A key focus of OEDP’s work centers on environmental data stewardship. We’re co-creating new tools and strategies with frontline communities for governing and sharing environmental data safely with each other, their governments, researchers, and others, ultimately to advance trust, meaningful change, and accountability.
In 2025, we published the Community Data Playbook, which provides case studies and plays for how to better steward environmental data. We also published a digital companion in the form of a Resource Library, as well as several zines. You can explore them here.
This work builds on our body of research, as well as our work on innovation spaces in this area through the Community Data Hubs pilot and Environmental Data Labs. The Community Data Hubs prototype modeled a networked infrastructure for sharing community-generated environmental and climate data between communities, government, and researchers. Environmental Data Labs were workshopping spaces for environmental data questions, datasets, and challenges related to stewardship, governance, and policy.
