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Which schools and doctors are best? Here’s the data.

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Posted on Oct 19 2010 by Daniel

Who is in the examination room with you and your doctor? It’s Eli Lilly!


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  Tags: doctors, education, pharmaceuticals, social justice Category: Financial, InfoVis

Where can I donate (fill in the blank) ?

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Posted on Sep 21 2010 by Daniel

Let’s just say that I’m hypothetically ready to finally part with my 5 year old “comfy shoes.” Do I have to throw them away, or can they find a new life somewhere else?


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  Tags: books, recycling, shoes, social justice Category: Solid Waste

Stop Clunking Things!

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Posted on Apr 23 2010 by Daniel

TweetAs many of you know, this is the weekend for North Carolina’s Cash for Appliance rebate program.  I don’t need to reiterate my objections to the recent series of “clunker” giveaways, but I’ll let Adrienne from Home Performance NC sum up one of the social costs: The only thing I’m not thrilled about in the [...]


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  Tags: appliances, cash for clunkers, social justice Category: Energy, Policy, Residential

Copenhagen

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Posted on Dec 9 2009 by Daniel

Tweet Anyone paying attention to the Copenhagen climate summit is probably overwhelmed by the numbers, negotiations, rumors and rants plastering the media.  The scoreboard above tries to simplify all of that by projecting the temperature changes expected under the current agreements. The estimates are generated using the C-ROADS software, a sort of “climate model lite” [...]


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  Tags: cap and trade, climate change, social justice Category: Carbon, Policy

Will Allen and Life-Integrated Systems

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Posted on Nov 20 2009 by Daniel

TweetNature is a series of connections.  We recognized this when we moved from the “food chain” concept to a “food web,” each component intimately tied through consumption or waste to many others. Many of our industrial processes and systems have lost sight of that interconnectivity.  We have inputs and outputs for a thousand tiny processes, [...]


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  Tags: agriculture, social justice Category: Food and Agriculture

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