Planet Citizens, Planet Scientists: Difference between revisions

From Green Policy
Jump to navigation Jump to search
No edit summary
No edit summary
 
(485 intermediate revisions by the same user not shown)
Line 1: Line 1:


<div style="float:left; padding-left:10px; padding-right:10px;">
{| cellpadding="10px" cellspacing="10px" style="background-color:#e9ebde; border:1px solid #c2bfb5;" frame="rhs"
|-
|align="left" width="238px" |
<center>'''Recently Added Planet Citizen, Planet Scientist Pages'''</center>


* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:New_Space NewSpace]
* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Democratization_of_Space Democratization of Space]
* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Earth_Science_from_Space Earth Science from Space]
* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Climate_News Climate News]
* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Earth_Observations Earth Observations]
* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Planet_API Planet API]
* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Citizen_Science Citizen Science]
* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Planet_Citizens,_Planet_Scientists Planet Citizens, Planet Scientists]


|}
</div>


[[File:Earth-NASA.jpg]]




     
:: [[File:Living Earth.png]]


::'''[[Planet Citizen Vision of Living Earth]]'''




 
::[[File:GrnPolicy360.png]]


::<big>'''[[GreenLinks]]'''</big>


:: [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Green_Networking '''Green Networking''']
             
                 


::'''[[Climate Problems, Climate Solutions]]'''


::'''[[Climate Plans Enforcement - Resources]]'''




::'''[[Generation Green]]'''


::'''[[Going Green]]'''


::'''[[Greening Our Blue Planet]]'''






::[[File:Earth in Our Hands.png]]






::<big><big>'''[[Planet Citizen Action]]'''</big></big>


:::<big>''' 'Earthrise' ... Whole Earth Beginnings of a Modern Environmental Movement'''</big>


'''''Continuing as GreenPolicy360 "Planet Citizens, Planet Scientists", we look at [http://tinybluegreen.com "tiny little ones"], microscopic ocean life
:::: <small>*  https://www.greenpolicy360.net/images/1969_beginnings_of_the_modern_environmental_movement.pdf</small>


'''''We look at 'ocean forests' with perspective and need for interactive assistance'''''' 


[[File:Floating Forest Project.png | link=http://www.floatingforests.org/]]


:[[File:Apollo.jpg]]


: <small>* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Apollo.jpg</small>


'''''Help with the Kelp, Join in''''' -- '''''Work as a Planet Citizen, Planet Scientist to keep the Ocean healthy''''' -- ''http://www.floatingforests.org/''


○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○
:<big>'''[[Earthrise]] | December 1968'''</big>


''Take a look at the newly launched '''Floating Forest Project''' -- and request for help from planet citizens who are willing to volunteer as planet scientists.''
:* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earthrise


''Here's the invitation from the '''Floating Forest''' website:''
 
🌎             
 
 
<big><big>'''Celebrating the First 'Earth Day' '''</big></big>
 
: '''April 22nd, 1970'''
 
:* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Day
:* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Earth_Day
 
 
SJS/GreenPolicy360 Siterunner: On the first Earth Day, April 22, 1970, a beginning of green ideals and ideas emerged in a serious way... Today Earth Day continues on as a movement and a political cause. Now we are a diverse mix, across the globe, employing the Internet with many voices, colors, ages, especially young people joining in. We continue on year after year, decade after decade.... We are strongly confronting and working to solve our generation's existential challenges. Reaching across our home planet, touching and interacting with planet citizens, looking to share solutions to pressing problems and challenges.
 
 
[[File:Golden Spiral from M.png]]
 
 
Environmentalism took on new forms and shapes with ideas that became a legal platform, a first generation of environmental laws that would go worldwide. A new [https://encyclopedia.thefreedictionary.com/Counterculture+of+the+1960s "counterculture" with youthful vision and organizing] added their voices and stood up to create the beginnings of a global environmental movement. 
 
* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Env_policy_laws_US_%27the_beginning%27_of_env_era.jpg
* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Environmental_Laws
 
 
'''Earth Day Is Every Day ... and Every Day Is Earth Day'''
 
 
With a goal of protecting life, a new environmental movement began to grow, a [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Whole_Earth '''"Whole Earth" vision'''] seen for the first time from space in 1968 with the iconic [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Apollo_8''' Apollo 8 Earthrise image'''] and a very real 'sense' of our common responsibility for the future of the planet. Students were 'first-movers' who spoke of the existential threat of nuclear war and environmental disaster, and need to 'become' far-reaching with a new vision. Realizations grew internationally that we had created weapons capable of ending humanity and most all life of earth -- and we needed to change this nuclear doomsday threat. Protests and 'teach ins', led by students, and drawing in politicians, communities, media, news with pamphlets, books, music, art and demonstrations crossed continents with new symbols, peace symbols, environmental and eco-awareness.
 
* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Environmental_protection
* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Eco-ethics
 
The threads of teach-ins led directly to and [http://www.earthday.org/earth-day-history-movement '''the first Earth Day'''] in 1970 as students expanded counterculture with action. Across the U.S., a first Earth Day of teach-ins began as a student-initiated movement on college campuses including your siterunner's college where we proposed an environment and peace action day to Senator Nelson, who we met as we organized the national Moratorium and who worked with us to make an Earth Day a national political event.  [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:USC_Daily_Trojan_Sen_Nelson_speech_day_after_first_Earth_Day_.jpg '''At the University of Southern California'''], our student peace activists continued 1969's anti-war moratorium sharing a positive vision of what was needed -- environmental protection, economic and social justice, new priorities added to the nation's agenda. The work spread quickly. Earth Day's teach-ins reached out to students globally. A worldwide environmental movement became a real and growing political force...
 
* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Day_Memories_on_the_50th_Anniversary
* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Earth_Day
* https://greenpolicy360.net/images/1969_beginnings_of_the_modern_environmental_movement.pdf
* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Vorsorgeprinzip_at_GreenPolicy360_-_sjs.png
 
 
 
:[[File:Goodall on the power of the young.png]]
 
 
<small>''"I am convinced that the same concern the youth of this nation took in changing this nation's priorities on the war in Vietnam and on civil rights can be shown for the problems of the environment. Successful teach-ins on all campuses on the same day will have a dramatic impact on the environmental conscience of the nation. They will be immensely effective as an educational effort in arousing public opinion..."''</small>
 
* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Environmental_movement
 
 
 
🌎
 
 
 
<big><big>'''2024'''</big></big>
 
 
<big>'''Recalling the World's First National Climate Act & Program (1978)'''</big>
 
* https://greenpolicy360.net/w/File:US_Public_Law_95-367.png
 
 
 
Decades later, most every nation of the world has announced, as of 2015, their respective cooperative national climate plan...
 
Nation-by-nation, community-by-community...
 
 
<big><big>'''[[National Climate Plans]]'''</big></big>
 
* https://greenpolicy360.net/w/National_Climate_Plans
 
 
 
GreenPolicy360:
 
National Climate Plans need to be engineered and then enforced. We have ideas how to get the job going and speed it up... h/t to George... we're working it...
 
 
[[File:Climate Plans Enforcement - Resources - GreenPolicy.png]]
 
* https://greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Climate_Plans_Enforcement_-_Resources_-_GreenPolicy.png
 
 
&nbsp;
 
 
<big><big>'''2023'''</big></big>
 
 
<big><big>'''Moving on Climate Action: GreenPolicy360'''</big></big>
 
[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Climate_Plans_Enforcement_-_Resources '''GRN360: Climate Plans Enforcement Initiative''']
 
[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Methods_to_enforce_climate_pledges-NDCs_-_Dec_2021.png '''Methods to Enforce Climate Plan Pledges''']
 
[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:INDC '''Pressuring Nations to Step Up, Cooperate, and Act Now''']
 
[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Global_Stocktake,_the_first_GST.jpg '''Committee on Earth Observation Satellites''']
 
[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Environmental_Laws '''Environmental Laws, Regs, Rules... Lawsuits & Legal Actions''']
 
 
 
[[File:Green Networking @GreenPolicy360.net.png | link=https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Green_Networking]]
 
 
[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Green_Networking <big>'''Green Networking'''</big>]
 
 
 
🌎
 
 
 
<big>'''2022'''</big>
 
 
[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Planet_API <big><big>'''Planet API'''</big></big>]
 
:<big>'''[[Earth Right Now]]'''</big>
 
 
'''"EOS", an Earth Observing System going back to the beginnings of [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Science_Research_from_Space Earth Science Research from Space]'''
 
GreenPolicy360 looks at visionaries who set in motion first-of-its-type digital, multispectral imaging of Planet Earth
 
 
[[File:Earth Observing System - fleet of satellites.png]]
 
<small>* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Earth_Observing_System_-_fleet_of_satellites.png</small>
 
 
 
·········································
 
 
[[File:Rainfall-earthsciencefromspace.gif]]
 
 
<big><big>'''[[Environmental Studies Online]]'''</big></big>
 
 
 
<big>Remember, facts count... [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:You_can_manage_only_what_you_can_measure_Dr_David_Crisp,_OCO-2,_June_2014_m.jpg Measure to Manage]</big>
 
 
<big>'''[[Fact Checking]]'''</big>
 
:<big>'''[[Earth and Space, Politics]]'''</big>
 
::<big>'''[[Stats - Green Research & Science]]'''</big>
 
 
🌎
 
 
<big>'''GreenPolicy360:'''</big>
 
<big><big>'''Get Semantic, Go Scientific'''</big></big>
 
 
[[File:Semantic Scholar Publishers.png]]
 
 
 
<big><big>'''Get Smart, Scholarly'''</big></big>
 
* https://scholar.google.com/
 
* https://www.semanticscholar.org/
 
* https://www.semanticscholar.org/about
 
* https://www.semanticscholar.org/resources
 
* https://www.semanticscholar.org/about/publishers
 
* https://www.semanticscholar.org/product/semantic-reader
 
 
<big>'''Go Searching'''</big>
 
Astrophysics Data System / https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/
 
 
(A 21st Century AI/Machine Learning Case Study)
 
'''''Toolformer: Language Models Can Teach Themselves to Use Tools'''''
 
* https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2023arXiv230204761S/abstract
 
 
<big>'''Climate Modeling'''</big>
 
* https://allenai.org/climate-modeling
 
''Planetary-scale Earth simulations known as global climate model projections are the primary sources of information on future climate change.''
 
''Climate models are based on mathematical equations represented using a grid mesh that covers the globe: a finer grid mesh is more accurate but much more computationally expensive. Current global climate projections agree that a world with more greenhouse gases will be warmer everywhere, especially over land and at high latitudes.''
 
 
 
<big>'''NOAA scientists harness machine learning to advance climate models'''</big>
 
March 1st, 2023
 
* https://www.gfdl.noaa.gov/news/noaa-scientists-harness-machine-learning-to-advance-climate-models/
 
* https://www.gfdl.noaa.gov/
 
 
'''How artificial intelligence is fast becoming a key tool for climate science (2021)'''
 
* https://www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-how-artificial-intelligence-is-fast-becoming-a-key-tool-for-climate-science/
 
 
🌎
 
 
<big>'''GreenPolicy360: We're Into Earth Science'''</big>
 
:'''We believe in 'critical thinking skills''''
 
* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Good_science_needs_good_data_.png
 
* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Stats_-_Green_Research_%26_Science
 
 
🌎
 
 
<big>'''The Home Planet Sends a Space Observation Platform Up to Reveal the Universe'''</big>
 
:The Webb Telescope Records and Returns to Earth Spectrums of Light 'from the Heavens'
 
 
[[File:Webb 1.jpeg]]
 
<small>NASA</small>
 
 
 
<big><big>'''History-Making Space Telescope's First Images | July 12, 2022  🙌'''</big></big>
 
'''[[James Webb Space Telescope]]'''
 
 
<big>'''View the spectacular images, and participate in this historic event to #UnfoldTheUniverse'''</big>
 
: '''Watch for news on life on 'exoplanets'''' .... #PlanetScientists want to know the secrets of the universe
 
:* https://go.nasa.gov/3NzC9De
 
 
 
'''''"It's an emotional moment when you see nature suddenly releasing some of its secrets. It's not an image. It's a new worldview."'''''
 
-- Thomas Zurbuchen, NASA associate administrator for science missions
 
 
 
🌎
 
 
 
[[File:Aurora Green 2022.png]]
 
 
 
:: [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/PlanetCitizen <big>'''Planet Citizen'''</big>] | [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Planet_Citizens <big>'''Planet Citizens''']</big>
 
 
:: [[File:Citizen of the planet girl.jpg]]
 
 
 
[[File:Nearly Every Country Signs On to a Sweeping Deal to Protect Nature.png]]
 
 
<big>[[Environmental Studies Online]]</big>
 
: <big>[[Climate Problems, Climate Solutions]]</big>
 
 
🌎
 
 
<big><big>'''Environmental Laws & Climate Change Litigation/Lawsuits Around the World'''</big></big>
 
: '''Acting to Enforce Nation Climate Plan Promises'''
 
* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Environmental_Laws
 
* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Climate_Plans_Enforcement_-_Resources
 
 
 
🌎
 
 
 
<big><big>'''Don Herbert, "Mr. Wizard", Bill Nye, "The Science Guy", and George E. Brown, Congressional Representative and Mr. "Big Science"'''</big></big>
 
:<big>'''Recalling three who changed the world'''</big>
 
: -- By GreenPolicy360's Siterunner / Steven Schmidt
 
 
Today I'm remembering editing science book experiments of "Mr. Wizard", Don Herbert, and deeply appreciating Bill Nye, "The Science Guy", and becoming a friend and colleague of Mr. "Big Science", Rep. George E. Brown
 
--- Mr. Wizard inspired a generation of kids with the fascinating, in-your-home lessons of science
 
--- Bill says his career, so full of science that lights up minds, follows the example of his favorite "TV teacher"
 
--- and George Brown, GreenPolicy360 fave politico, became known for "Big Science", Earth science from the 60s to the 90s
 
 
What a cast of characters for our GreenPolicy "Planet Citizens, Planet Scientists" story.
 
Watch Don was like 'black and white', three channels or so, lots of flickering from iffy reception from 'rabbit ear' antennas, but there he was, in a kitchen that looked like our home kitchen. Wait, he's opening the refrigerator, what's in there. Oh, hmmm. And so begins the week's science experiment, leading to a theory involving physics. I'm shaking my head, and whispering "wow" as the lesson come into view.
 
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watch_Mr._Wizard
 
And now, these days, watching Bill Nye The Science Guy in full-color, big screen, with multi-channel sound, is like watching a torch being passed forward.
 
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Nye
 
A light, a love of science I know about, first-hand.
 
Many years ago I was fortunate to edit Don Herbert, who was Mr. Wizard on NBC then Nickelodeon. I was a young editor in NYC and Don as Mr. Wizard, and master teacher, taught me about science as we did our books. His "hands-on" Book-Labs were designed to inspire kids, to take what was in young student everyday lives and to show them, scientifically, how observations and facts can bring understanding of scientific truths, theories and the "Big Picture".
 
And speaking of the "Big Picture", there are many flashbacks to the Big Picture and Big Science these days ...
 
What a world!
 
 
[[File:Mr Wizard - Don Herbert.png]]
 
<small>* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Mr_Wizard_-_Don_Herbert.png</small>
 
 
[[File:Bill Nye explains.jpg]]
 
<small>* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Blue_Marble_memories_in_2022.png</small>
 
 
 
<big>'''Remembering a Mentor, Friend, and Colleague, Representative George E. Brown'''</big>
 
A 30+ Year 'Big Picture', 'Big Science' Journey....
 
* https://greenpolicy360.net/w/George_E._Brown_Jr
 
 
<big>[[File:Rep. George E Brown and a young student remembering.png]]</big>
 
 
[https://nss.org/national-space-society-governor-george-e-brown-jr-biography/ '''George E. Brown and the National Space Society''']
 
* https://nss.org/national-space-society-governor-george-e-brown-jr-biography/
 
* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Landsat_data_users_handbook
 
 
[https://greenpolicy360.net/images/1969_beginnings_of_the_modern_environmental_movement.pdf <big>'''Beginnings of the Modern Environmental Movement'''</big>]
 
:<small><small>* https://greenpolicy360.net/images/1969_beginnings_of_the_modern_environmental_movement.pdf </small></small>
 
 
<big>'''A First [[Earth Day]]'''</big>
 
: Being there with George's assist, organizing
 
::Youth-energy eco 'Teach-ins' and events across the nation
 
::: * https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Earth_Day
 
::: * https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Day
 
 
<big><big>'''[[Generation Green]]'''</big></big>
 
: * https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Day_Memories_on_the_50th_Anniversary
: * http://www.planetcitizen.org
 
 
[[File:Dark sky by Jack Fusco.jpg]]
<small>Photo credit: Jack Fusco</small>
 
 
 
🌎
 
 
 
<big>'''''December 2021'''''</big>
 
 
<big><big>Climate Pledges Must Be Enforced</big></big>
 
How to turn each nation's climate pledges into 'effective climate action'
 
:Promises of international climate summits in Paris (2015) & Glasgow (2021) now require 'effective climate action follow on'
 
::Measuring & monitoring greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions with satellite missions can become -- 'Our climate tool working nation-by-nation'
 
 
'''GreenPolicy360 Siterunner - SJS / December 2021''': Looking back to the 1960s and 70s to the beginnings of the Earth Science from Space missions of NASA and affiliated U.S. agencies, in association with higher education and aerospace business, the vision statements of Congressional leaders, recalling [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/George_E._Brown_Jr '''Rep. George E. Brown (D-Los Angeles)'''], setting in motion the [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:You_can_manage_only_what_you_can_measure_Dr_David_Crisp,_OCO-2,_June_2014_m.jpg '''measuring and monitoring'''] programs that have led to decades of atmospheric and earth systems data. This constellation of new space technology -- digital imaging, Earth 360° remote viewing, scientific observations, changes over time, trend lines, all can come into our hands. 'Drilling down', not for gas and oil, but in the parsing of data, now has the promise to provide essential ways and means to deliver a real- and extended-time knowledge base which can be used, effectively and we propose legally, to deliver on pledges and promises made at international climate change conferences and summits.
 
Let us do our part in continuing to expand this first-generation earth science vision -- space-based cooperative missions, initiatives and ventures -- that makes it possible to turn database tracking of emissions [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Externalities '''(externalities)'''] -- CO2, methane, CFCs and other gases -- nation-by-nation into Climate Plan Enforcement (CPEs).
 
It is time to move from distant pledges to coordinated nation-by-nation climate action. Using best practices, effective nationally determined, and legally enforced operational plans, we can become agents of change making a positive real-world difference. As it is said -- "Earth Is In Our Hands", let us turn science and knowledge into climate action now.
 
The strategic demands for international cooperation and action is our generations greatest task and our legacy. Let us take up our climate challenge. Our time is today to enforce well intended, but extremely hard to achieve climate pledges.
 
* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Methods_to_enforce_climate_pledges-NDCs_-_Dec_2021.png
 
 
 
··································
 
 
 
<big><big><font color=green>'''''Planet Citizens'''''</font></big></big>
 
 
[[File:Remembering E.O. Wilson and Thomas Lovejoy.jpg]]
 
 
''December 27, 2021''
 
<big><big>'''''Remembering E.O. Wilson and Thomas Lovejoy'''''</big></big>
 
''We celebrate today the lives of two great ecologists: E.O. Wilson, who passed away on December 26 at the age of 92, and Tom Lovejoy, who passed away onDecember 25 at the age of 80. Each made extraordinary contributions to the field of bio-diversity and to the greater public dialog about humans and nature...''
 
* https://www.garrisoninstitute.org/blog/remembering-e-o-wilson-and-thomas-lovejoy/
 
 
'' E.O. Wilson discovered hundreds of new species by putting his hands in the dirt as a field biologist, synthesized evolving thinking in science and coined new terms, such as biodiversity and biophilia, to explain it. Of his many accomplishments in evolutionary biology, his biggest contribution was probably in the new scientific field of sociobiology, in which he addressed the biological basis of social behavior in animals, including humans.''
 
* https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/obituaries/2021/12/27/013b4bd2-6700-11ec-a76b-374aeb82e811_story.html
 
 
E.O. Wilson: ''His 2006 book "The Creation: An Appeal to Save Life on Earth," a series of letters written to an imaginary Baptist preacher in pursuit of an ecological alliance to save the Earth.''
 
* https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/science/obituary-modern-day-darwin-eo-wilson-dies-92-2021-12-27/
 
 
E.O. Wilson: ''Naturalist dubbed a modern-day Darwin, dies at 92''
 
* https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/science/obituary-modern-day-darwin-eo-wilson-dies-92-2021-12-27/
 
 
<big>'''Protect Life, Preserve Biodiversity, Prevent Extinction'''</big>
 
* https://eowilsonfoundation.org/many-people-want-to-set-aside-half-of-earth-as-nature/
 
 
''E.O. Wilson: The 8 Million++ Species We Don’t Know''
 
* https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/03/opinion/sunday/species-conservation-extinction.html
 
 
🌎
 
 
<big>'''Tom Lovejoy, Planet Citizen, Planet Scientist Passes Away'''</big>
 
 
[[File:Tom Lovejoy Planet Citizen.png]]
 
[[File:Tom Lovejoy on Biological Diversity.png]]
 
 
''Known as the “Godfather of Biodiversity,” Dr. Thomas E. Lovejoy is a world-renowned champion for global conservation efforts and conservation biology research grounded in sound science.  He is credited with having brought the global tropical deforestation problem to the fore as a public issue, and was the first person to use the term “biological diversity” in 1980 (along with Edward O. Wilson).''
 
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uV1svO-pZU
 
* https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/thomas-e-lovejoy-iii-an-ecologist-who-dedicated-his-career-to-preserving-the-amazon-rainforest-dies-at-80
 
* https://news.mongabay.com/2021/12/tom-lovejoy-prominent-conservation-biologist-dead-at-80/
 
* https://www.amazonbiodiversitycenter.org/founder-tom-lovejoy
 
 
<big>Tom and Ed, Pioneering Conservation Biology</big>
 
Thomas Lovejoy and Edward O. Wilson
 
''The two scientists first met in the mid-nineteen-seventies. At that point, Wilson was in his mid-forties, and teaching biology at Harvard. Lovejoy, a dozen years younger, was working for the World Wildlife Fund. Over lunch, they got to talking about where the W.W.F. should focus its efforts. They agreed that it should be in the tropics, because the tropics are where most species actually live. There wasn’t a good term for what they were trying to preserve, so they tossed one around—“biological diversity”—and put it into circulation. “People just started using it,” Lovejoy recalled, in an interview in 2015. (Later, the phrase would be shortened to “biodiversity.”)''
 
* https://www.newyorker.com/news/daily-comment/honoring-the-legacy-of-e-o-wilson-and-tom-lovejoy
 
 
[[File:Anthropocene Project-3a.png]]
 
 
[[File:All species day with homo sapien in Santa Fe .jpg]]
 
 
[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Environmental_Studies_Online <big>'''Environmental Studies Online'''</big>]
 
 
'''GreenPolicy360 Siterunner:
 
Today I am recalling pioneering science 'up above' with Don Perry'''
 
Biological diversity in unequaled abundance: Ascending to study 'Life Above the Jungle Floor'
 
Richness of life within the rainforest's jungle canopy web: Beginnings of rainforest canopy science in the 1970s and 80s
 
 
<big>'''[[Rainforest Canopy Don Perry]]'''</big>
 
* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Rainforest
 
* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Rainforest_Canopy_Don_Perry
 
* https://floridawestcoast.tumblr.com/post/41543294774/up-in-the-rainforest-canopy-with-don-perry-my
 
 
[[File:The Rainforest Canopy, the Richest Biosphere on Earth.png]]
 
 
 
··········································································································· 
 
 
 
[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Climate_Desk <big><big>'''The Climate Desk Network'''</big></big>]
 
* Visit the climate stories tracking the existential challenge of our generation
 
 
 
:[[File:Climate Desk.jpg]]
 
 
 
[[File:Poynter.logo.png]]
 
:An Independent Press, Critical to Democracy
 
::* https://www.poynter.org/Poynter
 
 
 
···················································································
 
 
 
<big>'''GreenPolicy360 Focuses on Facts, Science, Reasoned Argument & Judgment'''</big>
 
: Our founder/siterunner speaks of "the 3 Ds of Democracy: Discussion, Debate and Decision-making... the foundation of a sound, thriving Democracy"
 
 
<small>Visit the GreenPolicy360.com/.net/.org website:</small>
 
'''''Fact-Checking, 'Facts Count''''''
* [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Fact_Checking Fact Checking @GreenPolicy360]
* [https://reporterslab.org/update-237-fact-checkers-in-nearly-80-countries-and-counting/ 80 Countries-237 Fact-Checking Sites (2020)]
* [https://reporterslab.org/number-of-fact-checking-outlets-surges-to-188-in-more-than-60-countries/ 60 Countries-188 Fact-Checking Sites (2019)]
* [http://reporterslab.org/global-fact-checking-up-50-percent/ 37 Countries-96 Fact-Checking Sites (2016)]
* [https://www.poynter.org/mediawise/ MediaWise for Teens]
* [http://www.politifact.com/ PolitiFact via Poynter]
* [https://www.poynter.org/ifcn/ Poynter Int'l Fact Checking Network]
* [http://www.poynter.org/category/fact-checking/ Poynter Int'l List]
* [https://reporterslab.org/fact-checking/ Reporters Lab Fact-Checking News]
 
'''''Data, Intelligence, Science'''''
* [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:You_can_manage_only_what_you_can_measure_Dr_David_Crisp,_OCO-2,_June_2014_m.jpg Measure-to-Manage]
 
'''''GreenPolicy360 & Science'''''
* [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Good_science_needs_good_data_.png GreenPolicy360, Facts & Data]
* [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Stats_-_Green_Research_%26_Science GreenPolicy360, Our Policy on Science]
* [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Climate_Change_-_Global_Warming_Keyword-Terms Global Climate Keywords]
* [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Merchants_of_Doubt Merchants of Doubt]
* [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Science_denial_graph.jpg Techniques of Science Denial (Graph)]
* [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:FLICC_techniques_of_science_denial.png Techniques of Science Denial (Video)]
* [http://www.nature.com/news/wikipedia-shapes-language-in-science-papers-1.22656 Wiki Community Science]
 
 
[[File:Earth conditions dynamic map.png]]
 
 
GreenPolicy360, and our terrestrial neighbors here in St. Pete/Clearwater, the Poynter Institute (founders of PolitiFact and the International Fact Checking Network), are, in fact,  continuing to do our best to hew to the facts and sort out what's factual and what isn't as we make our way through a contemporary flood of political (and too often purposeful) mis- and dis-info.
 
 
'''''Climate Denial / Misinformation'''''
* [https://secure.avaaz.org/campaign/en/facebook_climate_misinformation/ Avaaz - Climate Misinformation on Facebook - 2021]
* [https://climatefeedback.org ClimateFeedback.org]
* [https://climatecrocks.com/ Climate -- Crocks, Denial, Facts & Vids]
* [https://www.vice.com/amp/en_us/article/y3z737/the-12-arguments-every-climate-denier-uses-and-how-to-debunk-them Debunking Climate Denial]
* [http://www.desmogblog.com/ Desmog Blog]
* [http://www.desmogblog.com/about Desmog & Climate Change]
* [http://www.desmogblog.com/global-warming-denier-database Denier Database]
* [http://www.desmogblog.com/slamming-the-climate-skeptic-scam Desmog Perspective]
* [https://www.beforetheflood.com/explore/the-deniers/top-10-climate-deniers/ Denier Favorites]
* [https://www.drillednews.com/post/fake-science-is-a-real-danger Drilled - Corp Sponsored]
* [https://grist.org/series/skeptics/ Grist on Skeptics]
* [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:PEN_America-Earth_Institute-Columbia_U..._How_to_defend_yourself_online.jpg PEN America, Envir Writing, How to Defend Yourself and Your Work Online]
* [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Planet_of_the_Humans,_a_documentary_film Re: Misinfo of 'Planet of the Humans' Documentary]
* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Climate_Change_Denier_Talking_Points_--_and_Rebuttals Rebutting Climate Denier Talking Pts]
* [https://skepticalscience.com/argument.php Skeptical Science Site]
* [https://skepticalscience.com/climate-models-intermediate.htm Skeptical - Attacks on Climate Models]
* [https://www.snopes.com/collections/climate-change-denial-debunked/ Snopes on Climate]
* [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Science_denial_graph.jpg Techniques of Science Denial (Graph)]
* [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:FLICC_techniques_of_science_denial.png Techniques of Science Denial (Video)]
 
'''''Eco-Education'''''
* [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Climate_Change_-_Global_Warming_Keyword-Terms Climate Terms]
* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Ecology_Studies Ecology Studies]
* [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Environmental_movement Environmental Movement]
* [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Envirosecurity EnviroSecurity]
* [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Green_Quotes Green Quotes]
* [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Lawrence_University,_WI_%22Green_Roots%22 "Green Roots" Model]
* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Environmental_Studies_Online Online Ed-Eco Ed]
 
'''''Biodiversity, Protecting Life'''''
* [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Biodiversity Biodiversity]
* [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/All_Species_Day All Species Day]
 
 
···················································································
 
 
<big><big>'''To the Visionaries, to the Scientists'''</big></big>
 
'''Those Delivering Earth's Message to Planet Citizens'''
 
 
''''' "Our loyalties are to the species and the planet. We speak for Earth. Our obligation to survive is owed not just to ourselves but also to that Cosmos, ancient and vast, from which we spring." '''''
 
'''''-- Carl Sagan, Cosmos'''''
 
 
Our Planet and Earth Science
 
[[File:Carl Sagan, the atmosphere unifies and connects all of our world.png|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Xz3ZjOSMRU]]
 
 
🌎
 
 
On the Threats: In 1990 Carl Sagan Explains
 
[[File:Carl Sagan at the Emerging Issues Forum - 1990.png|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Xz3ZjOSMRU]]
 
 
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_Sagan Carl Sagan] talks about the 'big picture', about life, about threats to life, carbon dioxide, greenhouse gases, global warming... across national boundaries.
 
In 1990, at an Emerging Issues Forum, Carl Sagan explains why we must be aware and act now to protect life on Earth.
 
Solving the serious emerging problem of climate change requires 'trans national' cooperation to realize and confront the coming climate crisis.
 
* https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=3509426545795872&id=2234805989924607
 
 
<big>'''[[Look at how thin our atmosphere is]] | [[The Commons]] | [[Earth Right Now]]'''</big>
 
<big>'''[[Planet Citizens]] | [[Green Stories of the Day]] | [[Climate News]]'''</big>
 
 
GreenPolicy360: Watch & listen carefully to Carl Sagan's one hour+ tour de force speech 
 
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Xz3ZjOSMRU
 
 
 
:○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○
 
 
 
[[File:Piece of a Protoplanet.jpg]]
 
 
 
:○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○
 
 
 
::::<big><big>'''[[Greening Our Blue Planet]]'''</big></big>
 
 
::[[File:Earth in Human Hands.jpg]]
 
::::<big><big>''''' "Going Green" '''''</big></big> [[File:Best Practices check sm.png]]
 
 
:<big><big>'''''[[Planet Citizens]]'''''</big></big>
 
::<big><big>'''''[[Planet Citizens, Planet Scientists]]'''''</big></big>
 
 
 
SJS/GreenPolicy360 Siterunner: The realization of being a [http://www.planetcitizen.org ''' 'planet citizen''''] hit in1968/69. The images, first-ever images of our whole Earth as seen from space, especially the Earthrise pictures sent from [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Apollo_8 '''Apollo 8'''], our '''Earthrise''' seen by astronauts orbiting the moon, changed my and our generation's perspective forever. We, well many of us, were impacted in life-changing ways. Those of us who became serious would become ''' 'Planet Citizens, Planet Scientists', ''' although few of us knew how this change would become an [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Environmental_protection '''environmental protection movement'''], but [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Environmental_movement '''we went to work'''].
 
Teach-ins became a favorite of ours. Many of us had followed Mr. Wizard on TV, an educator of science for decades (and whom I would later have the honor of editing in NYC publishing as a new junior editor in the 1970s.) Science was a way to understand our environment and make a difference, and facts guided us. At that time, in the U.S. Congress, a first generation of science-minded leaders such as [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/George_E._Brown_Jr '''George E. Brown'''] were creating the initial foundations of earth science and atmospheric science. The EPA was created, the first clean air laws led to earth observation missions, such as Landsat, to study Earth and Earth's atmosphere. I was fortunate to know George E. Brown, and to be inspired by his work on the House of Representatives Science Committee. He became Chair of the newly named Science, Space & Technology Committee. As a trained engineer he would draft the first [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:US_Public_Law_95-367.png '''National Climate Act'''] and he explained to me that the data from the [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Science_Research_from_Space '''Earth Observation Science Research'''] missions he was proposing/shepherding would be needed to guide policies in the 1970/80/90s. He was right and the NASA/NOAA/USGS missions and all the university/private alliances that developed new methods of imaging/studying/reporting together changed the ways we see our world -- and how we can act better and faster the more we know. George Brown impressed on me that [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:You_can_manage_only_what_you_can_measure_Dr_David_Crisp,_OCO-2,_June_2014_m.jpg '''measuring and monitoring'''] [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Earth_System_Science '''Earth's Life Systems'''] was key to acting and managing wisely. Climate change data from satellite missions, such as the current [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/OCO-2 '''OCO-2 and OCO-3'''], deliver a continuation of this science and we, planet citizens and planet scientists, continue our work to make a difference, a positive difference everyday. Fifty+ years on now... Join in fellow planet citizen. Earth is in your hands.
 
 
[[File:CO2 photo.JPG]]
 
 
 
························································································································
 
 
 
::[[File:Acting on Climate Change.png]]
 
 
:: <big><u>'''[[Climate Problems, Climate Solutions]]'''</u></big>
 
:: <big><u>'''[[Earth Science Vital Signs]]'''</u></big>
 
:: <big><u>'''[[Planet Citizen Action]]'''</u></big>
 
 
:: <big><big>'''Climate Action Solutions at Project Drawdown'''</big></big>
 
::<big><u>'''[[ProjectDrawdownCO2]]'''</u></big>
 
 
························································································································
 
 
 
<big><big>[[Greening Our Blue Planet]]</big></big>
 
 
November 2021
 
 
<big>'''''He spent almost 50 years alone at 10,000 feet. His hobby helped shape climate research in the Rockies'''''</big>
 
''An amateur scientist began logging snowfall to keep busy. Along the way, he became an unwitting chronicler of climate change in a region known as the water tower for the drying American West''
 
* https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2021/11/27/colorado-rockies-snow-climate-lab/
 
 
''Via the Washington Post''
 
''GOTHIC, Colo. — As world leaders gathered across the globe this month to discuss a climate crisis that is rapidly heating the Earth, Billy Barr, 71, paused outside his mountainside cabin to measure snow... as he enters his 50th winter in Gothic, change has come, and not just in shorter snow seasons and higher temperatures... he doesn’t relish the frozen solitude so much anymore. He is, though, determined to keep gathering his data. He says he feels an obligation — to the records themselves, and the precise way he has kept them since the early ’70s... He’d always liked numbers; as a kid, he counted gas stations on family trips. That’s what inspired his records, not some grand scientific ambition. Over time, Barr found he liked comparing one year to others... After filling 10 notebooks with his records, Barr now organizes them in Excel and publishes them on his website. Researchers regularly ask him for data, he said, and he always obliges... In the numbers, he points out patterns. Nearly half the record low temperatures came in his first decade here, and more than half the record highs occurred in the last one. The years between 1974 and 2000 averaged 10 more days with snow on the ground than the years since. The number of consecutive days when temperatures stayed below freezing has plummeted.''
 
''“Back in the ’70s, there were winters where we had well over 100 days in a row where it didn’t get [above] freezing. Last winter, the most was nine,” Barr said. “It doesn’t take much to break that — it could have been 200 days with one in between. But still, there’s a trend there.”''
 
''Down the hill from Barr’s cabin and outside the lab is a new recognition of that: Eight white trailers forming the core of the Surface Atmosphere Integrated Field Laboratory (SAIL), a massive federally funded effort that relies on dozens of instruments measuring precipitation, wind, aerosols, clouds, radiation and more. Much of the equipment arrived in September after deployment on a ship in the Arctic, where it was part of an expedition documenting climate change.''
 
''It is in Gothic now because climate change in this spot has enormous implications but is not fully understood. Snowmelt here eventually flows to the Colorado River — a key and declining water source for 40 million people in the West.''
 
''The campaign builds on an existing study of the East River watershed headed by Ken Williams, a Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory scientist who is co-leading SAIL. He chose to work here in part, he said, because the area’s diversity — in vegetation, elevation, geology — is representative of mountain watersheds across the West. The lab’s wealth of long-term observations were also a draw — including Barr’s, he said.''
 
''“If you’re in the business of trying to understand how ecosystems function now and in the future, you have to have a long record of data against which to compare one year to the next...”''
 
 
 
·························································
 
 
 
<small>FB post from GreenPolicy360's siterunner</small>
 
[[File:Atmospheric Experiment of Humanity.jpg]]
 
 
:[[File:Our Biggest Experiment - by Alice Bell.jpg]]
 
: <small>* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Our_Biggest_Experiment</small>
 
 
:<big><big><big>'''''[[Our Biggest Experiment]]'''''</big></big></big>
 
:::''by Alice Bell''
 
:::''Publication scheduled for September 2021''
 
:::''Traversing science, politics, and technology, Our Biggest Experiment shines a spotlight''
 
::: ''on the little-known scientists who sounded the alarm to reveal the history behind the''
 
::: ''defining story of our age: the climate crisis.''
 
 
 
::<big><big>'''If the Earth Warms by 3 Degrees'''</big></big>
 
:::'''Share the Trendlines, #ClimateCrisis'''
 
::::'''Science Counts, Physics of Global Warming'''
 
 
 
::::[[File:Fact Checking @GreenPolicy360.jpg]]
 
:::::[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Good_science_needs_good_data_.png '''GreenPolicy360: Facts. Good Science Needs Good Data''']
 
 
 
[[File:Earth in Our Hands.png]]  <big><big><big>Protecting Life on the Home Planet</big></big></big>
 
 
<big><big>Environmental Security, Global Security</big></big>
 
 
• <u>'''[[New Definitions of National Security]]'''</u>
 
• <u>'''[[Earth and Space, Politics]]'''</u>
 
 
• <u>'''[[Green Stories of the Day]]'''</u>
 
• <u>'''[[Climate News]]'''</u>
 
 
 
• <u>'''[[Planet Citizens]]'''</u>
 
• <u>'''[[Citizen Science]]'''</u>
 
&nbsp;
 
<big><big>'''Our Earth Atmosphere: Essential for Life, Our Human Responsibility to Preserve and Protect'''</big></big>
 
 
[[File:'Thin Blue Layer' of Earth's Atmosphere 2.jpg]]
 
&nbsp;
 
 
<big><big><big>'''''"Thin Blue"'''''</big></big></big>
 
:[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:ThinBlueLayer '''''ThinBlueLayer.com''''']
 
::[http://www.thinbluelayer.com '''''ThinBlueLayer.com ... Sustaining the Atmosphere's Protection'''''] 
 
 
:::················································································
 
 
 
<big><big><big>'''''[[HelloEarth]]'''''</big></big></big>
 
 
''To see our planet as this majestic blue ball floating in the blackness of space is breathtaking. It is truly the most amazing thing I've ever seen. When you see it for the first time it appears perfect. Bright and mostly blue, it's a literal island in our solar system. And make no mistake -- right now, we have no place else to go.''
 
''Too often, we forget that this remarkable and fragile place is our only home...''
 
''As an astronaut, I’m often asked about the climate, our environment, and how we are destroying the Earth. My response often surprises people. “Don’t worry about the planet, the Earth will be just fine,” I tell them. “What you need to worry about is us – all of us.”''
 
''This year has been an unequivocal disaster for the future of the planet...''
 
-- Mark Kelly, NASA Astronaut
 
* https://www.cnn.com/2017/12/26/opinions/earth-from-space-climate-change-opinion-mark-kelly/index.html
 
 
 
:[[File:Earth aurora views - International Space Station - January 23 2021.jpg]]
 
 
&nbsp;
 
:::::[[File:Earth System Observatory-1.jpg]]
 
 
::::::::::<big><big><big>'''Earth System Observatory'''</big></big></big>
 
::::::::::* https://strategicdemands.com/earth-system-observatory/
 
 
::::::::::<big>Earth Science Missions</big>
 
:::::::::: [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Science_Research_from_Space '''Earth Science Research from Space''']
 
:::::::::: [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/New_Definitions_of_National_Security '''New Definitions of National Security''']
 
:::::::::: [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/@Earth360 '''@Earth360''']
 
:::::::::: [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/OCO-2 '''OCO-2 / OCO-3''']
 
:::::::::: [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Right_Now '''Earth Right Now''']
 
:::::::::: [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Science_Vital_Signs '''Earth Science Vital Signs''']
 
 
 
<big><big>'''2020'''</big></big>
 
 
[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Special:RecentChanges <font color=gray><big><big>'''''Top of the News @GreenPolicy360'''''</big></big></font>]
 
:[https://www.forbes.com/sites/danidiplacido/2020/10/08/netflixs-david-attenborough-a-life-on-our-planet-is-the-most-important-documentary-of-the-year/ <font color=amber><big>'''''Netflix's ‘David Attenborough: A Life On Our Planet’ Is The Most Important Documentary Of The Year'''''</big></font>]
 
 
Via Forbes
 
''Attenborough is now 94, and throughout his long life, has watched the natural world wither before his eyes. He seems tired of keeping quiet about it.''
 
''The scale of the problem is so overwhelming, so gargantuan, that it can be difficult to absorb, and to communicate through a single documentary. But by framing environmental destruction through Attenborough’s eyes and unique career, A Life on Our Planet manages to humanize an issue that can often seem distant, and somewhat abstract.''
 
''Like the Lorax, who speaks for the trees, Attenborough attests to the fact that a significant amount of wildlife has been forever lost, painting a terrifying picture of a not-so-distant future in which humanity continues down the path of senseless self-destruction.''
 
 
* https://www.forbes.com/sites/danidiplacido/2020/10/08/netflixs-david-attenborough-a-life-on-our-planet-is-the-most-important-documentary-of-the-year/#8c2645c11652
 
* https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2020/10/david-attenborough-global-invest-500-protect-nature-iodiversity
 
 
:··········································································································
 
 
:[http://www.cnn.com/2017/12/26/opinions/earth-from-space-climate-change-opinion-mark-kelly/index.html '''''Astronaut Mark Kelly With a Message to Planet Earth Citizens''''']
 
 
:··········································································································
 
 
:[[File:When your house is on fire.jpg]]
 
 
&nbsp;
 
::::::·········································································
 
 
 
[[File:Gistemp 1979-2019.png]]
 
 
&nbsp;
 
 
[[File:In the UK, US, time to choose the future.jpg]]
 
* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:In_the_UK,_US,_time_to_choose_the_future.jpg
 
 
&nbsp;
 
<big><big><big>'''''Do You Know What You’re Breathing?'''''</big></big></big>
 
'''Study, Judge, Act: the time for Citizen Action is Now''' 
 
 
<big><big>'''''Air Pollution Is Damaging in Our Health'''''</big></big>
 
* ''https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Air_Pollution''
 
* ''https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Air_Quality''
 
 
[https://twitter.com/hashtag/WorstAirQuality?src=hash '''''#WorstAirQuality''''']
 
 
[http://berkeleyearth.org/air-quality-real-time-map/ '''''Air Quality Real-time Map''''']
 
[https://airnow.gov/index.cfm?action=airnow.international '''''AirNow / International Air Quality''''']
 
[https://waqi.info/ '''''World Air Quality Index / World's Air Pollution: Real-time Air Quality Index''''']
 
 
[https://aqli.epic.uchicago.edu/pollution-facts/ <big>'''''Air Quality Life Index (AQLI)</big>''''']
 
''Particulate air pollution is the single greatest threat to human health globally.''
 
* ''https://aqli.epic.uchicago.edu/the-index/''
 
* ''https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/30/style/air-quality-pollution-monitors.html''
 
 
 
<big><big>The Great Challenge: Air Pollution Impacts on Health from Childhood to Old Age</big></big>
 
90% of people breathe dirty air... 90% .... 90%+
 
Millions of deaths every year due to Air Pollution
 
 
''Nearly 2 billion children – about 93 percent of the world’s children under the age of 15 – breathe toxic, putrid air that’s so polluted it puts their health and well-being at serious risk, according to [http://www.who.int/ceh/publications/air-pollution-child-health/en/ a report by the World Health Organization.]''
 
''“Polluted air is poisoning millions of children and ruining their lives,” said Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the WHO. “This is inexcusable. Every child should be able to breathe clean air so they can grow and fulfill their full potential.”''
 
''Air pollution can affect children's cognitive ability and can also trigger asthma as well as cancer. Children who have been exposed to high levels of air pollution may be at greater risk for chronic illnesses such as cardiovascular disease later in life...''
 
 
 
 
''Act to measure the air pollution around you. Act to make a difference in the air you and your family breathe.''
 
 
[[File:Be a citizen scientist iNaturalist.png]]
 
 
·······························································································
 
 
 
<big>'''Be a Citizen Scientist'''</big>
 
Assist NASA with the NeMO Earth Science Project
 
''Using techniques originally developed to look at the stars, a team of scientists at our Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley have developed a way to image corals in unprecedented detail. Now, the same team has launched a citizen science project, called NeMO-Net, to classify and assess the health of coral reefs across the globe.''
 
* https://nasa.tumblr.com/post/614939287383834624/want-to-help-save-earths-coral-reefs-heres-your/amp
 
 
Assist Local & Global Citizen Science Projects
 
<big>[[Citizen Science]]</big>
 
* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Citizen_Science
 
 
··············································
 
 
 
 
[[File:Treehugger story - hug a tree and say thanks.jpg]]
 
 
 
 
······································
 
 
 
<big><big>'''''Planet Citizens in Action: [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Green_Best_Practices "Green Best Practices"]'''''</big></big>
 
 
Thank you [http://www.planetcitizen.org Planet Citizen] Rebecca Moore! Bioneer's vision join up with Earth Outreach, Google global mapping, planet science and community-to-community projects that make a positive difference.
 
 
:::[[File:Rebecca Google Outreach.jpg]]
 
 
········································································
 
 
'''''Thank you Leonardo DiCaprio, Planet Citizen [http://www.bioneers.org "Bioneer"], as you join with Planet and PlanetAPI'''''
 
:[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Planet_API '''''Planet API''''']
 
:[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Reefscape.png '''''Reefscape''''']
 
:[https://www.leonardodicaprio.org/reefscape-a-global-reef-survey-to-build-better-satellites-for-coral-conservation/ '''''Satellite Doves to Aid Coral Conservation''''']
 
 
:''To gather a more comprehensive understanding of the condition of global reef ecosystems, we need a way to assess and monitor them on a large geographic scale.''
 
:''The Reefscape project aims to improve our understanding of the condition of coral reefs worldwide, while simultaneously developing spectral libraries needed to advance the development of a new satellite mission.''
 
:''New satellites, such as those from [http://www.planet.com Planet (formerly Planet Labs)], are, as of 2017, able to capture near-daily imagery of coral reefs worldwide. Planet’s high-resolution imagery of reef locations provides new imaging, science and understanding of the composition and extent of shallow, horizontally oriented reefs.''
 
 
[[File:Reefscape.png]]
 
 
::::[[File:Blue green lines 1.png]]
 
 
 
<big><big>'''Earth Observations with Perspective'''</big></big>
 
Begin with [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Earth_Observations '''The 'Big Picture' ''']
 
''... and now nod to the small life forms, the small creatures, the [http://tinybluegreen.com "Tiny Little Ones".] so often unrecognized within the bountiful  [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Tree_of_Life "Tree of Life"].''
 
''Consider 'tiny blue-green' microscopic ocean life, rarely seen, studied, or appreciated.''
 
 
* [http://www.noaa.gov/oceans-coasts '''''How much of our Earth is covered by oceans - 71% - Visit NOAA for more information''''']
 
 
'''''The 'tiny, little blue-green ones' are essential to life on earth'''''
 
''Did you know?''
 
''"A single kind of blue-green algae in the ocean produces the oxygen in [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ty5puoADMU "one of every five breaths we take".]''
:: ''~ from "The World Is Blue: How Our Fate and the Ocean’s Are One" by Sylvia Earle / National Geographic''
 
 
::[[File:Phyto the Green Machine.png]]
 
 
<big><big><u>'''''[[TinyBlueGreen]]'''''</u></big></big>
 
 
 
<big>'''''The "Tiny Little Ones", Plankton'''''</big>
 
:'''''Beginning points for "Ecosystems of the Sea"'''''
 
:''Nearly all marine plants are single-celled, photosynthetic plankton-algae''
 
:''Single-celled organisms comprise larger organisms like kelp''
 
 
<big>'''''Kelp: "Forests of the Seas"'''''</big>
 
:[http://e360.yale.edu/feature/kelp_seagrass_slow_ocean_acidification_netarts/3013/ '''''We Need Kelp, Seagrass, Plankton-as-Food and Lots of Blue-Green as the Beginning of the Marine Food Chain''''']
 
 
[[File:Phytoplankton - the foundation of the oceanic food chain m.jpg]]
 
[[File:The little things that run the world.gif]]
 
 
<font color=green>○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○</font>
 
 
August 2020
 
Shared by Katharine Hayhoe
 
Professor / Texas Tech
 
''Our enemies seem so tiny. One is a virus unleashed from the wilderness, likely by people with mouths to feed and spread by others with planes to catch.''
 
''The second enemy is a molecule of heat-trapping gas -- methane and CO2 -- unleashed by people with mouths to feed and planes to catch.''
 
''But rising body counts and shattered economies prove that some of the smallest ingredients found in nature can explode into global emergencies thanks to human nature.''
 
''In the wars against coronavirus and the climate crisis, '''we have met the enemy and the enemy is us.''' Such is is the sentiment of virologists and climate scientists alike as they point out how much the pandemic can teach us about the fight for the survival of life on Earth.''
 
Read more:
 
[[Green Quotes]]
 
https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/07/weather/5-lessons-coronavirus-climate-crisis-weir-wxc/index.html
 
1. Science denial can be deadly
 
2. The search for a cure is global but your chances of survival are local
 
3. Individual behavior saves lives but can't fix the problem
 
4. Humanity is capable of fast, sweeping changes
 
5. In the age of "threat multipliers," the health of your body depends on the health of the planet now more than ever
 
 
<font color=green>○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○</font>
 
 
<big>'''Soil, a Microbial World'''</big>
 
* [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Soil Soil Biodiversity]
 
* [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]
 
 
<font color=green>○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○</font>
 
 
<big>'''Life Beyond What Catches the Eye'''</big>
 
:* https://www.evogeneao.com/explore/tree-of-life-explorer
 
 
[[File:Tree of Life Explorer - Evogeneao.png]]
 
 
::::[[File:TreeOfLifeArt.jpg|link=https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Green_Stories_of_the_Day]]
 
::::[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Tree_of_Life '''Tree of Life''']
 
&nbsp;
 
 
[[File:Tree of Life video.png | link=https://youtu.be/AjvLQJ6PIiU]]
 
 
• ''https://youtu.be/AjvLQJ6PIiU''
 
• ''https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ew-6WuTo1Is''
 
 
 
<big><big>'''''The Earth BioGenome Project aims to sequence 1.5 million genomes'''''</big></big>
 
• ''https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-07279-z''
 
''“Variation is the fount of all genetic knowledge... The more variation you have the better — so why not sequence everything?”''
 
''The Earth BioGenome Project aims to sequence the genomes of the roughly 1.5 million known animal, plant, protozoan and fungal species — collectively known as eukaryotes — worldwide over the next decade. The initiative is estimated to cost US$4.7 billion, although only a small proportion of that money has been committed so far.''
 
''The project comprises more than a dozen existing sequencing projects that are focused on, for instance, specific branches of the tree of life — such as birds, insects and plants — or on the biodiversity in a particular country, such as the UK effort, officially called the Darwin Tree of Life Project.''
 
''“We don’t need one genome project to rule them all,” says Lewin. Rather, the effort’s raison d’etre, he says, is to ensure that ongoing biodiversity sequencing efforts are standardized.''
 
&nbsp;
 
 
::::[[File:You are here on the cladogenetic tree m.jpg]]
 
 
&nbsp;
 
<big><font color=blue>○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○</font></big>
 
 
[https://youtu.be/AjvLQJ6PIiU <font color=green> <big><big>'''''Floating Forests'''''</big></big></font>]
 
''We look at [http://www.floatingforests.org/ "floating ocean forests"] as we consider connections between oceans, atmosphere-oxygen-climate, food-chains and fisheries, science and sustainability policies...''
 
 
:::::[[File:Kelp NOAA credit Robert Schwemmer.jpg]]
 
 
<big>'''''Join in as a Planet Citizen, Planet Scientist to keep the oceans healthy'''''</big>
 
''Take a look at the newly launched 'Floating Forest Project'''' -- ''http://www.floatingforests.org/''
 
 
''Here's the Invitation from the '''Floating Forest''' website:''


''Citizen scientists are recruited via the Internet and are given instructions in how to hunt for giant kelp via satellite imagery.''  
''Citizen scientists are recruited via the Internet and are given instructions in how to hunt for giant kelp via satellite imagery.''  
Line 65: Line 1,286:
''As of January 11, 2015, more than 3,400 citizen scientists had joined up to look for kelp in 328,000 Landsat images...''
''As of January 11, 2015, more than 3,400 citizen scientists had joined up to look for kelp in 328,000 Landsat images...''


○
 


''GreenPolicy believes this is a planetary moment to '''jump, do it, sign up, help out!'''''
''GreenPolicy believes this is a planetary moment to '''jump, do it, sign up, help out!'''''
Line 75: Line 1,296:
[http://blog.floatingforests.org/2014/08/ ''Origin of Floating Forests Project'']
[http://blog.floatingforests.org/2014/08/ ''Origin of Floating Forests Project'']


○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○
 


[[File:Santabarbarakelp oli 2013140.jpg | link=http://www.floatingforests.org/]]
[[File:Santabarbarakelp oli 2013140.jpg | link=http://www.floatingforests.org/]]
Line 81: Line 1,302:
''Landsat 8 detects near-infrared wavelengths of light to spot & monitor offshore kelp forests (NASA Earth Observatory image)''
''Landsat 8 detects near-infrared wavelengths of light to spot & monitor offshore kelp forests (NASA Earth Observatory image)''


○ ○ ○ ○
 


[[File:Floating Forests-Kelp -- Oceanlight.jpg]]
[[File:Floating Forests-Kelp -- Oceanlight.jpg]]


○ ○ ○ ○


'''''"Kelp are the redwoods of the sea..."''''' ''The world’s largest marine plants, they regularly grow up to 35 meters (115 feet) tall.''


[[File:Floating forest of kelp.jpg | link=http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Planet_Citizens,_Planet_Scientists]]


<font color=blue>○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○</font> <font color=green>○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○</font>
''"Kelp, made up of tiny blue-green organisms, are the world’s largest marine plants. They regularly grow up to 35 meters (115 feet) tall.''
[http://themarinedetective.com/tag/plankton-2/ ''We are dependent on marine algae for every breath we take.'']
''"Breathe in.  A conservative 70% of the life-sustaining oxygen in that breath came from marine algae.'' 
''Marine algae; the plant-like material of our oceans that ranges in size from the [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Phytoplankton_-_the_foundation_of_the_oceanic_food_chain_560x396.jpg phytoplankton], to the giant kelp species that provide habitat as ocean forests.''
''These organisms are also attempting to scrub away the devastating impacts of our fossil fuel addiction, photosynthesizing carbon dioxide into oxygen and serving as carbon sinks.''
''Life on earth simply could not survive without marine algae and this conclusion is valid even without considering their role as the basis of ocean food webs..."''
<big>[https://vimeo.com/67962861 '''Watch the Forests of the Sea''']</big>
Floating forest of kelp - https://vimeo.com/67962861


; <big><big> ''Floating Forests'' </big></big>


'''''Help with the Kelp, Join in''''' -- ''be a'' '''''Be a Planet Citizen, Planet Scientist''''' -- ''http://www.floatingforests.org/''
<font color=blue>○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○</font> <font color=green>○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○</font>
 
 
'''''Help with the Kelp, Join in''''' -- '''''Be a Planet Citizen, Planet Scientist'''''  


[http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/FloatingForests/page1.php ''Floating Forests - Earth Observatory/NASA-Landsat'']
[http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/Features/FloatingForests/page1.php ''Floating Forests - Earth Observatory/NASA-Landsat'']


[http://blog.floatingforests.org/2014/08/ ''Origin of Floating Forests Project'']
[http://blog.floatingforests.org/2014/08/ ''Origin of Floating Forests Project / 2014'']
 
○
 
''Overall, the production of oxygen in the oceans is at least equal to the production on land, if not a bit more. Plants on land are easy to spot. Plants in the ocean are a bit more difficult to see..''
 
''There are more than 7,000 (so far identified) different species of algae. Most live in the oceans, but they also live in fresh water and even on land. Also, algae produce about 330 billion tons of oxygen each year.''
 
[http://www.algaebase.org/about/ ''More on Algae -- an Algae database, as scientists are at a first-stage of identifying sea-life'']
 
○
 
''After a recent meeting on connections of kelp forests and climate change, researchers Byrnes, Cavanaugh, and other colleagues set out to consolidate all of the available kelp forest data from around the world. They wanted to take a step toward understanding how climate change is affecting kelp globally, but they quickly discovered they had a sparse patchwork of information.''
 
''"Byrnes was struck with a thought. They had used Landsat to expand their studies across time, so why not use Landsat to expand their studies around the world? Could Landsat be used to establish global trends in kelp forest extent? The answer was yes, but the problem was eyeballs."''
 
''"Unlike research on terrestrial vegetation — which uses Landsat data and powerful computer processing arrays to make worldwide calculations — distinguishing kelp forests requires manual interpretation. While kelp forests pop out to the human eye in near-infrared imagery, computers looking at the data numerically can confuse kelp patches with land vegetation. Programs and coded logic that separate aquatic vegetation from land vegetation can be confounded by things like clouds, sunglint, and sea foam..."
 
''Byrnes and Cavanaugh put together a team and joined with '''Zooniverse''' that connects professional scientists with citizen scientists in order to help analyze large amounts of data. The result was the Floating Forests project.''
 
 
'''''"People-powered Research"'''''
 
:''https://www.zooniverse.org/#climate''
:''https://www.zooniverse.org/#nature''
 
&nbsp;
 
----
 
 
===''GreenPolicy360 & Planet Citizens Watching over Our Home Planet''===
 
 
:* ''The '''Silencing Science Tracker''' is a database initiative that tracks government attempts to restrict or prohibit scientific research, education or discussion, or the publication or use of scientific information, since the November 2016 election.''
 
:* ''The Climate Deregulation Tracker identifies steps taken by the Trump administration and Congress to scale back or wholly eliminate federal climate mitigation and adaptation measures. The tracker is linked to a [http://columbiaclimatelaw.com/resources/climate-deregulation-tracker/database/ database of climate change regulations].''
 
 
----
 
 
 
[[File:Over the Pacific.png]]
 
 
<big><big><big>'''''It's All Related'''''</big></big></big>
 
* [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/It%27s_All_Related '''''Green Politics and Connections, a Relational Reality''''']
 
* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Nov-8-2014_2-01-50_PM_EST.jpg '''''From Up Here It Is Surprisingly Obvious Our World Is One Connected System''''']
 
 
 
:[http://earth.nullschool.net/#current/wind/isobaric/1000hPa/orthographic <big><big><font color=green> '''''Earth360 POV'''''</font></big></big>]
 
 
[[File:Nov-8-2014 2-01-50 PM EST.jpg]]
 
 
 
:::·············································································································
 
 
[http://columbiaclimatelaw.com/resources/silencing-science-tracker/ <big><big>'''Defending science as planet citizens'''</big></big>]
 
 
''"Planet Citizen" --- Planet Citizens --- Planet Citizens, Planet Scientists''
 
<big>''[[PlanetCitizen]] --- [[Planet Citizens]] --- [[Planet Citizens, Planet Scientists]]''</big>
 
 
 
Remembering a Planet Citizen icon, a model for Planet Citizens, a Planet Citizen, Planet Scientist for all time
 
'Spaceship Earth', Buckminster Fuller helped '''[[Generation Green]]''' see our roles in the Big Picture, camera, light, sound, action, and away we went setting our plans and navigating into the future.
 
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spaceship_Earth
 
 
''‘Bucky made the analogy that a trim tab is an example of how the individual is connected to society and how we affect society. And I like to think of myself as a trim tab. All of us are trim tabs. We might seem like we’re not up to the task, but we are, man. We’re alive! We can make a difference! We can turn this ship in the way we wanna go, man!’ ''
 
The time has come.
 
 
''You must be the change you wish to see in the world.''
 
* https://www.bfi.org/2015/03/16/activating-the-trim-tabs/
 
 
 
 
[[File:Bucky Trimtab.jpg]]
 
 
 
[https://greenpolicy360.net/images/1969_beginnings_of_the_modern_environmental_movement.pdf <big>'''Beginnings of the Modern Environmental Movement'''</big>]
 
:<small><small>* https://greenpolicy360.net/images/1969_beginnings_of_the_modern_environmental_movement.pdf </small></small>
 
 
 
 
<big>'''A First [[Earth Day]]'''</big>
 
: Being there (with a tip of the Green hat to Robert w his camera, Mike Schaaf from the Row, and Denny, and Dave Druker, and Jen from Long Beach, Anthropologist 'Number Our Days' Barb Myerhoff, and Love Doc Leo B., and Lisa, Diane, Aaron, Glenn the Buddhist, College Bowl Rich, Happy the genius, all of our peace now, going green team
 
::Youth-energy eco 'Teach-ins' and events across the nation
 
 
April 22, 1970


[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Planet_Citizens,_Planet_Scientists ''Planet Citizen, Planet Scientist'']
::: * https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Earth_Day


''Kyle Cavanaugh had an idea. “These forests change so rapidly and on a variety of different time scales—months to years to decades—so we needed a long record with consistent, repeated observations,” Cavanaugh said. He devised a method to use Landsat satellite data to monitor kelp forests.
::: * https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Day


''A few things made Landsat an obvious resource. Since the 1970s, the satellites have had a regular collection schedule (twice monthly). Their data and images are managed by the U.S. Geological Survey and are reliably stored in an archive that dates back more than forty years. And Landsat’s images are calibrated, or standardized, across different generations of satellites, making it possible to compare data collected across several decades...


''Landsat measures the energy reflected and emitted from Earth at many different wavelengths. By knowing how features on Earth reflect or absorb energy at certain wavelengths, scientists can map and measure changes to the surface. The most important feature for the kelp researchers is Landsat’s near-infrared band, which measures wavelengths of light that are just outside our visual range. Healthy vegetation strongly reflects near-infrared energy, so this band is often used in plant studies. Also, water absorbs a lot of near-infrared energy and reflects little, making the band particularly good for mapping boundaries between land and water.
SJS/Siterunner: I would later, after many years, begin to see our work as a picture of the early years of a '''[[Generation Green]]'''.  


''“The near-infrared is key for identifying kelp from surrounding water,” Cavanaugh explained. “Like other types of photosynthesizing vegetation, giant kelp have high reflectance in the near infrared. This makes the kelp canopy really stand out from the surrounding water.”
: * https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Day_Memories_on_the_50th_Anniversary


○


''After a recent meeting on kelp forests and climate change, researchers Byrnes, Cavanaugh, and other colleagues set out to consolidate all of the available kelp forest data from around the world. They wanted to take a step toward understanding how climate change is affecting kelp globally, but they quickly discovered they had a sparse patchwork of information.
We were looking to protect our Living Earth.


''Byrnes was struck with a thought. They had used Landsat to expand their studies across time, so why not use Landsat to expand their studies around the world? Could Landsat be used to establish global trends in kelp forest extent? The answer was yes, but the problem was eyeballs.


''Unlike research on terrestrial vegetation—which uses Landsat data and powerful computer processing arrays to make worldwide calculations—distinguishing kelp forests requires manual interpretation. While kelp forests pop out to the human eye in near-infrared imagery, computers looking at the data numerically can confuse kelp patches with land vegetation. Programs and coded logic that separate aquatic vegetation from land vegetation can be confounded by things like clouds, sunglint, and sea foam...
[[File:Living Earth.png]]


''"Automated classification methods just don’t produce acceptable levels of accuracy..."
&nbsp;


''Byrnes and Cavanaugh put together a science team and joined with '''Zooniverse''', a group that connects professional scientists with citizen scientists in order to help analyze large amounts of data. The result was the Floating Forests project.
[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Act_now_for_a_livable_future.png <big><big>'''Act Now to Protect Our Future''']</big></big>


''https://www.zooniverse.org/#climate''
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Human_Condition '''"Vita contemplativa to Vita activa"''']


''https://www.zooniverse.org/#nature''
&nbsp;


''The Floating Forest concept is all about getting more eyeballs on Landsat imagery. Citizen scientists—recruited via the Internet—are instructed in how to hunt for giant kelp in satellite imagery. They are then given Landsat images and asked to outline any giant kelp patches that they find. Their findings are crosschecked with those from other citizen scientists and then passed to the science team for verification. The size and location of these forests are catalogued and used to study global kelp trends.  
[[File:Goodall on the power of the young.png]]
&nbsp;


<big>'''''Join in!'''''</big>
[[File:GP360 tagcloud2.png|link=https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_and_Space,_Politics]]




○ ○ ○ ○
·········································································


===''GreenPolicy's network of websites includes:''===


[http://www.earthpov.com '''''Earth Point of View --- www.earthpov.com''''']


[http://www.planetcitizen.org '''''Planet Citizen --- www.planetcitizen.org''''' / '''''www.planetcitizens.net''''']
<big>'''''Planet Citizens, Connected, Sharing, Changing the Ways of Business and Government'''''</big>


[http://www.thinbluelayer.com '''''Thin Blue Layer --- www.thinbluelayer.com'''''] / [https://www.pinterest.com/stratdem/environmental-security/ '''''Environmental Security''''']
[https://www.facebook.com/greenbestpractices '''''Green Policy-Facebook''''']  


[https://www.facebook.com/greenbestpractices '''''Green Policy-Facebook'''''] --- [https://plus.google.com/u/0/104105656721944993244/posts '''''GreenPolicy-Google+'''''] --- [https://twitter.com/greenpolicy360 '''GreenPolicy-Twitter''']


[http://bit.ly/DigitalRightsLinks '''''Digital Rights/OpenData OpenGov''''']  
[http://bit.ly/DigitalRightsLinks '''''Digital Rights/OpenData OpenGov''''']  
Line 147: Line 1,491:
[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/GreenLinks '''''GreenLinks -- Linking to Green Best Practices''''']
[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/GreenLinks '''''GreenLinks -- Linking to Green Best Practices''''']


○


<big>'''''Visit Green Policy pages'''''</big>
<big>'''''Network Earth, Planet Citizens Connected by a Global Internet'''''</big>
 
The growth of the Internet and world-wide web is connecting and 'powering up' #PlanetCitizens globally.
 
* [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Digital_Rights ''#DigitalRights'']
 
 
GreenPolicy360 ... connecting, educating, empowering planet citizens locally and globally
 
 
[[Eco-nomics]]
 
[[New Economy Movement]]
 
 
[[Digital Citizen]]
 
[[Digital Rights]]
 
 
:::[[File:Internet Trends 2018 Kleiner-Perkins by Mary Meeker.png|link=https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Meeker]]
 
 
 
<big>'''''Networking Green Best Practices at GreenPolicy360'''''</big>
 
 
* [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''''']
 
 
[[File:You can manage only what you can measure Dr David Crisp, OCO-2, June 2014 m.jpg]]
 


* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Anthropocene '''''You are the 'Anthropocene Era'''''']


* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Science_Vital_Signs '''''Earth Science, Vital Signs''''']
* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Science_Vital_Signs '''''Earth Science, Vital Signs''''']
Line 157: Line 1,530:
* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Right_Now '''''Earth Right Now''''']
* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Right_Now '''''Earth Right Now''''']


* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/@Earth360 '''''#Earth360''''']
* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/@Earth360 '''''Earth360''''']
 
* [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/HelloEarth '''''Hello Earth''''']
 
* [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Earth_Observations '''''Earth Observations''''']
 


* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Blue_Marble_Collection '''''"Blue Marble" Collection''''']
* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Blue_Marble_Collection '''''"Blue Marble" Collection''''']


* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/EOS_eco_Operating_System '''''ECO Operating System, Parts 1, 2 & 3'''''] ○ [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/EOS-eco-Operating-System-Part1.pdf] ○ [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/EOS-eco-Operating-System-Part2.pdf] ○ [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/EOS-eco-Operating-System-Part3.pdf]
* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/EOS_eco_Operating_System '''''ECO Operating System, Parts 1, 2 & 3'''''] ○ [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/EOS-eco-Operating-System-Part1.pdf] ○ [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/EOS-eco-Operating-System-Part2.pdf] ○ [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/EOS-eco-Operating-System-Part3.pdf]
Line 165: Line 1,544:
* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Env_policy_laws_US_%27the_beginning%27_of_env_era.jpg '''''The beginning of the modern US environmental era, foundation of forward-looking law''''']
* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Env_policy_laws_US_%27the_beginning%27_of_env_era.jpg '''''The beginning of the modern US environmental era, foundation of forward-looking law''''']


* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/New_Definitions_of_National_Security '''''New Definitions of National & Global Security''''']
* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/New_Definitions_of_National_Security '''''Green Policy - New Definitions of National & Global Security''''']


* [http://strategicdemands.com/environmental-security/ '''''StratDem - Environmental Security''''']


* [http://strategicdemands.com/stratdem-factoid-re-road-security/ '''''StratDem - Road to Security: Energy''''']
* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/EV_Corridors_Electric_Vehicles_Zero_Emission_Vehicles '''''EV Corridors - Electric and Zero Emission Vehicles''''']


* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/EV_Corridors_Electric_Vehicles_Zero_Emission_Vehicles '''''EV Corridors - Electric and Zero Emission Vehicles''''']


* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Virtual_Earth '''''Virtual Earth''''']
* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Virtual_Earth '''''Virtual Earth''''']
:* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:G_Earth_Outreach.jpg '''''Google Earth Outreach''''']  
:* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:G_Earth_Outreach.jpg '''''Google Earth Outreach''''']  
:* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Global_Fishing_Watch '''''Global Fishing Watch'''''] ○ [https://plus.google.com/104105656721944993244/posts/gEGAkFJvXvX '''''About Rebecca''''']
:* [https://plus.google.com/104105656721944993244/posts/gEGAkFJvXvX '''''About Rebecca, Turning a Vision into Reality''''']
 
 
 
[[File:Above.png]]
 


* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Nov-8-2014_2-01-50_PM_EST.jpg '''''From Up Here It Is Surprisingly Obvious Our World Is One Connected System''''']


* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Look_at_how_thin_our_atmosphere_is '''''Look At How Thin Our Atmosphere Is''''']
* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Look_at_how_thin_our_atmosphere_is '''''Look At How Thin Our Atmosphere Is''''']
Line 183: Line 1,564:
* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:ThinBlueLayer '''''Thin Blue Layer -- www.thinbluelayer.com''''']  
* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:ThinBlueLayer '''''Thin Blue Layer -- www.thinbluelayer.com''''']  


* [http://www.pinterest.com/stratdem/environmental-security/ StratDem - The "Thin Blue Layer" Atmosphere That Protects]  
* [http://www.pinterest.com/stratdem/environmental-security/ '''''StratDem - The "Thin Blue Layer" Atmosphere That Protects''''']
 
* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/How_thin_is_earth%27s_atmosphere.jpg '''''Around a 12 minute drive up at 60 MPH''''']
 
 
 
* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Science_Research_from_Space '''''Earth Science Research from Space''''']


* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/How_thin_is_earth%27s_atmosphere.jpg '''''A 12 minute drive up at 60 MPH''''']
* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/OCO-2 '''''The OCO-2 Mission: History-making''''']


* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/IPCC_Report_Nov_2014 '''''IPCC Climate Change Synthesis Report/2014''''']


* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Divestment_from_fossil_fuels '''''Divestment from fossil fuels''''']
* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Earth_Science_from_Space '''''New Space: Earth Science''''']


* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:People_Climate_March_Sept._21st_Sunday_afternoon_m2.jpg '''''Peoples Climate March''''']
* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Micro-satellites '''''Micro-satellites - "New Space": Low-cost Earth Imaging''''']
 
* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Planet_Labs_Doves_Fly '''''Planet Labs Doves Fly''''']


* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/California_out_in_front_in_a_Green_future '''''California Out in Front in a Green Future''''']


* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Pictures_from_ISS Where Are You? '''''Pictures from ISS''''']


* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/OCO-2 '''''The OCO-2 Mission: History-making''''']
* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Earth_Imaging '''''Earth Imaging''''']


* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/%22GreenLinks%22 '''''GreenLinks - Green Networking with GreenPolicy360''''']
* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Science '''''Earth Science''''']


* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Science_Research_from_Space '''''Earth Science Research from Space''''']
:[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Planet_API '''''A First Open-Access Planet API''''']


* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Earth_Science_from_Space '''''"New Space": Earth Science''''']


* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Micro-satellites '''''Micro-satellites - "New Space": Low-cost Earth Imaging''''']
[[File:PlanetLabs homepage2016.png]]  


* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Planet_Labs_Doves_Fly '''''Planet Labs Doves Fly''''']


* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Isn%27t_it_time.jpg '''''Isn't It Time We 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''''']
* [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Democratization_of_Space '''''Democratization of Space''''']


* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Earth_imaging.jpg '''''Earth Imaging''''']
* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Earth_imaging.jpg '''''Earth Imaging''''']


* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Sea-Level_Rise_%26_Mitigation '''''Sea-level Rise and Mitigation''''']
* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/California_out_in_front_in_a_Green_future '''''California Out in Front in a Green Future''''']
 
* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Time_for_a_Price_on_Carbon '''''Time for a Price on Carbon''''']


* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Environmental_full-cost_accounting '''''Environmental Full-Cost Accounting''''']


* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Triple_Bottom_Line '''''Sustainability Policies, Triple Bottom Line''''']
* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Triple_Bottom_Line '''''Sustainability Policies, Triple Bottom Line''''']


* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Natural_Capital '''''Natural Capital''''']
* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Natural_Capital '''''Natural Capital''''']
* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Environmental_full-cost_accounting '''''Environmental Full-Cost Accounting''''']


* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Extinction '''''Extinction - Loss of Diversity''''']
* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Extinction '''''Extinction - Loss of Diversity''''']


* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Rights_of_Nature_EarthLaw '''''Rights of Nature''''']


* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/C40_Cities_Climate_Leadership_Group '''''C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group''''']
* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Climate_Policy '''''Climate Policy''''']  
 
* [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Anthropocene '''''Anthropocene, i.e., Humanity @Work''''']
 


* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Alternative_Agriculture '''''Alternative Agriculture''''']
* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Alternative_Agriculture '''''Alternative Agriculture''''']


* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Climate_Policy '''''Climate Policy''''']  
* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Microbiomes_at_Risk '''''Microbiomes at Risk''''']
 
* [http://www.tinybluegreen.com '''''Microbiomes of the Oceans''''']
 
 
* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/%22GreenLinks%22 '''''GreenLinks - Green Networking with GreenPolicy360''''']
 
* [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/GreenPolicy360-eOS#GreenLinks_.2F_Green_Networking '''''Green Networking / Digital Rights-Open Data Movement''''']
 
 
 
○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○
 
 
 
:: [[File:Environmental Justice and Environmental Law.jpg]]
 
 
<big>'''Witness to an Environmental Movement, 1960s to the 2020s, a Generational Challenge'''</big>
 
* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Environmental_Laws
 
* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/California_out_in_front_in_a_Green_future
 
* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Environmental_movement
 
* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/George_E._Brown_Jr
 
* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Planet_Citizens,_Planet_Scientists
 
 
::[http://www.planetcitizen.org '''''Planet Citizen'''''] / '''''#PlanetCitizen''''' / [http://www.planetcitizens.org '''''Planet Citizens'''''] '''''#PlanetCitizens'''''
 
:::[http://www.earthpov.com '''''EarthPOV.com'''''] / [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/@Earth360 '''''#Earth360'''''] / [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Earth_Observations '''''#EarthObservations'''''] / [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Virtual_Earth '''''#EarthMapping''''']
 
:: [[File:ThinBlueLayer - March 10 2017.jpg]]
 
 
 
○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○
 
 
 
<big><big>'''''Rachel Carson, Planet Citizen, Planet Scientist'''''</big></big>
 
:::<big><big>'''''"Ecocentric"'''''</big></big>
 
::::''"The branch of science that deals with these interrelations is 'Ecology'."''
 
 
:::<big>'''''[[It's All Related]]'''''</big>


* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/HelloEarth '''''Hello Earth''''']
:::* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/It%27s_All_Related




○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○
[[File:Rachel Carson ecology - ecosystem.png]]




[http://www.planetcitizen.org '''''Planet Citizen'''''] / '''''#PlanetCitizen'''''
:::[[File:RACHEL CARSON - 1949.jpg]]


'''''GreenPolicy360''''' / '''''#Earth360''''' / '''''#EarthImaging''''' / '''''#EarthMonitoring'''''
:::We are voyagers


'''''GP360''''' / '''''#EarthObservations''''' / '''''#EarthScience''''' /


'''''#EarthPOV''''' / [http://www.earthpov.com '''''Earth Point of View''''']


:::[[File:Pale Blue Dot.jpg]]


○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○


:::There, a [[Pale blue dot]], our Home Planet








::[[File:Sagan - That's home.jpg]]






○






[[Category:Additional Website Resources - Linked Data - Green Best Practices]]
[[Category:Air Quality]]
[[Category:Atmospheric Science]]
[[Category:Biodiversity]]
[[Category:Biogeosciences]]
[[Category:Biosphere]]
[[Category:Citizen Science]]
[[Category:Citizen Science]]
[[Category:Clean Air]]
[[Category:Clean Water]]
[[Category:Climate Change]]
[[Category:Climate Change]]
[[Category:Climate Policy]]
[[Category:Digital Citizen]]
[[Category:Earth360]]
[[Category:Earth360]]
[[Category:Earth Day]]
[[Category:Earth Observations]]
[[Category:Earth Observations]]
[[Category:Earth Science]]
[[Category:Earth Science]]
[[Category:Earth System Science]]
[[Category:Earth Science from Space]]
[[Category:Eco-ethics]]
[[Category:Eco-nomics]]
[[Category:Ecology Studies]]
[[Category:Education]]
[[Category:Environmental Protection]]
[[Category:Environmental Security, National Security]]
[[Category:Environmental Security, National Security]]
[[Category:EOS eco Operating System]]
[[Category:EOS eco Operating System]]
[[Category:Fisheries]]
[[Category:Food]]
[[Category:Food-Related Policies]]
[[Category:Forests]]
[[Category:Global Security]]
[[Category:Global Warming]]
[[Category:Green Best Practices]]
[[Category:Green Networking]]
[[Category:GreenPolicy360]]
[[Category:Land Ethic]]
[[Category:Media]]
[[Category:Natural Capital]]
[[Category:Natural Resources]]
[[Category:Nature]]
[[Category:Networking]]
[[Category:Oceans]]
[[Category:Oceans]]
[[Category:Ocean Ecosystem]]
[[Category:Ocean Science]]
[[Category:Planet API]]
[[Category:Planet Citizen]]
[[Category:Planet Citizen]]
[[Category:PlanetLabs]]
[[Category:Planet Scientist]]
[[Category:Planet Scientist]]
[[Category:Planet Citizens, Planet Scientists]]
[[Category:Planet Citizens, Planet Scientists]]
[[Category:Rainforest]]
[[Category:Resilience]]
[[Category:Soil]]
[[Category:Strategic Demands]]
[[Category:Sustainability Policies]]
[[Category:US Environmental Protection Agency]]
[[Category:Virtual Earth]]
[[Category:Virtual Planet]]
[[Category:Water Quality]]
[[Category:Whole Earth]]
[[Category:Wildlife]]
[[Category:Youth]]

Latest revision as of 14:13, 5 October 2024



Earth-NASA.jpg


Living Earth.png
Planet Citizen Vision of Living Earth


GrnPolicy360.png
GreenLinks
Green Networking


Climate Problems, Climate Solutions
Climate Plans Enforcement - Resources


Generation Green
Going Green
Greening Our Blue Planet


Earth in Our Hands.png


Planet Citizen Action
'Earthrise' ... Whole Earth Beginnings of a Modern Environmental Movement
* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/images/1969_beginnings_of_the_modern_environmental_movement.pdf


Apollo.jpg
* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Apollo.jpg


Earthrise | December 1968


🌎


Celebrating the First 'Earth Day'

April 22nd, 1970


SJS/GreenPolicy360 Siterunner: On the first Earth Day, April 22, 1970, a beginning of green ideals and ideas emerged in a serious way... Today Earth Day continues on as a movement and a political cause. Now we are a diverse mix, across the globe, employing the Internet with many voices, colors, ages, especially young people joining in. We continue on year after year, decade after decade.... We are strongly confronting and working to solve our generation's existential challenges. Reaching across our home planet, touching and interacting with planet citizens, looking to share solutions to pressing problems and challenges.


Golden Spiral from M.png


Environmentalism took on new forms and shapes with ideas that became a legal platform, a first generation of environmental laws that would go worldwide. A new "counterculture" with youthful vision and organizing added their voices and stood up to create the beginnings of a global environmental movement.


Earth Day Is Every Day ... and Every Day Is Earth Day


With a goal of protecting life, a new environmental movement began to grow, a "Whole Earth" vision seen for the first time from space in 1968 with the iconic Apollo 8 Earthrise image and a very real 'sense' of our common responsibility for the future of the planet. Students were 'first-movers' who spoke of the existential threat of nuclear war and environmental disaster, and need to 'become' far-reaching with a new vision. Realizations grew internationally that we had created weapons capable of ending humanity and most all life of earth -- and we needed to change this nuclear doomsday threat. Protests and 'teach ins', led by students, and drawing in politicians, communities, media, news with pamphlets, books, music, art and demonstrations crossed continents with new symbols, peace symbols, environmental and eco-awareness.

The threads of teach-ins led directly to and the first Earth Day in 1970 as students expanded counterculture with action. Across the U.S., a first Earth Day of teach-ins began as a student-initiated movement on college campuses including your siterunner's college where we proposed an environment and peace action day to Senator Nelson, who we met as we organized the national Moratorium and who worked with us to make an Earth Day a national political event. At the University of Southern California, our student peace activists continued 1969's anti-war moratorium sharing a positive vision of what was needed -- environmental protection, economic and social justice, new priorities added to the nation's agenda. The work spread quickly. Earth Day's teach-ins reached out to students globally. A worldwide environmental movement became a real and growing political force...


Goodall on the power of the young.png


"I am convinced that the same concern the youth of this nation took in changing this nation's priorities on the war in Vietnam and on civil rights can be shown for the problems of the environment. Successful teach-ins on all campuses on the same day will have a dramatic impact on the environmental conscience of the nation. They will be immensely effective as an educational effort in arousing public opinion..."


🌎


2024


Recalling the World's First National Climate Act & Program (1978)


Decades later, most every nation of the world has announced, as of 2015, their respective cooperative national climate plan...

Nation-by-nation, community-by-community...


National Climate Plans


GreenPolicy360:

National Climate Plans need to be engineered and then enforced. We have ideas how to get the job going and speed it up... h/t to George... we're working it...


Climate Plans Enforcement - Resources - GreenPolicy.png


 


2023


Moving on Climate Action: GreenPolicy360

GRN360: Climate Plans Enforcement Initiative

Methods to Enforce Climate Plan Pledges

Pressuring Nations to Step Up, Cooperate, and Act Now

Committee on Earth Observation Satellites

Environmental Laws, Regs, Rules... Lawsuits & Legal Actions


Green Networking @GreenPolicy360.net.png


Green Networking


🌎


2022


Planet API

Earth Right Now


"EOS", an Earth Observing System going back to the beginnings of Earth Science Research from Space

GreenPolicy360 looks at visionaries who set in motion first-of-its-type digital, multispectral imaging of Planet Earth


Earth Observing System - fleet of satellites.png

* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Earth_Observing_System_-_fleet_of_satellites.png


·········································


Rainfall-earthsciencefromspace.gif


Environmental Studies Online


Remember, facts count... Measure to Manage


Fact Checking

Earth and Space, Politics
Stats - Green Research & Science


🌎


GreenPolicy360:

Get Semantic, Go Scientific


Semantic Scholar Publishers.png


Get Smart, Scholarly


Go Searching

Astrophysics Data System / https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/


(A 21st Century AI/Machine Learning Case Study)

Toolformer: Language Models Can Teach Themselves to Use Tools


Climate Modeling

Planetary-scale Earth simulations known as global climate model projections are the primary sources of information on future climate change.

Climate models are based on mathematical equations represented using a grid mesh that covers the globe: a finer grid mesh is more accurate but much more computationally expensive. Current global climate projections agree that a world with more greenhouse gases will be warmer everywhere, especially over land and at high latitudes.


NOAA scientists harness machine learning to advance climate models

March 1st, 2023


How artificial intelligence is fast becoming a key tool for climate science (2021)


🌎


GreenPolicy360: We're Into Earth Science

We believe in 'critical thinking skills'


🌎


The Home Planet Sends a Space Observation Platform Up to Reveal the Universe

The Webb Telescope Records and Returns to Earth Spectrums of Light 'from the Heavens'


Webb 1.jpeg

NASA


History-Making Space Telescope's First Images | July 12, 2022 🙌

James Webb Space Telescope


View the spectacular images, and participate in this historic event to #UnfoldTheUniverse

Watch for news on life on 'exoplanets' .... #PlanetScientists want to know the secrets of the universe


"It's an emotional moment when you see nature suddenly releasing some of its secrets. It's not an image. It's a new worldview."

-- Thomas Zurbuchen, NASA associate administrator for science missions


🌎


Aurora Green 2022.png


Planet Citizen | Planet Citizens


Citizen of the planet girl.jpg


Nearly Every Country Signs On to a Sweeping Deal to Protect Nature.png


Environmental Studies Online

Climate Problems, Climate Solutions


🌎


Environmental Laws & Climate Change Litigation/Lawsuits Around the World

Acting to Enforce Nation Climate Plan Promises


🌎


Don Herbert, "Mr. Wizard", Bill Nye, "The Science Guy", and George E. Brown, Congressional Representative and Mr. "Big Science"

Recalling three who changed the world
-- By GreenPolicy360's Siterunner / Steven Schmidt


Today I'm remembering editing science book experiments of "Mr. Wizard", Don Herbert, and deeply appreciating Bill Nye, "The Science Guy", and becoming a friend and colleague of Mr. "Big Science", Rep. George E. Brown

--- Mr. Wizard inspired a generation of kids with the fascinating, in-your-home lessons of science

--- Bill says his career, so full of science that lights up minds, follows the example of his favorite "TV teacher"

--- and George Brown, GreenPolicy360 fave politico, became known for "Big Science", Earth science from the 60s to the 90s


What a cast of characters for our GreenPolicy "Planet Citizens, Planet Scientists" story.

Watch Don was like 'black and white', three channels or so, lots of flickering from iffy reception from 'rabbit ear' antennas, but there he was, in a kitchen that looked like our home kitchen. Wait, he's opening the refrigerator, what's in there. Oh, hmmm. And so begins the week's science experiment, leading to a theory involving physics. I'm shaking my head, and whispering "wow" as the lesson come into view.

And now, these days, watching Bill Nye The Science Guy in full-color, big screen, with multi-channel sound, is like watching a torch being passed forward.

A light, a love of science I know about, first-hand.

Many years ago I was fortunate to edit Don Herbert, who was Mr. Wizard on NBC then Nickelodeon. I was a young editor in NYC and Don as Mr. Wizard, and master teacher, taught me about science as we did our books. His "hands-on" Book-Labs were designed to inspire kids, to take what was in young student everyday lives and to show them, scientifically, how observations and facts can bring understanding of scientific truths, theories and the "Big Picture".

And speaking of the "Big Picture", there are many flashbacks to the Big Picture and Big Science these days ...

What a world!


Mr Wizard - Don Herbert.png

* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Mr_Wizard_-_Don_Herbert.png


Bill Nye explains.jpg

* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Blue_Marble_memories_in_2022.png


Remembering a Mentor, Friend, and Colleague, Representative George E. Brown

A 30+ Year 'Big Picture', 'Big Science' Journey....


Rep. George E Brown and a young student remembering.png


George E. Brown and the National Space Society


Beginnings of the Modern Environmental Movement

* https://greenpolicy360.net/images/1969_beginnings_of_the_modern_environmental_movement.pdf


A First Earth Day

Being there with George's assist, organizing
Youth-energy eco 'Teach-ins' and events across the nation
* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Earth_Day
* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Day


Generation Green

* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Day_Memories_on_the_50th_Anniversary
* http://www.planetcitizen.org


Dark sky by Jack Fusco.jpg Photo credit: Jack Fusco


🌎


December 2021


Climate Pledges Must Be Enforced

How to turn each nation's climate pledges into 'effective climate action'

Promises of international climate summits in Paris (2015) & Glasgow (2021) now require 'effective climate action follow on'
Measuring & monitoring greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions with satellite missions can become -- 'Our climate tool working nation-by-nation'


GreenPolicy360 Siterunner - SJS / December 2021: Looking back to the 1960s and 70s to the beginnings of the Earth Science from Space missions of NASA and affiliated U.S. agencies, in association with higher education and aerospace business, the vision statements of Congressional leaders, recalling Rep. George E. Brown (D-Los Angeles), setting in motion the measuring and monitoring programs that have led to decades of atmospheric and earth systems data. This constellation of new space technology -- digital imaging, Earth 360° remote viewing, scientific observations, changes over time, trend lines, all can come into our hands. 'Drilling down', not for gas and oil, but in the parsing of data, now has the promise to provide essential ways and means to deliver a real- and extended-time knowledge base which can be used, effectively and we propose legally, to deliver on pledges and promises made at international climate change conferences and summits.

Let us do our part in continuing to expand this first-generation earth science vision -- space-based cooperative missions, initiatives and ventures -- that makes it possible to turn database tracking of emissions (externalities) -- CO2, methane, CFCs and other gases -- nation-by-nation into Climate Plan Enforcement (CPEs).

It is time to move from distant pledges to coordinated nation-by-nation climate action. Using best practices, effective nationally determined, and legally enforced operational plans, we can become agents of change making a positive real-world difference. As it is said -- "Earth Is In Our Hands", let us turn science and knowledge into climate action now.

The strategic demands for international cooperation and action is our generations greatest task and our legacy. Let us take up our climate challenge. Our time is today to enforce well intended, but extremely hard to achieve climate pledges.


··································


Planet Citizens


Remembering E.O. Wilson and Thomas Lovejoy.jpg


December 27, 2021

Remembering E.O. Wilson and Thomas Lovejoy

We celebrate today the lives of two great ecologists: E.O. Wilson, who passed away on December 26 at the age of 92, and Tom Lovejoy, who passed away onDecember 25 at the age of 80. Each made extraordinary contributions to the field of bio-diversity and to the greater public dialog about humans and nature...


E.O. Wilson discovered hundreds of new species by putting his hands in the dirt as a field biologist, synthesized evolving thinking in science and coined new terms, such as biodiversity and biophilia, to explain it. Of his many accomplishments in evolutionary biology, his biggest contribution was probably in the new scientific field of sociobiology, in which he addressed the biological basis of social behavior in animals, including humans.


E.O. Wilson: His 2006 book "The Creation: An Appeal to Save Life on Earth," a series of letters written to an imaginary Baptist preacher in pursuit of an ecological alliance to save the Earth.


E.O. Wilson: Naturalist dubbed a modern-day Darwin, dies at 92


Protect Life, Preserve Biodiversity, Prevent Extinction


E.O. Wilson: The 8 Million++ Species We Don’t Know


🌎


Tom Lovejoy, Planet Citizen, Planet Scientist Passes Away


Tom Lovejoy Planet Citizen.png

Tom Lovejoy on Biological Diversity.png


Known as the “Godfather of Biodiversity,” Dr. Thomas E. Lovejoy is a world-renowned champion for global conservation efforts and conservation biology research grounded in sound science. He is credited with having brought the global tropical deforestation problem to the fore as a public issue, and was the first person to use the term “biological diversity” in 1980 (along with Edward O. Wilson).


Tom and Ed, Pioneering Conservation Biology

Thomas Lovejoy and Edward O. Wilson

The two scientists first met in the mid-nineteen-seventies. At that point, Wilson was in his mid-forties, and teaching biology at Harvard. Lovejoy, a dozen years younger, was working for the World Wildlife Fund. Over lunch, they got to talking about where the W.W.F. should focus its efforts. They agreed that it should be in the tropics, because the tropics are where most species actually live. There wasn’t a good term for what they were trying to preserve, so they tossed one around—“biological diversity”—and put it into circulation. “People just started using it,” Lovejoy recalled, in an interview in 2015. (Later, the phrase would be shortened to “biodiversity.”)


Anthropocene Project-3a.png


All species day with homo sapien in Santa Fe .jpg


Environmental Studies Online


GreenPolicy360 Siterunner:

Today I am recalling pioneering science 'up above' with Don Perry

Biological diversity in unequaled abundance: Ascending to study 'Life Above the Jungle Floor'

Richness of life within the rainforest's jungle canopy web: Beginnings of rainforest canopy science in the 1970s and 80s


Rainforest Canopy Don Perry


The Rainforest Canopy, the Richest Biosphere on Earth.png


···········································································································


The Climate Desk Network

  • Visit the climate stories tracking the existential challenge of our generation


Climate Desk.jpg


Poynter.logo.png

An Independent Press, Critical to Democracy


···················································································


GreenPolicy360 Focuses on Facts, Science, Reasoned Argument & Judgment

Our founder/siterunner speaks of "the 3 Ds of Democracy: Discussion, Debate and Decision-making... the foundation of a sound, thriving Democracy"


Visit the GreenPolicy360.com/.net/.org website:

Fact-Checking, 'Facts Count'

Data, Intelligence, Science

GreenPolicy360 & Science


Earth conditions dynamic map.png


GreenPolicy360, and our terrestrial neighbors here in St. Pete/Clearwater, the Poynter Institute (founders of PolitiFact and the International Fact Checking Network), are, in fact, continuing to do our best to hew to the facts and sort out what's factual and what isn't as we make our way through a contemporary flood of political (and too often purposeful) mis- and dis-info.


Climate Denial / Misinformation

Eco-Education

Biodiversity, Protecting Life


···················································································


To the Visionaries, to the Scientists

Those Delivering Earth's Message to Planet Citizens


"Our loyalties are to the species and the planet. We speak for Earth. Our obligation to survive is owed not just to ourselves but also to that Cosmos, ancient and vast, from which we spring."

-- Carl Sagan, Cosmos


Our Planet and Earth Science

Carl Sagan, the atmosphere unifies and connects all of our world.png


🌎


On the Threats: In 1990 Carl Sagan Explains

Carl Sagan at the Emerging Issues Forum - 1990.png


Carl Sagan talks about the 'big picture', about life, about threats to life, carbon dioxide, greenhouse gases, global warming... across national boundaries.

In 1990, at an Emerging Issues Forum, Carl Sagan explains why we must be aware and act now to protect life on Earth.

Solving the serious emerging problem of climate change requires 'trans national' cooperation to realize and confront the coming climate crisis.


Look at how thin our atmosphere is | The Commons | Earth Right Now

Planet Citizens | Green Stories of the Day | Climate News


GreenPolicy360: Watch & listen carefully to Carl Sagan's one hour+ tour de force speech


○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○


Piece of a Protoplanet.jpg


○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○


Greening Our Blue Planet


Earth in Human Hands.jpg
"Going Green" Best Practices check sm.png


Planet Citizens
Planet Citizens, Planet Scientists


SJS/GreenPolicy360 Siterunner: The realization of being a 'planet citizen' hit in1968/69. The images, first-ever images of our whole Earth as seen from space, especially the Earthrise pictures sent from Apollo 8, our Earthrise seen by astronauts orbiting the moon, changed my and our generation's perspective forever. We, well many of us, were impacted in life-changing ways. Those of us who became serious would become 'Planet Citizens, Planet Scientists', although few of us knew how this change would become an environmental protection movement, but we went to work.

Teach-ins became a favorite of ours. Many of us had followed Mr. Wizard on TV, an educator of science for decades (and whom I would later have the honor of editing in NYC publishing as a new junior editor in the 1970s.) Science was a way to understand our environment and make a difference, and facts guided us. At that time, in the U.S. Congress, a first generation of science-minded leaders such as George E. Brown were creating the initial foundations of earth science and atmospheric science. The EPA was created, the first clean air laws led to earth observation missions, such as Landsat, to study Earth and Earth's atmosphere. I was fortunate to know George E. Brown, and to be inspired by his work on the House of Representatives Science Committee. He became Chair of the newly named Science, Space & Technology Committee. As a trained engineer he would draft the first National Climate Act and he explained to me that the data from the Earth Observation Science Research missions he was proposing/shepherding would be needed to guide policies in the 1970/80/90s. He was right and the NASA/NOAA/USGS missions and all the university/private alliances that developed new methods of imaging/studying/reporting together changed the ways we see our world -- and how we can act better and faster the more we know. George Brown impressed on me that measuring and monitoring Earth's Life Systems was key to acting and managing wisely. Climate change data from satellite missions, such as the current OCO-2 and OCO-3, deliver a continuation of this science and we, planet citizens and planet scientists, continue our work to make a difference, a positive difference everyday. Fifty+ years on now... Join in fellow planet citizen. Earth is in your hands.


CO2 photo.JPG


························································································································


Acting on Climate Change.png


Climate Problems, Climate Solutions
Earth Science Vital Signs
Planet Citizen Action


Climate Action Solutions at Project Drawdown
ProjectDrawdownCO2


························································································································


Greening Our Blue Planet


November 2021


He spent almost 50 years alone at 10,000 feet. His hobby helped shape climate research in the Rockies

An amateur scientist began logging snowfall to keep busy. Along the way, he became an unwitting chronicler of climate change in a region known as the water tower for the drying American West


Via the Washington Post

GOTHIC, Colo. — As world leaders gathered across the globe this month to discuss a climate crisis that is rapidly heating the Earth, Billy Barr, 71, paused outside his mountainside cabin to measure snow... as he enters his 50th winter in Gothic, change has come, and not just in shorter snow seasons and higher temperatures... he doesn’t relish the frozen solitude so much anymore. He is, though, determined to keep gathering his data. He says he feels an obligation — to the records themselves, and the precise way he has kept them since the early ’70s... He’d always liked numbers; as a kid, he counted gas stations on family trips. That’s what inspired his records, not some grand scientific ambition. Over time, Barr found he liked comparing one year to others... After filling 10 notebooks with his records, Barr now organizes them in Excel and publishes them on his website. Researchers regularly ask him for data, he said, and he always obliges... In the numbers, he points out patterns. Nearly half the record low temperatures came in his first decade here, and more than half the record highs occurred in the last one. The years between 1974 and 2000 averaged 10 more days with snow on the ground than the years since. The number of consecutive days when temperatures stayed below freezing has plummeted.

“Back in the ’70s, there were winters where we had well over 100 days in a row where it didn’t get [above] freezing. Last winter, the most was nine,” Barr said. “It doesn’t take much to break that — it could have been 200 days with one in between. But still, there’s a trend there.”

Down the hill from Barr’s cabin and outside the lab is a new recognition of that: Eight white trailers forming the core of the Surface Atmosphere Integrated Field Laboratory (SAIL), a massive federally funded effort that relies on dozens of instruments measuring precipitation, wind, aerosols, clouds, radiation and more. Much of the equipment arrived in September after deployment on a ship in the Arctic, where it was part of an expedition documenting climate change.

It is in Gothic now because climate change in this spot has enormous implications but is not fully understood. Snowmelt here eventually flows to the Colorado River — a key and declining water source for 40 million people in the West.

The campaign builds on an existing study of the East River watershed headed by Ken Williams, a Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory scientist who is co-leading SAIL. He chose to work here in part, he said, because the area’s diversity — in vegetation, elevation, geology — is representative of mountain watersheds across the West. The lab’s wealth of long-term observations were also a draw — including Barr’s, he said.

“If you’re in the business of trying to understand how ecosystems function now and in the future, you have to have a long record of data against which to compare one year to the next...”


·························································


FB post from GreenPolicy360's siterunner

Atmospheric Experiment of Humanity.jpg


Our Biggest Experiment - by Alice Bell.jpg
* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Our_Biggest_Experiment


Our Biggest Experiment
by Alice Bell
Publication scheduled for September 2021
Traversing science, politics, and technology, Our Biggest Experiment shines a spotlight
on the little-known scientists who sounded the alarm to reveal the history behind the
defining story of our age: the climate crisis.


If the Earth Warms by 3 Degrees
Share the Trendlines, #ClimateCrisis
Science Counts, Physics of Global Warming


Fact Checking @GreenPolicy360.jpg
GreenPolicy360: Facts. Good Science Needs Good Data


Earth in Our Hands.png Protecting Life on the Home Planet


Environmental Security, Global Security


• New Definitions of National Security

• Earth and Space, Politics


• Green Stories of the Day

• Climate News


• Planet Citizens

• Citizen Science

 

Our Earth Atmosphere: Essential for Life, Our Human Responsibility to Preserve and Protect


'Thin Blue Layer' of Earth's Atmosphere 2.jpg

 


"Thin Blue"

ThinBlueLayer.com
ThinBlueLayer.com ... Sustaining the Atmosphere's Protection


················································································


HelloEarth


To see our planet as this majestic blue ball floating in the blackness of space is breathtaking. It is truly the most amazing thing I've ever seen. When you see it for the first time it appears perfect. Bright and mostly blue, it's a literal island in our solar system. And make no mistake -- right now, we have no place else to go.

Too often, we forget that this remarkable and fragile place is our only home...

As an astronaut, I’m often asked about the climate, our environment, and how we are destroying the Earth. My response often surprises people. “Don’t worry about the planet, the Earth will be just fine,” I tell them. “What you need to worry about is us – all of us.”

This year has been an unequivocal disaster for the future of the planet...

-- Mark Kelly, NASA Astronaut


Earth aurora views - International Space Station - January 23 2021.jpg


 

Earth System Observatory-1.jpg


Earth System Observatory


Earth Science Missions
Earth Science Research from Space
New Definitions of National Security
@Earth360
OCO-2 / OCO-3
Earth Right Now
Earth Science Vital Signs


2020


Top of the News @GreenPolicy360

Netflix's ‘David Attenborough: A Life On Our Planet’ Is The Most Important Documentary Of The Year


Via Forbes

Attenborough is now 94, and throughout his long life, has watched the natural world wither before his eyes. He seems tired of keeping quiet about it.

The scale of the problem is so overwhelming, so gargantuan, that it can be difficult to absorb, and to communicate through a single documentary. But by framing environmental destruction through Attenborough’s eyes and unique career, A Life on Our Planet manages to humanize an issue that can often seem distant, and somewhat abstract.

Like the Lorax, who speaks for the trees, Attenborough attests to the fact that a significant amount of wildlife has been forever lost, painting a terrifying picture of a not-so-distant future in which humanity continues down the path of senseless self-destruction.



··········································································································


Astronaut Mark Kelly With a Message to Planet Earth Citizens


··········································································································


When your house is on fire.jpg


 

·········································································


Gistemp 1979-2019.png


 


In the UK, US, time to choose the future.jpg


 

Do You Know What You’re Breathing?

Study, Judge, Act: the time for Citizen Action is Now


Air Pollution Is Damaging in Our Health


#WorstAirQuality


Air Quality Real-time Map

AirNow / International Air Quality

World Air Quality Index / World's Air Pollution: Real-time Air Quality Index


Air Quality Life Index (AQLI)

Particulate air pollution is the single greatest threat to human health globally.


The Great Challenge: Air Pollution Impacts on Health from Childhood to Old Age

90% of people breathe dirty air... 90% .... 90%+

Millions of deaths every year due to Air Pollution


Nearly 2 billion children – about 93 percent of the world’s children under the age of 15 – breathe toxic, putrid air that’s so polluted it puts their health and well-being at serious risk, according to a report by the World Health Organization.

“Polluted air is poisoning millions of children and ruining their lives,” said Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus, director-general of the WHO. “This is inexcusable. Every child should be able to breathe clean air so they can grow and fulfill their full potential.”

Air pollution can affect children's cognitive ability and can also trigger asthma as well as cancer. Children who have been exposed to high levels of air pollution may be at greater risk for chronic illnesses such as cardiovascular disease later in life...



Act to measure the air pollution around you. Act to make a difference in the air you and your family breathe.


Be a citizen scientist iNaturalist.png


·······························································································


Be a Citizen Scientist

Assist NASA with the NeMO Earth Science Project

Using techniques originally developed to look at the stars, a team of scientists at our Ames Research Center in California’s Silicon Valley have developed a way to image corals in unprecedented detail. Now, the same team has launched a citizen science project, called NeMO-Net, to classify and assess the health of coral reefs across the globe.


Assist Local & Global Citizen Science Projects

Citizen Science


··············································



Treehugger story - hug a tree and say thanks.jpg



······································


Planet Citizens in Action: "Green Best Practices"


Thank you Planet Citizen Rebecca Moore! Bioneer's vision join up with Earth Outreach, Google global mapping, planet science and community-to-community projects that make a positive difference.


Rebecca Google Outreach.jpg


········································································


Thank you Leonardo DiCaprio, Planet Citizen "Bioneer", as you join with Planet and PlanetAPI

Planet API
Reefscape
Satellite Doves to Aid Coral Conservation


To gather a more comprehensive understanding of the condition of global reef ecosystems, we need a way to assess and monitor them on a large geographic scale.
The Reefscape project aims to improve our understanding of the condition of coral reefs worldwide, while simultaneously developing spectral libraries needed to advance the development of a new satellite mission.
New satellites, such as those from Planet (formerly Planet Labs), are, as of 2017, able to capture near-daily imagery of coral reefs worldwide. Planet’s high-resolution imagery of reef locations provides new imaging, science and understanding of the composition and extent of shallow, horizontally oriented reefs.


Reefscape.png


Blue green lines 1.png


Earth Observations with Perspective

Begin with The 'Big Picture'

... and now nod to the small life forms, the small creatures, the "Tiny Little Ones". so often unrecognized within the bountiful "Tree of Life".

Consider 'tiny blue-green' microscopic ocean life, rarely seen, studied, or appreciated.



The 'tiny, little blue-green ones' are essential to life on earth

Did you know?

"A single kind of blue-green algae in the ocean produces the oxygen in "one of every five breaths we take".

~ from "The World Is Blue: How Our Fate and the Ocean’s Are One" by Sylvia Earle / National Geographic


Phyto the Green Machine.png


TinyBlueGreen


The "Tiny Little Ones", Plankton

Beginning points for "Ecosystems of the Sea"
Nearly all marine plants are single-celled, photosynthetic plankton-algae
Single-celled organisms comprise larger organisms like kelp


Kelp: "Forests of the Seas"

We Need Kelp, Seagrass, Plankton-as-Food and Lots of Blue-Green as the Beginning of the Marine Food Chain


Phytoplankton - the foundation of the oceanic food chain m.jpg

The little things that run the world.gif


○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○


August 2020

Shared by Katharine Hayhoe

Professor / Texas Tech

Our enemies seem so tiny. One is a virus unleashed from the wilderness, likely by people with mouths to feed and spread by others with planes to catch.

The second enemy is a molecule of heat-trapping gas -- methane and CO2 -- unleashed by people with mouths to feed and planes to catch.

But rising body counts and shattered economies prove that some of the smallest ingredients found in nature can explode into global emergencies thanks to human nature.

In the wars against coronavirus and the climate crisis, we have met the enemy and the enemy is us. Such is is the sentiment of virologists and climate scientists alike as they point out how much the pandemic can teach us about the fight for the survival of life on Earth.

Read more:

Green Quotes

https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/07/weather/5-lessons-coronavirus-climate-crisis-weir-wxc/index.html

1. Science denial can be deadly

2. The search for a cure is global but your chances of survival are local

3. Individual behavior saves lives but can't fix the problem

4. Humanity is capable of fast, sweeping changes

5. In the age of "threat multipliers," the health of your body depends on the health of the planet now more than ever


○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○


Soil, a Microbial World

Microbiomes at Risk


○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○


Life Beyond What Catches the Eye


Tree of Life Explorer - Evogeneao.png


TreeOfLifeArt.jpg
Tree of Life

 


Tree of Life video.png


• https://youtu.be/AjvLQJ6PIiU

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ew-6WuTo1Is


The Earth BioGenome Project aims to sequence 1.5 million genomes

• https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-07279-z

“Variation is the fount of all genetic knowledge... The more variation you have the better — so why not sequence everything?”

The Earth BioGenome Project aims to sequence the genomes of the roughly 1.5 million known animal, plant, protozoan and fungal species — collectively known as eukaryotes — worldwide over the next decade. The initiative is estimated to cost US$4.7 billion, although only a small proportion of that money has been committed so far.

The project comprises more than a dozen existing sequencing projects that are focused on, for instance, specific branches of the tree of life — such as birds, insects and plants — or on the biodiversity in a particular country, such as the UK effort, officially called the Darwin Tree of Life Project.

“We don’t need one genome project to rule them all,” says Lewin. Rather, the effort’s raison d’etre, he says, is to ensure that ongoing biodiversity sequencing efforts are standardized.

 


You are here on the cladogenetic tree m.jpg


 

○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○


Floating Forests

We look at "floating ocean forests" as we consider connections between oceans, atmosphere-oxygen-climate, food-chains and fisheries, science and sustainability policies...


Kelp NOAA credit Robert Schwemmer.jpg


Join in as a Planet Citizen, Planet Scientist to keep the oceans healthy

Take a look at the newly launched 'Floating Forest Project'' -- http://www.floatingforests.org/


Here's the Invitation from the Floating Forest website:

Citizen scientists are recruited via the Internet and are given instructions in how to hunt for giant kelp via satellite imagery.

They (you) are then given Landsat images and asked to outline any giant kelp patches that they find.

Findings are crosschecked with those from other citizen scientists and then passed to the Floating Forest science team for verification.

The size and location of these forests are catalogued and used to study global kelp trends.

As of January 11, 2015, more than 3,400 citizen scientists had joined up to look for kelp in 328,000 Landsat images...


GreenPolicy believes this is a planetary moment to jump, do it, sign up, help out!

Put a toe in first, test the waters (the water's fine) -- it could be time to become a "planet citizen, planet scientist"

Floating Forests - Earth Observatory/NASA-Landsat

Origin of Floating Forests Project


Santabarbarakelp oli 2013140.jpg

Landsat 8 detects near-infrared wavelengths of light to spot & monitor offshore kelp forests (NASA Earth Observatory image)


Floating Forests-Kelp -- Oceanlight.jpg



○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○


"Kelp, made up of tiny blue-green organisms, are the world’s largest marine plants. They regularly grow up to 35 meters (115 feet) tall.

We are dependent on marine algae for every breath we take.

"Breathe in. A conservative 70% of the life-sustaining oxygen in that breath came from marine algae.

Marine algae; the plant-like material of our oceans that ranges in size from the phytoplankton, to the giant kelp species that provide habitat as ocean forests.

These organisms are also attempting to scrub away the devastating impacts of our fossil fuel addiction, photosynthesizing carbon dioxide into oxygen and serving as carbon sinks.

Life on earth simply could not survive without marine algae and this conclusion is valid even without considering their role as the basis of ocean food webs..."


Watch the Forests of the Sea

Floating forest of kelp - https://vimeo.com/67962861


○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○


Help with the Kelp, Join in -- Be a Planet Citizen, Planet Scientist

Floating Forests - Earth Observatory/NASA-Landsat

Origin of Floating Forests Project / 2014

○

Overall, the production of oxygen in the oceans is at least equal to the production on land, if not a bit more. Plants on land are easy to spot. Plants in the ocean are a bit more difficult to see..

There are more than 7,000 (so far identified) different species of algae. Most live in the oceans, but they also live in fresh water and even on land. Also, algae produce about 330 billion tons of oxygen each year.

More on Algae -- an Algae database, as scientists are at a first-stage of identifying sea-life

○

After a recent meeting on connections of kelp forests and climate change, researchers Byrnes, Cavanaugh, and other colleagues set out to consolidate all of the available kelp forest data from around the world. They wanted to take a step toward understanding how climate change is affecting kelp globally, but they quickly discovered they had a sparse patchwork of information.

"Byrnes was struck with a thought. They had used Landsat to expand their studies across time, so why not use Landsat to expand their studies around the world? Could Landsat be used to establish global trends in kelp forest extent? The answer was yes, but the problem was eyeballs."

"Unlike research on terrestrial vegetation — which uses Landsat data and powerful computer processing arrays to make worldwide calculations — distinguishing kelp forests requires manual interpretation. While kelp forests pop out to the human eye in near-infrared imagery, computers looking at the data numerically can confuse kelp patches with land vegetation. Programs and coded logic that separate aquatic vegetation from land vegetation can be confounded by things like clouds, sunglint, and sea foam..."

Byrnes and Cavanaugh put together a team and joined with Zooniverse that connects professional scientists with citizen scientists in order to help analyze large amounts of data. The result was the Floating Forests project.


"People-powered Research"

https://www.zooniverse.org/#climate
https://www.zooniverse.org/#nature

 


GreenPolicy360 & Planet Citizens Watching over Our Home Planet

  • The Silencing Science Tracker is a database initiative that tracks government attempts to restrict or prohibit scientific research, education or discussion, or the publication or use of scientific information, since the November 2016 election.
  • The Climate Deregulation Tracker identifies steps taken by the Trump administration and Congress to scale back or wholly eliminate federal climate mitigation and adaptation measures. The tracker is linked to a database of climate change regulations.



Over the Pacific.png


It's All Related


Earth360 POV


Nov-8-2014 2-01-50 PM EST.jpg


·············································································································


Defending science as planet citizens


"Planet Citizen" --- Planet Citizens --- Planet Citizens, Planet Scientists

PlanetCitizen --- Planet Citizens --- Planet Citizens, Planet Scientists


Remembering a Planet Citizen icon, a model for Planet Citizens, a Planet Citizen, Planet Scientist for all time

'Spaceship Earth', Buckminster Fuller helped Generation Green see our roles in the Big Picture, camera, light, sound, action, and away we went setting our plans and navigating into the future.


‘Bucky made the analogy that a trim tab is an example of how the individual is connected to society and how we affect society. And I like to think of myself as a trim tab. All of us are trim tabs. We might seem like we’re not up to the task, but we are, man. We’re alive! We can make a difference! We can turn this ship in the way we wanna go, man!’

The time has come.


You must be the change you wish to see in the world.



Bucky Trimtab.jpg


Beginnings of the Modern Environmental Movement

* https://greenpolicy360.net/images/1969_beginnings_of_the_modern_environmental_movement.pdf



A First Earth Day

Being there (with a tip of the Green hat to Robert w his camera, Mike Schaaf from the Row, and Denny, and Dave Druker, and Jen from Long Beach, Anthropologist 'Number Our Days' Barb Myerhoff, and Love Doc Leo B., and Lisa, Diane, Aaron, Glenn the Buddhist, College Bowl Rich, Happy the genius, all of our peace now, going green team
Youth-energy eco 'Teach-ins' and events across the nation


April 22, 1970

* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Earth_Day
* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Day


SJS/Siterunner: I would later, after many years, begin to see our work as a picture of the early years of a Generation Green.

* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Day_Memories_on_the_50th_Anniversary


We were looking to protect our Living Earth.


Living Earth.png

 

Act Now to Protect Our Future

"Vita contemplativa to Vita activa"

 

Goodall on the power of the young.png  

GP360 tagcloud2.png


·········································································


Planet Citizens, Connected, Sharing, Changing the Ways of Business and Government

Green Policy-Facebook


Digital Rights/OpenData OpenGov

GreenLinks -- Linking to Green Best Practices


Network Earth, Planet Citizens Connected by a Global Internet

The growth of the Internet and world-wide web is connecting and 'powering up' #PlanetCitizens globally.


GreenPolicy360 ... connecting, educating, empowering planet citizens locally and globally


Eco-nomics

New Economy Movement


Digital Citizen

Digital Rights


Internet Trends 2018 Kleiner-Perkins by Mary Meeker.png


Networking Green Best Practices at GreenPolicy360



You can manage only what you can measure Dr David Crisp, OCO-2, June 2014 m.jpg







Above.png





A First Open-Access Planet API


PlanetLabs homepage2016.png







○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○


Environmental Justice and Environmental Law.jpg


Witness to an Environmental Movement, 1960s to the 2020s, a Generational Challenge


Planet Citizen / #PlanetCitizen / Planet Citizens #PlanetCitizens
EarthPOV.com / #Earth360 / #EarthObservations / #EarthMapping


ThinBlueLayer - March 10 2017.jpg


○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○


Rachel Carson, Planet Citizen, Planet Scientist

"Ecocentric"
"The branch of science that deals with these interrelations is 'Ecology'."


It's All Related


Rachel Carson ecology - ecosystem.png


RACHEL CARSON - 1949.jpg
We are voyagers


Pale Blue Dot.jpg


There, a Pale blue dot, our Home Planet



Sagan - That's home.jpg


○

Retrieved from "https://greenpolicy360.net/index.php?title=Planet_Citizens,_Planet_Scientists&oldid=125061"