Banter 23 Friends of the Earth, 12Jun24, Toby Bridgman
Toby demonstrates the data layers - particularly maps of Energy and Climate Change, Pollution, Nature, and Transport - and the data analysis involved.
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Toby demonstrates the data layers - particularly maps of Energy and Climate Change, Pollution, Nature, and Transport - and the data analysis involved.
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Video Timeline (min:sec): 0:00 - 24.38 Presentation 24:38 - 60:08 (end) Q & A
00:12:49 Bonny Williams: Apologies for not joining on camera - settings aren't working...
00:16:41 Bonny Williams - Community Climate Action: Doesn't appear to be recording...
00:26:23 Joolz | Community Climate Action: It says recording for me... 🙏
00:33:39 Amanda Davis, Cotswolds: Are the renewables potential areas heavily influenced by excluding the national landscapes?
00:39:11 Peter Anderson: Do you have any indication as to how much Local Authorities use data like this to inform their strategic planning?
00:43:55 wendy thomson Glolucestershire: Is the evidence based on households or does it include businesses in local area?
00:46:24 Peter Anderson: How much is FoE focusing on making recommendations based on the data being provided? And is there a plan to utilise AI in analysing the health of a local area and making suggestion for potential interventions?
00:52:26 Peter Anderson: An issue local communities have is that many of the big issues are invisible, such as air, water and soil quality, and rarely get the focus they deserve, so I'd be interested to hear what more can we do to make these maps visible to local people?
00:55:33 Amanda Davis, Cotswolds: Are the datasets points in time, or are there longitudinal datasets, so we can look for data reactions to an action that happened?
01:02:47 Joolz | Community Climate Action: https://wewantwind.org/
01:05:21 Peter Anderson: Also, perhaps a map with how much battery capacity would be required in different places to bring onstream all the renewable projects that have permissions but cant connect to the grid.
01:08:57 Peter Anderson: Lots of renewable energy on its way from Morocco shortly! (7.5GW of solar capacity, 3.5GW of wind capacity and 22.5GWh of battery energy storage in Morocco that will be enough to run 7 million British homes): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-VtFmU5-ESw
01:09:07 Amanda Davis, Cotswolds: Earthwatch are collecting water sampling data. Citizen science groups. Rivers Evenlode, Windrush and others upstream catchment of Thames
01:11:33 Amanda Davis, Cotswolds: Greenpeace provided a poster "I'm voting for Climate Change"
01:11:56 Toby Bridgeman: Replying to "Greenpeace provided ..."
I've got one up in my window!
01:12:08 Peter Anderson: Great work!!
01:12:23 Peter Anderson: Share you email?
01:12:39 Toby Bridgeman: https://mapst.ac/foe/extreme-weather
01:13:43 wendy thomson Glolucestershire: Replying to "Greenpeace provided ..."
Me too!
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Graham Stoddart-Stones: yeah, let me go through my usual blurb about this is a recorded session, and the results get published on Youtube and our own Wiki. So anyone who does not wish to be published.
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Graham Stoddart-Stones: act accordingly at the state time.
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Graham Stoddart-Stones: Otherwise welcome to the weekly.
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Graham Stoddart-Stones: and a session for the great collaboration whose purpose is to help people find their way through the plethora of information
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Graham Stoddart-Stones: about climate change and the like
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Graham Stoddart-Stones: on the Internet, and to in be able to impose their own plans.
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Graham Stoddart-Stones: To the greatest efficiency. And to that end we have today, giving us a presentation from the friends of the earth. Toby Richmond, who's going to install this. I trust, with all the layers of data that you can achieve from the friends of the Earth, and use as required. So, Toby, if you're all happy over to you. Please.
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Toby Bridgeman: Thanks. Graham.
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Toby Bridgeman: had intended to produce very slick presentation today, but the election announcement, I think, happened after I signed up, and so we
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Toby Bridgeman: been quite busy. So I'm preparing for that and we also just had a dentist appointment this morning, so half my mouth is sort of numb, and the other half is in quite a lot of pain. So
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Toby Bridgeman: I'm trying to, I sort of I can think I'm talking clearly, but my voice. My mouth was a bit unusual. So sorry if it's if I'm if anything is unclear, please do ask me to repeat
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Toby Bridgeman: so I've got a couple of slides to show not too many. And then I've also got just some some maps. We tend to make maps
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Toby Bridgeman: data where we can
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Toby Bridgeman: let me try and find.
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Toby Bridgeman: And
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Toby Bridgeman: full screen is that, can you guys see that as full screen slide?
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Toby Bridgeman: Yep.
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Toby Bridgeman: yeah. So I'm I'm from friends of the earth. Hopefully, people have heard of friends of the Earth. But if if not, we were a sort of environmental campaigning organization, and we work on
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Toby Bridgeman: the sort of themes of of climate. We have a very strong climate campaign, obviously. But we also work around nature, and we also around work around sort of the the right and the right to protest as well. Those are are 3 big, big campaigning
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Toby Bridgeman: areas.
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Toby Bridgeman: I, I sit in a team. The the policy and insights team, which is essentially essentially the research team
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Toby Bridgeman: at friends of the Earth
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Toby Bridgeman: and we have a so small environmental data unit there, where. So as as a key part of our work, we, we believe, is
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Toby Bridgeman: conducting data analysis and getting and and producing statistics that help support our kind of national campaigns, but also give give data to to our local groups. We have a, we have a big network of local groups all across the country across
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Toby Bridgeman: England and Wales and Northern Ireland.
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Toby Bridgeman: Friends. Yes, Scotland is, is another entity, I should, I should add.
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Toby Bridgeman: So we think it's really important that we get kind of local statistics to help support local people. Make make action, make things happen on their ground.
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Toby Bridgeman: So as a result of that, we kind of we. You know, we produce kind of quite a lot of analysis, but we also produce maps and tools. And there's an example on the right of the screen there of a tool we've got called near you where you can put in your postcode, and you can see
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Toby Bridgeman: a series of local data covering various topics in your local authority.
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Toby Bridgeman: And we're actually got. We've got a tool that we're releasing this week, which is similar, but kind of a constituency level in the run up to
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Toby Bridgeman: to the the General Election, which will show statistics and each constituency enable you to to email prospective candidates and kind of challenging on the where they where they stand on various things.
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Toby Bridgeman: So we don't. We won't work alone. We we one of our concepts. Is very much to direct. Try and do things with open door open open door, open data and make that publicly available as well. But we are aware that a lot of other people are doing similar work and have a lot of expertise. So we try and work in collaboration where we can or
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Toby Bridgeman: what people we know have got the expertise to do the things that we don't. So we work. We work with universities and other charities and independent kind of organizations and special a a expertise. And we work with
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Toby Bridgeman: a couple of government agencies like natural England and the Environment Agency as well.
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Toby Bridgeman: an example of a kind of recent work we did on that was.
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Toby Bridgeman: we started a project at Weston sort of hackathon, with some postdoctoral students at the University of Exeter.
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Toby Bridgeman: trying to understand where we could, if we could, map where the most suitable areas were for onshore renewable energy. So onshore wind and onshore solar farms.
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Toby Bridgeman: So we were at the university on that, and then we also then took some of that analysis, and we and then we work with some kind of industry experts and
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Toby Bridgeman: and trade bodies, such as Solar Uk renewables, energy, sorry renewables, UK.
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Toby Bridgeman: to kind of get them on board. Make sure we're saying the right sort of things right? Make sure our messaging align with what they're trying to say.
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Toby Bridgeman: As a result of that. We kind of put out a policy piece and and and some data and an interactive map which I'll show you show you in a bit
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Toby Bridgeman: and just. And one other thing, we also sort of this idea of collaboration and understanding. A lot of other work is going on in in the similar fields. We're also kind of
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Toby Bridgeman: part of a wider group of organizations that start out what's called an environmental change data for change network. So really, an environmental data network where we're trying to
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Toby Bridgeman: and bring people together, avoid duplication of work
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Toby Bridgeman: and also to see if we can and do sort of new collaborative projects together, bringing in expertise
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Toby Bridgeman: as well. So I can put a link to that in the chat if anyone's interested in sort of signing up
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Toby Bridgeman: but we've got kind of on online platform where discussions are and various data get shared. And and that sort of thing. It's it's in its infancy, really. So it's growing. But
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Toby Bridgeman: yeah, that's kind of a big part of our work is kind of bringing people together as well.
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Toby Bridgeman: Yeah. So anyway, onto today, I just Co, we wanted to say that a lot of the data we produce, particularly them sort of mapping and local data we produce is what is is done at what's called lsoa level, which is.
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Toby Bridgeman: for those don't know. It's a kind of
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Toby Bridgeman: really a sort of census unit from the from the census is that they conduct
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Toby Bridgeman: it stands for lower super output area and covers about.
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Toby Bridgeman: roughly about a thousand households. So population of up to about 2. So 2, 3,000 people.
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Toby Bridgeman: they tend to be quite uniform in their population size, but obviously not uniform in their their land area. So they're a lot smaller in cities and a lot bigger
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Toby Bridgeman: in rural areas.
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Toby Bridgeman: That's kind of long way of saying, we don't
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Toby Bridgeman: currently produce a lot of data at kind of using the parish boundaries.
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Toby Bridgeman: But I just had a kind of I've realized parish boundaries a little bit in the past in a in a previous role.
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Toby Bridgeman: and I was just kind of reminding myself of kind of how parishes and and lsoas relate. And I think a lot of the Lsoa boundaries probably take
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Toby Bridgeman: a lot of guidance from sort of historical parish boundaries. So there is quite a lot of significant overlap in this slide here. I've just just showing
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Toby Bridgeman: the sort of darker green lines are the parish boundaries and the orange lines are the Lsoa boundaries. So where you can't see an an orange line so often hidden by the the parish boundaries on top of that line. So there is. There is pretty good overlap.
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Toby Bridgeman: I think. What what tends to happen is general. 10 is probably different, but
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Toby Bridgeman: in in some way, as is in in Somerset, so in Wells you can see that Wells is, is one parish.
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Toby Bridgeman: but made up of about 3 or well, maybe about 5 or 6.
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Toby Bridgeman: And let's see the Lsa A levels.
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Toby Bridgeman: And in more rural areas you might have one ls away that's made up of multiple
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Toby Bridgeman: and multiple parishes. So on the top left, I think, Compton, Bishop Badgeworth, we're in Chapel Allison. They're all part of one ls. Away, but they're 4 parishes. So it's the boundaries kind of overlap. But how they're how they're how they kind of distribute slightly differently.
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Toby Bridgeman: Aligned. So I just thought, it's important to know that cause. I haven't got any data obviously at parish level. But I think some of the quite a lot of the Lsa data we do have is is usable and can be shown kind of what's going on on the ground in different parishes
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Toby Bridgeman: across England and Wales.
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Toby Bridgeman: So just to summarize some of the the data analysis that we've we've looked at this. This is kind of like highlights, real, I guess, if you like. And some of the more relates to some of the publications we've put out
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Toby Bridgeman: and kind of use multiple data sets together to kind of
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Toby Bridgeman: trying to create something that's useful and interesting to people.
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Toby Bridgeman: So it kind of covered. Yeah, the cover. Like I said earlier, when we cover so energy, climate change, pollution
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Toby Bridgeman: nature, and we we don't often do a lot of work directly in transport. But we were aware there's a bit of data gap in kind of local transport data. So we did a project on that last year as well.
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Toby Bridgeman: And I'll showcase a bit more of these, a bit more detail of these in a bit.
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Toby Bridgeman: But just to describe some of them.
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Toby Bridgeman: So one of the one of the energy crisis kind of
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Toby Bridgeman: took hold. A couple of years ago we were aware that
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Toby Bridgeman: it was a really, it became really one of our important flagship campaigns. We've got warm home campaigns calling for sort of free installation.
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Toby Bridgeman: Across the country, and we're really pushing for that an external election
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Toby Bridgeman: but as part of telling that story. We wanted to understand who which which communities most likely to be impacted by the energy crisis. So we look to bringing in various data on energy consumption, the efficiency of homes income levels to create what we call these energy crisis hotspots. So it's where places where it's kind of a measure of fuel poverty, but using slightly different
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Toby Bridgeman: data than the official kind of data uses to just really pinpoint communities where
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Toby Bridgeman: we.
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Toby Bridgeman: the data that the data showed that there was. Bills were higher and homes are more inefficient.
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Toby Bridgeman: And then comes with at the lower end of the spectrum to kind of identify the communities that really needed to
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Toby Bridgeman: or would benefit the most from a a national installation program.
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Colin Marsh: Who looks.
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Toby Bridgeman: Is that sorry? Is that a question coming in on
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Toby Bridgeman: background noise?
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Toby Bridgeman: Do feel free to ask any questions. By the way, if I'm I'm not clear on anything.
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Toby Bridgeman: We did some work with the University of Manchester, bringing in quite they before they did. They commissioned them to do it on our behalf. But they produced
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Toby Bridgeman: and so really detailed data on extreme weather risks. So that was flooding and overheating but also bringing in social vulnerability. So, looking at the kind of physical risks of which which parts the country, and most most likely to be at risk of flooding and high high summer temperatures, and then also bringing in social data to understand which which communities
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Toby Bridgeman: most socially vulnerable to those things as well.
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Toby Bridgeman: Right like, I mentioned the renewable energy work we did recently with University of Exeter.
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Toby Bridgeman: So this is looking at just in England. Actually, this data was for, but looking at parcels of land
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Toby Bridgeman: really kind of layering exclusion criteria across the country. So ruling out any sort of
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Toby Bridgeman: nature sites any kind of protected sites for bird migration
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Toby Bridgeman: ruling out obviously infrastructure, such as roads and railways, airports buffering around those heritage properties and heritage sites a a series of layers basically identifying. Okay, when what would I? I will also so agricultural land.
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Toby Bridgeman: etc, etc, to kind of. So where where does that? What? What does that leave us with whereabouts? Is that land, and and how much energy could be generate from that? So we've got a map where you can. You can see that.
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Toby Bridgeman: And I'll show that in a bit
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Toby Bridgeman: around pollution, we've done. I'd like, yeah, I think a lot of our data is is kind of really does focus on the kind of energy and climate change stuff. But we do also
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Toby Bridgeman: do other things. So Defra produced some data we use to kind of map again to to in that neighborhood level, to Lsa level, looking at
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Toby Bridgeman: nitrogen dioxide particulates.
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Toby Bridgeman: And we've used the sewage build I. So we've been using for a couple of years. Obviously, it's become very topical recently. So we continue to use that use that in our on our tools, when we produce local kind of statistics on, on sewage bills in your area.
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Toby Bridgeman: around nature, we've done some work around understanding how much accessible green space
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Toby Bridgeman: it's available to local communities. So this is the the key word here is accessible. So this is areas of land you can freely access and spend time in rather than just see. But it's sort of private or pay have to pay money to get into. So I kind of understand initially. That was that came up Jim, during the the pandemic.
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Toby Bridgeman: when it became quite apparent. There's a kind of big disparity between and green open spaces that people could look at. But it's increasing. We've used it increasingly
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Toby Bridgeman: over the years, because it's just a really good metric of understanding who's got access to green space
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Toby Bridgeman: and then also in nature, we've got an excellent company called Territory to do some very clever mapping with using radar and lidar data to understand, to identify individual tree
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Toby Bridgeman: tree species and map their coverage across the country.
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Toby Bridgeman: So we've got a great map on that showing showing tree canopy cover.
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Toby Bridgeman: and then finally, we did some work with the excellent Malcolm Morgan at University of Leeds, who's a transport and Gis expert
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Toby Bridgeman: and looking back through historical timetables and showing the frequency of of bus services as they were in 2,010, and then showing them. We did it last year. So it's 2,023, and looking at where bus services.
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Toby Bridgeman: the frequency of bus services have declined rapidly or dramatically over the last
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Toby Bridgeman: decade or so.
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Toby Bridgeman: Which shows some pretty pretty harsh cuts to bus services, particularly in rural areas.
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Toby Bridgeman: and then, just to say, well, I'm currently working a project which we've called the index of multiple environmental deprivation. That's a project that came out of the data network
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Toby Bridgeman: working with
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Toby Bridgeman: Birmingham local authority, natural England, the Environment Agency and Strathclyde University to try and bring some of the data I've got. I've described here together to understand where all these things kind of
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Toby Bridgeman: combine to create a sort of multiple environmental deprivation if you like.
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Toby Bridgeman: So that's still ongoing. I haven't published that yet. Hoping to do something sort of 1st version of that in July.
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Toby Bridgeman: and I can yeah, make that available. I should say all these things are
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Toby Bridgeman: or at least we would like to. If in, if they're not publicly available. If if you need need or want this data, we can make it available via email. The long term, an ideal plan is to get all this available from our website and some a lot of it is sort of downloadable from our website.
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Toby Bridgeman: But obviously, it's a sort of balance between
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Toby Bridgeman: getting stuff out. That's important and and kind of keep refreshing. Keep getting new data out with maintaining our data and making all data available. So
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Toby Bridgeman: yeah, apologies if it's not always clear to access. But if there is ever a problem more than happy to kind of email data out.
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Toby Bridgeman: anyway. Let's, oh, yeah, I just I might. I'll make the slides available. After this.
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Toby Bridgeman: After this there was just some links there to some some of those data stories I've talked about.
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Toby Bridgeman: if I just
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Toby Bridgeman: shut that down and then I'll just give you. I think I've got time at my, maybe 5 min just to talk about some of those data things that I mentioned.
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Toby Bridgeman: So can you guys see the
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Toby Bridgeman: map screen?
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Toby Bridgeman: Yeah, cool.
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Toby Bridgeman: So this is the energy crisis hotspots
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Toby Bridgeman: data. So actually, if I put it by neighborhood.
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Toby Bridgeman: So anywhere, purple, we've identified as a place where
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Toby Bridgeman: incomes are towards the lower end of the spectrum. Energy bills are high
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Toby Bridgeman: and homes are are really efficient. Some of the most inefficient homes. So you get pockets of kind of urban areas around London and Birmingham, Wolverhampton, Bradford, etc, and then you also get some rural pockets
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Toby Bridgeman: my computer is very slow today, it's making a bit of time to late. So I click on error. You can see that. Yes, and chicks be local authority. This is the local Mpl. Was
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Graham Stoddart-Stones: Yes, absolutely brilliant, Toby. Thank you so much. It's really fascinating. It's rather noisy in my background. So I'm gonna ask Jules if he take over as the Co. Host, please, and if people have questions to ask you, if they could please use the hand raising facility in zoom that would make life much easier for everybody.
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Graham Stoddart-Stones: So I'll ask Jules to take over, and perhaps Wendy is the 1st for the question. Thank you.
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wendy thomson Glolucestershire: I'm just trying to click on the Reds
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wendy thomson Glolucestershire: microphone, anyway. Thank you, Toby, that was really really interesting. I wasn't expecting to make this today, and at 5 to 12 I was able to. So I've sort of
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wendy thomson Glolucestershire: feel like a gate crashed it. But I'm so pleased.
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wendy thomson Glolucestershire: Can you just confirm. I can't remember if I call what your role is within friends of the Earth, and also the maps you was showing. I'd love to have a look at them. In my own time. And is that where I can access them is through the website.
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Toby Bridgeman: all those maps I showed I'll put direct links to them as well as we tend to have them embedded in wider stories, because we're obviously a map on its own is not what we we're trying to like push action. So it'd be like, here's the analysis. This is what we think it means. And this is what we're asking for. So it's like always policy implications and what? What the kind of campaign ask we like. But also, I'll I'll put in those
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wendy thomson Glolucestershire: Yeah, cause I'm just looking to get more focused on. I'm in Stone House, in Gloucestershire. So only just up the road from you and Bristol but obviously looking if it is just information more for a bigger area. I'm just looking just to just to keep nibbling away at council to say, are we doing enough? Because
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wendy thomson Glolucestershire: I don't feel like we are? And I'm it'd be really interesting to see, you know, what else can we do for helping people get installation and whatever. And I, there's being programs and some money. But it was like
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wendy thomson Glolucestershire: a handful of houses in our town. But anyway, so I'm just looking to sort of see if I can pick up on any really useful
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Toby Bridgeman: Yeah, and the other. Well, the other thing about that I don't know. If you heard that mention the tool called the near you at all. We you basically.
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Toby Bridgeman: Local authority level that produces it does show this, what? Where things are at the moment, and there's a sort of series of targets of where things should be so basic. For example,
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Toby Bridgeman: Oh, and your other question was, what? What's my role? So I'm in my job site is environmental data lead. So I'm the kind of
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Amanda Davis, Cotswolds: My apologies. I zoom said no for the 1st 5 5 plus minutes, so I did miss your introduction, I'm afraid. Thank you very much. I'm a scientist in the sense that evidence is always important, and if you can inform with facts that can't be disputed, then you've got a much more powerful tool
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Amanda Davis, Cotswolds: to make your case or to support your case.
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Amanda Davis, Cotswolds: And I guess one of the questions the main question I've got is of the things that you're sharing with us, and that we can access publicly.
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Amanda Davis, Cotswolds: How much are usable, I mean, is it open source, and can or is there an etiquette about, I mean, I will always try and state my source, etc. But can you tell us about how we can use it to make a case locally? Thank you.
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Toby Bridgeman: Yeah, that's a really good question. It's always it's always difficult. Knowing.
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