📢 Announcement: moving away from X 📢. After some recent assessments, we’ve made the decision to wind down our activity on X (formerly Twitter). Read on for more about our decision and what you can expect from us going forward.

Thanks for being part of our X / Twitter community these past few years; we're looking forward to staying in touch on our other platforms ❣️. (And if you've got strong thoughts on Mastodon or BlueSky, let us know at info@openenvironmentaldata.org ).

This account will remain open as an archive. For up-to-date information about our goings-ons, you can instead follow other social media channels + subscribe to our newsletter. LinkedIn: IG: @ OpenEnviroData .Substack: @ openenvironmentaldataproject.

In the past few years, our community has moved steadily away from this platform; we’ve also noticed an increase in bots and a decrease in overall engagement. Given the small size of our team, we want to prioritize the platforms which enable us to increase the impact of our work.

Are you using open tools or approaches for #ClimateJustice issues? Do you want to meet others who are working in the same space? Join us for the next Open Climate Community Call on 1/23!. Register for the call, co-hosted by OEDP and @creativecommons at

If you're at #AGU24, visit @Esri's Dan Pisut + @shrubberling at the ESRI booth in the demo theatre area (Booth #739) tomorrow (Wed) @ 10 am ET. They're taking suggestions for federal datasets to archive as part of the Public Environmental Data Project (.

Are you passionate about EJ + using data to drive change for communities on the frontlines of climate crises? OEDP is looking for 3️⃣new board members to join us in our mission to make environmental data accessible, actionable + impactful!. Learn more at

📚December's What We're Reading list is up on our website! Check it out for our recommended readings on:. 🌊 MS River insurance models by @delaneydryfoos for @grist.📲new #climate dashboards at #Cop29 by @lescarpe85 for @CGIAR . more!!! .

Tomorrow is the last day to apply for this position!!.

Welcome, Leticia Marques! With a background in health science + data sovereignty, Leticia has a deep understanding of EJ and advocates for sustainable, community-led solutions to combat climate change 🌿. Read about her work on our blog:

Welcome to @myqntm, Civic Science Fellow & Data Inclusion Specialist! Cathy is a technologist committed to ethical tech practices + data-driven solutions in the face of emerging global challenges 💫. Read more about her work on our blog:

Reminder that the priority deadline for this position is today!.

Communities + governments can use open #ClimateData to:.🏗️Build streets/sewers to withstand flood surges.🏘️Develop affordable housing to handle summers + droughts.🔥Incentivize wildfire mitigation strategies for homeowners/landlords.🏠Buy homes that are good long term investments.

As #ClimateChange intensifies, climate + env. info will only become more valuable + necessary—for collective + individual use. Preventing enclosure would require huge shifts in public + private interactions, but may effectively + equitably support proactive climate planning.

3⃣ Longer term, agencies like @NOAA could consider policy measures to ensure critical climate data don't get enclosed by corporations—e.g., CC-BY-SA licensing for agency data. FST uses these open datasets, then closes them through their analysis.

2⃣State-level solutions + climate models can be developed. CA is investing in its own catastrophe models using wildfire data to identify homes + properties at risk. Insurance modeling is opaque; public models can enable fair + accurate insurance rates.

Specifically, investments could fill major gaps in FEMA + NOAA data to address flooding concerns, especially in EJ communities. (For more on this, see our work on climate + flooding data: . Investment is unlikely w/ the next WH admin, so….

1⃣@FEMA + @NOAA datasets and systems need investment to be better used at the local, state + fed level. By investing in data, analysis + infrastructures at the agency level, it’s possible to empower engineers, planners + policymakers to understand and communicate climate risk.

Environmental + climate data should be a public good, used for both individual and collective benefit. Democratizing data means that everyone has access to it. This tool is a step in the right direction, but there are 2 ways that data like this could be more open + democratic:.

Homebuyers + renters might not want to do their own #climate analysis, but the inability for *anyone* to do so means that these models cannot be validated. App users must trust the soundness of these projections, which could impact neighborhoods + communities alike.