Open Environmental Data Project

The Women Saving America’s Climate Data Meet the network saving federal environmental data. But, as Trump enters his second year, how long can this effort last?

"So now, the question becomes, 'How do we actually make it so that these [data and tools] aren't just sitting in servers somewhere without people using them?" - Brittany Janis

Grateful to be featured in @time.com , alongside some incredible collaborators in data pres!

time.com/7344773/wome...

🌍 This Giving Tuesday: Environmental data is vanishing. We're saving it.

Your donation helps us: → Rebuild tools when they're removed → Keep servers running → Make data accessible to all!

Give today: donorbox.org/open-environ...

Learn more: screening-tools.com

#GivingTuesday #ClimateData

Federal data and tools are all around us, influencing our lives in ways we often overlook. Our new data story, Protect the Data that Nourishes Us, highlights the data and tools that inform every stage of an apple's life cycle from seed to supermarket.

screening-tools.com/blog/protect...

Who will fill the climate-data void left by the Trump administration, especially this #COP30?

Read Brittany Janis and Cathy Richards' piece for @nature.com on the ways the seismic shift in U.S. science investment has sent ripple effects across the globe.

www.nature.com/articles/d41...

This toolkit is designed to support environmental research collabs among:
🫂Community-based organizations,
🔍Researchers,
📱Open Source developers,
💰Funders, and
🏫Research institutions.

You can also save, share, and download the most relevant bits of the toolkit, using our carrier bag feature!

Learn about themes and patterns common across the experience of collaborative environmental research, and explore solutions and resources that address those themes and patterns

DIGITCORE - The Digital Toolkit for Collaborative Environmental Research

We’re excited to release the DIGITCORE Toolkit! The Digital Toolkit for Collaborative Environmental Research (DIGITCORE) outlines challenges, problems, and situations experienced in collaborative environmental research.

Access the toolkit at digitcore.openenvironmentaldata.org

What we're reading | Open Environmental Data Project The books, movies, shows, and other media that are informing the work we're doing.

📚 What We're Reading: November 2025 📚

Every month, we publish what we're reading/watching/listening to on topics like #DataGovernance, #OpenSource, #EnvironmentalJustice + #ArtificialIntelligence. This month's list just dropped at www.openenvironmentaldata.org/what-were-reading

We’re excited to share the first story in our Made Possible series, showing how 2,212 studies relied on federal environmental justice tools like EJScreen and what’s at stake when those tools disappear.

Read today: screening-tools.com/blog/pedp-en...

Explore more at resourcelibrary.openenvironmentaldata.org

We've got new + original content, including:
🔍 "Data Decoders" or "101" articles that break down key terms + ideas in environmental #DataGovernance;
✍ #documentation blogs that outline different pieces of the process,
🧠 a knowledge graph for new connections between different parts of the playbook.

For those of you who weren't able to attend our workshops recently, we're excited to share The Resource Library for Community Data!

The Resource Library for Community Data is an interactive digital companion to our Community Data Playbook.

Dearly Departed Datasets poster

This Halloween season, we're remembering our Dearly Departed Datasets — the federal datasets that have met an untimely end. Help us memorialize what was lost and why they matter.

Memorialize them here by 10/29: forms.gle/nGFj5Teqg6d7...

Results will be shared on Halloween!

Meet OEDP Board Member, @joannecheung.com ! Joanne is a lifelong #EnvironmentalJustice advocate whose homeland is the Jianghan. She carries the care + creativity of her ancestral lineage of traditional medicine practitioners in her practice to support global env., climate + food justice movements 💫

Another Community Data Demo & Workshop

Community Data Demo & Workshop on Oct 8 now sold out

Due to high demand, we've added ANOTHER Community Data Demo & Workshop! Registration is capped at 100 people to keep the workshop interactive so make sure to grab your spot ASAP ~

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📆 Tues, Oct. 14
⏰ 10 - 11:15 am PT
🔗 Registration link at us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

#DataCenter #WaterUse #Energy #EnergyGrid #AI #LoudounCounty #AlbemarleCounty #VA #Virginia #EnvironmentalPolicy #Advocacy #Coalition #Reform #Mapping #Legislation #CommunityOrganizing #StateLegislation

Local Advocacy in the Data Center Capital: An Interview with Julie Bolthouse In this interview with Policy & Communications Fellow Sean Wang, Julie Bolthouse talks about mapping and legislative projects and how they’ve empowered communities and legislators to tackle this ever-...

Read the transcript for this interview, where Julie discusses the resources PEC has built, including a map of existing + proposed data centers, plus a framework to encourage legislative action.

www.openenvironmentaldata.org/storytelling...

Julie works in Virginia’s nine-county region advocating for more #sustainability in #planning processes and land use decisions. She also co-organizes the VA #DataCenter Reform Coalition, bringing together 40+ community partners to understand the impacts of rapid hyperscale data center development.

Local Advocacy in the Data Center Capital: An Interview with Julie Bolthouse

It's hard to talk about the explosion of #ArtificalIntelligence without talking about #DataCenters or the world's data center capital... #Virginia. This summer, Policy & Communications Fellow Sean Wang Zi-Ming sat down with Julie Bolthouse, Director of Land Use at the Piedmont Environmental Council.

Welcome! You are invited to join a meeting: Community Data Demo and Workshop. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the meeting. Communities around the world collect and use environmental data, but often face barriers in using data to its fullest extent: technical solutions are cost-prohibitive or unsuited to social context and...

This workshop is designed for folks working with community-generated environmental data: as a data steward, collector, analyst, researcher, technologist + the community environmental data-curious!

📆 Wed, Oct. 8
⏰ 9 - 10:15 am PT
🔗 Registration link at
us02web.zoom.us/meeting/regi...

Join us for a demo and workshop to dive into all things data governance! During the workshop, we will:

🔍 give a primer on the Community Data Playbook,
🧩 test out a few Plays,
📚 launch and demo our Resource Library, and
🗣 provide space for feedback and ideas.

A primer on insurance in the time of climate change

Different insurance options

Who to hold accountable and what states are doing

The data gap

Here is a set of readings about climate insurance, curated by Research & Policy Manager Emelia Williams. It includes topics like:

📕 A primer on insurance in the time of #ClimateChange,
📑 Different #insurance options,
🤝 Who to hold accountable and what states are doing, and
⭕ The #data gap.

What we're reading / watching / listening to about Climate Insurance

After floods, fires + hurricanes, insurance increasingly affects people's ability to live and work in the places they call home. At OEDP, we're interested in how env. + climate data affects the current insurance system, both in understanding risks + exploring different insurance models/policies.

Lessons from Unexpected Places An Attention Inventory from Cathy Richards, OEDP's Civic Science Fellow and Data Inclusion Specialist

This month’s Attention Inventory is compiled by Cathy Richards, Civic Science Fellow + Data Inclusion Specialist at OEDP. Cathy talks about:

🫀 taking the pulse of the planet,
🌱 finding ways to resist,
🧛🏾‍♂️ the history + soundtrack of Sinners.

Read more at open.substack.com/pub/openenvi...

A Certification System for Third Party Climate Models to Support Local Planning and Flood Resilience - Federation of American Scientists Establishing an objective and widely recognized certification standard for climate and weather models would support actors both within and outside of government to use a growing wealth of flooding and...

fas.org/publication/...

They outline how a certification system/clearinghouse for climate models would let cash-strapped state + local gov'ts make more informed and cost-effective choices about which models to use, empowering local communities and potentially saving billions of $$ in disaster damages and clean up costs

Read our newest policy memo: "A Certification System for Third Party Climate Models to Support Local Planning and Flood Resilience", written by Katie Hoeberling and Emelia Williams for @scientistsorg.bsky.social

Reflections on AGU's Days of Action

The urgency of the budget cuts

These aren't abstract policy debates: they affect people's lives

The many sectors that need to be heard; and how we can speak up

Since Exec. Director Brittany Janis attended @agu.org 's #DaysOfAction, she's been reflecting on the urgency of the budget cuts, the ways these policies are impacting day-to-day lives, and the approaches people need to take, across sectors, to be heard 👂🏻

June updates from OEDP

Our June newsletter is out! Catch up on OEDP's recent goings-on, including:

🤝 highlights from the Community Data Playbook;

✍ an op-ed about hardware procurement from @sdosemagen.bsky.social , Eunice Mercado-Lara + Alison Parker;

☀️ AGU's Days of Action in D.C.

open.substack.com/pub/openenvi...

The results of these sessions are all in the Community Data Playbook, including templates you can use if you’re asking similar questions!

You can get it at: zenodo.org/records/1528...
En español: zenodo.org/records/1548...