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33 comments on Wanted: Hard Data on Local Sustainability
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There's also the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry - they also have a site for Climate Change and Public Health. I'm betting they'll have a Peak Oil and Public Health site up by the end of 2008 (their leader just published a great article on the subject in the Journal of the American Medical Association).
Lesa Dixon-Gray
First they ignore you,
Then they laugh at you,
Then they fight you,
Then you win.
~Mahatma Gandhi
It's good to have data, both quantitative and qualitative.
Here are some other thoughts for data points:
I'm sure there are lots more.
It would be a really neat idea to put together a series of lesson plans that could be used in schools so kids could gather neighborhood/household data and learn about sustainability that way. Statistics across the curriculum, anyone?