, you can now apply "the four lenses" to any situation, The Daily Alternative (Apr 22, 2022)
- 10 years of School of Data, schoolofdata.org (Feb 08, 2022)
2018-2020[edit | edit source]
- "We're two opposed tribes, globalists and localists? That's the most dangerous idea in the world." Simon Anholt on the Good Country Index[1] Nov 20, 2020
- The rise of citizen science: can the public help solve our biggest problems?[2] Nov 16, 2020
- Car ‘splatometer’ tests reveal huge decline in number of insects.[3] Feb 12, 2020
- A look at Rotterdam’s policy for open land data, Nov 20, 2018...[4]
- If you’re just crunching stats on how social systems work, you’ll miss the nuances. You need “warm data”, Nov 18, 2018...[5]
- “People Create Place: Doteveryone’s response to the Smarter London Listening Exercise”, Mar 29, 2018..., by @rachelcoldicutt[6]
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2017[edit | edit source]
The most innovative ideas in data are going to come from communities, Dec 5[1]
- “Santa Monica releases second round of Wellbeing Index findings”, Sep 14[2]
- New open-source software supports land-cover monitoring, Jul 3[3]
- Sharing Cities: Using Urban Data to Reclaim Public Space as a Commons, Jun 5[4]
- Detroit Imagines a Citizen-Led Smart City, May 31[5]
- The 2017 Atlas of Sustainable Development Goals: a new visual guide to data and development, Apr 17[6]
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2012-2016[edit | edit source]
- New digital tool can help fight overfishing around the world, Sep 15, 2016...[1]
- Big Data’s Empowerment Problem, September 29, 2015...[2]
- The world is getting better all the time, in 11 maps and charts, July 13, 2015...[3]
- Online Discussion Making data more accessible for society at large, 24 June, 2014...[4]
- Hackers hold the European parliament to account, January 14, 2014...[5]
- Five ways the world is doing better than you think, Hans Rosling Professor of Global Health, Karolinska Institutet, November 6, 2013...[6]
- The quiet data revolution starts here….hopefully! September 9, 2013...[7]
- You Can’t Just Hack Your Way to Social Change, March 7, 2013...[8]
- Big Data Capabilities and Citizen Glitching, by Dan McQuillan, November 15, 2012...[9]
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