A Guide to Community Benefits

This document reflects over a year of dedicated community work by Fair Shake Environmental Legal Services and RiverWise, with support from New Sun Rising. It explores the implications of Executive Order 14008 and the Justice 40 Initiative, highlighting their transformative potential for disadvantaged communities. The guide emphasizes the need for genuine community engagement and cautions…

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Earthwise Aware

Earthwise Aware is an action-driven nature conservation organization that engages through co-creative citizen science and direct experiences, cultivates ecological science, ethics, and leadership, and reconciles environmental attitude, knowledge, and behavior. Earthwise Aware brings practical ethics to the forefront of nature and wildlife conservation, cultivates ecological awareness and literacy, bridges the gaps between the public, conservationists,…

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Open Environmental Data Project

Through pilots, workshops, research, and narrative building, Open Environmental Data Project works to [re]build trust between communities, government, civil society, and science. OEDP articulates improved processes within current environmental governance, while also envisioning generative environmental futures — leading to the goal of healthier communities, robust natural systems, and collective action paired with matching policy levers.

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soilhealth.app: Community science platform for social learning in agriculture

Soilhealth.app is a web app that offers a questioning and reporting framework to support locally driven, participatory projects carried out by groups that are learning to monitor and manage wholes such as watershed function, soil health, and local economics. A project of the Soil Carbon Coalition, it offers a guide to learn how to work…

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Cambridge Urban Heat Dashboard

A partnership between NASA DEVELOP, the City of Cambridge Community Development Department, and American Geophysical Union’s Thriving Earth Exchange.

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U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit

a U.S. government-owned website designed to help people find and use tools, information, and subject matter expertise to build climate resilience. The Toolkit offers information from all across the U.S. federal government in one easy-to-use location.

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Open AQ

OpenAQ is a nonprofit organization providing universal access to air quality data to empower a global community of changemakers to solve air inequality—the unequal access to clean air.

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The Climate Explorer

Interactive graphs and maps showing past and projected climate conditions for counties and county-equivalents across the United States. Built to support the U.S. Climate Resilience Toolkit, the tool helps people explore projected future climate conditions that may put people, property, and other assets at risk.

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Anecdata

A free online citizen science platform developed by the Community Lab at the MDI Biological Laboratory in Bar Harbor, Maine. Anecdata is used by hundreds of individuals and organizations to gather and access citizen science observations and provides a platform to easily collect, manage, and share their citizen science data.

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