civic data

State Carbon Dioxide Emissions Data

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Screen shot of EIA's Data on Missouri's Carbon Emissions

MICRO: What practices produce (or undercut) civic data work and capacity in this setting? How are data gaps worked around? Is citizen science encouraged or supported, for example?

GEO: What Anthropocenic load (toxic waste sites, mercury levels in lakes and streams, etc) in this setting needs to be documented, stewarded and governed, and what civic data infrastructure is needed for this?

DATA: What civic data and communication infrastructure is in place in this setting and how is it configured, accessible and usable? What data, infrastructure and visualization capacity is provided by federal government actors, lower level government acto

Good Guide [Environmental Defense]: Scorecard

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FrackTrack

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EXDU: What educational and research programs (formal and informal) produce civic data capacity in this setting? What data expertise is available?

USNRC Nuclear Waste Sites Map

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TECHNO: What technical infrastructure in this setting needs to be monitored, governed and planned, and what civic data infrastructure is needed for this?

Data: The Fifth Utility?

An interesting take on the possible need to consider data as a publicly managed utility, written up as a blog post by Pecan Street, a 501c3 development organization in Austin.
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META: What discourses shape the way people in this setting talk about and conceptualize civic data infrastructure and capacity, right-to-know, freedom of information, the potential of expanded public participation, and so on?

US Energy Civic Data

Energy Data