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Latest revision as of 18:50, 30 October 2024
Strategies of Resilience & Survival
2024... Onward
October
September
August
July
June
NEW YORK — Climate change takes center stage at Asia Society with the presentation of COAL + ICE, an immersive photography and video exhibition taking place February 13 through August 11, 2024.
May
April
March
February
Yes we are Greening Our Blue Planet
January 2024
Planet Citizens, Stardust Origins
December 2023
Favorite Image to Remember from 2023
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The data's coming in...
- 2023 was Earth's warmest year in the past 174 years, and very likely the past 125,000
November
October
September
The Journey Continues: Green Politics 360
August 2023
July 2023
NASA: On Twitter, July 6, 2025
GreenPolicy360's Was 'In on the Mission'
GreenPolicy360 assists NASA's DSCOVR mission team
GreenPolicy360 steps up as Planet Citizens to aid the NASA/NOAA team deliver DSCOVR/EPIC data and imagery
GreenPolicy360: In a fortuitous way, we were 'in on the Mission'... We were in contact with and assisted the NASA DSCOVR project manager in the online distribution of news and educational information about the EPIC DSCOVR history, launch, and beginning of its imaging 'from a million miles away'. Our GreenPolicy360 founder-siterunner looked back at the origins of Earth Science mission of NASA and legislators, scientists, and 'planet citizens' who first envisioned the importance of having data, and a record of 'change over time' of Earth's systems that could be monitored from near orbit in alignment with the original NASA Mission Statement.
The history of these pioneers is a key to understanding, today, over 50 years on, how we went into space with an eye to understanding our home planet.
June 2023
May 2023
April 2023
March 2023
1969 - “Nuclear targets were picked.” ... the plans would have gone ahead in November 1969.
Instead, a huge demonstration on Oct. 15, 1969, the Moratorium to End the War in Vietnam, combined a general strike with nationwide protests and teach-ins.
About 2 million people came out to protest across the country, even “little towns that had never protested before,” Ellsberg recalled.
“Without the Moratorium, there would have been an escalation, possibly the use of nuclear weapons in November 1969.”
- The Vietnam Moratorium mobilization of October-November 1969 revealed to have stopped Nixon from using nuclear weapons
The Movement and the Madman - PBS - March 2023
February 2023
January 2023
How hot are the World's Oceans? Too hot!
Oceans 360 are absorbing climate-induced atmospheric heat
December 2022
November 2022
GreenPolicy360's Campaign to 'Turn National Climate Promises & Pledges into Reality'
- Our Climate Plans Enforcement Initiative continues as the next Global Climate Conference, the Conference of the Parties (COP27) begins
- Drawing from the database of Earth Science resulting from decades of space-based missions designed to provide us with actionable 'Earth-system and Climate-related data'
- Measuring and Monitoring to better manage Earth's Living, Dynamic and Changing Systems, Local, National and Global
Methods to Enforce Climate Plan Pledges
GreenPolicy360: Climate Plans Enforcement Initiative
Pressuring Nations to Step Up, Cooperate, and Act Now
Environmental Laws, Regs, Rules... Lawsuits & Legal Actions
Glasgow (2021) & Paris (2015) Summits: Int'l Climate Plan Pledges & Promises (INDCs-NDCs)
October 2022
'Thin Blue'
September 2022
August 2022
July 2022
- * https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_Strike_for_Climate
- * https://strategicdemands.com/its-not-too-late/
June 2022
May 2022
- The Russia - Ukraine War Continues Raising New Nuclear Risks
- Visit GreenPolicy360's Associate 'Strategic Demands' for More...
April 2022
March 2022
February 2022
January 2022
"Think about the events of January 6... We are in a battle for the soul of America..."
"I will stand in this breach. I will defend this nation."
December 2021
- 30 Years Ago, Carl Sagan Delivering a ECO-Message to Us on the Real and 'Transnational' Threat of Climate Change
November 2021
Earth gets hotter, deadlier during decades of climate talks
October 2021
"We have to identify the problem, then act in many ways to solve the problem. Global warming is the threat of our times."
"We’re going to need to use every tool in the toolbox if we’re going to solve this problem."
Climate Problems, Climate Solutions
September 2021
August 2021
July 2021
- Photo courtesy of Brighton Journal
UK Green Party MP Caroline Lucas who introduced the first Green New Deal Bill to parliament and is a founding member of the Green New Deal alliance, says that global policymakers must seize the opportunity to chart a new course.
"Pledges and targets will not avert catastrophic climate change—ambitious action will, but it's been perilously absent. The world is running out of time and out of excuses," she said in a statement ahead of the alliance's launch.
"A Green New Deal wouldn't only avert the worst of the climate and nature crises. It would make everyday life better for the vast majority of people wherever they live in the world."
"This is our moonshot moment, but this time it's about making a better life here on Earth and the only way we can do that is by working together as never before."
June 2021
May 2021
April 2021
Fact Checking, Growing in Importance
March 2021
"Beware the climate doomsayers." -- Michael E. Mann
February 2021
Add a Civilian Climate Corp to the Green New Deal
January 2021
Time lapse: How plants move in a 24-hour time period
2020
December 2020
November 2020
In first address as President-elect, U.S. President-elect Joe Biden says it’s ‘time to heal’
WASHINGTON (AP) — November 7, 2020 / Democrat Joe Biden defeated President Donald Trump to become the 46th president of the United States, positioning himself to be a leader who “seeks not to divide, but to unify” a nation gripped by a historic pandemic and a confluence of economic and social turmoil.
“I sought this office to restore the soul of America,” said Biden in a prime-time victory speech not far from his Delaware home, “and to make America respected around the world again and to unite us here at home.”
His victory came after more than three days of uncertainty as election officials sorted through a surge of mail-in votes that delayed processing. Biden crossed the winning threshold of 270 Electoral College votes with a win in Pennsylvania.
Trump refused to concede, threatening further legal action on ballot counting.
October 2020
Recalling our Planet Citizen responsibilities:
"We've arranged a global civilization in which most crucial elements profoundly depend on science & technology. We have also arranged things so that almost no one understands science & technology. This is a prescription for disaster." -- Carl Sagan
September 2020
Barreling Toward the Hothouse
August 2020
Amid the Historic Challenges of Our Generation: Each of Us Can Make a Difference
July 2020
Engaged / Opinionated / Political
- Step Up, Get with the Action
June 2020
Fact Checking: Facts Count, Science Counts
May 2020
Living Coastlines, Defending Against the Rising Tides
April 2020
On the Fiftieth Anniversary: Memories of the First 'Earth Day'
March 2020
- Raise the Flag
- Earth Day flag
Personal action... Direct action... Networking action
February 2020
January 2020
Bank of the Ozarks, the OZK 'Miami formula' (via Miami Herald):
"You’re in a market where — look, 900 people a day are moving to Florida and about 45% are coming to the Miami MSA..."
"So you’ve got 400 people a day moving into the market...They’re leaving New York and Connecticut, some for tax reasons, others for the lifestyle, or cost of living."
"We’re in a rising tide market where everything looks good..."
OZK’s CEO/Chairman George Gleason says it’s a simple formula.
"We’re selling a value equation. It’s not dependent on us taking a credit risk or offering low price. We get paid well for what we do."
Florida coastal homes could lose 15% of value by 2030 due to sea rise and could lose up to 35 percent of value by 2050, according to new reports
- Banking & Insurance Special Report: A Deluge of Risk and a Looming Crisis
December 2019
November 2019
October 2019
Carbon farming, ie 'smart agriculture', makes great climate sense
• https://bioneers.org/carbon-farming/
September 2019
"What I'd Like to Hear, Recalling David Brower" by John de Graaf
August 2019
On the Fiftieth Anniversary of Woodstock: Stardust
• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Stardust_Origins
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Strategies Recognizing the Climate Crisis
• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Apocalyptic_Thinking
US Gas-Oil Production Dominates
When it comes to these new oil and gas fields, production from the US is set to eclipse the rest of the world.
Canada and the US alone are set to produce almost 70% of the world’s new oil and gas over the next decade.
Production from new fields in the US is set to be eight times that of the next largest producing country – Canada.
New US production is forecast to be 20 times that of Russia and more than 1.5 times the total of all other countries combined.
July 2019
Jeff Bezos Says We're Destroying Earth, but Amazon Is the Slowest Tech Giant to Go Green
Bezos: We humans have to go to space if we are going to continue to have a thriving civilization. We have become big as a population, as a species, and this planet is relatively small. We see it in things like climate change and pollution and heavy industry. We are in the process of destroying this planet.
June 2019
• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Soil
• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Climate_Smart_Agriculture
May 2019
• https://ebird.org/news/global-big-day-4-may-2019
• https://ebird.org/about/resources
• https://ebird.org/science/status-and-trends
April 2019
Biodiversity & Ecosystems, IPBES
Via the Associated Press / UN report: Humans accelerating extinction of species
March 2019
February 2019
Eco-films for Your Watch List
January 2019
December 2018
"We are all stardust"
November 2018
Eco-nomics in the 21st Century
October 2018
September 2018
Global Exploration, New Species Discovered
The 'Tiny Little Ones' at Risk
August 2018
Sustainability Threats / "Earth Overshoot Day"
July 2018
Ride along with the 2018 Nautilus Expedition
This expedition takes the Nautilus team, and us, to little-known and unexplored regions of the Eastern Pacific ocean. #NautilusLive
June 2018
Earth Mapping Developments & Updates
A salute to California "planet citizens", Rebecca Moore of Google Earth / Earth Outreach, and in memory of George E. Brown from East LA who was instrumental in advancing legislation that launched "big science" initiatives like GPS/GIS and LANDSAT to shape the first-generation of #EarthScience from space. Today, California is a leader in "New Space", even as "Governor Moonbeam" remembers how pundits once laughed, but no longer. The impact of visionary thinkers and leaders continues to make California a very special state -- and now the fifth largest economy in the world.
Earth Sciences / EcoExploring / EcoMapping
May 2018
April 2018
Blue green turtle, Blue green world
March 2018
Climate News of the Arctic
February 2018
Digital Citizen
January 2018
Antibiotics, Livestock, Superbugs
December 2017
Community-by-Community, Networking Green Best Practices
November 2017
Strategic Demands / Green Policy 360
October 2017
Climate Action Now
September 2017
GreenPolicy360 Daily
August 2017
Save a Butterfly, Save a Species
July 2017
Nuclear Weapons Prohibition Treaty Adopted at the UN
June 2017
Dove of Peace
May 2017
Sands of Time
April 2017
The Laws of Physics: Physics Waits for No One
March 2017
New Featured GreenPolicy Pages
February 2017
GreenPolicy Pages Growing More Popular
January 2017
Here Comes the New Year, Ready or Not !
Planet citizens and scientists arise.
- Time to get going, time to be resilient, face the political winds, and keep on 'Going Green' ...
December 2016
Science vs Non-science
Eyes open, stay sharp, on alert -- Governor Brown of California challenges Earth science scientists to speak up now
- America’s science community is getting organised as never before to hold the new administration and Congress to account
November 2016
Solar Charging 360
October 2016
No Going Back
Carbon dioxide levels cross 400 ppm threshold, highest in millions of years.
NASA’s chief climate scientist, Gavin Schmidt, is not optimistic:
- “In my opinion, we won’t ever see a month below 400 ppm”
September 2016
Green Light
August 2016
Stark Warnings of Catastrophe
Nuclear Threat Escalating, Cold War 2.0 Brews
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"My Journey at the Nuclear Brink"
Perry's Warning reviewed at StratDem
Gov. Jerry Brown's review of William Perry's book
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July 2016
Terrestrial GPS, GreenPolicy HQ
Where We Are in Clearwater, Florida
June 2016
As AP Announces, Don't Cap Internet and Web Anymore
- The Digital World, Free Software and Next Generation Internet
Global Internet, Challenges / At Re:Publica
May 2016
Microbiomes at Risk
Small Creatures Begin to Be Seen and Considered
April 2016
Green Check of Approval
March 2016
Leonardo, a Friend
H/T to Leo
http://www.bioneers.org/leonardo-dicaprio-oscar-winner-and-bioneer/
Leonardo DiCaprio speaks to protecting life on the planet
Japan, March 23, 2016
DiCaprio: "Climate change is real, it is happening right now. It is the most urgent threat facing our entire species, and we need to work collectively together and stop procrastinating. We need to support leaders around the world who do not speak for the big polluters, but who speak for all of humanity, for the indigenous people of the world, for the billions and billions of underprivileged people out there who would be most affected by this. For our children’s children, and for those people out there whose voices have been drowned out by the politics of greed."
February 2016
"Thin Blue"
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January 2016
2016!
SkyTruth: Earth Science from Space
Spotlight on the effective use of data to advance 'greening of our blue planet'. SkyTruth -- http://skytruth.org/about/history/
Eyes in the Sky: Green Groups Are Harnessing Data from Space
Read More:
Earth Science Research from Space
Historic Orbiting Carbon Observatory / OCO-2
December 2015
In Paris
Spotlight on Dispatches from Rebecca Solnit: Climate change means that there is no status quo. Either we make dramatic changes in our greenhouse gas emissions or we accept dire changes in the impact on oceans, sea level, weather, agriculture, geopolitics, species extinction, economics, and human and nonhuman life generally...
The climate conference is tens of thousands of people from civil society, government, and industry gathered in what I’ve come to think of as the End-of-the-World’s Fair, a vast, secured suburban cluster of convention buildings with exhibits, displays, meeting rooms, conferences, and cafes. The meetings are essentially editorial meetings; the editors are the 195 nations’ negotiating teams. The text is a document proposing how we manage the fate of the world. There are line-by-line fights, battles over the terms, which result in terms being placed in brackets and in brackets inside brackets.
Of course every sentence translates into what we will and won’t do, how we will do it, and how we will live (or die).
November 2015
Road to Paris
UN / Climate Plans "Synthesis Report"
Drawing closer to the epochal climate meeting of nations in Paris...
And as Christiana Figueres asks us to do: It's time to "Focus"
October 2015
CARB & ICCT
This month we highlight California's Air Resources Board, 'out in front' on the green front
EPA and CARB Statement / Policy response to the VW defeat device discovery
Policy solutions to reduce vehicle exhaust emissions under real-world driving conditions
Transition to a global zero-emission vehicle fleet: A collaborative agenda for governments
September 2015
Seventh Generation
"We are looking ahead, as is one of the first mandates given us as chiefs, to make sure and to make every decision that we make relate to the welfare and well-being of the seventh generation to come...."
August 2015
First Earth Images from DSCOVR-EPIC
After journey of about 1.6 million kilometers (1 million miles) to the L1 Lagrange Point, the DSCOVR satellite has returned its first view of the entire sunlit side of Earth, the first 'whole Earth' images since Apollo in 1972 when astronauts captured the iconic Blue Marble photograph. While NASA has released other Blue Marble images over the years, these have mostly been mosaics stitched together with image processing software — not a single view of Earth taken at one moment in time.
Neil deGrasse Tyson: "We see our world as only a cosmic perspective can provide: Blue Oceans — Dry Land — White Clouds — Polar Ice. A Sun-lit planet, teeming with life, framed in darkness... Occasions such as this offer renewed confidence that we may ultimately become responsible shepherds of our own fate, and the fate of that fragile home we call Earth."
July 2015
Pioneering 'Immersive Reality'
A nod of respect to Douglas Trumbull who has aligned with us and the "Overview Institute", continuing his big picture, visionary work that started with Stanley Kubrick and 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Douglas Trumbull Studios --- "Trumbull and...future of cinema / NY Times"
Doug in his Berkshires studio / 2015
"Hypercinema" --- Immersive Cinema beyond 3D
AR/Immersive/VR
- New Realities — Augmented, Immersive, Virtual
June 2015
Highlighting Bioneering eco-solutions
The 26th (and beyond) annual Bioneers
OCTOBER 16th – 18th · MARIN CENTER · SAN RAFAEL, CA
For 25+ years, the National Bioneers Conference has connected thousands of people with practical, visionary solutions for pressing environmental and social challenges
May 2015
Nonproliferation or Proliferation?
As the five year Nonproliferation Treaty Review Conference draws to a close, we must raise serious questions in an escalating nuclear future
The nuclear threat environment is recharging to produce a new era. A multiple nation realignment and force modernization are producing elements of a new Cold War. Entangling alliances are developing. Next-generation nuclear weapons — ‘smarter’, more deliverable, and usable — are in development
A new era of ‘smart’ nuclear weapons and nuclear weapons modernization policies are carried-forward within a framework of “instant alert” and “fire on-warning” carry-over command-and-control protocols of the Cold War. The mix of billions in planned new nuclear spending and multiple delivery systems will produce a new and potentially more deadly nuclear order
Updated:
http://strategicdemands.com/one-day-in-the-life-of-a-nuclear-arms-race/
http://strategicdemands.com/escalating-geopolitics_eurasia/
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http://strategicdemands.com/hair-trigger-revcon-ends/
http://strategicdemands.com/re-pits-nuclear-warhead-cores/
http://strategicdemands.com/national-defense-authorization-act/
http://strategicdemands.com/new-nuclear-arms-race/
http://strategicdemands.com/npt-treaty-at-risk/
April 2015
Highlighting Editorial Cartoonists
This month we highlight all the environmentally conscientious artists who run WILD editorially
March 2015
Italian Astronaut Samantha's tweets from space
02 Marzo 2015 from Italian Astronaut Sam Cristoforetti / https://twitter.com/AstroSamantha
February 2015
GreenPolicy360 highlights Ron Garan
We greatly appreciate the newest from Astronaut Ron Garan as his interactive project "Orbital Perspective" is published this week. Some 45 years ago, near the end of December 1968 and beginning of an auspicious 1969, we began seeing the Apollo 8 mission's first-ever images of our "whole earth". It's not overstating to say - these images from above changed everything. These pictures from space looking back at Earth, taken as Apollo circled around the moon, carried realizations with the images -- that together we are planet citizens.
We welcomed a perspective that no human had ever had.
January 1969 was an eye-opener as the images of Earth were broadcast. We celebrated the images and our place in the cosmos even as we, the planet and our populations, were in the midst of violent war and troubled times.
Today, the famous Earthrise photo rekindles our memory, and the serendipity of how the Apollo 8 crew was lucky that day as, looking out their window, the Earth suddenly came into view. There was no "mission plan" to take Earth photos and the astronauts scrambled to get to a camera, put in film and shoot a few frames. They were in awe, they said, and fortune was in play that day. There we were, us, Earth. In the Earthrise images our space traveling planet citizens captured a realization of our wholeness, connectedness, and our shared future as together we spin thru space.
Later, the Apollo 17 mission, as the program was coming to its end, brought home the "Blue Marble" photograph, the first complete 360° image of our planet, a high-res Earth described as the most reproduced photo in history. It is the first photograph taken of the whole round Earth and still is only one of the whole earth ever snapped by a human being. Of the two living astronauts, Cernan and Schmitt, who believe they were the photographer who took the photo, here is how one describes his view.... Whichever astronaut of the three aboard Apollo 17 who snapped the picture, what is most memorable is Earth360:
"You have to literally just pinch yourself and ask yourself the question, silently: Do you know where you are at this point in time and space, and in reality and in existence, when you can look out the window and you're looking at the most beautiful star in the heavens -- the most beautiful because it's the one we understand and we know, it's home, it's people, family, love, life -- and besides that it is beautiful. You can see from pole to pole and across oceans and continents and you can watch it turn and there's no strings holding it up, and it's moving in a blackness that is almost beyond conception."
The sense of awe, an Earth point of view, has continued to be communicated by astronauts since and has continued to be shared, more recently with high tech ways to see and experience our Earth as planetary citizens as we see from the International Space Station. The term "Overview Effect" begins to share the experience.
We welcome Ron Garan's words, images and interactive ways to help us appreciate the beauty of our "Blue Marble planet", our home and how we can collaborate to make a difference, to make the world a better place.
Here are just a few of Ron's thoughts -- for more on what he's doing to bring the Overview/Orbital message to the world's population visit his online sites. To have empathy with his experience is a way to begin a planet citizen "Orbital Perspective."
Astronaut Ron Garan: "Up there, hovering above Earth with my orbital perspective, I came to believe that the problem lies primarily in our inability to collaborate effectively on a global scale. There are millions of organizations around the world working to improve life on Earth, but for the most part these organizations are not engaged in a unified, coordinated effort...
"We already possess all the technology we need to enable truly consistent, world-changing global collaboration. Our real challenge lies in demonstrating how vital and valuable such collaboration is, despite the real and perceived risks. Open collaborations make solutions more effective and efficient through the pooling of resources and information. Working together multiplies cost-effectiveness… It is the only real way to enable economies of scale that can scale innovative solutions. Open collaboration encourages greater accountability, which in turn fosters trust. We are all in this together, so we should share common goals, and the only way we are going to overcome the challenges facing our world is by working together.
"You don’t need to be an astronaut to have the orbital perspective...
"When we look down at the earth from space, we see this amazing, indescribably beautiful planet. It looks like a living, breathing organism. But it also, at the same time, looks extremely fragile... Anybody else who's ever gone to space says the same thing because it really is striking and it's really sobering to see this paper-thin layer and to realize that that little paper-thin layer is all that protects every living thing on Earth from death, basically. From the harshness of space.
Earth From Space
"The Goal is to bring people along on our space missions not as spectators but as fellow crew mates -- http://www.rongaran.com/gallery/
"It is truly moving to look at Earth from space. And when we do – we also have the privilege of sharing this orbital perspective with people back on our planet. We are all riding through the universe together on this spaceship we call Earth, we are all interconnected, we are all in this together. We are all family."
January 2015
GreenPolicy360 highlights Governor Jerry Brown
Perhaps it's fitting to move from a Jesuit pope to a former Jesuit seminarian...
This week we highlight Governor Edmund G. 'Jerry' Brown.
Some years ago, your GreenPolicy Siterunner, Steve Schmidt, had the opportunity to serve as an advisor to Jerry's presidential campaign and the Governor and I worked closely on the campaign's 'We the People' platform. Political reform across a breadth of issues was on our agenda. The preparation of briefing books for the debates was a challenge, as we argued watering down of environmental and work protection laws was flawed policy. Up until the 90's the US had set green and labor standards which were being set aside by both parties in the 90s. We argued for a better approach, and for money out of politics, and univ health care, and we came close to winning the nomination which eventually went to the next president, Bill Clinton. The many green ideas we brought forward continued on in the Green Platform which your siterunner was the key drafter and Jerry and his ideas and agenda carried on in California. To this day, Governor Brown is out in front with model initiatives for change. Decades now, day-to-day, Jerry has been hard at work to make a difference and create, with vision, a better world.
Here's a nod of our green hat to Jerry Brown -- a principled visionary, making it happen.
Today the press reports -- California leads the nation and Jerry Brown's point of view? “What happens here doesn’t stay here. It goes all around the country and all around the world.”
The 'greening' results are showing... Transportation -- Energy -- Climate Change -- Pacific Coast Climate Plan, A Model for a Regional Approach to Climate Change -- and Arnold who added some Muscle.
December 2014
GreenPolicy360 highlights Pope Francis
Catholic pontiff speaks of the environment
Time to take another look at the new Catholic leadership
“In this globalised world,” Pope Francis, “we have fallen into globalised indifference.”
From Media Reports: Next year, he will intervene again in the secular world. Today, the Observer reports his intention to write a letter to the world’s 1.2 billion Catholics, give an address to the UN General Assembly and call for a summit of the world’s main religions. He will also 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.”
To a different kind of pope, Francis, a spiritual voice for 1.2 billion Catholics, calling for peace during the traditional Christmas Day speech, Urbi et Orbi
Thoughts of a leader taking a church in new directions.
November 2014
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 our site mgr Steve wrote: Rebecca had an idea how to save 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 green hat to Rebecca's Earth Outreach 'planet citizen' work !
Thank You Rebecca, congratulations - time to see how it's all connected !
Global Fishing Watch launches
Google Outreach out in front again
Global Fishing Watch_newly launched [1]
Global Forest Watch launches - 2014
Google Outreach continues its impact
Monitoring the world's forests
October 2014
Update on Project Drawdown -- http://www.fastcoexist.com/3054300/what-if-we-told-you-to-be-optimistic-about-solving-climate-change
GreenPolicy360 highlights Paul Hawken
Introduced at the Bioneers Conference by Paul Hawken
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GreenPolicy360 highlights 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
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Bioneers Dennis Kucinich, Chief Lyons & Leonardo DiCaprio
Leonardo speaks at the UN Climate Summit
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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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