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Unpacking the Justice40 Initiative: An Insight into Its Expenditures to Date
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The Justice40 Initiative, under the Biden administration, aims to direct 40% of federal benefits from climate and clean energy investments to disadvantaged communities. The initiative’s diverse expenditures include promoting clean energy technologies, enhancing infrastructure resilience, improving energy efficiency in housing, funding training and workforce development, and investing in research and development. To date, a…
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Community Climate FAQs
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How to effectively talk about climate change? Talking about Climate Change can be difficult, especially when there is disagreement among people on how to best respond to Climate Change. When talking about Climate Change, it’s important to focus on facts and data rather than opinion. Presenting Climate Change in terms of tangible effects that…
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Baltimore’s urban heat island(UHI) footprint
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Weekly Data Story Today’s post was not planned to coincide with the sweltering conditions in Baltimore – we’re supposed to feel like 107 today! Urban planners and the rest of the players responsible for designing cities intentionally do not want to design cities that are purposely suffocating their residents with high heat. As average temperatures…
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Tree Canopy Analysis in Northport, New York
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It is crucial to comprehend the quality, quantity, and well-being of our trees in various settings, from dense forests to sparsely populated streetscapes, to enhance our environment. Trees play a pivotal role in providing numerous benefits and services to our planet, such as purifying the air, mitigating erosion, and reducing heat. Although evaluating tree…
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Landfills’ Legacy – don’t throw this weekly data story away
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Weekly Data Story Waste is part of everyone’s lives. Some people strive to significantly reduce the amount of trash they generate while others don’t give a second thought to what goes into the rubbish bin. In the US, most of what goes into a trash can ultimately finds its way to one of the…
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Impact of the Pandemic on New York City’s Airbnb
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Weekly Data Story How did the pandemic impact New York City’s Airbnb listings? For this analysis, we obtained our raw data from Kaggle and Inside Airbnb (great data). We crosschecked our sources with information from articles, data science blogs and other research sites to make sure that the data was reliable. Strangely, we could not obtain a dataset for the year 2020 from…
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Impact of the Pandemic on San Francisco’s Airbnb
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Weekly Data Story How did the pandemic impact San Francisco’s Airbnb listings? For this analysis, we obtained our raw data from Kaggle and Inside Airbnb (great data). We used ESRI web maps to display the maps. We crosschecked our sources with information from articles, data science blogs and other research sites to make sure that the data was reliable. We selected the years, 2019…