Environment

Diome: definition

Posted 12th September 20238th December 2023 GavinPosted in data, Environment, research

Diome [noun] A data biome that represents a temporal cluster of data from which specific insights can be learned, analysed and/or derived. Discussion This is […]

What three things? These three things.

Posted 1st November 20228th December 2022 GavinPosted in climate change, Environment, Finance

Three climate actions you can take today. One of the challenges we all face in addressing climate emergency is “what can I do that would […]

Tipping points…

Posted 29th September 202029th September 2020 GavinPosted in business, climate change, Environment, Finance

Our transition to net-zero is underway — how can we ensure it is provable, robust, secure and fair? via The FT we have The world’s largest oil […]

Data governance — how to move fast and not break things

Posted 1st April 202010th April 2020 GavinPosted in Culture, data, Environment, Finance, Government, socialchange, stuff, work

I’ve been receiving a lot of calls from people asking how they can use data to ‘help’. To help frame a potential response that isn’t […]

Tip of the data iceberg

Posted 20th January 202020th January 2020 GavinPosted in business, climate change, Environment, Finance

In City AM [Re: Why Open Banking is the next finance revolution] As co-chair of the original Open Banking Standard, it’s great to see the […]

Open Banking, its evolution into Open Finance and beyond

Posted 11th October 2019 GavinPosted in business, climate change, energy, Environment, Finance, work

Open Banking—is a regulated standard that addresses data sharing across the banking sector. It addresses: Rights Liability models Dispute resolution and redress Consent Security Legal […]

Icebreaker One announced at UN Climate Action Summit

Posted 24th September 201929th November 2019 GavinPosted in business, Environment, Finance, Startups

After an 18-month industry consultation, we opened Icebreaker One at the UN Climate Action Summit in New York. –> More information here on the new IcebreakerOne.org […]

IcebreakerOne announced at the UN DRR Global Platform

Posted 13th May 201919th June 2019 GavinPosted in business, Culture, Environment, Finance

We announced of our first open consultation for IcebreakerOne at the UN DRR Global Platform on 13 May 2019.

Codename: Icebreaker One (IB1)

Posted 16th March 201919th December 2019 GavinPosted in business, climate change, Culture, Environment, stuff

Development of the Open Environmental Risk Standard continues: this week, we’ve been working on a one-pager to translate what we’re doing in to more simple […]

Some thoughts on the ‘long-shot’

Posted 8th March 201914th March 2019 GavinPosted in climate change, Environment, Finance

I recently re-watched The Big Short. … and have, in many conversations, been testing out the idea that we are approaching a potential ‘market collapse’ […]

OERS — an introduction

Posted 22nd February 201917th March 2019 GavinPosted in business, Culture, Environment, Finance

Yesterday, we hosted the kick-off meeting for the Open Environmental Risk Standard start up team. This is our summary of that conversation. Over 50% of […]

OERS briefing note 2019-02-04

Posted 4th February 201917th March 2019 GavinPosted in Culture, Environment, Finance, Government

Based on six months of consultation we are developing an Environmental Risk Constellation (a federated partnership programme) to: develop an open standard for sharing environmental […]

An open environmental risk standard?

Posted 18th November 20187th February 2019 GavinPosted in business, climate change, Environment, science

UPDATE 2019-02: briefing note here Working with Europe’s leading climate innovation fund, Climate KIC, we are initiating the creation of an Open Environmental Risk Standard for […]

Photo by Shane Stagner, Unsplash, 2018 at https://unsplash.com/photos/4IyllFjr3Rw

Can algae save the world?

Posted 18th November 20187th December 2018 Guest authorPosted in climate change, Environment

[a 3 minute read] Guest post: Constellator, Gea Mikic, Researcher, Dgen Algae is undergoing extensive testing in labs in China, Russia, Spain and Sweden to see […]

Air quality data – ripe for disruption?

Posted 17th November 201818th November 2018 GavinPosted in climate change, Environment

Friends in the area tell me that this is the site that everyone is using to monitor air quality in the CA wildfire region. A […]

Pathways to sustainability

Posted 1st November 201818th November 2018 Guest authorPosted in climate change, energy, Environment

[a 10 minute read] Guest post: Constellator, Peter Clive, Senior Scientist at Wood – Clean Energy On my way to a meeting this morning I […]

John Lewis to trial CupClub

Posted 7th October 20183rd November 2018 GavinPosted in business, Environment, Startups

John Lewis Partnership has announced a collaboration with London startup CupClub, (disclosure: I’m a non-exec director), which will see the subscription service trialled within the […]

Data is not the new oil. Data > Oil

Posted 10th May 201711th March 2023 Gavin4 CommentsPosted in business, climate change, data, internet, science, socialchange, stuff, work

“The world’s most valuable resource is no longer oil, but data” says The Economist “Data is the new oil”, said Clive Humby and many others [*update: […]

The AMEE story (part one)

Posted 10th March 20177th October 2021 GavinPosted in business, climate change, data, energy, Environment, science, Startups, work

In 2005, I was working with climate change charity Global Cool and global hedge fund Man Group (in my spare time) to try and create a global […]

some themes emerging

Posted 2nd August 201517th November 2016 GavinPosted in arts, astronomy, climate change, data, media, music, projects, publications, science, socialchange, webcasting, work

Thinking about the sea http://www.nytimes.com/2015/08/02/sunday-review/protecting-the-untamed-seas.html and webcasting https://dgen.net/blog/ms-hans and music http://rinse.fm http://store.darkclover.ro/album/sabo http://tidal.lurk.org http://lysuc888.blogspot.co.uk http://www.aec.at/aeblog/en/2015/08/03/rhythmus-als-dna-der-musik and long playing things http://longplayer.org/about/ and cosmology/topology http://www.binarydust.org/2012/09/21/evolving-language http://www.nersc.gov/news-publications/nersc-news/science-news/2014/simulations-reveal-unusual-death-for-ancient-stars and […]

AMEE at Strata – talk slides

Posted 2nd October 20129th November 2018 GavinPosted in business, climate change, data, energy, Environment, politics, presentations, science, socialchange, work

My slides from O’Reilly’s Strata conference “Making Data Work” today. I described some of AMEE’s journey: through open data aggregation and distribution, accessibility, provenance, and […]

Energy Identity

Posted 19th July 201213th February 2021 GavinPosted in business, climate change, data, energy, internet, presentations, work

[repost of my AMEE post on Energy Identity] Since AMEE’s inception in 2005, we have recognised that the emerging sets of data needed for carbon […]

AMEE Makes Carbon Footprinting Easier and More Fun

Posted 10th January 201218th October 2021 GavinPosted in climate change

via https://www.triplepundit.com/story/2012/amee-makes-carbon-footprinting-easier-and-more-fun/69781 At first glance, AMEE, a venture-backed UK company launched in 2008, looks like any other carbon tracking and management provider. But upon further investigation, it […]

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