Community-Driven Carbon Budgets

Community-Driven Carbon Budgets

When Community Organizers Become Climate Data Translators: The Unseen Career Path

You have probably never heard of a 'climate data translator.' That is okay. Five years ago the title barely existed. But right now, in community cente...

Community-Driven Carbon Budgets

When Residents Wrote the Carbon Rules: A Budget Experiment That Worked

In September 2023, 120 households in Bristol’s St. Werburghs neighborhood sat down in a church hall to answer a single question: Which carbon emission...

Community-Driven Carbon Budgets

Three Careers That Emerged From Building a Neighborhood-Level Carbon Budget

In 2021, a block association in Portland, Oregon, decided to measure its own carbon emissions. They had no consultant budget, no city mandate, just a ...

Community-Driven Carbon Budgets

Why SonifyX's Data Visualization Made a Factory Town Rethink Its Emissions Baseline

It started with a sound. In a conference room above the old feed mill, a city planner clicked play on a SonifyX dashboard. The room heard the town's c...