Introduction
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CO2 concentration exceeds 430 ppm in 2026 and the last three years are the hottest on record; biodiversity monitoring shows a 73% drop in the Living Planet Index and 2.1 billion people lack safely managed drinking water. Practical critique: notebooks fail findability, accessibility, interoperability and reproducibility, and roughly 70% of scientific code is copied and pasted. Proposed work builds a computational commons — a live, versioned, executable platform and an orchestration language prototype to enable find-all-uses queries, controlled side effects, incremental execution and large-scale collaboration; prototypes exist and demos are available.
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chapters (13)
- 0:00Welcome to Propel 2026
- 1:02Planetary health crisis
- 4:57Planetary systems solutions
- 8:27Past Propel workshops
- 11:16Today’s focus on collaboration
- 13:20FAIR criteria for workflows
- 17:13Bad defaults in tools
- 21:44Vision for digital commons
- 25:57User-centered design
- 27:01Collaboration challenges
- 31:58Governance questions
- 33:22Guided discussions
- 36:50Living document and next steps
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