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[http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/27/pope-francis-edict-climate-change-us-rightwing Time to take another look at the new Catholic leadership] | [http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/27/pope-francis-edict-climate-change-us-rightwing Time to take another look at the new Catholic leadership] | ||
''“In this globalised world, we have fallen into globalised indifference.”'' | |||
''-- Pope Francis'' | |||
''Next year, the Pope will issue a rare papal encyclical in March on climate change and human ecology, all part of an attempt strongly to influence the UN climate change meeting in Paris in 2015 to achieve a universal commitment to reduce carbon emissions.'' | |||
''“Eco-theology” alarms creationists and divides the Catholic church. Opponents, including some in the Vatican, condemn it as “un-biblical”. Pope Francis sees economic inequality and the plundering of the Earth’s resources as part of a theme. He has said: “In this system, which tends to devour everything which stands in the way of accrued profits, whatever is fragile like the environment is defenceless against the interest of a deified market, which becomes the only rule.”'' | |||
* ''https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Pope_Francis_on_the_Environment'' | |||
* ''https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Laudato_Si'' | |||
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[https://plus.google.com/104105656721944993244/posts/34gu9y59nh2 '''Remembering the 'start-up' of the environmental movement'''] and the first laws, a set of founding legal precedents many of which came from forward-looking green visionaries from California, like [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/George_E._Brown_Jr '''George E. Brown'''] who passed away suddenly in 1999. | [https://plus.google.com/104105656721944993244/posts/34gu9y59nh2 '''Remembering the 'start-up' of the environmental movement'''] and the first laws, a set of founding legal precedents many of which came from forward-looking green visionaries from California, like [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/George_E._Brown_Jr '''George E. Brown'''] who passed away suddenly in 1999. | ||
'''George's work in Congress in air quality/clean air, water and the founding of the EPA highlighted the era's achievement...''' George was out in front in "big science" -- his profound accomplishments are esp missed now as [http://inhabitat.com/house-passes-bill-that-prohibits-expert-scientific-advice-to-the-epa/ anti-science positions] threaten in the current Congress... | '''George's work in Congress in air quality/clean air, water and the founding of the EPA highlighted the era's achievement...''' | ||
George was out in front in "big science" -- his profound accomplishments are esp missed now as [http://inhabitat.com/house-passes-bill-that-prohibits-expert-scientific-advice-to-the-epa/ anti-science positions] threaten in the current Congress... | |||
Memories of George '''http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/George_E._Brown_Jr''' | Memories of George '''http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/George_E._Brown_Jr''' | ||
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'''''Rebecca envisioned setting up [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:G_Earth_Outreach.jpg Google Outreach] -- and she did.''''' | '''''Rebecca envisioned setting up [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:G_Earth_Outreach.jpg Google Outreach] -- and she did.''''' | ||
''''' | [https://plus.google.com/104105656721944993244/posts/gEGAkFJvXvX '''''As GreenPolicy siterunner Steven Schmidt wrote as Earth Outreach/Google started up:] | ||
''"Rebecca had an idea how to save (redwood) trees around her home...'' | |||
'' | ''and her idea led to setting up Google Outreach - She had a great idea, she made it happen,'' | ||
''' | ''she is continuing to make it happen ! Each day there's new progress, local and global...'' | ||
'' | ''Global Forest Watch & Global Fishing Watch are two most recent successful launches."'' | ||
''Here's a tip of our GreenPolicy360 hat to Rebecca's Earth Outreach [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:G_Earth_Outreach.jpg 'planet citizens' work.]''''' | |||
'''''Thank You Rebecca! You inspire our action as #PlanetCitizens. Time to see how it's all connected !''''' | |||
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'''''Global Fishing Watch''''' | '''''Launch of Global Fishing Watch - 2014''''' | ||
[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:G_Earth_Outreach.jpg '''''Google Outreach out in front again'''''] | [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:G_Earth_Outreach.jpg '''''Google Outreach online, out in front again'''''] | ||
[http://globalfishingwatch.org/oceana-global-fishing-watch-report.pdf '''''Global Fishing | [http://globalfishingwatch.org/oceana-global-fishing-watch-report.pdf '''''Global Fishing Watch_Data from Earth Outreach'''''] | ||
[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Global_Fishing_Watch] | [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Global_Fishing_Watch] | ||
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'''''Global Forest Watch | '''''Launch of Global Forest Watch - 2014''''' | ||
[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/G_Earth_Outreach.jpg '''''Google Outreach continues to observe the 'state of the world' '''''] | |||
[[Image:GFW1a.jpeg | link=http://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/Global_Forest_Watch_top_page_2014.png]] | [[Image:GFW1a.jpeg | link=http://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/Global_Forest_Watch_top_page_2014.png]] | ||
[http://GlobalForestWatch.org '''''Global Forest Watch'''''] | [http://GlobalForestWatch.org '''''Global Forest Watch'''''] | ||
[http://www.wri.org/our-work/project/global-forest-watch '''''World Resources'''''] | [http://www.wri.org/our-work/project/global-forest-watch '''''World Resources'''''] | ||
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[http://www.fastcoexist.com/3054300/what-if-we-told-you-to-be-optimistic-about-solving-climate-change ''Update on Project Drawdown''] | |||
< | <big>'''''GreenPolicy360 highlights Paul Hawken'''''</big> | ||
[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/ProjectDrawdownCO2 '''''Project Drawdown CO2'''''] | [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/ProjectDrawdownCO2 '''''Project Drawdown CO2'''''] | ||
Introduced at the Bioneers Conference by [http://www.paulhawken.com/paulhawken_frameset.html '''''Paul Hawken'''''] | |||
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<big>'''''GreenPolicy360 highlights Iain Keith'''''</big> | <big>'''''GreenPolicy360 highlights Climate March's Iain Keith'''''</big> | ||
'''''Climate March organizer, from [https://twitter.com/Avaaz Avaaz:]''''' | '''''Climate March organizer, from [https://twitter.com/Avaaz Avaaz:]''''' | ||
[https://plus.google.com/u/0/104105656721944993244/posts/NX5rTEGoSGA?pid=6065651661758000946&oid=104105656721944993244 "We realized that a March could send a powerful signal.] | [https://plus.google.com/u/0/104105656721944993244/posts/NX5rTEGoSGA?pid=6065651661758000946&oid=104105656721944993244 "We realized that a March could send a powerful signal."] | ||
[http://bit.ly/1wCwlvW '''Marches'''] don't always change the world. | [http://bit.ly/1wCwlvW '''Marches'''] don't always change the world. | ||
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'''''Bioneers Dennis Kucinich, Chief Lyons & Leonardo DiCaprio''''' | '''''Bioneers Dennis Kucinich, Chief Lyons & Leonardo DiCaprio''''' | ||
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTyLSr_VCcg '''''Leonardo speaks at the UN Climate Summit'''''] | [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTyLSr_VCcg '''''Leonardo speaks at the UN Climate Summit'''''] | ||
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'''''#Earth360''''' | <big>'''''#Earth360'''''</big> | ||
◊ [http://www.greenpolicy360.net '''''GreenPolicy360'''''] | ◊ [http://www.greenpolicy360.net '''''GreenPolicy360'''''] | ||
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<big><big>''''' | <big><big>'''''Green Policies, Green Progress'''''</big></big> | ||
[http://time.com/3457921/good-news-southern-california-the-smog-is-going-away/ '''''Los Angeles and the US act to clean up the air...'''''] | |||
Calif, over the yrs, out in front of the US in green legislating [http://www.e2.org/ext/doc/CALeadershipfactsheet.pdf;jsessionid=90979EAFE723869E3EB4DB362F3BF9BC] [http://e360.yale.edu/feature/california_takes_the_lead_with_new_green_initiatives/2504/] [http://www.environmentcalifornia.org/news/cae/california-leads-cutting-carbon-now-nation-stands-follow] | |||
[ | '''''[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Governor_Jerry_Brown Jerry Brown]: “What happens here doesn’t stay here. It goes all around the country and all around the world.”''''' [http://www.latimes.com/local/political/la-me-pc-jerry-brown-fourth-inauguration-california-20150105-story.html] [http://www.businessweek.com/articles/2014-09-09/u-dot-s-dot-may-not-be-leading-on-climate-but-california-is] | ||
[http://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/new-nasa-images-highlight-us-air-quality-improvement/#.VGoFoMn4JSw The 'greening' results are starting to show] [http://usa.streetsblog.org/2010/12/14/california-leads-nation-in-green-transpo-policies-how-did-your-state-do/] [http://news.yahoo.com/california-gov-jerry-browns-ambitious-green-energy-plan-230022463.html;_ylt=A0LEVjsWO69UZfEAjxwPxQt.] [http://www.ibtimes.com/california-continues-leading-nation-climate-change-policy-50-renewable-energy-1774606] | [http://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/new-nasa-images-highlight-us-air-quality-improvement/#.VGoFoMn4JSw The 'greening' results are starting to show] [http://usa.streetsblog.org/2010/12/14/california-leads-nation-in-green-transpo-policies-how-did-your-state-do/] [http://news.yahoo.com/california-gov-jerry-browns-ambitious-green-energy-plan-230022463.html;_ylt=A0LEVjsWO69UZfEAjxwPxQt.] [http://www.ibtimes.com/california-continues-leading-nation-climate-change-policy-50-renewable-energy-1774606] | ||
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With appreciation of the '''''Overview Effect''''' | With appreciation of the '''''Overview Effect''''' | ||
[https://vimeo.com/55073825 / Overview: the Movie] [http://vimeo.com/60234866 Planetary] | [https://vimeo.com/55073825 / Overview: the Movie] [http://vimeo.com/60234866 Planetary] | ||
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<big>'''''GreenPolicy360 networking in practice...'''''</big> | |||
[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:GH1_sm.jpg <font color=green> '''''GreenPolicy360/eOS''''']</font> -- | |||
:''Expanding the GreenPolicy360 database of green best practices for use in all communities -- local, national, international'' | |||
We are constantly adding to our [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/%22GreenLinks%22 '''''GreenLinks''''' network,] an online hub for connecting Green groups, local, regional and global, ranging from international NGO's to collections of green news and journalism, from borderless non-profit work to local green activism, from open-source, open data sharing to democracy and independent green, sustainable living advocates... | |||
We welcome additions of active and exceptional green organizations. | |||
Join in as we extend GreenPolicy's shareable community resources. | |||
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[[File:StratDem logo2abc.png]] | [[File:StratDem logo2abc.png]] | ||
'''''Visit StrategicDemands and | |||
'''''Visit GreenPolicy's Associate, StrategicDemands and consider the security horizon...''''' | |||
'''''National Security ↔ Environmental Security''''' | '''''National Security ↔ Environmental Security''''' | ||
[http://strategicdemands.com/national-security-environmental-security/ '''''New Definitions of National & Global Security'''''] | [http://strategicdemands.com/national-security-environmental-security/ '''''New Definitions of National & Global Security'''''] | ||
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[http://www.nasa.gov/press/2014/september/nasa-hosts-media-briefing-to-announce-new-earth-observing-role-for/ '''''NASA continues to advance a new space era'''''] in its exploration of our home planet with the launch of series of #EarthScience instruments to the International Space Station. | [http://www.nasa.gov/press/2014/september/nasa-hosts-media-briefing-to-announce-new-earth-observing-role-for/ '''''NASA continues to advance a new space era'''''] in its exploration of our home planet with the launch of series of #EarthScience instruments to the International Space Station. | ||
''[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Science_Research_from_Space New earth-observing array of instruments] will be exterior mounted on the International Space Station. ISS-RapidScat will monitor ocean winds for climate research, weather predictions and hurricane monitoring. The second instrument, the laser Cloud-Aerosol Transport System (CATS), will measure clouds and location and distribution of pollution, dust, smoke, and other particulates in the atmosphere.'' | |||
:[http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/missions/iss-rapidscat/ #RapidScat] | |||
:[http://www.climatecentral.org/news/international-space-station-climate-mission-18003 Climate Missions] | |||
:[http://www.nasa.gov/earthrightnow/ #EarthRightNow] | |||
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The '''''[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Micro-satellites "New Space"]''''' field is pioneering the study of our blue planet with multiple new platforms monitoring earth systems and resources. '''PlanetLabs''' is a recently founded company that is out in front with its emphasis on open data sharing. Its [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Planet_Labs_Doves_Fly mini satellites] are called "Doves" and they "flock] for #earthmonitoring and rapid sequence imaging. | The '''''[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Micro-satellites "New Space"]''''' field is pioneering the study of our blue planet with multiple new platforms monitoring earth systems and resources. '''PlanetLabs''' is a recently founded company that is out in front with its emphasis on open data sharing. Its [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Planet_Labs_Doves_Fly mini satellites] are called "Doves" and they "flock] for #earthmonitoring and rapid sequence imaging. | ||
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[http://vimeo.com/88602839 '''''Mission: "Democratizing Access to Information About the Changing Planet"'''''] | [http://vimeo.com/88602839 '''''Mission: "Democratizing Access to Information About the Changing Planet"'''''] | ||
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<big>'''''OCO-2 Orbiting Carbon Observatory'''''</big> | <big>'''''OCO-2 Orbiting Carbon Observatory'''''</big> | ||
'''''"Watching the Earth Breathe from Space"''''' [http://oco.jpl.nasa.gov/] [http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2014-198] [http://climate.nasa.gov/blog/1105/] [http://ecowatch.com/2014/06/18/climate-change-nasa-app/] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmosphere_of_Earth] | '''''"Watching the Earth Breathe from Space"''''' | ||
:[http://oco.jpl.nasa.gov/ JPL/NASA] | |||
:[http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2014-198 JPL/NASA News] | |||
:[http://climate.nasa.gov/blog/1105/ NASA Earth Climate Blog] | |||
:[http://ecowatch.com/2014/06/18/climate-change-nasa-app/ Ecowatch NASA app] | |||
:[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atmosphere_of_Earth Wikipedia/Atmosphere] | |||
[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/OCO-2 '''''Observing Global Warming with #OCO-2'''''] | |||
:Historic launch -- [http://www.space.com/26403-nasa-oco2-carbon-dioxide-satellite-launch.html #PlanetCitizen mission to study #EarthsAtmosphere] | |||
<big>'''''"First Light!"'''''</big> | |||
:[http://www.universetoday.com/113866/nasas-carbon-dioxide-greenhouse-gas-observatory-captures-first-light-at-head-of-international-a-train-of-earth-science-satellites/ "A Train" Goes Live] | |||
:[http://www.planetary.org/blogs/guest-blogs/2014/20140815-oco-2-first-light-spectra.html First Light Spectra] | |||
:[http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/m/news/news.php?release=2014-272#.U-9Aa2Nab8l '''''OCO-2 announces 'We have data!' '''''] | |||
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[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/You_can_manage_only_what_you_can_measure_Dr_David_Crisp%2C_OCO-2%2C_June_2014_m.jpg ''"You can manage only what you can measure"''] | [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/You_can_manage_only_what_you_can_measure_Dr_David_Crisp%2C_OCO-2%2C_June_2014_m.jpg ''"You can manage only what you can measure"''] | ||
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'''''"Look at how thin our atmosphere is. This is all there is between humankind and deadly space." | '''''"Look at how thin our atmosphere is. This is all there is between humankind and deadly space." | ||
[[File:Earth atmosphere ISS October30,2014.jpg]] | [[File:Earth atmosphere ISS October30,2014.jpg]] | ||
* '''''GreenPolicy360: [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Look_at_how_thin_our_atmosphere_is A thin atmospheric layer enabling life as we know it...]''''' | * '''''GreenPolicy360: [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Look_at_how_thin_our_atmosphere_is A thin atmospheric layer enabling life as we know it...]''''' | ||
'''''[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/How_thin_is_earth%27s_atmosphere.jpg GP360: "Look at our atmosphere around the earth, twelve miles high in the troposphere..."]''''' [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/Thin_atmosphere_AstroGerst_ISS_2014.jpg] | '''''[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/How_thin_is_earth%27s_atmosphere.jpg GP360: "Look at our atmosphere around the earth, twelve miles high in the troposphere..."]''''' [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/Thin_atmosphere_AstroGerst_ISS_2014.jpg] | ||
'''''Images revealing the 'height', the narrow band of life-giving atmosphere surrounding Earth''''' | '''''Images revealing the 'height', the narrow band of life-giving atmosphere surrounding Earth''''' | ||
[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/ISS_040e008179_earth%27s_atmosphere_l.jpg] | [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/ISS_040e008179_earth%27s_atmosphere_l.jpg Atmospheric reality] | ||
[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/ | [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/ISS_setting_moon.jpg From the International Space Station] | ||
[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File: | [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Earths_Atmospheric_Layers.JPG Thin Layers] | ||
[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/ | [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/Iss040e008179_earth%27s_atmosphere_.jpg All that protects us] | ||
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'''''We are in the first era of geo-monitoring our 'thin atmosphere', earth resources and biosphere from space...''''' | |||
:[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Micro-satellites Micro satellites] | |||
'' | ''Beginning with first-ever images of our home planet, Earth, taken from the Apollo era...''''' | ||
:[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/From_Apollo_4.jpg Apollo 4] | |||
:[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/Whole_Earth_1972_Apollo_17.jpg Apollo 17] | |||
:[http://www.earthpov.com An #EarthPOV] | |||
:[https://vimeo.com/55073825 an "Overview"] | |||
''''' | '''''New vision, new possibilities as [http://www.planetcitizens.org citizens of the planet]...''''' | ||
[[File:Earthatmosphere iss23 annotated nasa.jpg]] | [[File:Earthatmosphere iss23 annotated nasa.jpg]] | ||
'''''New vision, new knowledge, new challenges''''' | |||
'''''[http://www.pinterest.com/stratdem/environmental-security/ "Thin" layer of atmosphere] absorbing the sum of human-produced hydrocarbon & emission [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Isn%27t_it_time.jpg "externalities"]''''' | '''''[http://www.pinterest.com/stratdem/environmental-security/ "Thin" layer of atmosphere] absorbing the sum of human-produced hydrocarbon & emission [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Isn%27t_it_time.jpg "externalities"]''''' | ||
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'''''[http://climate.nasa.gov/blog/1105 NASA’s Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2): A game changer?]''''' [http://climate.nasa.gov/blog] | '''''[http://climate.nasa.gov/blog/1105 NASA’s Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2): A game changer?]''''' | ||
:[http://climate.nasa.gov/blog ''NASA establishes a public-facing online climate change news site''] | |||
'''Seeing climate change from space:''' NASA creates image-based iPad app [http://ecowatch.com/2014/06/18/climate-change-nasa-app/] | '''Seeing climate change from space:''' NASA creates image-based iPad app [http://ecowatch.com/2014/06/18/climate-change-nasa-app/] | ||
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With open data, links and digital apps, schools and future generations will learn '''new ways of seeing as citizens of the planet'''. | With open data, links and digital apps, schools and future generations will learn '''new ways of seeing as citizens of the planet'''. | ||
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[http://nyti.ms/1BzljLJ Planet Labs/NYT] '''Planet Labs, newly #ISS deployed Doves''' [http://aviationweek.com/space/smartphone-advances-drive-smallsats Smartphones in space!] | |||
[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Planet_Labs_Doves_Fly '''Launch of new Flock of Dove Satellites to Image Earth'''] [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/Dove_minisat_launch_from_ISS_m.png Doves fly] [http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/news/girl_scouts_orbital_2/ Doves flock] | |||
'''''Planet Labs 'Dove' micro-satellites''''' [http://www.planet.com/flock1/] | '''''Planet Labs 'Dove' micro-satellites''''' [http://www.planet.com/flock1/] | ||
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"Rapid cadence imagery, like Planet Labs is developing, helps us become better, more sustainable stewards of Earth." [http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/03/17/qa-with-steve-jurvetson-space-investor-and-rocket-maker/ NYT] | "Rapid cadence imagery, like Planet Labs is developing, helps us become better, more sustainable stewards of Earth." [http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/03/17/qa-with-steve-jurvetson-space-investor-and-rocket-maker/ NYT] | ||
[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Micro-satellites '''''Geoscience: Eyes in the Sky, Monitoring the Earth by Satellite'''''] | |||
'''''[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Micro-satellites A New Era of Space Startups]''''' | |||
'''''"Earth Imaging"''''' -- '''''NextGen #EarthScience in an era of #climatechange and #globalsecurity threats''''' | '''''"Earth Imaging"''''' -- '''''NextGen #EarthScience in an era of #climatechange and #globalsecurity threats''''' | ||
'''''"New Space"''''' startup companies to watch (our eyes are especially on '''Planet Labs''') [http://spectrum.ieee.org/aerospace/satellites/9-earthimaging-startups-to-watch]... BlackBridge [http://www.blackbridge.com/] -- [https://www.planet.com/pulse/blackbridge/ '''''July 2015--Blackbridge/RapidEye acquired by Planet Labs'''''], Dauria-Digital Globe [http://dauriaspace.com/DigitalGlobe], '''DigitalGlobe''' [https://www.digitalglobe.com/] #DigitalGlobe, highest rez commercially avail #earthimaging from space [http://www.satimagingcorp.com/satellite-sensors/worldview-3/] [https://www.digitalglobe.com/imagery-completeness] [https://www.digitalglobe.com/products/platform/digitalglobe-crowdsourcing] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeoEye GeoEye] [http://www.satimagingcorp.com/satellite-sensors/geoeye-1/], Firefly Space Systems [http://www.fireflyspace.com/] [https://twitter.com/Firefly_Space], GeoOptics [http://geooptics.com/], NanoRacks [http://nanoracks.com/], [http://nanoracks.com/about-us/our-history/] [http://nanoracks.com/products/smallsat-deployment/], NovaWurks [http://www.novawurks.com/index.html], OmniEarth [http://omniearth.net/] [http://www.marketwatch.com/story/omniearth-announces-partnership-to-create-global-satellite-constellation-and-extensive-hosted-payload-opportunity-2014-05-20] [http://www.directionsmag.com/pressreleases/omniearth-announces-partnership-to-create-global-satellite-constellati/403595] [http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2534/1], OrbitLogic [http://www.orbitlogic.com/], PlanetiQ [http://www.planetiq.com/], '''Planet Labs''' [http://www.planet.com/] [https://www.planet.com/pulse/ Pulse] [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/Doves_close-up-of-cubesats-leaving-nanoracks-deployer-2014-02-11_m.jpg] [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/Doves_launched_from_ISS_float_against_Earth_horizon_m.jpg] [http://gizmodo.com/meet-the-flockers-iss-launches-low-cost-earth-imaging-1517232660], RapidEye (acquired by Blackbridge/Planet Labs) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RapidEye] [https://earth.esa.int/web/guest/missions/3rd-party-missions/current-missions/rapideye] [http://spectrum.ieee.org/aerospace/satellites/fullspectrum-farming], Skybox [http://arstechnica.com/business/2014/06/google-buys-satellite-imaging-company-skybox-for-500-million/] [http://techcrunch.com/2014/05/23/google-close-to-snapping-up-satellite-startup-skybox-imaging-for-1b-say-sources/] [http://www.wired.com/2013/06/startup-skybox/], Teledyne [http://www.tbe.com/], Tyvak Nano-Sat [http://tyvak.com/], '''Urthecast''' [http://www.urthecast.com/] | |||
'''''"New Space"''''' startup companies to watch (our eyes are especially on [http://www.planet.com '''Planet Labs''']) | |||
[http://spectrum.ieee.org/aerospace/satellites/9-earthimaging-startups-to-watch]... BlackBridge [http://www.blackbridge.com/] -- [https://www.planet.com/pulse/blackbridge/ '''''July 2015--Blackbridge/RapidEye acquired by Planet Labs'''''], Dauria-Digital Globe [http://dauriaspace.com/DigitalGlobe], '''DigitalGlobe''' [https://www.digitalglobe.com/] #DigitalGlobe, highest rez commercially avail #earthimaging from space [http://www.satimagingcorp.com/satellite-sensors/worldview-3/] [https://www.digitalglobe.com/imagery-completeness] [https://www.digitalglobe.com/products/platform/digitalglobe-crowdsourcing] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GeoEye GeoEye] [http://www.satimagingcorp.com/satellite-sensors/geoeye-1/], Firefly Space Systems [http://www.fireflyspace.com/] [https://twitter.com/Firefly_Space], GeoOptics [http://geooptics.com/], NanoRacks [http://nanoracks.com/], [http://nanoracks.com/about-us/our-history/] [http://nanoracks.com/products/smallsat-deployment/], NovaWurks [http://www.novawurks.com/index.html], OmniEarth [http://omniearth.net/] [http://www.marketwatch.com/story/omniearth-announces-partnership-to-create-global-satellite-constellation-and-extensive-hosted-payload-opportunity-2014-05-20] [http://www.directionsmag.com/pressreleases/omniearth-announces-partnership-to-create-global-satellite-constellati/403595] [http://www.thespacereview.com/article/2534/1], OrbitLogic [http://www.orbitlogic.com/], PlanetiQ [http://www.planetiq.com/], '''Planet Labs''' [http://www.planet.com/] [https://www.planet.com/pulse/ Pulse] [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/Doves_close-up-of-cubesats-leaving-nanoracks-deployer-2014-02-11_m.jpg] [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/Doves_launched_from_ISS_float_against_Earth_horizon_m.jpg] [http://gizmodo.com/meet-the-flockers-iss-launches-low-cost-earth-imaging-1517232660], RapidEye (acquired by Blackbridge/Planet Labs) [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RapidEye] [https://earth.esa.int/web/guest/missions/3rd-party-missions/current-missions/rapideye] [http://spectrum.ieee.org/aerospace/satellites/fullspectrum-farming], Skybox [http://arstechnica.com/business/2014/06/google-buys-satellite-imaging-company-skybox-for-500-million/] [http://techcrunch.com/2014/05/23/google-close-to-snapping-up-satellite-startup-skybox-imaging-for-1b-say-sources/] [http://www.wired.com/2013/06/startup-skybox/], Teledyne [http://www.tbe.com/], Tyvak Nano-Sat [http://tyvak.com/], '''Urthecast''' [http://www.urthecast.com/] | |||
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Moving from almost exclusively multi-billion dollar military/defense-communication satellite operations to nextgen 'small cap' startups and 'New Space' ventures and applications with earth systems monitoring, resources, sustainable business, and low-earth orbit [http://www.space.com/topics/space-tourism/ space travel] with companies like Richard Branson's [https://plus.google.com/+VirginGalactic/posts/BiQHdTqEcZM Virgin Galactic]... | Moving from almost exclusively multi-billion dollar military/defense-communication satellite operations to nextgen 'small cap' startups and 'New Space' ventures and applications with earth systems monitoring, resources, sustainable business, and low-earth orbit [http://www.space.com/topics/space-tourism/ space travel] with companies like Richard Branson's [https://plus.google.com/+VirginGalactic/posts/BiQHdTqEcZM Virgin Galactic]... | ||
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''''[http://www.urthecast.com/Urthecast-ISS Ride with Us Urthecast]'''' | |||
International Space Station / Video of Earth -- http://www.urthecast.com/features | |||
[http://www.urthecast.com/developer '''Urthecast APIs'''] | |||
'''Live''' from the International Space Station [http://www.universetoday.com/111631/hd-livestream-of-earth-now-available-247-from-the-space-station/] [http://www.cnet.com/news/watch-earth-roll-by-live-streamed-in-hd-from-the-iss/ Watch Earth roll by in streamed HD] [http://www.ustream.tv/channel/live-iss-stream] [http://www.ustream.tv/channel/iss-hdev-payload] [http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/HDEV/] | '''Live''' from the International Space Station [http://www.universetoday.com/111631/hd-livestream-of-earth-now-available-247-from-the-space-station/] [http://www.cnet.com/news/watch-earth-roll-by-live-streamed-in-hd-from-the-iss/ Watch Earth roll by in streamed HD] [http://www.ustream.tv/channel/live-iss-stream] [http://www.ustream.tv/channel/iss-hdev-payload] [http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/HDEV/] | ||
Earth sciences/NASA-JPL and gov contractors [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/Eyes_on_the_Earth_2012update.jpg ''''Eyes on the Earth''''] | Earth sciences/NASA-JPL and gov contractors [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/Eyes_on_the_Earth_2012update.jpg ''''Eyes on the Earth''''] | ||
[http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2012-084] [http://eyes.jpl.nasa.gov/earth/index.html] [http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/education/earthday/earthdayflash.cfm] [http://climate.nasa.gov/] | |||
[http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/news.php?release=2012-084 @JPL/NASA] | |||
[http://eyes.jpl.nasa.gov/earth/index.html Earth Index] | |||
[http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/education/earthday/earthdayflash.cfm Everyday Flash] | |||
[http://climate.nasa.gov/ Climate NASA.gov] | |||
[http://climate.nasa.gov/blog/1105/ @OCO-2 OCO-2] | |||
[https://twitter.com/IamOCO2 I am OCO! Tweet!!] | |||
[http://www.nasa.gov/earthrightnow/ '''''EarthRightNow'''''] | [http://www.nasa.gov/earthrightnow/ '''''EarthRightNow'''''] | ||
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'''''"For us it is to cherish and protect the only home we've ever known..."''''' | '''''"For us it is to cherish and protect the only home we've ever known..."''''' | ||
[http://saganseries.com/] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=923jxZY2NPI][http://www.greenpolicy360.net | [http://saganseries.com/] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=923jxZY2NPI][http://www.greenpolicy360.net/images/PaleBlueDot-.jpg] [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Pale-blue-dot.jpg] [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:PaleBlueDot.jpg] | ||
'''''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blue_Marble An oasis] in the vastness of space''''' | '''''[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Blue_Marble An oasis] in the vastness of space''''' | ||
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'''''NASA's''''' [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Science_Enterprise '''''Earth Science Enterprise'''''] (ESE) -- Originally called '''''"Mission to Planet Earth (MTPE)"''''' | '''''NASA's''''' [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Science_Enterprise '''''Earth Science Enterprise'''''] (ESE) -- Originally called '''''"Mission to Planet Earth (MTPE)"''''' | ||
[[Image:Mission to Planet Earth .jpg]] | [[Image:Mission to Planet Earth .jpg]] | ||
'''''October 2014''''' http://bit.ly/VitalSignsPulseofthePlanet / Video | '''''October 2014''''' http://bit.ly/VitalSignsPulseofthePlanet / Video | ||
'''''To fully appreciate the detail of the models, click on the gear symbol and set to 720p resolution and choose full screen video''''' | :'''''To fully appreciate the detail of the models, click on the gear symbol and set to 720p resolution and choose full screen video''''' | ||
ESE is dedicated to "''understanding the total Earth system and the effects of natural and human-induced changes on the global environment''." | ESE is dedicated to "''understanding the total Earth system and the effects of natural and human-induced changes on the global environment''." | ||
'''''Mission to Planet Earth's successor, NASA’s Earth Observing System | '''''Mission to Planet Earth's successor, NASA’s Earth Observing System provides long-term global observations of the land surface, biosphere, solid Earth, atmosphere, and oceans.''''' | ||
[http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/theme/water/data/sets/browse?advsrch=true '''''Earth Observing System Data and Information System - Maps'''''] | [http://sedac.ciesin.columbia.edu/theme/water/data/sets/browse?advsrch=true '''''Earth Observing System Data and Information System - Maps'''''] | ||
[http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/NPP/main/#.VDFkmxZab8k '''''Suomi NPP - Next-generation Earth-observing satellite system'''''] [https://www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/sets/72157627439487497/show/ NPP Images Gallery] | :[http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/NPP/main/#.VDFkmxZab8k '''''Suomi NPP - Next-generation Earth-observing satellite system'''''] | ||
:[https://www.flickr.com/photos/gsfc/sets/72157627439487497/show/ NPP Images Gallery] | |||
[http://www.jpss.noaa.gov/program.html '''''Next generation NASA-NOAA #EarthMonitoring satellite to launch in 2017'''''] | [http://www.jpss.noaa.gov/program.html '''''Next generation NASA-NOAA #EarthMonitoring satellite to launch in 2017'''''] | ||
''"The ultimate beneficiaries are the present and future generations of the people on Earth..."'' | |||
''The goal of the Earth Observing project is "improved understanding of the Earth as ''an integrated system''."'' | |||
''"To improve life here'''" and "'''to understand and protect our home planet."'' | |||
'''#EarthScience''', '''#GeoScience''', '''#Earth360''', '''#GP360''', '''#EarthPOV''' | '''#EarthScience''', '''#GeoScience''', '''#Earth360''', '''#GP360''', '''#EarthPOV''' | ||
[http:// | :[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Earth_satellites_in_3D.jpg Eyes on the Earth-Earth Right Now] | ||
:[http://eospso.gsfc.nasa.gov Earth Observing System Project] | |||
:[https://earthdata.nasa.gov Earth Data] | |||
:[http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features Earth Observatory] | |||
:[http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Images/?eocn=topnav&eoci=images Images] | |||
:[http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/Grace/ Grace] | |||
:[http://grace.jpl.nasa.gov/ Grace-JPL] | |||
:[http://www.csr.utexas.edu/grace/ Grace-UTexas] | |||
:[http://visibleearth.nasa.gov Visible Earth] | |||
[http:// | :[http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/GlobalMaps/?eocn=topnav&eoci=globalmaps Global Maps] | ||
:[http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view_cat.php?categoryID=1484 Visible Earth_2] | |||
:[http://visibleearth.nasa.gov/view.php?id=79765 Visible Earth_3] | |||
:[http://eoimages2.gsfc.nasa.gov/images/imagerecords/79000/79765/dnb_land_ocean_ice.2012.3600x1800.jpg Visible Earth_4] | |||
:[http://www.nasa.gov/content/earth-missions-list/ Earth Mission List] | |||
'''IceSat-2''' | |||
:[http://icesat.gsfc.nasa.gov/icesat2/ Ice monitoring] | |||
:[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ICESat-2 IceSat] | |||
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'''European | <big>'''European Space Program'''</big> | ||
:[https://earth.esa.int/web/guest/missions/esa-operational-eo-missions '''ESA / Earth Systems Monitoring'''] | |||
<big>'''European Space Agency '''</big> | |||
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Living_Planet_Programme '''Living Planet Programme'''] | |||
:Managed by Earth Observation Programmes | |||
: GOCE – Gravity Field and Steady-State Ocean Circulation Explorer - launched on March 17, 2009 - [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_Field_and_Steady-State_Ocean_Circulation_Explorer] | : GOCE – Gravity Field and Steady-State Ocean Circulation Explorer - launched on March 17, 2009 - [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gravity_Field_and_Steady-State_Ocean_Circulation_Explorer] | ||
: SMOS – Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity satellite - studying ocean salinity and soil moisture; launched in 2 November 2009 - [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soil_Moisture_and_Ocean_Salinity_satellite] | : SMOS – Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity satellite - studying ocean salinity and soil moisture; launched in 2 November 2009 - [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soil_Moisture_and_Ocean_Salinity_satellite] | ||
: '''CryoSat''' | : '''CryoSat''' – Designed to map the Earth's ice cover. CryoSat-2 was launched 8 April 2010 - [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CryoSat] - Euro Cryo Satellite/Earth Imaging | ||
[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Science_Research_from_Space '''''Geo-science: Eyes in the Sky'''''] | |||
:[http://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/aug/24/incredible-polar-ice-loss-cryosat-antarctica-greenland ''Antarctic Ice Loss''] | |||
: Swarm – Satellites mapping the Earth's magnetism. The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swarm_%28spacecraft%29 SWARM constellation] was launched successfully on 22 November 2013 | |||
: Aeolus – [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ADM-Aeolus Atmospheric Dynamics Mission] uses an innovative laser to measure winds. | |||
: EarthCARE – [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EarthCARE Earth Clouds Aerosols and Radiation Explorer] examines the formation and effects of clouds. | |||
: BIOMASS – Designed to calculate the amount of carbon stored in the world's forests, and monitor for any changes over the course of its five-year mission. Due to launch in 2020 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BIOMASS | |||
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''' | <big>'''Sea-level Rise: A Coastal Reality across the Globe'''</big> | ||
[[File:Rising Seas NatGeo M Sept13 s.jpg|link=http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Sea-Level_Rise_%26_Mitigation]] | [[File:Rising Seas NatGeo M Sept13 s.jpg|link=http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Sea-Level_Rise_%26_Mitigation]] | ||
◊ '''''[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Sea-Level_Rise_%26_Mitigation Rising Seas - Against the Tide]''''' | ◊ '''''[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Sea-Level_Rise_%26_Mitigation Rising Seas - Against the Tide]''''' | ||
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'''''Take climate action in your community''''' - Add to 8,068 climate change actions reported at the international '''C40 conference''' [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/images/8068_CC_actions.jpg] | '''''Take climate action in your community''''' - Add to 8,068 climate change actions reported at the international '''C40 conference''' [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/images/8068_CC_actions.jpg] | ||
:[http://www.c40.org C40] | |||
:[http://www.c40.org/cities C40 Cities], | |||
:[http://www.c40.org/blog_posts/CAM2 C40 Webcam], | |||
:[http://c40.org/blog_posts/infographic-c40-cities-releases-landmark-research-revealing-expansion-acceleration-of-climate-actions-in-megacities C40 Climate Actions], | |||
:[http://issuu.com/c40cities/docs/c40_climate_action_in_megacities Climate Action in Megacities], | |||
:[http://www.c40.org/ending-climate-change-begins-in-the-city Climate Change Action Begins in Cities] | |||
[[File:Transition-to-productive-and-sustainable-farming s.jpg]] | |||
<big>'''From GP360's "Little Green Book"'''</big> | |||
* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Agroecological_Farming Agroecological Farming] | |||
* [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Agroforestry Agroforestry] | |||
* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Alternative_Agriculture Alternative Agriculture] | |||
* [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Antibiotics,_Farming,_Livestock_Industry Antibiotics, Farming, Livestock Industry] | |||
* [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Aquaculture_and_aquaforestry Aquaculture, Aquafarming, Aquaforestry] | |||
* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Aquifers Aquifers] | |||
* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Climate_Smart_Agriculture Climate Smart Agriculture] | |||
: [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Livestock_and_Climate_Change Livestock & Climate Change] | |||
* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Community_Gardens Community Gardens] | |||
: [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Urban-agriculture-garden-columbus-ohio.jpg Urban Agriculture] | |||
: [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Urban_Gardening Urban Gardening] | |||
* [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Community_Supported_Agriculture Community Supported Agriculture] | |||
* [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Country_of_Origin_Labeling Country of Origin Labeling] | |||
* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Farm-Related_Policies Farm-Related Policies/Category] | |||
: [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Index#Farm-Related_Policies Farm-Related Policies/Index] | |||
* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Farmers_Markets Farmers Markets] | |||
* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Farm-to-Table Farm-to-Table] | |||
* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Food Food & Health] | |||
* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Food-Related_Policies Food-Related Policies/Category] | |||
* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Food_Pages:_On_Earth_Food_Politics Food Politics] | |||
: [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Organic_Food Organic Food/Farming-Gardening-Wellness] | |||
: [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Organic_Food Organic Food/Agriculture] | |||
* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Food_Saving Food Waste-Food Saving] | |||
: [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Food_Saving Food Waste-Food Saving-2] | |||
* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Genetic_Engineering Genetic Engineering] | |||
* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Market_Gardening Market Gardening] | |||
* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Permaculture_Green_Practices Permaculture Practices] | |||
: [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Permaculture Permaculture Links] | |||
* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Pesticides Pesticides & Pest Management/Category] | |||
: [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Index#Pesticides_and_Pest_Management Pesticides & Pest Management/Index] | |||
* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Regenerative_Agriculture Regenerative Agriculture] | |||
* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Seed_Saving Seed Loss/Extinction-Seed Saving] | |||
[[ | * [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Slow_Food_(Alternative_to_Fast_Food) 'Slow Food' Alternative to 'Fast Food'] | ||
* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Soil Soil-Biology-Mapping] | |||
* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Soil_Loss Soil Loss/Depletion-Soil Conservation] | |||
: [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Microbiomes_at_Risk Microbiomes at Risk] | |||
* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Water_Saving Water Loss-Water Saving] | |||
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<big><big>'''''[[EOS eco Operating System]]'''''</big></big> | |||
[[File:EOS starliner gr2.png]] | [[File:EOS starliner gr2.png]] | ||
[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/EOS_eco_Operating_System <font color=green> '''''eco Operating System featured in Green Horizon]'''''</font> | [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/EOS_eco_Operating_System <font color=green> '''''eco Operating System featured in Green Horizon]'''''</font> | ||
[[Image:GH1 sm.jpg| | [[Image:GH1 sm.jpg|link=https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/EOS_eco_Operating_System]] | ||
[ | [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/EOS_eco_Operating_System <big><big>'''''eOS'''''</big></big>] | ||
:Networking effective green politics on a global, international scale...''''' | |||
[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/images/EOS-eco-Operating-System-Part1.pdf <font color=green> '''''eOS - Part One - Global Best Practices''''']</font> | |||
[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/ | [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/images/EOS-eco-Operating-System-Part2.pdf <font color=green> '''''eOS - Part Two - ECO OS Challenges & Opportunities''''']</font> | ||
[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/images/EOS-eco-Operating-System-Part3.pdf <font color=green> '''''eOS - Part Three - Seeing the World in New Ways''''']</font> | |||
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<big><big>'''''Overview Effect'''''</big></big> | <big><big>'''''Overview Effect'''''</big></big> | ||
[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Overview_Effect <big>'''''Overview Effect / | [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Overview_Effect <big>'''''Overview Effect / The 'Big Picture' '''''</big>] | ||
[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Overview_Effect <big>'''''Overview Effect / Protecting Home'''''</big>] | |||
'''''What a View!''''' | '''''What a View!''''' | ||
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GreenPolicy360, in association with [http://www.strategicdemands.com Strategic Demands], continues its work to advance "Environmental Security" as a foundation of a broader security policy. | |||
GreenPolicy360's work envisages Environmental Security as integral to National Security and Global Security. | |||
Unprecedented scientific achievements, global connectivity and access to new knowledge via the Internet provide both opportunities and challenges. This unprecedented advance in human knowledge bring the potential for understanding that goes far beyond traditional beliefs. Cultural/religious/tribal belief systems are being challenged but knowledge can provide new ways of seeing and new answer to age-old questions. | |||
The range of new information, understanding, data, systems monitoring are becoming baselines for evaluating change and with observation of changes comes the opportunity to manage change. | |||
'''''Overall, science is expanding its scope with powerful new tools and capabilities. Earth science data is being shared and considered, the intelligence of 'big data' and computational power is delivering unprecedented means to study and manage eco-social systems. A new and fast evolving science of <big>Environmental Security - Sustainable Development</big> is beginning to enable an integral ecology with a new vision of thinking and acting that spans nations and is shared via the Internet. Engaged citizens, in a newly connected world, are acting to shape a future of political awareness with "green best practices". | ''Fields of knowledge are growing exponentially:'' | ||
:[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Earth_Science Earth Science] | |||
:[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Earth_Observations Earth Observations] | |||
:[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Earth_Science_from_Space Earth Research from Space] | |||
:[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:New_Space New Space] | |||
:[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Democratization_of_Space 'Democratization' of Space] | |||
:[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Micro-satellites Micro-satellites] | |||
:[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Atmospheric_Science Atmospheric Science] | |||
:[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Ocean_Science Ocean Science], and | |||
:[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Climate_Change Climate Change Science]. | |||
Critical questions of the sustainable health of our planet's biosphere and atmosphere, of sustainable economic growth over time, are now being raised across the approximately 200 nations of the world. | |||
In the past, the study of 'national security' was limited, circumscribed by national interest. Nations considered strategic security affairs as primarily political/military and economic concerns and placed environmental security, to the extent 'environmental security' was considered at all, as secondary in nature. | |||
Today, a gathering storm of environmental threats are rising to become national and international security concerns as environmental risks bring existential questions due to climate change, nuclear proliferation and a horizon of global challenges. [http://strategicdemands.com/new-definitions-of-security/ "New Definitions of National Security."] are critically needed in these times. We at GreenPolicy/Strategic Demands intend to continue to pursue connections between National Security and Environmental Security. | |||
Overall, science is expanding its scope with powerful new tools and capabilities. Earth science data is being shared and considered, the intelligence of 'big data' and computational power is delivering unprecedented means to study and manage eco-social systems. A new and fast evolving science of <big>Environmental Security - Sustainable Development</big> is beginning to enable an integral ecology with a new vision of thinking and acting that spans nations and is shared via the Internet. Engaged citizens, in a newly connected world, are acting to shape a future of political awareness with "green best practices". | |||
The key for green policy is moving forward with vision. Our challenge is to use our native intelligence and intelligent new methods of sharing and evaluating data to make decisions that sustain and benefit life, today and for future generations. | |||
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::Green stories are changing the world. We encourage you to join in, create your own green stories, launch new initiatives, improve the environment, change the way governments run and how businesses work. Re-create the future to positively impact the quality and sustainability of life. | |||
:::As [http://www.planetcitizens.org planet citizens] we are interconnected [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Global_Security global citizens]. It's time to go beyond old ways of thinking and to develop a new vision of our home, the only home we have. | |||
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GreenPolicy360 highlights Pope Francis
Catholic pontiff speaks of the environment
Time to take another look at the new Catholic leadership
“In this globalised world, we have fallen into globalised indifference.”
-- Pope Francis
Next year, the Pope will issue a rare papal encyclical in March on climate change and human ecology, all part of an attempt strongly to influence the UN climate change meeting in Paris in 2015 to achieve a universal commitment to reduce carbon emissions.
“Eco-theology” alarms creationists and divides the Catholic church. Opponents, including some in the Vatican, condemn it as “un-biblical”. Pope Francis sees economic inequality and the plundering of the Earth’s resources as part of a theme. He has said: “In this system, which tends to devour everything which stands in the way of accrued profits, whatever is fragile like the environment is defenceless against the interest of a deified market, which becomes the only rule.”
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GreenPolicy360 highlights George Brown Jr.
Remembering the 'start-up' of the environmental movement and the first laws, a set of founding legal precedents many of which came from forward-looking green visionaries from California, like George E. Brown who passed away suddenly in 1999.
George's work in Congress in air quality/clean air, water and the founding of the EPA highlighted the era's achievement...
George was out in front in "big science" -- his profound accomplishments are esp missed now as anti-science positions threaten in the current Congress...
Memories of George http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/George_E._Brown_Jr
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GreenPolicy360 highlights Rebecca Moore
Rebecca envisioned setting up Google Outreach -- and she did.
As GreenPolicy siterunner Steven Schmidt wrote as Earth Outreach/Google started up:
"Rebecca had an idea how to save (redwood) trees around her home...
and her idea led to setting up Google Outreach - She had a great idea, she made it happen,
she is continuing to make it happen ! Each day there's new progress, local and global...
Global Forest Watch & Global Fishing Watch are two most recent successful launches."
Here's a tip of our GreenPolicy360 hat to Rebecca's Earth Outreach 'planet citizens' work.
Thank You Rebecca! You inspire our action as #PlanetCitizens. Time to see how it's all connected !
Launch of Global Fishing Watch - 2014
Google Outreach online, out in front again
Global Fishing Watch_Data from Earth Outreach [1]
Launch of Global Forest Watch - 2014
Google Outreach continues to observe the 'state of the world'
Monitoring the world's forests
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GreenPolicy360 highlights Paul Hawken
Introduced at the Bioneers Conference by Paul Hawken
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GreenPolicy360 highlights Climate March's Iain Keith
Climate March organizer, from Avaaz:
"We realized that a March could send a powerful signal."
Marches don't always change the world.
Sometimes they are the only things
that shake the system into widespread change."
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GreenPolicy360 highlights the Bioneers
Bioneers celebrating their 25th Anniversary Conference [2] [3] [4]
Long time, very good friends of GreenPolicy360 and a preeminent eco-network, here's to the Bioneers!
A celebration of the genius of nature and human ingenuity, the Bioneers network continues on doing its good work locally and globally. [5] [6] [7] [8]
Hearty Congratulations especially go to co-founders Kenny and Nina
Bioneers Dennis Kucinich, Chief Lyons & Leonardo DiCaprio
Leonardo speaks at the UN Climate Summit
September 23rd -- UN Climate Summit
September 21st -- #PeoplesClimateMarch
Green friend, Louie Schwartzberg's newest film opening the UN Climate session
"Choose to make a difference -- this is our only home..." What's Possible
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Naomi Klein at the Bioneers Conference
Naomi Klein, "This Changes Everything" Naomi Klein speaks at the Bioneers Conference
NY Times..."the most momentous and contentious environmental book since 'Silent Spring.'"
Climate Leadership (Conf videos)
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GreenPolicy360 highlights the Carbon Brief
Carbon Brief - FB - TW
They asked 25 thinkers, writers and journalists a simple question:
What books or readings inspired you to get involved in climate-related work?
They got back some very interesting insights into why people work on climate,
why they started, and why they carry on. Warming Earth
Inspirational books and readings
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GreenPolicy360_September 2014
We invite you to Visit GreenBestPractices online at:
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Green Policies, Green Progress
Los Angeles and the US act to clean up the air...
Calif, over the yrs, out in front of the US in green legislating [9] [10] [11]
Jerry Brown: “What happens here doesn’t stay here. It goes all around the country and all around the world.” [12] [13]
The 'greening' results are starting to show [14] [15] [16]
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Naomi Klein speaks at the Bioneers Conference --- NY Times... "the most momentous and contentious environmental book since 'Silent Spring'"
Climate Leadership at the Bioneers Conference (videos)
Bioneers celebrating their 25th Anniversary Conference 25 Years [17] [18]
Long time, very good friends of GreenPolicy360 and a preeminent eco-network. Here's to the Bioneers and many more good years of eco-healing. Hearty Congratulations especially go to co-founders Kenny and Nina.
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Amid global conflicts and escalating threats, for redefinitions of security priorities and policies, visit #EnvironmentalSecurity at StrategicDemands.com
Visit our newest 'satellite site' #PlanetCitizen
Hello Where are you #PlanetCitizen on #PlanetEarth?
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Coming Soon, NextGen #ISS Earth-facing cams New live 'video+ platform' w/ #EarthView streaming from the #ISS via @UrtheCast & NanoRacks
International Astronautical Congress IAC 2014: UrtheCast Robot-arm install Future of #ISS
OCO-2 Orbiting Carbon Observatory continues on its history-making mission Counting carbon over Southern California - OCO-2 at work
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"Ground Truth" [19] Wiki-GroundTruth CERES Project [20] AVIRIS-JPL
Hyspiri [21] Spectroscopy, unique views of the surface of Earth...
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Immediate Risk to National Security Climate Change: Pentagon Devises Strategy to Respond"' [22]
Climate Change = "Threat Multiplier"
U.S. Military Prepares for Climate Change [23] DoD looks toward renewable energy [24]
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Question: Is the Earth blue even at night? Astronaut Gerst answers
With appreciation of the Overview Effect / Overview: the Movie Planetary
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GreenPolicy360 networking in practice...
- Expanding the GreenPolicy360 database of green best practices for use in all communities -- local, national, international
We are constantly adding to our GreenLinks network, an online hub for connecting Green groups, local, regional and global, ranging from international NGO's to collections of green news and journalism, from borderless non-profit work to local green activism, from open-source, open data sharing to democracy and independent green, sustainable living advocates...
We welcome additions of active and exceptional green organizations.
Join in as we extend GreenPolicy's shareable community resources.
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Visit GreenPolicy's Associate, StrategicDemands and consider the security horizon...
National Security ↔ Environmental Security
New Definitions of National & Global Security
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NASA continues to advance a new space era in its exploration of our home planet with the launch of series of #EarthScience instruments to the International Space Station.
New earth-observing array of instruments will be exterior mounted on the International Space Station. ISS-RapidScat will monitor ocean winds for climate research, weather predictions and hurricane monitoring. The second instrument, the laser Cloud-Aerosol Transport System (CATS), will measure clouds and location and distribution of pollution, dust, smoke, and other particulates in the atmosphere.
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The "New Space" field is pioneering the study of our blue planet with multiple new platforms monitoring earth systems and resources. PlanetLabs is a recently founded company that is out in front with its emphasis on open data sharing. Its mini satellites are called "Doves" and they "flock] for #earthmonitoring and rapid sequence imaging.
An API for the Planet #PlanetLabs Open Source Conference keynote
Mission: "Democratizing Access to Information About the Changing Planet"
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OCO-2 Orbiting Carbon Observatory
"Watching the Earth Breathe from Space"
Observing Global Warming with #OCO-2
- Historic launch -- #PlanetCitizen mission to study #EarthsAtmosphere
"First Light!"
What monitoring a potential existential crisis looks like...spectra from #OCO-2
Earth observing satellites, the "Afternoon Constellation", the "A-Train" joined by #OCO-2 newly launched and historic in its mission to study global warming Orbiting Carbon Observatory
Looking closer at OCO-2 [25] [26] [27] OCO-2 tweets - https://twitter.com/IamOCO2
Earth science data is coming in and being openly distributed. Take up the challenge, perhaps with NEX here and multiple venues that are being made available for the first time...
Add your resources. With the launch of OCO-2, a "game changer", the data of #Earth360 will grow in unprecedented ways...
Reflection: How bad would ozone depletion and 'ozone holes' be if we had done nothing?
#Earthdata enables informed decisions and policy
"You can manage only what you can measure"
NASA Earth Sciences Asks Public to Join In
Add your #PlanetCitizen talent to a future of seeing with an #EarthPOV
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Climate Change, Challenge
A Planet Citizen & Hero: Professor Rowland at the University of California
In memory of Sherwood Rowland of U Cal Irvine -- and to the Nobel prize-winning discovery of the damage of CFCs and green worldwide response that prevented catastrophic consequences of ozone depletion -- while an anti-science crowd continues to this day to object to critically important science-at-work ... http://arstechnica.com/science/2015/05/how-bad-would-the-ozone-hole-be-if-we-did-nothing/
Climate Rules to Rewrite US Energy Map
Rules proposed by the Environmental Protection Agency would cut carbon pollution from power plants 30 percent by 2030 – equivalent of taking 2/3 of all cars and trucks in America off the road
Overview EPA summary Republicans hesitate -- 645 pages [28] [29] [30][31]
West Coast Leaders Applaud Obama Administration Proposal to Cut Carbon Pollution [32]California has head start Pacific Coast Climate Action Plan - 2013
Alexander Gerst on the #ISS writes home in tweets and his live blogging... "Our Blue Dot"
From the ISS - Live Astro Gerst blog
GreenPolicy360, from AstroGerst
"Look at how thin our atmosphere is. This is all there is between humankind and deadly space."
- GreenPolicy360: A thin atmospheric layer enabling life as we know it...
GP360: "Look at our atmosphere around the earth, twelve miles high in the troposphere..." [33]
Images revealing the 'height', the narrow band of life-giving atmosphere surrounding Earth
From the International Space Station
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We are in the first era of geo-monitoring our 'thin atmosphere', earth resources and biosphere from space...
Beginning with first-ever images of our home planet, Earth, taken from the Apollo era...
New vision, new possibilities as citizens of the planet...
New vision, new knowledge, new challenges
"Thin" layer of atmosphere absorbing the sum of human-produced hydrocarbon & emission "externalities"
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NASA’s Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2): A game changer?
Seeing climate change from space: NASA creates image-based iPad app [34]
Soon, each of us will be able to connect to and share earth-data as students of earth-space science and new digital networks.
With open data, links and digital apps, schools and future generations will learn new ways of seeing as citizens of the planet.
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Planet Labs/NYT Planet Labs, newly #ISS deployed Doves Smartphones in space!
Launch of new Flock of Dove Satellites to Image Earth Doves fly Doves flock
Planet Labs 'Dove' micro-satellites [35]
"Rapid cadence imagery, like Planet Labs is developing, helps us become better, more sustainable stewards of Earth." NYT
Geoscience: Eyes in the Sky, Monitoring the Earth by Satellite
"Earth Imaging" -- NextGen #EarthScience in an era of #climatechange and #globalsecurity threats
"New Space" startup companies to watch (our eyes are especially on Planet Labs)
[36]... BlackBridge [37] -- July 2015--Blackbridge/RapidEye acquired by Planet Labs, Dauria-Digital Globe [38], DigitalGlobe [39] #DigitalGlobe, highest rez commercially avail #earthimaging from space [40] [41] [42] GeoEye [43], Firefly Space Systems [44] [45], GeoOptics [46], NanoRacks [47], [48] [49], NovaWurks [50], OmniEarth [51] [52] [53] [54], OrbitLogic [55], PlanetiQ [56], Planet Labs [57] Pulse [58] [59] [60], RapidEye (acquired by Blackbridge/Planet Labs) [61] [62] [63], Skybox [64] [65] [66], Teledyne [67], Tyvak Nano-Sat [68], Urthecast [69]
“With all these start-ups, the things you’ll be able to do with satellite images will grow exponentially.” - IEEE-May 2014
Moving from almost exclusively multi-billion dollar military/defense-communication satellite operations to nextgen 'small cap' startups and 'New Space' ventures and applications with earth systems monitoring, resources, sustainable business, and low-earth orbit space travel with companies like Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic...
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Live from the International Space Station [72] Watch Earth roll by in streamed HD [73] [74] [75]
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Our Blue Marble, Pale Blue Dot
Remembering Carl Sagan in the original Cosmos
"The Earth is where we make our stand... our Pale Blue Dot, suspended in a sunbeam."
"For us it is to cherish and protect the only home we've ever known..."
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NASA's Earth Science Enterprise (ESE) -- Originally called "Mission to Planet Earth (MTPE)"
October 2014 http://bit.ly/VitalSignsPulseofthePlanet / Video
- To fully appreciate the detail of the models, click on the gear symbol and set to 720p resolution and choose full screen video
ESE is dedicated to "understanding the total Earth system and the effects of natural and human-induced changes on the global environment."
Mission to Planet Earth's successor, NASA’s Earth Observing System provides long-term global observations of the land surface, biosphere, solid Earth, atmosphere, and oceans.
Earth Observing System Data and Information System - Maps
Next generation NASA-NOAA #EarthMonitoring satellite to launch in 2017
"The ultimate beneficiaries are the present and future generations of the people on Earth..."
The goal of the Earth Observing project is "improved understanding of the Earth as an integrated system."
"To improve life here" and "to understand and protect our home planet."
#EarthScience, #GeoScience, #Earth360, #GP360, #EarthPOV
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- Managed by Earth Observation Programmes
- GOCE – Gravity Field and Steady-State Ocean Circulation Explorer - launched on March 17, 2009 - [81]
- SMOS – Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity satellite - studying ocean salinity and soil moisture; launched in 2 November 2009 - [82]
- CryoSat – Designed to map the Earth's ice cover. CryoSat-2 was launched 8 April 2010 - [83] - Euro Cryo Satellite/Earth Imaging
- Antarctic Ice Loss
- Swarm – Satellites mapping the Earth's magnetism. The SWARM constellation was launched successfully on 22 November 2013
- Aeolus – Atmospheric Dynamics Mission uses an innovative laser to measure winds.
- EarthCARE – Earth Clouds Aerosols and Radiation Explorer examines the formation and effects of clouds.
- BIOMASS – Designed to calculate the amount of carbon stored in the world's forests, and monitor for any changes over the course of its five-year mission. Due to launch in 2020 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BIOMASS
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Sea-level Rise: A Coastal Reality across the Globe
◊ Rising Seas - Against the Tide
March 2014
31 March 2014/Japan/IPCC international conference - "The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued a report today that says the effects of climate change are already occurring on all continents and across the oceans. The extensive set of documents, continuing a multi-year series of scientific documentation and analyses, details latest developments and warns that the world is "ill-prepared" for risks from a changing climate. The report also states that there are "opportunities" to respond to such risks, though the risks will be difficult to manage with high levels of warming... [84] [85] [86] #climatechange
IPCC Update
Government officials and top climate scientists will meet in Berlin from April 7-12 to review a 29-page next steps draft that estimates the needed shift to low-carbon energies will cost between two and six percent of world output by 2050... The IPCC draft report is the third and final study in a U.N. series about climate change, updating findings from 2007. [87] [88] [89]
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Climate.Data.gov launches [90] [91]
In the pilot-stage of Climate.Data.gov, you will find resources "to help companies, communities, and citizens understand and prepare for the impacts of coastal flooding and sea level rise." Over time, the "Climate Data community" will expand to include more datasets, web services, and tools. "It will also cover other themes such as the vulnerability of the food supply and the threats to human health from climate change."
The resources page features datasets and services on coastal vulnerability. [92]
Tools and information to help communities prepare for coastal inundation... [93]
Mar/Feb/Jan 2014
Cities now reporting more than 8,000 climate actions currently underway...
Take climate action in your community - Add to 8,068 climate change actions reported at the international C40 conference [94]
- C40
- C40 Cities,
- C40 Webcam,
- C40 Climate Actions,
- Climate Action in Megacities,
- Climate Change Action Begins in Cities
From GP360's "Little Green Book"
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eco Operating System featured in Green Horizon
- Networking effective green politics on a global, international scale...
eOS - Part One - Global Best Practices
eOS - Part Two - ECO OS Challenges & Opportunities
eOS - Part Three - Seeing the World in New Ways
Remembering 'Earthrise' - December 1968
Earthrise memories on the 45th anniversary - Earth-home, the historic view of Earth from Apollo
"The earth from here [circling the moon] is a grand oasis in the big vastness of space." — Jim Lovell, live Apollo 8 - 1968
"If somebody had said before the flight, 'Are you going to get carried away looking at the earth from the moon?' I would have said, 'No, no way.' But yet when I first looked back at the earth, standing on the moon, I cried." — Alan Shepard, Astronaut
"As you pass from sunlight into darkness and back again every hour and a half, you become startlingly aware how artificial are thousands of boundaries we've created to separate and define. And for the first time in your life you feel in your gut the precious unity of the Earth and all the living things it supports." — Russell Schweikart, Apollo 9
"As we got further and further away, it [the Earth] diminished in size. Finally it shrank to the size of a marble, the most beautiful you can imagine. That beautiful, warm, living object looked so fragile, so delicate..." — James Irwin, Apollo 15
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Overview Effect
Overview Effect / The 'Big Picture'
Overview Effect / Protecting Home
What a View!
Overview refers to the experience of seeing firsthand the reality of the Earth in space, which is immediately understood to be a tiny, fragile ball of life, hanging in the void, shielded and nourished by a paper-thin atmosphere. From space, the astronauts tell us, national boundaries vanish, the conflicts that divide us become less important and the need to create a planetary society with the united will to protect our "pale blue dot."
"One connected system #BlueDot"
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Watch magnificent time-lapse Earth views
Serving Suggestion: FULL Screen, 1080p, lights off, volume up, lean back and fly
Serving Suggestion: FULL Screen, 1080p, lights off, volume up. Even better, 'Original' 4K / 2160p
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Environmental Security ↔ National Security
- GreenPolicy360 ↔ Strategic Demands
GreenPolicy360, in association with Strategic Demands, continues its work to advance "Environmental Security" as a foundation of a broader security policy.
GreenPolicy360's work envisages Environmental Security as integral to National Security and Global Security.
Unprecedented scientific achievements, global connectivity and access to new knowledge via the Internet provide both opportunities and challenges. This unprecedented advance in human knowledge bring the potential for understanding that goes far beyond traditional beliefs. Cultural/religious/tribal belief systems are being challenged but knowledge can provide new ways of seeing and new answer to age-old questions.
The range of new information, understanding, data, systems monitoring are becoming baselines for evaluating change and with observation of changes comes the opportunity to manage change.
Fields of knowledge are growing exponentially:
- Earth Science
- Earth Observations
- Earth Research from Space
- New Space
- 'Democratization' of Space
- Micro-satellites
- Atmospheric Science
- Ocean Science, and
- Climate Change Science.
Critical questions of the sustainable health of our planet's biosphere and atmosphere, of sustainable economic growth over time, are now being raised across the approximately 200 nations of the world.
In the past, the study of 'national security' was limited, circumscribed by national interest. Nations considered strategic security affairs as primarily political/military and economic concerns and placed environmental security, to the extent 'environmental security' was considered at all, as secondary in nature.
Today, a gathering storm of environmental threats are rising to become national and international security concerns as environmental risks bring existential questions due to climate change, nuclear proliferation and a horizon of global challenges. "New Definitions of National Security." are critically needed in these times. We at GreenPolicy/Strategic Demands intend to continue to pursue connections between National Security and Environmental Security.
Overall, science is expanding its scope with powerful new tools and capabilities. Earth science data is being shared and considered, the intelligence of 'big data' and computational power is delivering unprecedented means to study and manage eco-social systems. A new and fast evolving science of Environmental Security - Sustainable Development is beginning to enable an integral ecology with a new vision of thinking and acting that spans nations and is shared via the Internet. Engaged citizens, in a newly connected world, are acting to shape a future of political awareness with "green best practices".
The key for green policy is moving forward with vision. Our challenge is to use our native intelligence and intelligent new methods of sharing and evaluating data to make decisions that sustain and benefit life, today and for future generations.
-- SJS/GreenPolicy Siterunner
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- Green stories are changing the world. We encourage you to join in, create your own green stories, launch new initiatives, improve the environment, change the way governments run and how businesses work. Re-create the future to positively impact the quality and sustainability of life.
- As planet citizens we are interconnected global citizens. It's time to go beyond old ways of thinking and to develop a new vision of our home, the only home we have.
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Environmental Security ↔ National Security ↔ Global Security
New Definitions of National and Global Security
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