force4good.me
April 2015 – A Force for Good
https://force4good.me/2015/04
A Force for Good. How economics, morality, and markets combine. There is no such thing as a perfect market. Information is never perfectly symmetric. People are never perfectly rational. This fact is often used as justification for government intervention. But that is not an argument against markets. It is not an argument for government intervention. Heck no. But it has moved even closer to perfection. This is one of the primary virtues of the market. April 30, 2015. Leave a comment on On Perfect Markets.
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RDCEP | webDICE
http://webdice.rdcep.org/advanced
Total Emissions per Year. Social Cost of Carbon. Abatement Cost as a Percentage of Output. Carbon Mass in Atmosphere. Carbon Mass in Upper Oceans. Carbon Mass in Lower Oceans. Lower Ocean Temperature Increase. Total Emissions per Year. Social Cost of Carbon. Abatement Cost as a Percentage of Output. Carbon Mass in Atmosphere. Carbon Mass in Upper Oceans. Carbon Mass in Lower Oceans. Lower Ocean Temperature Increase. Total Emissions per Year. Discount Rate for Consumption (periodic). Social Cost of Carbon.
webdice.rdcep.org
RDCEP | webDICE
http://webdice.rdcep.org/standard
Total Emissions per Year. Social Cost of Carbon. Abatement Cost as a Percentage of Output. Carbon Mass in Atmosphere. Carbon Mass in Upper Oceans. Carbon Mass in Lower Oceans. Lower Ocean Temperature Increase. Total Emissions per Year. Social Cost of Carbon. Abatement Cost as a Percentage of Output. Carbon Mass in Atmosphere. Carbon Mass in Upper Oceans. Carbon Mass in Lower Oceans. Lower Ocean Temperature Increase. Total Emissions per Year. Discount Rate for Consumption (periodic). Social Cost of Carbon.
nationaldataservice.org
Partners | National Data Service
http://www.nationaldataservice.org/about/partners.html
Join the NDS Announcement Mailing List. What Should NDS Provide? Committees and Working Groups. The Materials Data Facility. The NDS community includes the following projects, data centers, universities, and publishers who are currently participating in the creation of the National Data Service. Don't see your organizations' name? Contact us via info@nationaldataservice.org. University of Colorado Boulder. University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. Data Projects and Federations. The Dark Energy Survey.
openseventeen.org
The Open Seventeen
http://www.openseventeen.org/getinspired.html
In the Open Seventeen Challenge, you are invited to identify open data relevant to an SDG: this may be PDFs, photos, audio clips or tweets, etc. Then you have to define a goal that - for any reason - requires the help of the crowd, for instance to accelerates the analysis of large amounts of data, such as images or documents. How can you help ensure that the goals will be achieved - using existing data in your neighborhood, city, or country? Mapping the presence of sidewalks is streets allows a wider var...
internationalstudies.uchicago.edu
Towards a Theory of Energy Access | Center for International Studies
http://internationalstudies.uchicago.edu/events/2014-2015/150413-kammen
The University of Chicago Center for International Studies. April 13, 2015. Oriental Institute Museum - Breasted Hall. 1155 E 58th St. Towards a Theory of Energy Access. Renewable energy expert Daniel Kammen discusses prospects for energy sustainability and equality. Kammen finds that the current day is a unique moment of innovation in decentralized energy networks based on super-efficient end-use technology and low-cost photovoltaics, supported by rapidly spreading information technology, particularly m...
arete.uchicago.edu
Arete
http://arete.uchicago.edu/portfolio
Have you checked out BIG? What we did for them:. Convene interdisciplinary partnerships across the University. Collaborate with National Labs. Convene and manage University support and leadership. Bridge institutional gaps at University. Facilitate research feasibility and agenda-setting workshops. Facilitate strategic, long-term institutional planning. Integrate institutional goals and research agendas. Develop integrated and holistic funding strategy. Invest institutional support in early stage ideas.
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Jevgenijs Steinbuks' Home Page
http://www.steinbuks.info/index.html
Climate. Electricity. Real Estate. I am Economist at the World Bank Development Research Group, Environment and Energy Research Team. The Department of Agricultural Economics at Purdue University; the Electricity Policy Research Group. University of Cambridge; the Enterprise Analysis Unit. June 6th, 2016.
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