To get you thinking about your hacks, here are a few resources that you might find useful:
- AMEE
- Web service for greenhouse gas calculation and other sustainability metrics. AMEEconnect API, and AMEEdiscover search engine. Try AskAMEE for a more human view as well.
- CARMA
- Worldwide power plant information.
- CartoDB
- Platform for rapid development of geospatial apps. CartoDB will be on hand to provide instances, help, and some carbon sequestration potential data during the event.
- data.gov.uk
- UK government data sets.
- ELCD
- EU lifecycle analysis data for materials, energy, transport and waste.
- Environmental Performance Index
- Country-level environmental indicators from Yale.
- EPA Datasets
- Datasets from the EPA in the US.
- Europe’s Public Data
- EU data access from the Open Knowledge Foundation, including energy data.
- foursquare
- Social web service for venue and checkin information. You don’t need us to explain it!
- Genability
- Energy pricing and demand-shifting data and analysis.
- NCDC Weather Data
- 80 years of weather data from 9000+ weather stations around the world, available on AWS platforms.
- OpenCorporates
- Data on over 30 million corporations around the world.
- OpenEI
- Open Energy Info – open access to all sorts of energy resources data.
- Pachube
- Realtime wiring for the Internet of Things.
- Sourcemap
- Following supply chains around the world.
- Tendril
- Monitoring and control of home energy devices and data.
- Trucost
- Anonymised data for over 1000 companies, covering 20 different environmental impacts as well as profit data from 2002-2009.
- UN Data
- Loads of international data resources from the UN
- World Bank
- APIs for indicators, projects, and WB financial data.
- World Health Organisation
- Access to health and development goal data.
