Citizens data initiative news

• Researchers say real impact of deforestation being hidden in Australia’s official figures by ‘sleight of hand’, theguardian.com (Nov 19, 2025)
• IEA: Renewables have cut fossil-fuel imports for more than 100 countries, carbonbrief.org (Oct 09, 2025)
• In numbers: Renewables have turned Spain into one of Europe’s cheapest electricity markets, theprogressplaybook.com (Oct 02, 2025)
• Clearing the Air by Hannah Ritchie review – practical climate optimism, theguardian.com (Sep 12, 2025)
• How Japanese 'tiny forests' are sweeping Scotland, BBC Future (Sep 11, 2025) — Grown using the Miyawaki method, fast-growing miniature forests in the middle of cities can bring surprisingly big benefits for people and the environment.
• Which countries are scaling solar and wind the fastest? Hannah Ritchie, sustainabilitybynumbers.com (Sep 09, 2025)
• Countries must deal with imported emissions in a fair and flexible way, climatechangenews.com (Aug 27, 2025)
• In numbers: Solar and batteries are rapidly displacing gas in California, theprogressplaybook.com (Aug 20, 2025)
• Climate polluters may be allowed to stop reporting their emissions. That doesn’t mean they can hide them, yaleclimateconnections.org (Aug 11, 2025) — Even as the EPA moves to block greenhouse gas reporting, satellites and aircraft are stepping in to expose the truth, Karin Kirk
• In numbers: How Beijing cleaned up its air, theprogressplaybook.com (May 12, 2025)
• How to find climate data and science the Trump administration doesn’t want you to see, theconversation.com (Feb 14, 2025)

• The California Doughnut finds that California is overshooting planetary boundaries on 89% of ecological indicators, and falling short of delivering basic needs for all people on all social indicators, caldec.org (Dec 31, 2024) — The average ecological overshoot is 283%, whilst the average social shortfall is 34%
• 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)
• Not the end of the world: nine data-driven reasons to look beyond doomsday headlines, 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)

• 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)

• "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]

References

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]

References

• 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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