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EPA Climate Change Impacts by Region

February 20, 2017

If you are looking for general information about the impacts of climate change the EPA is a place to start. Their climate change page has a map that breaks the U.S. in to regions and you can click on the region to answer the question What are the impacts of climate change where I live?

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Violent Crime Data Graphs from Kevin Drum

February 16, 2017

Is the U.S. more violent “these days”? Kevin Drum tracks down crime data in his post Raw Data: Here’s What Violent Crime Really Looks Like Over the Past Decade and the answer is largely no, although a few places are up (yes Chicago is one of them). The post cites sources to this data and it could be used is statistics classes.

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NYT: A Crack in an Antarctic Ice Shelf Grew 17 Miles in the Last Two Months

February 13, 2017

This is an interesting Feb 7, 2017 article about the Antarctic ice shelf with a number of excellent graphics.

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All Materials Have Been Moved

February 9, 2017

I’ve finished moving materials from the old site design to this one. There is still a lot of cleaning up and updating to do that will get done in the next couple of weeks.

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A New Arctic Feedback Loop

February 2, 2017

All the materials that were on Sustainability Math will be back by the end of next week. In the meantime enjoy this short video on a feedback loop.

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About This Site

Sustainability Math originated as a site that posted sustainability themed material for mathematics courses. Over time these pages have expanded to included other material, such as animations and interactive graphs, that relate to mathematics and quantitative literacy. Material posted here will likely also be useful to those interested in promoting quantitative literacy. Posts, 0-3 times per week, focus on data recourses, interesting quantitative information, and sustainability (broadly interpreted) in the news and so consider signing up for email alerts below. Questions, comments, and thoughts are welcome.

About the Author/Webmaster

Thomas J. Pfaff is  currently a Professor of Mathematics at Ithaca College. He created this website years ago to help mathematics instructors include sustainability and quantitative literacy material in their courses. His interests have expanded to include the use of R as a scientific language to incorporate into classes and to create graphics for education. He encourages questions, comments, thoughts and collaborations. Connect with him on Linkedin.

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Thomas J Pfaff
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