by Rosengarten, Carlin | Jul 7, 2016 | Energy, Featured, Indices, Sustainability
By Carlin Rosengarten and Danny Macri When you see solar panels on residential rooftops do you ever wonder how these power producing panels got there? How did the homeowner pay for the state-of-the-art system? Did they receive government assistance? In almost all...
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 AngelHsu | Sep 23, 2013 | Data, Environmental Performance Index (EPI), Indices
This post originally appeared here. World Water Week drew to a close earlier this month with a charge to the United Nations to consider aspecial emphasis on water as part of a post-2015 development agenda. As the UN deliberates Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs),...
by AngelHsu | Aug 26, 2013 | Environmental Performance Index (EPI), Indices
While The Lord of the Rings films have brought global attention to New Zealand’s breathtaking scenery and natural environment, a recent dairy contamination scandal by Fonterra – the largest dairy producer in the country – has blighted New Zealand’s image as “100%...
by AngelHsu | Apr 2, 2012 | Data, Indices
This post was originally featured on Sage Magazine and the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy blog. This past Sunday at the US-Canada Citizens Summit for Sustainable Development, I facilitated a group discussion on metrics and indicators for measuring...
by AngelHsu | Mar 28, 2012 | Air quality, China, Indices
Earlier this month, China’s Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP) released the official (trial) revisions to the Ambient Air Quality Index (AQI, which is a notable shift from its previous form as the Air Pollution Index, or API). I wrote last February...
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