Episodes

  • Strategic Observations for Climate Intervention in the Gulf Coast

    Strategic Observations for Climate Intervention in the Gulf Coast
    Jul 30 2024
    What does it mean to take back knowledge and data about our environments, from the hands of those who monopolize this knowledge for centuries, and use that knowledge to extract value from land and people alike? In this episode, Madhuri Karak speaks with Scott Eustis, the community science director at Healthy Gulf, about what taking back ownership of knowledge and data about our landscapes, our bodies, looks like in the Gulf Coast of the US.
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    25 mins
  • The One Stop Shop for Air Quality Data

    The One Stop Shop for Air Quality Data
    Jul 30 2024

    OpenAQ: https://openaq.org/#/

    OpenAQ Explorer: https://explore.openaq.org/

    Predicting What We Breathe: https://airquality.lacity.gov/

    World Health Organization Ambient Air Quality and Health fact sheet: https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/ambient-(outdoor)-air-quality-and-health
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    16 mins
  • "Open" as a Spectrum

    "Open" as a Spectrum
    Jul 23 2024
    Climate information exists in a lot of different formats: there are reports, datasets, peer reviewed research articles, blogs, videos, and more. If we're going to have a real shot at tackling the climate crisis, then the knowledge we've produced about climate change needs to be open—but how do we give permission while protecting creators from harm?. In this episode, Madhuri Karak speaks with Monica Granados, who leads the Open Climate campaign at Creative Commons, about the role of licenses in building climate resilience.
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    16 mins
  • Unpacking the Survival Guide to Humanity (aka the IPCC report)

    Unpacking the Survival Guide to Humanity (aka the IPCC report)
    Jul 23 2024
    The latest UN IPCC report (AR6) runs... 30,000 pages. For those of us who don't have the time to read this in full, how do we incorporate the golden standard of climate science into our own work? In this episode, Madhuri speaks with Shweata Hegde, a developer at #semanticClimate, who is building a tool that will break AR6 down and turn it into an accessible resource.
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    22 mins
  • Wikipedia as Climate Infrastructure

    Wikipedia as Climate Infrastructure
    Jul 23 2024
    When we first start learning about something, Wikipedia is often our first stop. But where does Wikipedia fit in when it comes to climate change - a complex, multi-dimensional, and urgent topic like no other? In this episode, Madhuri speaks with Evelin Heidel, the Program Director of Wikimedistas de Uruguay about how Wikipedia lays the groundwork for our understanding of climate change.
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    18 mins
  • Season 3 Trailer

    Season 3 Trailer
    Jul 16 2024
    Season 3 of Data Dialogues features interviews with different folks working at the intersection of the open and climate movements. In the trailer, host Madhuri Karak outlines what you can expect from this season's guests.
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    3 mins
  • From mapping to monitoring: the international scope of resistance

    From mapping to monitoring: the international scope of resistance
    Apr 18 2023

    In our last episode, we get into what happens when mapping is stuck in bureaucratic limbo. In order to document harm from rampant resource extraction and loss of livelihoods, communities are turning to monitoring their environments. You’ll hear from lawyer Andiko Mancayo, policy expert Anne-Sophie Gindroz, and several others you’ll recognize from earlier in the season.
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    31 mins
  • Drones, birds & the gray in between

    Drones, birds & the gray in between
    Apr 11 2023

    In this episode, you’ll meet anthropologist Sophie Chao and a few others you’ve already encountered earlier in the season - social scientist Micah Fisher, political ecologist Irendra Radjawali and scholar Rini Astuti. We discuss the limitations of modern cartography and what we miss when we privilege the visual above all other perspectives.
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    27 mins