http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu Fri, 24 May 2013 19:28:34 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2013/04/05/visual-skateboarding/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2013/04/05/visual-skateboarding/#comments Fri, 05 Apr 2013 23:57:27 +0000 Guest Blogger http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=35454 “You can do math on excel?” I ask. I immediately imagine a face-palm response, but Dario, one of my advisors, is nice enough to hide it. I’ve collected tree core samples, I’ve prepared them and cross-dated them. Now what? Oh, right. The Science.]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2013/04/05/visual-skateboarding/feed/ 0 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/02/14/data%e2%80%99s-power-to-spur-environmental-progress/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/02/14/data%e2%80%99s-power-to-spur-environmental-progress/#comments Tue, 14 Feb 2012 15:36:33 +0000 Renee Cho http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=22819 In January, 132 countries received their environmental report cards. The Environmental Performance Index has goaded leaders into action by letting them see their countries’ strengths and weaknesses compared to other countries.]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/02/14/data%e2%80%99s-power-to-spur-environmental-progress/feed/ 0 http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/01/27/seeking-the-signal-in-the-noise-of-environmental-performance-metrics/ http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/01/27/seeking-the-signal-in-the-noise-of-environmental-performance-metrics/#comments Fri, 27 Jan 2012 23:12:09 +0000 Marc A. Levy http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/?p=22231 The 2012 Environmental Performance Index is a powerful tool for diagnosing trends not just across countries but over time, too. Consider what we can learn about overfishing, for example.]]> http://blogs.ei.columbia.edu/2012/01/27/seeking-the-signal-in-the-noise-of-environmental-performance-metrics/feed/ 1