by Don Mosteller | Jun 30, 2016 | Air quality, Environmental Performance Index (EPI), Featured, Indices, Policy, Remote Sensing
Above: A satellite image reveals air pollution blanketing the Korean Peninsula. Credit: GeoEye, Wikimedia Commons (https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/08/Asia_dust_2000-04-07.jpg) By: Don Mosteller, Research Fellow More than half of South Korea’s...
by Rosengarten, Carlin | Apr 4, 2016 | Air quality, China, Environmental Performance Index (EPI), Featured, India, Remote Sensing
This post originally appeared on World Economic Forum Agenda Forum. Photo credit: A hazy view of Shanghai, China By Aly Song/REUTERS This post was co-written and compiled by Carlin Rosengarten and Angel Hsu. As the world is becoming wealthier, the air we...
by AngelHsu | Mar 6, 2016 | Climate, Environmental Performance Index (EPI)
This post originally appeared on Scientific American. Photo credit: A forest in Madagascar has been slashed and burned for planting corn By Frank Vassen/Flickr under Creative Commons license. This post was co-written and compiled by Don Mosteller, Amy Weinfurter, and...
by AngelHsu | Feb 24, 2016 | Air quality, Data, Environmental Performance Index (EPI), Featured
Photo by Nicolò Lazzati on Flickr.com. This post originally appeared on The Huffington Post. By Angel Hsu and Carlin Rosengarten Last year was the hottest year on record — and by a wide margin, too. By early summer atmospheric CO2 concentrations silently ticked...
by AngelHsu | Nov 17, 2015 | Climate, Data, Environmental Performance Index (EPI), Urbanization
Exploring urban sustainability data and metrics in Seoul, South Korea. What can data tell us about building greener cities? What sustainability indicators can be compared city-to-city? By Alisa Zomer, MEM’14, EPI Manager The Seoul subway has 18 train lines and...
by AngelHsu | Aug 23, 2015 | Energy, Environmental Performance Index (EPI), Field work, Greenbank, Policy
The Environmental Performance Index and the Yale Data-Driven Environmental Solutions Group are pleased to introduce Danny Macri as one of its new Research Fellows. Sponsored by the CT Green Bank, Danny will investigate how municipality level policies can drive...
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