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From Bruce Riordan, at the Climate Readiness Institute. Bay Area Climate Stakeholders: Governor Brown's new Executive Order, issued today is a banner day for our climate change efforts. 1. The Executive Order sets a new interim goal for GHG reduction40% below 1990 levels by 2030. 2.

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Photo from Frank Kehren, Flickr Creative Commons LicenseI focused on a series of CyberGIS sessions at AAG this year. This was partly to better situate our spatial data science ideas within the terminology and discipline of Geography, and partly to focus on a new topic for me in AAG conferences.

Just got off a call with a group of people focusing on historical data discovery at the Natural Reserve System (NRS). This process is part of the recently funded Institute for the Study of Ecological Effects of Climate Impacts (ISEECI).

Today I went to a great D-Lab Workshop on Demographic Mapping Tools. Berkeley's GIS and Map Librarian, Susan Powell walked us through the use of several very easy to use mapping tools available through UC Berkeley. Both are really great for quickly visualizing data from many different sources.