Recommendation: Our World in Data
Just discovered "Our World in Data". Lots of good stuff, thanks to the University of Oxford. Check it out, especially when try to parse claims of "fake news".
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— LP
Tuesday, November 28, 2017
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- Decoding the Weather Machine — Discover how Earth’s intricate climate system is changing. Here is the full-length video.
- The Race to Zero Emissions — How carbon-capture technology could save humanity
- 'Vanishing' — The extinction crisis is far worse than you think: An online narrative from CNN
- More Than Scientists — Climate scientists share their personal hopes and concerns about climate change
- "From the Ashes" by Michael Bonfiglio
- "An Inconvenient Sequel: Truth to Power" by Bonni Cohen, Jon Shenk and Al Gore
- "Global Weirding" with Katharine Hayhoe
- "Time to Choose" by Charles Ferguson
- "Chasing Ice" by Jeff Orlowski and James Balog
- "Before the Flood" by Fisher Stevens and Leonardo DiCaprio
- "Years of Living Dangerously" from the National Geographic Channel
Websites, films and TV series on climate change
Want to do something about climate change? Check out these resources:
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- Happy Planet Index
- Human Development Index
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- Christian Science Monitor
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- International Consortium of Investigative Journalists
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- Food & Environment Reporting Network (FERN)
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- MIT Technology Review
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- Nature Climate Change
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- Our World in Data
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- Updraft from Minnesota Public Radio
- Utility DIVE
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- Yale Climate Connections
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- Alliance for Sustainability
- Center for Energy and the Environment
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- Minnesota Pollution Control Agency
- Minnesota Sea Grant
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- Minnesota Waste Wise
- RE-AMP
- Recycle More Minnesota
- Rural Renewable Energy Alliance
- Wind on the Wires
- Windustry
Midwest Energy, Environment & Sustainability
- 1% for the Planet
- 350.org
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- Alliance to Save Energy
- American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy
- American Solar Energy Society
- American Wind Energy Association
- Appliance Standards Awareness Project
- Association for the Advancement of Sustainability in Higher Education
- The Azimuth Project
- Basel Action Network
- Berkeley Earth
- Blue Planet Foundation
- BlueGreen Alliance
- Blueprint for a Carbon-Free America
- Carbon Monitoring for Action
- Carbon Tax Center
- The Carbon Underground
- Carbon War Room
- Center for Biological Diversity
- Center for Climate and Energy Solutions
- Center for Climate and Security
- Center for International Environmental Law
- Center for a Livable Future
- The Center for Negative Carbon Emissions
- The Center for the New Energy Economy
- Center for Resource Solutions
- The Center for Science and Democracy
- Centre for Science and Environment
- Citizens' Climate Lobby
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- Consensus for Action
- Culture Change
- Database of State Incentives for Renewable Energy
- DeSmogBlog
- Down To Earth
- Drawdown
- E.O. Wilson Biodiversity Foundation
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- Earth Island Institute
- Earth Policy Institute
- Earthjustice
- The Ecology Center
- Encyclopedia of Earth
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- Energy Efficiency for All
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- Energy Foundation
- Energy Justice Network
- Environment America Research & Policy Center
- Environmental Data & Governance Initiative (EDGI)
- Environmental Defense Fund
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- Friends of the Earth
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- Go 100% Renewable Energy
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- Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change
- International Institute for Environment and Development
- International Institute for Sustainable Development
- The Leap
- "Living on Earth"from Public Radio International
- Local Governments for Sustainability
- Low-Carbon USA
- Meridian Institute
- Millennium Alliance for Humanity and the Biosphere
- MIT Energy Initiative
- More Than Scientists
- NASA: Global Climate Change
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- Oil Change International
- Our Children's Trust
- Our Renewable Future
- OurEnergyPolicy.org
- Pew Environment Group
- The Population Institute
- Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK)
- Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility
- Prime Coalition — placing charitable capital into market-based solutions to climate change
- Pure Earth
- Rainforest Action Network
- RealClimate
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- Resource Watch
- RISE national policy and regulatory frameworks for sustainable energy
- Risky Business Project
- Rocky Mountain Institute
- Scorecard — The pollution information site
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- Skeptical Science
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- Stanford Global Climate and Energy Project
- Stanford Steyer-Taylor Center for Energy Policy and Finance
- Stanford Woods Institute for the Environment
- Streetfilms — Documenting smart transportation design and policy
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- United Nations Environment Programme
- United States of Climate Change
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- Urban Sustainability Directors Network (USDN)
- Virgin Earth Challenge
- What We Know from the American Association for the Advancement of Science
- World Energy Council
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- Yale Environment 360
- Yale Project on Climate Change Communication
Climate, Energy, Environment & Sustainability
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- Feeding Our Community Partners
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- Eat These Fish!
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- International Programme on the State of the Ocean
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- Oceana
- Plate of the Union
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- Seafood Watch
- SeaWeb
- Slow Food
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- Sustainable Table
Food, Agriculture, Land & Sea Use
- AllGov
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- Center for Responsive Politics
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- Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington
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- Every Voice Center
- Issue One
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- National Institute on Money in State Politics
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- ProgressivePunch
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- represent.us
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Uniquely Minnesota
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- Center for Democracy & Technology
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- Center for Inquiry
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- Center for a New American Dream
- Center for Public Integrity
- Center for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington
- Center for Science in the Public Interest
- Citizens for Global Solutions
- Citizens for Tax Justice
- Citizens Trade Campaign
- Common Cause
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- Courage to Resist
- Democracy Corps
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- Demos: A Network for Ideas & Action
- Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Families USA
- Federation of American Scientists
- Foreign Policy In Focus
- Fourth Sector Network
- Global Policy Forum
- Global Witness
- Good Jobs First
- Honor the Earth
- Inequality.org
- Institute for Policy Studies
- Institute for Public Accuracy
- Institute for Research on Poverty
- The Joyce Foundation
- Measure of America
- National Priorities Project
- NETWORK (Nuns on the Bus)
- New America Foundation
- The Other 98%
- People for the American Way
- Pew Research Center
- Progressive States Network
- Public Agenda
- Public Citizen
- Reclaim Democracy
- Republic Report
- Roosevelt Institute
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- SourceWatch
- Tax Policy Center
- TED (Technology, Entertainment, Design)
- Tellus Institute
- Transparency International
- United for a Fair Economy
- World Policy Institute
Policy, Advocacy & Research
- Center for Investigative Reporting
- ePluribus Media
- Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR)
- freepress
- Knight Science Journalism Tracker
- Media Matters for America
- National Coalition Against Censorship
- Nieman Reports
- The Norman Lear Center
- Pew Research Journalism Project
- Project Censored
- The Public Radio Exchange
Media, Journalism & Censorship
- American Sustainable Business Council
- B Corporation
- Breakthrough Energy Ventures (BEV)
- Business Alliance for Local Living Economies (BALLE)
- businessGreen
- Capital Institute
- Carbon Tracker
- CDP - Driving Sustainable Economies
- Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy (CASSE)
- Center for Economic and Policy Research
- Center for Popular Economics
- Center for Responsible Lending
- Ceres — Mobilizing Business Leadership for a Sustainable World
- Clean Edge — Indexing the Clean Energy Economy
- Clean Energy Trust
- Conscious Company Magazine
- Corporate Accountability International
- Corporate Knights
- CorpWatch
- Economic Policy Institute
- The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity
- Economists for Peace and Security
- Environmental Economics
- Environmental Entrepreneurs (E2)
- Finance Watch
- The Forum for Sustainable and Responsible Investment (US SIF)
- Fossil Free Funds
- Fossil Free Indexes
- Foundation on Economic Trends
- Global Sustainable Investment Alliance (GSIA)
- Green Climate Fund
- GreenBiz
- GrowthBusters
- Institute for Economics and Peace
- Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy
- The International Society for Ecological Economics
- National Economic and Social Rights Initiative
- New Economics Foundation
- New Economy Coalition
- Political Economy Research Institute
- Program on Corporations, Law & Democracy
- RobecoSAM Sustainability Investing
- SocialFunds
- Sustainable Investment
- Sustainable Investment Institute (Si2)
- Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures
- The World Bank: Climate Change
- World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD)
Economics, Business, Investing & Philanthropy
- CatalogChoice
- Consumer Reports WebWatch
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- Fair Trade Certified
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- GoodGuide
- Green America
- greenerchoices from Consumer Reports
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- Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine
- Physicians for Social Responsibility
- CitizenVox
- Conscience of a Liberal
- Crooks and Liars
- Hightower Lowdown
- Jim and Sam's 1850 Octagon House
- Robert Reich
- Rolling with Sisyphus
- Think Progress
- TomDispatch
- Words as Weapons
- The Borgen Project
- charity: water
- CIVICUS World Alliance for Citizen Participation
- Doctors Without Borders
- GAVI Alliance
- The Giving Pledge
- Global Exchange
- Grameen Foundation
- Greater Good
- Heifer International
- Kids Against Hunger
- Kiva
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- Oxfam America
- Oxfam International
- Partners in Health
- Project Healthy Children
- Save the Children
- Save Darfur Coalition
- Smile Train
- Apple Recycling Program
- Best Buy Recycling Program
- Eco-Cycle
- Electronics TakeBack Coalition
- PCs for People
- Product Stewardship Institute
- TerraCycle
- Stephen Ross Wine Cellars, San Luis Obispo, California
- Tulocay Winery, Napa, California
- Vino Noceto, Plymouth, California
- Willis Hall Wines, Marysville, Washington
- Wine Industry News
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Tom Maertens served as National Security Council director for nonproliferation and homeland defense under Presidents Bill Clinton and George W. Bush, and as deputy coordinator for counterterrorism in the State Department during and after 9/11. Before retiring from the U.S. Foreign Service in 2002, he had served in Ethiopia, Colombia, the USSR, Panama, Austria, and Russia after the breakup of the Soviet Union.Leigh Pomeroy has written on subjects ranging from politics to health care to film to wine. He has assisted on two books, Dr. D's Handbook for Men Over 40 by Dr. Peter Dorsen and Not What the Doctor Ordered by Jeffrey C. Bauer. In 2004, he was the DFL (Democratic Party) Candidate for the U.S. House of Representatives in Minnesota's 1st Congressional District. He formerly taught writing and film at Minnesota State University, Mankato.
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