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mysociety / whatdotheyknow-theme

The Alaveteli theme for WhatDoTheyKnow (UK)
http://www.whatdotheyknow.com/
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Specifically promote use of WhatDoTheyKnow to obtain climate / environmental information #995

Open RichardTaylor opened 2 years ago

RichardTaylor commented 2 years ago

Inspired by the "climate helpdesk" service offered by the German access to information web-service FragDenDtaat

https://fragdenstaat-de.translate.goog/aktionen/klima-helpdesk

which includes

garethrees commented 2 years ago

This would likely be implemented in the form of a landing page (https://github.com/mysociety/whatdotheyknow-theme/issues/442#issuecomment-1041273063), but +1 on separating out this theme into a specific issue given that we have a Climate programme of work.

RichardTaylor commented 2 years ago

Inquiry Ideas

I spotted a Twitter thread suggesting changes to hospital operating theatre heating and ventilation protocols could be more significant in terms of reducing carbon dioxide emissions than even staff travel arrangements:

https://twitter.com/pete_labib/status/1494035612667633666?s=21

FOI could be used to obtain hospital operating theatre heating and ventilation protocols. Information on the current state would enable informed lobbying for change.

garethrees commented 2 years ago

I'm sure there'll be certain categories that would be relevant here, like airports for example https://github.com/mysociety/whatdotheyknow-theme/issues/651.

garethrees commented 1 year ago

This would likely be implemented in the form of a landing page

I think we'd create a whatdotheyknow.com/climate page. On it we could: