Governing Green Power

Collaborating UH Mānoa Departments

• UHERO
• Sea Grant
• Electrical Engineering
• Natural Resources and Environmental Management
• Oceanography
• Urban and Regional Planning

Blogs

• Global Food, Environment and Economic Dynamics
• Greed, Green, and Grains
• UHERO

Data

Agriculture and Environment

• County-level Degree Day Aggregates of Fine-Scale Data (161M STATA)
• FAOSTAT (international agricultural production and trade)
• Fine-Scale Weather Data for the US
• Global and US Climate Data (NOAA NCDC)
• Global Climate Data (University of Delware)
• Michael Haines’ Historical Agricultural Census (183M zipped STATA)
• USDA Agricultural Data
• USDA Geospatial Data Gateway

Finance and Economics

• FRED (excellent data archive of the Federal Reserve)
• Kenneth French Data Library (stocks and bonds)
• multpl.com (key financial statistics, up to the moment, and a whole lot more)
• Robert Shiller (long-run stocks and home prices)
• Statistical Abstract of the United States (basic data on everything)
• UN databases

Software and other Data-Related Resources

• Berkeley ELSA
• Gapminder
• Gapminder-Agriculture
• Rstudio
• R Project

Big Ideas

• Big Think
• TED

Useful Books & Readings

• Distortions to Agricultural Incentives, Edited by Kym Anderson
• Mostly Harmless Econometrics By Angrist and Pischke
• Statistical Models: Theory and Practice By David Freedman
• Statistics By Freedman, Pisani, and Purves (An undergraduate book that even graduate students can appreciate)
• William Cronon’s tips for historical research (also useful for budding economists)
• Writing about Multivariate Analysis By Jane E. Miller

Economics Blogs

• Andrew Gelman (a statistics blog)
• Brad Delong
• Calculated Risk
• Crooked Timber
• Econbrowser
• Economist's View
• Environmental Economics
• Freakonomics
• Greg Mankiw
• Marginal Revolution
• Paul Krugman