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: [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Day <big><big>Every Day Is Earth Day</big></big>]
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::<big><big><big>'''Your Moment on Earth, Planet Citizen'''</big></big></big> 🌎
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<center><big><big><big>A PlanetCitizen Paradigm</big></big></big></center>
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<center>Planet Citizen Voyagers</center>


::<small>[http://www.planetcitizen.org ''www.planetcitizen.org''] ○ [http://www.planetcitizens.org ''www.planetcitizens.org'']</small>  
<center>* http://www.planetcitizen.org</center>


<center>* http://www.planetcitizens.org</center>


::<big><big>[[Earth Day 2020]]</big></big>


<center>[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Planet_Citizen_Action <big><big>'''Planet Citizen Action'''</big></big>]</center>


::<big>'''''New Horizons, On to 2020'''''</big>
<center>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Human_Condition "Vita contemplativa to Vita activa"]</center>


::[[File:Thin Blue.jpg]]


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<center>[[File:Blue green lines 1.png]]</center>


::<big><big>'''''New Visions of Security in a Changing World'''''</big></big>
:::[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/New_Definitions_of_National_Security <big>'''''Environmental Security & National Security'''''</big>]


<center><big><big>'''Connecting & sharing stories changing the world'''</big></big></center>


[https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10218013642705404&id=1016057367 <small>''At Home on Spaceship Earth ... See How We Fly Through the Universe''</small>]
<center>[https://greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Green_Networking ''Green Networking, Green Best Practices'']</center>


[[File:Dark sky by Jack Fusco.jpg]]
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<center>[[File:Act now for a livable future.png]]</center>


<big><u>'''''[[Green Stories of the Day]]'''''</u></big>


<big><u>'''''[[GTN GreenLinks Trending News]]'''''</u></big>
<center>[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Act_now_for_a_livable_future.png <big><big>'''Act Now for a Liveable Future''']</big></big></center>


<center><big>[http://www.planetcitizen.org '''www.planetcitizen.org'''] | [http://www.planetcitizens.org '''www.planetcitizens.org''']</big></center>


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[[File:On-the-Road-11.jpg]]
<center>[[File:Earth in Human Hands.jpg]]</center>


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<big><u>'''''[[Environmental movement]]'''''</u></big> | <big><u>'''''[[Earth Science Vital Signs]]'''''</u></big> | <big><u>'''''[[Environmental protection]]'''''</u></big> | <big><u>'''''[[The Commons]]'''''</u></big>
<center>[[File:Vorsorgeprinzip at GreenPolicy360 - sjs.png]]</center>


<center>[http://www.thinbluelayer.com ThinBlueLayer.com]</center>


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[[File:Common Ground Letter.png]]
<center><big>'''Vorsorgeprinzip at GreenPolicy360'''</big></center>
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<center>* https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vorsorgeprinzip</center>
<center>* https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-94-007-1433-5_38</center>


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<center>Steven Schmidt/SJS: Vorsorgeprinzip ... Our "Generation Green", started talking about vorsorgeprinzip in the 1970s. The first 'Earth Day' we organized was a 'teach-in' and we talked about vorsorgeprinzip and, in English, we translated this principle into a broader 'environmental protection' whole earth movement. Today, we call vorsorgeprinzip a "Precautionary Principle". In business, it's about being careful as we look at the consequences of our lives, our 'externalities'. Pollution of the 'ThinBlueLayer' is one example, destruction of biodiversity, life on earth is another. We were realizing '''Planet Earth is in our hands'''.


[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyEzsAy4qeU <small>'''''Earth, Live in Space'''''</small>]


[[File:Earth day 2016.jpg|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyEzsAy4qeU]]
<center>The idea of becoming and being a "planet citizen" was also forming in the late 1960s as our generation saw what hadn't been seen before. At first, the new visions were delivered from above, photos taken looking out of spaceship windows and given names like "Earthrise" (in 1968) and "Blue Marble" (in 1972). The news shows, newspapers and magazines of the era shocked us into a realization of "Whole Earth" awareness. We began to see ourselves as, yes, "planet citizens".


<center>* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Whole_Earth</center>




<small>○ ''"There is no wisdom that is not related to earth, or does not partake of its nature."''</small>
<center>[[File:Earthrise Planetary Awareness.jpg]]</center>
:<small>-- Marjory Stoneman Douglas''</small>






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<center>SJS: Memories of a the first "Earth Day"</center>


<center>Picture yourself like me, a young student in East Los Angeles, a kid who was a science 'early geek' fan of  [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Watch_Mr._Wizard '''TV's Mr. Wizard's science experiments'''] in the early years of television. Years later I'd meet, and become friends with and a science education book editor of [http://mrwizardstudios.com/tvshows.htm '''Mr. Wizard'''], Don Herbert, in New York City. From East LA to NYC was a leap and a US Congressman set me on the road.</center>




<big>'''''Visit GreenPolicy360's associate, Strategic Demands'''''</big>
<center>In the mid-1960s I was a high school student, a debater and the topic of the year in the mid-60s was nuclear weapons proliferation, coming soon after the 'duck & cover' close calls of the "Cuban Missile Crisis". I decided I would bike over to meet our newly elected Congressman, George Brown, and ask him, as a school newspaper editor, what he was doing to prevent nuclear war. The meeting changed my life. George became a friend of over thirty years and I try to tell highlights of George's story throughout the GreenPolicy360 website. Representative George E. Brown was, simply stated,  a great figure in Earth science, environmental protection, and politics.</center>


[http://www.strategicdemands.com <big>''www.strategicdemands.com''</big>]
<center>In my eyes George Brown was a Planet Citizen for the ages.</center>


<center>* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/George_E._Brown_Jr</center>


[[File:StratDem logo.png]]


<center>Over decades, George Brown became a friend, mentor, then colleague. George went on to garner a reputation in the 1970s/80s/90s as the "Big Science" guy in Congress. George was low key in his approach, but a true leader as he envisioned the need for science education and "science in the field and up above". He acted to create what I saw as "generational science".</center>


<big>'''On the Horizon / Strategic Demands'''</big>
<center>From beginnings, the first Earth Day, with George along with George and Senator Nelson, and then thru years of politics and science, I learned of and participated in foundational Earth science initiatives George set in motion in Congress, shepherded and protected. So many like [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Landsat_data_users_handbook '''Landsat''']. We shared plans, dreams, and stories. Accomplishments and the memories are recalled here at GreenPolicy360 as Representative George Brown's green, environmental work continues to carry on today, every day.</center>


* https://www.strategicdemands.com/


* https://www.strategicdemands.com/nuclear-issues-cold-war-2-0/
[https://greenpolicy360.net/images/1969_beginnings_of_the_modern_environmental_movement.pdf <center>'''Beginnings of the Modern Environmental Movement'''</center>]


* https://www.strategicdemands.com/new-definitions-of-security/
[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Planet_Citizens,_Planet_Scientists <center>'''Planet Citizens, Planet Scientists'''</center>]


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::[[File:Aerial-storm-by-Santiago-Borja.jpg]]
<center>Riding a bike to meet George -- and embarking on a road that led to the founding of [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Day_Memories_on_the_50th_Anniversary '''Earth Day in 1970''']</center>


<center>* https://greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Day - https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Earth_Day</center>


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::<big><big><big>'''''2020'''''</big></big></big>
<center>[[File:Earth Day memories.png]]</center>


<center><small>* https://greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Earth_Day_memories.png</small></center>




[[File:We must flatten the curve, yes ... August 2020.jpg]]
<center>* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Environmental_protection - https://greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Environmental_Protection</center>
<center>* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Environmental_Full-cost_Accounting</center>
<center>* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Externalities</center>




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<center>Flash forward... soon we were launching science missions (with NASA's assist) into orbit with a first generation of digital scanning, [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'''] of Earth's living, changing systems</center>


<big>In Memory of Planet Citizen Konrad Steffen</big>
<center>We began calling these "Ecosystems" and the science data began showing how '''[[It's All Related]]'''</center>


Renowned climate scientist dies in Greenland ice sheet accident
<center>Together, learning how to manage, protect and preserve life on Earth for today's and future generations</center>


* https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/08/13/konrad-steffen-death-climate-change-scientist-dies-greenland/3362486001/
<center>With green politics in mind, we look to dealing with climate change, top of mind as science rings alarms</center>


* https://www.cbsnews.com/news/konrad-steffen-koni-climate-scientist-dies-greenland-ice-sheet-crevasse/


* https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/13/climate/konrad-steffen-dead.html
<center><small>''' "We have to identify the problem, then act in many ways to solve the problem. Global warming is the threat of our times."''' </small></center>


* https://www.dailycamera.com/2020/08/10/konrad-steffen-former-cires-director-dies-in-greenland-accident/
<center><small>-- [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Governor_Jerry_Brown '''Jerry Brown, California Governor''']</small></center>


* https://twitter.com/algore/status/1292979399005024256


<center><small>''' "We’re going to need to use every tool in the toolbox if we’re going to solve this problem." '''</small></center>


In 2017, Konrad Steffen talks about the Polar Research Station, climate change and the Greenland landscape
<center><small>-- [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Michael_E_Mann_--_act_with_hope_not_fear.jpg '''Michael E. Mann''']</small></center>


* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emHW-GKBIfk


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Past the 'Point of No Return', the Tipping Point in Greenland


* https://www.sciencealert.com/greenland-s-melting-ice-sheet-has-passed-the-point-of-no-return-scientists-say/
<center><big><big><big>On Earth, a Blue-Green Action Agenda</big></big></big></center>
 
 
<center><big><big>'''[[Generation Green]] ... [[Going Green]]'''</big></big></center>
 


* https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/08/20/weather/greenland-ice-sheet-melt-climate-intl-hnk/index.html
<center><big><big><big>Planet Citizen, This Is Your Time</big></big></big></center>


<center><small>[[Each of us can make a positive difference]]</small></center>


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<center><big><big>'''Look Up: Consider Our Life Enabling Atmosphere'''</big></big></center>


:::::::<big><big>'''''Planet Citizen Action'''''</big></big>  
<center><big>[http://www.thinbluelayer.com '''www.ThinBlueLayer.com''']</big></center>




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<center>[[File:Thin Blue.jpg]]</center>




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:::::::<big><big>'''''Facing the Climate Crisis'''''</big></big> 


<center>[[File:'Thin Blue Layer' of Earth's Atmosphere 2.jpg]]</center>
<center><small>[[Look at how thin our atmosphere is]]</small></center>


:::::[[File:Global Green New Deal.jpg|link=https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Green_New_Deal]]


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<center>[[File:CO2 photo.JPG]]</center>


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:::::<big><big> '''''CLIMATE CHANGE and [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Earth_Moonrise.jpg VISION]'''''</big></big>
 
<center>[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/OCO-2 <big>'''''Monitoring CO2 in Earth's Atmosphere'''''</big>]</center>




[[File:Simple Concept.png]]


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<big><big><big>'''''Yes We Can (Leave the World a Better Place''''')</big></big></big>
<center>[[File:Earth 2016 4k.png|link=https://www.youtube.com/embed/oFDeNcu3mnc]]</center>  


<center>[https://www.youtube.com/embed/oFDeNcu3mnc ''View Full Screen'']</center>


:::::::[[File:Corita yes we can.jpg]]
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<center>[[File:Anthropocene.jpg]]</center>




::::::<big><big><big><big>''Engaged / Opinionated / Political''</big></big></big></big>
<center>* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Anthropocene</center>


::::::::<big><big>''Step Up, Get with the Action''</big></big>
<center>* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Science_Vital_Signs</center>


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<center>* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Right_Now</center>


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<center>[[File:Distant storms at dawn iss+ Reid June 2014.jpg]]</center>


:::::::[http://www.planetcitizen.org <big><big><big>'''''Planet Citizen Action'''''</big></big></big>]
<center><small>NASA: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouv1Un1F36A Astronaut Views of Our Planet & Earth's Life-Enabling Atmosphere]</small></center>


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<big><big><big>''Earth in Our Hands''</big></big></big>
<center>[[File:New Definitions of National Security.png]]</center>


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


* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Science_Vital_Signs
<center><big><big><big>[[New Definitions of National Security]]</big></big></big></center>


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


<center>[[File:Earth System Observatory-1.jpg]]</center>




:::[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/Methods_of_Nonviolent_Action.pdf <big><big><big>'''''Nonviolent Action in Practice'''''</big></big></big>]
<center>[[File:Earth Observing System - fleet of satellites.png]]</center>


::::<big>'''198 Ways to Act, Count 'em '''
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:::<big>''[[File:Methods of Nonviolent Action.pdf]]''</big>
<center>[https://strategicdemands.com/now-is-the-time-to-advance-new-definitions-of-national-security/ <big><big>GreenPolicy360 & Strategic Demands</big></big>]</center>


<center><big>"Advancing new definitions of national & global security"</big></center>


:<big><big><big><big>''Personal action... Direct action...''</big></big></big></big>
<center>Decades of Earth Science, Environmental Activism, a 360 Green Vision</center>


::[http://www.planetcitizens.org '''''Planet Citizens, Positive Change''''']


<center>* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Strategic_Demands</center>


:<big><big><big><big>''Green Network, GreenLinks action''</big></big></big></big>
<center>* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Earth_Observing_System_-_fleet_of_satellites.png</center>


: [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Green_Networking '''''Going Green, #GreenNetworking''''']


:: [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/GreenLinks '''''GreenLinks @ GreenPolicy360''''']
<center>* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/New_Definitions_of_National_Security</center>


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<center>* https://strategicdemands.com/new-definitions-of-security/</center>






<center><small> I am rivers and forests And winds and I'm earth</small></center>


<center><small> I am oceans and mountains I whisper unheard</small></center>


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<center><small> And before you lies everything you'd ever want</small></center>


<center><small> I am your, Your Imagination ... </small></center>


<big>'''''September 12-14, 2018: Stepping It Up'''''</big>


<center>[[File:Your Imagination - Thomas Bergersen.jpg|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXI5LgkcEpI]]</center>


<big>'''''Climate Activists & Green Organizers: California Builds Bridges to Extend International Cooperation'''''</big>


:[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Global_Climate_Action_Summit.png <big>''Global Climate Action Summit''</big>]




::[[File:Global Climate Action Summit.png]]
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<center><big>'''[[Planet Citizen Vision of Living Earth]]'''</big></center>


<center>Planet Citizens, Protecting & Preserving Life on Earth</center>


<big><big><big>'''''In Memory of a Florida "Planet Citizen"'''''</big></big></big>


<center>[[File:Living Earth.png]]</center>


'''''Nathaniel Reed, environmental advocate and co-author of the Endangered Species Act, dies at 84'''''


<center><big><big>Looking around us, listening, learning, envisioning what can be...</big></big></center>


[https://www.tampabay.com/news/environment/Nathaniel-Reed-Florida-environmental-advocate-and-co-author-of-the-Endangered-Species-Act-dies-at-84_169924582 ''Via the Tampa Bay Times / Craig Pittman'']
<center><big><big>"Eco-visioning": [[It's All Related]] ...</big></big></center>


''Nathaniel "Nat" Reed, 84, a Hobe Sound resident whose childhood ardor for Florida’s natural wonders led to him becoming a tireless crusader for the environment, died in a Quebec hospital Wednesday, according to his family.''


''In a long career spent both in and out of government service, Mr. Reed co-wrote the Endangered Species Act, helped stop the construction of the world’s largest airport in the Big Cypress Swamp, and later founded the group 1,000 Friends of Florida...''
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* [https://youtu.be/oW8Yzj7AlQA ''Advice? "Get educated", a video interview with Nat'']
<big>Looking back, looking forward, looking inward, looking outward</big>


: [https://www.aspeninstitute.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/11/Navajo-Way-Blessing-Ceremony_Walk-in-Beauty.pdf '''Walking in Beauty''']


''In 1966, Mr. Reed campaigned for Republican gubernatorial candidate Claude Kirk, accompanying him on barnstorming flights around the state in a DC-3. To the surprise of the state’s Democratic establishment, Kirk won, becoming Florida’s first Republican governor since Reconstruction.''
[[File:AncientWisdom.jpg]]


''Mr. Reed became Kirk’s dollar-a-year aide for environmental issues, a brand new position Kirk had created for reasons that were based more on personality than politics. Kirk told him: "If you want to change the things that you have been hollering about for the last 15 years in Florida, there’s a desk."''
'''Chief Lyons, as a [http://www.bioneers.org 'Bioneer'] and Planet Citizen brought a message to us - http://www.bioneers.org/staff/chief-oren-lyons/ - https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Seventh_Generation
: ''"The Roots of American Democracy" (w/ Video)''  
::* https://bioneers.org/chief-oren-lyons-the-roots-of-american-democracy-bioneers/


''"He had no interest in conservation," Mr. Reed said of Kirk years later, "but he had an interest in whoever was lowest guy on the totem pole, and at that time conservation was the lowest thing in anybody’s mind in Florida. It was rape-and-run, avarice and greed. Make money now and do not worry about the future."''


<small>'''''"We are looking ahead, as is one of the first mandates given us as chiefs, to make sure and to make every decision that we make relate to the welfare and well-being of the seventh generation to come....'''''</small>


''Kirk was a politician for whom the description "colorful" seems inadequate. Mr. Reed once got a late night call from his inebriated boss, who demanded he dispatch the National Guard with a howitzer to make sure a Panamanian tanker that was leaking oil couldn’t sneak out of its quarantine at the Port of Tampa.''
<small>'''''"What about the seventh generation? Where are you taking them? What will they have?"'''''</small>


''Together, though, they took on, and angered, dredge-and-fill contractors, business-as-usual developers, and mayors whose cities were dumping sewage straight into bays and estuaries.''
-- <small>[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oren_Lyons Oren Lyons], Chief of the Onondaga Iroquois Nation, speaks of ancient wisdom'''''</small>




''Their biggest success, though, was stopping the construction of the so-called "Everglades jetport," an event that kick-started the environmental movement in Florida.''
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''President Nixon appointed him a deputy secretary of the Department of the Interior, a position he held into the Ford Administration...''
[[File:Apollo Earth sm.jpg|link=https://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/Earthrise_EL-2001-00365h_NASA_Apollo_8_1968.jpg]]


''While working for Interior, Mr. Reed preserved more than 80 million acres of Alaska, publicized the dangers of DDT, and imposed a ban on the use of a coyote-killing poison called 10-80 that killed other animals as well.''


''While there, he gathered together a group of like-minded administration officials at a Chinese restaurant, and, amid the egg rolls and moo goo gai pan, they jotted down the wording for what would become the Endangered Species Act, passed by Congress in 1973 and signed by Nixon.''
<big><big><big>'''[[Apollo 8]]'''</big></big></big>


''Among the animals protected by the act were several from Florida, including the panther, the manatee, Key deer and the American alligator. The alligator is considered one of the act’s big success stories.''
'''[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/Earthrise_EL-2001-00365h_NASA_Apollo_8_1968.jpg Earthrise Photo]'''


''"We were in uncharted waters," Mr. Reed once said of their work for the new law. But he said they were all driven by a strong opposition to "ending a life that evolved on this earth, in some cases before we did, just to satisfy ourselves."''


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


''Later, Mr. Reed would found the advocacy group 1,000 Friends of Florida to push for better management of Florida’s runaway growth and better planning to deal with its consequences. He was known for giving fiery speeches and writing equally fiery letters decrying the forces that he saw despoiling the state he loved so much.''
🌎 https://greenpolicy360.net/w/Apollo_8


''His son said the driving force of his life was trying to "see the Everglades got a square deal from the state of Florida," but he often despaired that the effort was a losing one thanks to "the forces of evil that own and control the state of Florida." Nevertheless, the greeting he always called out to family and friends was a simple bit of two-word optimism: "Boundless love!"''
🌎 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthrise




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<big><big><big><big>'''[[Earthrise]]'''</big></big></big></big>




[[File:Stephen Hawking-Genius-2016.jpg]]
June 7, 2024 ... '''In Memory of Astronaut William Anders'''


* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Anders


[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&profile=default&search=stephen+hawking&fulltext=Search <big>'''Stephen Hawking / "Planet Citizen"'''</big>]


Associated Press / '''''Former astronaut William Anders, who took iconic Earthrise photo, killed in Washington plane crash'''''


''"Here lies what was mortal of Stephen Hawking 1942 - 2018"''
* https://apnews.com/article/plane-crash-san-juan-islands-washington-6d3800130ef4e67d761f96b328f7c263


''June 15, 2018 / More than 1,000 people gathered today for a memorial service in London for theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking whose ashes were buried between graves of Darwin and Newton at Westminster Abbey...''


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:<big>'''Apollo 8 Earthrise Photos'''</big>


<font color=green><big>'''A Last(ing) Editorial from Professor Hawking...'''</big></font>
::'''December 1968


:''https://www.unlimited.world/ubs/stephen-hawking-in-memoriam''
:::• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthrise




<big><big>'''''This is the most dangerous time for our planet'''''</big></big>
:::::[[File:Apollo 8, Life Jan10,1969.png]]


''by Stephen Hawking''
:::::[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Apollo_8,_Life_Jan10,1969.png Apollo 8 photos in Life Magazine, January 1969]


''Via [https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/dec/01/stephen-hawking-dangerous-time-planet-inequality The Guardian]''


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[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Earthrise_100_Photographs_That_Changed_the_World_.jpg <big><big><big>'''Earthrise'''</big></big></big>]


:<big>'''Apollo 8's View of Earth on December 24, 1968'''</big>


<big>''''' "My perceptions of the world shifted" '''''</big>


December 21, 1968 ... Apollo 8 launches from the Kennedy Space Center, the first humans on the way to the Moon --- and a vision looking back at home that empowered the modern environmental movement.


'''''Aboard the International Space Station. Ride along with Planet Citizen astronauts.'''''
Apollo's mission? To explore the Moon in preparation for a Moon landing. A surprise comes into view as the spaceship circles the Moon. A window view, Whole Earth awareness of ourselves as #PlanetCitizens. "Earthrise" ... a profound image, first by human hands taken of our home planet. We see our #PlanetEarth with new born eyes ...  


'''''Experience [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Whole_Earth the Whole Earth] and see our home planet through their eyes...'''''
:[http://www.ibhanet.org/resources/documents/newsletters/spierearthrisephoto.pdf The Earthrise photo history]


: [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Earthrise_100_Photographs_That_Changed_the_World_.jpg 100 Photographs That Changed the World]


:*[https://www.facebook.com/NGM/videos/10156076557406005/ ''3D Video via Facebook'']
:[http://www.nasa.gov/content/goddard/nasa-releases-new-earthrise-simulation-video/#.VNO2cC744Rk NASA simulation video of Earthrise on the 45th anniversary]


:*[https://youtu.be/dwHBpykTloY ''3D Video via YouTube'']


• http://www.youtube.com/embed/dE-vOscpiNc


• http://www.abc.net.au/science/moon/earthrise.htm


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• http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Apollo_8,_Life_Jan10,1969.png




::'''Aboard Apollo''', December 24, 1968...'''


[[File:Astro POV - Mike Massimino - PlanetCitizen.png]]
::[[File:Earthrise, the way Anders saw it.jpg]]


::<small>http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Apollo_8</small>


<big>'''Planet Citizen on a Spacewalk'''</big>


'''Mike Massimino'''
As the spaceship swings around the Moon...


unexpectedly the Earth rises in the Apollo ship's window and the astronauts are amazed at what is coming into view...


"This is what heaven must look like... I felt like I was looking into a paradise" ... He sounds dramatic, religious, maybe Italian like his name.


Or maybe a green evangelical ''environista'''.
Astronaut [https://www.forbes.com/sites/jimclash/2015/04/17/bill-anders-recalls-famous-earthrise-photo-he-took-from-moon/#1ae7ffe9527a Bill Anders is the first to see the Earth...]


Floating high, [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:2001_pic3.jpeg Starchild]...


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[https://twitter.com/hashtag/PlanetCitizen #PlanetCitizen]


Anders: ''"Oh, my God, look at that picture over there," he can be heard saying. "There's the Earth coming up. Wow, is that pretty!"''




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What happened next will sound familiar to anyone who remembers the days before digital cameras:




Anders (to astronaut Jim Lovell): ''"You got a color film, Jim? Hand me a roll of color, quick, would you?"''


:[[File:Away fly the Doves March4,2015.png]]
Lovell: ''"Oh, man, that's great! Where is it?"''


Anders: ''"Hurry. Quick."''


'''''NASA / In the beginning, big ideas required big rockets. Now, we can launch satellites that fit in the palm of our hand.'''''  
Lovell: ''"Down here?"''


'''''Discover how by watching [https://twitter.com/NASA/status/993643757986775042 this video]'''''
Anders: ''"Just grab me a color. A color exterior. Hurry up. Got one?"''


Lovell: ''"Yeah, I'm lookin' for one. C368."''


:* [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Micro-satellites Micro-Satellites] / [http://www.planet.com Planet Doves]
Anders: ''"Anything quick."''


:* [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Democratization_of_Space Democratization of Space]


:* [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_and_Space,_Politics US Politics & Earth Science from Space]
Lovell hands him the film just as Anders is heard saying, ''"I think we missed it."''


:* [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Earth_Observations Earth Observation]


But within seconds, Lovell sees the shot again in another window of the command module. He asks for the camera from Anders, who seems a bit defensive at having his role as mission photographer usurped.




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Anders: ''"Wait a minute, just let me get the right setting here now, just calm down. Calm down, Lovell!"''




[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:DSWT-Daphne_hugging_elephant_adoptee.png <big>'''''Orphans No More, Sheldrick Wildlife Trust'''''</big>]
Anders then gets the shot that has been reproduced innumerable times all over the world...  




'''''Conservation Policies vs. Hunting 'Trophies', Poaching, and Destruction of Species'''''
Changing forever humanity's vision of ourselves, of who we are




[[File:Elephant trophies.png]]


[http://www.planetcitizens.org <small> #PlanetCitizens</small>]


[[File:Earthrise 100 Photographs That Changed the World .jpg]]


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[[File:Earthrise book cover (2008).jpg]]


[[File:Starlink-nasa image.jpg]]
* http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Earthrise_book_cover_%282008%29.jpg




:''February 22, 2018, the beginning of a SpaceX planet-network''


::''SpaceX's ultimate goal is to provide [https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/02/spacexs-satellite-broadband-nears-fcc-approval-and-first-test-launch/ gigabit broadband worldwide]''
'''GreenPolicy360 Siterunner: (Connecting the 'dots')'''




::<big><big>'''''"Starlink, Planet Internet"'''''</big></big>
Thank you George, thank you Jim




::* [https://www.pocket-lint.com/gadgets/news/143663-starlink-satellites-will-blanket-earth-with-superfast-internet-by-2025 ''Starlink will 'blanket the earth with superfast internet by 2025''']
[[File:George Brown, Sci Com't.jpg]]


::* [https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/29/fcc-approves-spacex-plan-for-4425-satellite-broadband-network/ ''FCC approves SpaceX plan for 4,425-satellite broadband network'']


[[File:Hansen-testimony-1988.jpg]]




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In December 1968 "Earthrise" led to April 1970's "Earth Day" which led to the first National Climate Act in 1978 drafted by Representative George Brown which led to Jim Hansen's climate change warnings to the US Senate in 1988... then we went onto the first "Earth Summit" in 1992 which began international climate conferences that brought the nations of the world to the 2015 Climate Change agreement in Paris with ~ 200 "Intended National Climate Contributions" and today's '''[[National Climate Plans]]'''... Welcome onboard Planet Citizens, get with the '''[[Planet Citizen Action]]'''...




::::<big><u>'''''[[HelloEarth]]'''''</u></big> ○ <big>'''''Earth 'Dailies' [https://epic.gsfc.nasa.gov/ via DSCOVR-EPIC]'''''</big>
'''Looking back: the First Global Earth Summit and Climate Conference'''


: June 1992, Rio de Janeiro


[[File:Earth Image Dailies from DSCOVR-EPIC.png | link=https://epic.gsfc.nasa.gov/]]


[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Earth_Summit_1992.jpg '''Earth Summit (First Global Climate Conference)''']


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:[[File:Earth Summit 1992-s.png|link=http://www.planetcitizens.org]]




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<big><u>'''''[[Environmental movement]]'''''</u></big> | <big><u>'''''[[Earth Science Vital Signs]]'''''</u></big> 


<big><big>'''''Planet Citizens, Digital Rights @GreenPolicy360'''''</big></big>
: <big><u>'''''[[Environmental protection]]'''''</u></big> | <big><u>'''''[[The Commons]]'''''</u></big>




:* [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Strategic_Policy-Internet_Online_Rights '''''An Internet Bill of Rights''''']


:* [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Digital_Citizen '''''Digital Citizen''''']
<big>'''Intro/[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/User:Siterunner GreenPolicy360 Siterunner]:'''</big>


:* [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Digital_Rights '''''Digital Rights''''']


:* [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Networking '''''Networking''''']
[[File:SJS.png]]


:* [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Online_Privacy '''''Online Privacy''''']
<small>Steve Schmidt</small>




For some 40+ years your GreenPolicy360 siterunner has worked in many varied ways to get the word out on the crucial importance of environmental security. From the [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Day_Memories_on_the_50th_Anniversary first Earth Day] to [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:1977_from_the_Office_of_Science_and_Technology_Policy.jpg the first 1977-78 warnings] from the new committee of science with the push from [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/George_E._Brown_Jr Congressman George E. Brown], through various career incarnations I have attempted to 'work the message', gathering (curating as it's now called) the best science and writing up and sharing key strategies and goals even against the odds. The risks we have identified and shared have now turned into a crisis.


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Perhaps it is human nature to be overwhelmed, or what my teacher Hannah Arendt described in the 'Human Condition' as the realms of labor, work, and action. Many  choose to go along to get along, and not act when the threats grow extreme, even existential. But to those who take the chance to make a difference and stand up and do your best to make changes that change the world for the better, I salute you for your bravery.


Now comes another warning from the international science community. This warning is dire. The latest news looms to such an extent as to be overwhelming, depressing and potentially driving us toward resignation and inaction, but it should not prevent us from action as [https://www.amazon.com/New-Climate-War-Fight-Planet/dp/B08QV8KSGH/ref=tmm_aud_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=&sr=#customerReviews Michael E. Mann's latest book, 'The Fight to Take Back Our Planet'] argues persuasively.''


:::[https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/02/elon-musk-tweets-video-of-spacexs-first-broadband-satellites-in-space/ '''''Global Broadband Satellite Network Launches''''']
[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Michael_E_Mann_--_act_with_hope_not_fear.jpg '''Act with hope and not fear'''.] Earth is in our hands. Take in the news, consider the science, then in your own way, act.


:::'''''Tintin A & B ... “hello world”'''''
Act to make a positive difference. Don't give up, never give up.


[[File:Tintin-hello world.png]]


[[File:Digital Rights Tag Cloud from GreenPolicy360.net.png | link=https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/GreenPolicy360-eOS#Digital_Rights_Movement]]




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<big><big><big>'''Democracy 360'''</big></big></big>


: '''Protecting Freedom, Protecting Rights, Protecting Democracy Nation-by-Nation '''




:[[File:My-Journey-at-the-Nuclear-Brink Perry-235x300.png]]
[[File:Battle for Democracy.jpg]]




:[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:My-Journey-at-the-Nuclear-Brink_Perry-235x300.png <big>'''''On the Eve of Destruction'''''</big>]
:[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Democracy <big><big>'''Democracy'''</big></big>]




[https://nyti.ms/2GJgxTA '''''U.S. Signals Nuclear Arms Are Back (Again!) in a Big Way''''']


: December 2023


* ''http://strategicdemands.com/us-nuclear-posture-review-released/''
: '''''Washington Post Editorial Board:'''''  


* ''http://strategicdemands.com/nuclear-weapons-time/''
: '' “The world’s democracies should create a system to fight back that can speak plainly and consistently about the inherent advantages of democratic systems, while admitting the imperfections, and use creative ways to illuminate the flaws and depredations of authoritarian regimes.''


* ''http://strategicdemands.com/two-minutes-midnight/''
: * https://wapo.st/3TyP9iU




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<big><big>'''''"Surviving Victory":'''''</big></big>


'''''Moving Away from "Perpetual War"'''''
<big>'''GreenPolicy360:'''</big>


<big><big>'''On the Merits, Facts Count'''</big></big>


'''''Shifting from Fossil Fuel Causes of Conflict to Renewable Energy Alternatives'''''
* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Fact_Checking


:* https://www.strategicdemands.com/costsofwar/


:* https://www.strategicdemands.com/new-definitions-of-security/
'''Make Your Argument, Your Opinion, Your Case -- On the Merits


:* https://www.strategicdemands.com/nuclear-issues-cold-war-2-0/
* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Disinformation_-_Online_-_Dangerous




'''''"Strategic Demands, a 21st Century Vision"'''''


:[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Surviving_Victory:_Security_Priorities '''Survival Strategies, Security Priorities''']


[[File:Semantic Scholar Publishers.png]]


:* http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Surviving-Victory-conference-Washington-DC-2006.pdf


:* http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Surviving_Victory.png


<big><big>'''Get Smart, Scholarly'''</big></big>


[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:New_Definitions_of_National_Security.png New Definitions of National Security]
* https://scholar.google.com/


:* [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Environmental_Security Environmental Security pages @GreenPolicy360]
* https://www.semanticscholar.org/


:* [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Global_Security Global Security pages @GreenPolicy360]
* https://www.semanticscholar.org/about


* https://www.semanticscholar.org/resources


* https://www.semanticscholar.org/about/publishers


[[File:Over the Pacific.png]]
* https://www.semanticscholar.org/product/semantic-reader




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A 21st Century AI/Machine Learning Case Study


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'''''Toolformer: Language Models Can Teach Themselves to Use Tools'''''


* https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2023arXiv230204761S/abstract


[[File:Best Practices check sm.png]] [https://www.climaterealityproject.org/blog/ten-ways-get-involved-people-climate-movement <big><big><font color=green><u>'''''Get Going with Climate Action'''''</u></font></big></big>]


* https://www.strategicdemands.com/environmental-security/
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<big>'''''International Climate Conference Updates'''''</big>
'''Learning, Teaching, Living, Acting with Green Values'''


[[File:Climate Change Conf Nov 6-17.png]]
: '''Acting to Make a Difference'''




:http://unfccc.int/2860.php
'''Short Circuiting Policy'''
: '''Interest Groups and the Battle Over Clean Energy and Climate Policy in the American States'''


:https://cop23.unfccc.int/
* https://www.amazon.com/Short-Circuiting-Policy-Political-Development/dp/0190074264/ref=sr_1_1


:https://cop23.unfccc.int/news/cop23-kicks-off-with-strong-calls-to-hold-to-paris-agreement-path


:https://cop23.unfccc.int/news/un-climate-change-conference-2017-aims-for-further-faster-ambition-together
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<big>''United States only country to refuse climate change agreement''</big>
<big>'''NOAA scientists harness machine learning to advance climate models'''</big>


* http://e360.yale.edu/features/why-post-paris-climate-challenge-is-even-harder-than-we-thought
March 1st, 2023


* http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=57807#.Wdga_1tSy70
* https://www.gfdl.noaa.gov/news/noaa-scientists-harness-machine-learning-to-advance-climate-models/


* https://www.gfdl.noaa.gov/


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


<big>'''''Changes/Turnarounds at the US Energy Department'''''</big>
* https://www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-how-artificial-intelligence-is-fast-becoming-a-key-tool-for-climate-science/


[http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/energy-environment/348716-energy-dept-whistleblowers-can-resist-trump-perry-from ''Via 'The Hill' / Resisting the Trump-Perry Agenda'']


''Technological change and market forces are making clean energy competitive with dirty fossil and nuclear energy, helped along by small tax credits (which are nonetheless dwarfed by much larger fossil fuel and nuclear subsidies).''
<big>'''Climate Modeling'''</big>


''Coal-fired power generation capacity has decreased, nuclear capacity has stagnated, and even natural gas capacity has barely ticked upward — while solar and wind capacity have grown by double digits. Plus, according to Perry's own department, wind and solar now employ hundreds of thousands more Americans than older industries like coal.''
* https://allenai.org/climate-modeling


''Together with impressive advances in energy storage and smart grid technology, those trends are reducing the need for a large baseload capacity by making it possible to store renewable energy and distribute it wherever it's needed.''
''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.''


[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Renewable_Energy '''''Renewable Energy @ GreenPolicy''''']


: [http://www.netzeropolicy.com '''''www.netzeropolicy.com''''']
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[[File:Goodall on the power of the young.png]]
 


'''Leah Stokes, a Young Planet Citizen from UCSB, the University of California, Santa Barbara'''


<big>'''''National Geographic:'''''</big>
:'''Much more than an academic with a PhD from MIT'''


[http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/03/how-trump-is-changing-science-environment/ <big>''''' Deconstructing Environmental Protections'''''</big>]
* https://www.independent.com/2023/04/19/the-electrifying-leah-stokes/




<big>'''''Time to Act as US President Says No to the International Climate Agreement'''''</big>
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:*[https://www.carbonbrief.org/mapped-climate-change-laws-around-world <big><u>'''''Climate Change Laws Around the World'''''</u></big>]
<big>'''GreenPolicy360: We're Into Earth Science'''</big>


:[http://www.lse.ac.uk/GranthamInstitute/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Global-trends-in-climate-change-legislation-and-litigation-WEB.pdf <big><u>'''''Trends in Climate Change Legislation'''''</u></big>]
:'''We believe in 'critical thinking skills''''


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


[[File:CAIT Map 1.png|link=http://cait.wri.org/indc/#/map]]
* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Stats_-_Green_Research_%26_Science






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[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/INDCs <big><big>'''''The Challenge Going Forward'''''</big></big>]




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[[File:Carl Sagan at the Emerging Issues Forum.png]]




<big><big>'''''Continuing Cutbacks at US Environmental Protection Agency'''''</big></big>


<big>'''[[Stardust Origins]]'''</big>


'''''Update'''''
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmos:_A_Personal_Voyage ''Cosmos: A Personal Voyage'']




[[File:Scott pruitt epa.jpg]]
[[File:Milky Way Night Sky Black Rock Desert Nevada.jpg]]




<big><big>'''Scott Pruitt, Administrator of the US EPA, Resigns'''</big></big>


[[File:Pruitt serves letter.jpg]]
'''In passing ...'''


[[File:Sagan Memorial.png]]


[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Pruitt%27s_EPA.png '''''Citing the Bible, the EPA Just 'Blew Up' Its Science Advisory Boards''''']
The greatest of mysteries, on to the Cosmos ... 1996




[[File:Pruitt's EPA.png]]


<big><big>'''Our Planet Connection, the Science and the Threats: Carl Sagan explains in 1990'''</big></big>


<big><big>'''''Fire Scientists, Shut Down Advisory Panels, Remove Data'''''</big></big>


: [https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/14/donald-trump-climate-change-mentions-government-websites '''''Slice and Dice, Hack and Chop, Delete and Disappear the Climate Language''''']
[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


:: [https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/under-trump-inconvenient-data-is-being-sidelined/2017/05/14/3ae22c28-3106-11e7-8674-437ddb6e813e_story.html '''''Trump admin has hidden or taken offline 40,000 data sets that used to be public''''']


::: [https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/05/07/epa-dismisses-half-of-its-scientific-advisers-on-key-board-citing-clean-break-with-obama-administration/ '''''EPA dismisses half of key board’s scientific advisers; Interior suspends more than 200 advisory panels''''']
<big>'''[[Look at how thin our atmosphere is]] | [[The Commons]] | [[Earth Right Now]]'''</big>


:::: [http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/donald-trump-epa-website-turn-off-environmental-protection-agency-government-administration-a7698736.html '''''Government Failure: Order to shut down access to data services''']


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


[[File:About Baselines and Change.png]]
Solving the serious emerging problem of climate change requires 'transnational' cooperation to realize and confront the coming climate crisis


* https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=3509426545795872&id=2234805989924607




<big>'''''Environmental Protection Agency Open Being 'Data-Edited'?</big>
<big>'''[[Planet Citizens]] | [[Planet Citizens, Planet Scientists]]'''</big>


: https://opendata.epa.gov/home.xhtml?view
:: https://opendata.epa.gov/home.xhtml
::: https://catalog.data.gov/dataset?q=environment
:::: https://twitter.com/hashtag/EPAdata


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


* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Xz3ZjOSMRU


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<big>'''''The Physics of Climate Change/Global Warming'''''</big>
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[[File:Floating floating over the ocean seas.jpg|link=https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Arctic]]


<big>'''E.O. Wilson, Planet Citizen:'''</big>


''He 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.''


[[File:Anti science, anti open data - EPA April 2017.png|link=http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/donald-trump-epa-website-turn-off-environmental-protection-agency-government-administration-a7698736.html]]
* 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.''


[[File:Global Temp Chart-sources-1880-2016.png]]
* 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><big>'''''You Can Run from the Facts, but the Facts Are What They Are'''''</big></big>


[https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/apr/24/why-we-joined-the-march-for-science <big>''''' March to Support Science: Facts Matter'''''</big>]


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<big><u>'''''[[Stats - Green Research & Science]]'''''</u></big>




'''''Carl Sagan, Planet Citizen, Lecture Notes for Astronomy 490 Class at the Smithsonian Museum'''''
<big>'''William McDonough: Planet Citizen'''</big>
: https://cdn.loc.gov/service/mss/mss85590/033/033.pdf
: https://www.loc.gov/item/cosmos000035/




'''''The 'Pale Blue Dot' '''''
[[File:Cradle to Cradle Products Innovation Instit.jpg]]
: https://www.loc.gov/item/cosmos000110/ (Recording)




William McDonough Waging Peace Through Commerce


<big>'''''March for Science'''''</big>
Designing the first “green office” in New York for the Environmental Defense Fund


:: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_for_Science
Work that to the formation of the [https://www.worldgbc.org/member-directory/us-green-building-council US Green Building Council]
::: https://satellites.marchforscience.com/
:::: https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:March_for_Science-2.png
::::: https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Bill_nye-march_for_science-earth_day.jpg


Cradle to Cradle: [https://www.archdaily.com/880060/constructing-the-curriculum-william-mcdonoughs-cradle-to-cradle-building-to-inspire-the-next-generation  Building to Inspire the Next Generation]


Cradle to Cradle: [https://www.amazon.com/Cradle-Remaking-Way-Make-Things/dp/1400157617?utm_medium=website&utm_source=archdaily.com The Book, Remaking the Way We Make Things]


<big><u>'''''[[Earth and Space, Politics]]'''''</u></big>
Cradle-to-Cradle Design: [https://www.researchgate.net/publication/354159544_Cradle-to-Cradle_Design_Creating_Healthy_Emissions-A_Strategy_for_Eco-Effective_Product_and_System_Design Creating Healthy Emissions—A Strategy for Eco-Effective Product and System Design]


<big><u>'''''[[New Definitions of National Security]]'''''</u></big>
The Hannover Principles Design for Sustainability (https://www.academia.edu/8123529/The_Hannover_Principles_Design_for_Sustainability Download PDF)






[https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/10/climate/trump-nasa-satellites-global-warming-data.html '''''Scientists Fear Climate Data Gap as Trump Aims at Satellites''''']
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<big><big>'''''Climate Change Impacts to Hit Sooner than Predicted'''''</big></big>


* https://phys.org/news/2021-06-climate-impacts-sooner.html


* https://www.pbs.org/newshour/show/a-leaked-un-report-warns-worst-is-yet-to-come-on-climate-change-heres-how-you-can-help


<big><big>'''''Radiant Earth Project'''''</big></big>
''Climate change will fundamentally reshape life on Earth in the coming decades, even if humans can tame planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions, according to a landmark draft report from the UN's climate science advisors obtained by AFP.''


''http://radiant.earth/''
''Species extinction, more widespread disease, unliveable heat, ecosystem collapse, cities menaced by rising seas—these and other devastating climate impacts are accelerating and bound to become painfully obvious before a child born today turns 30.''


''Open geospatial data for positive global impact, and improved decision-making''
''The choices societies make now will determine whether our species thrives or simply survives as the 21st century unfolds, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) says in a draft report seen exclusively by AFP.''


''But dangerous thresholds are closer than once thought, and dire consequences stemming from decades of unbridled carbon pollution are unavoidable in the short term.''


''Industry experts said over the past five years the number of operational satellites has jumped 40%, and nearly 1,400 now orbit the Earth.''
''"The worst is yet to come, affecting our children's and grandchildren's lives much more than our own."''


''This number could more than double over the next five years as satellites become smaller, lighter and more affordable.''


'''''Satellites collecting data and monitoring the Earth'''''  
<big><big>'''''Crushing Climate Impacts: Draft UN report'''''</big></big>


''Applications are far reaching - from tracking plant health through chlorophyll to gauging the impact of natural disasters and the surveillance of illegal logging.''
''PARIS (AFP) / June 23, 2021 - Climate change will fundamentally reshape life on Earth in the coming decades, even if humans can tame planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions, according to a landmark draft report from the UN's climate science advisers obtained by Agence France-Presse.''


''India recently participated in the launch of 104 satellites — 101 of them for foreign companies and agencies - in a single mission as part of its strategic bid for a bigger share of the $300 billion global space industry.
''Species extinction, more widespread disease, unliveable heat, ecosystem collapse, cities menaced by rising seas - these and other devastating climate impacts are accelerating and bound to become painfully obvious before a child born today turns 30.''


''Experts at the Seattle summit said the multiple launch, described as a world record by its space agency, was also significant because 88 were shoebox-sized Dove satellites launched by [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Planet_Labs_Doves_Fly Planet], a San Francisco-based private satellite operator founded by former NASA scientists.''
''The choices societies make now will determine whether our species thrives or simply survives as the 21st century unfolds, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) says in a draft report seen exclusively by AFP...''


''The constellation of small satellites will, once settled into orbit in six months' time, will photograph the entire Earth every day.''


''"Satellite imagery might be one of the most powerful and unbiased tools to tell people what is going on with the planet", explains Albert Lin, Research Scientist at the University of California, San Diego.''
''"The worst is yet to come, affecting our children's and grandchildren's lives much more than our own," the report says.''


''The key, he said, lay in finding ways to translate enormous amounts of information into something that can be understood by everyone.''
''By far the most comprehensive catalogue ever assembled of how climate change is upending our world, the report reads like a 4,000-page indictment of humanity's stewardship of the planet.''


''This means finding ways of sorting and interlinking the trillions of bits of data sent to Earth and re-construct them into readable, digital and sometimes 3D models.''
''But the document, designed to influence critical policy decisions, is not scheduled for release until February 2022 - too late for crunch UN summits this year on climate, biodiversity and food systems...''


''In some cases, data can be analyzed with the help of communities of "citizen scientists sitting alone at their computers all over the world."''


''"This is a wake-up call that satellite imagery is not just about questions and insights but also about engaging the entire planet in observing the planet, together."''


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https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Science_Research_from_Space


https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Earth_Science
[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Speed_and_Scale_Action_Plan.png <big><big>'''Speed & Scale Action Plan'''</big></big>]


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[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/New_Definitions_of_National_Security "New Definitions of National Security"]


[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Look_at_how_thin_our_atmosphere_is "Look at how thin our atmosphere is"]
[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Earth_Day <big>'''Every Day Is Earth Day'''</big>]


<big><big><big>'''[[Earth Day 2020]]'''</big></big></big>


:[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Day_2020 '''GreenPolicy360 Siterunner: Memories of the First Earth Day''']


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''“To understand and protect our home planet; to explore the universe and search for life; to inspire the next generation of explorers ... as only NASA can.”'' </small>


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'''''[http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/news/press_releases/2017/publc-records-03-23-2017.php Press Release] / March 23, 2017'''''


<big>'''''Actions to Protect Earth Science/Climate Data'''''</big>
<big><big><big><font color=green>'''''Strategies of Resilience & Survival'''''</font></big></big></big>


'''''Records Requests Seek to Preserve Hundreds of Data Sets on Wildlife, Oil Industry, Climate Change, Sea-level Rise'''''


''WASHINGTON — The Center for Biological Diversity, along with noted conservation biologist Stuart Pimm and the Center for Media and Democracy, launched an effort today to prevent hundreds of environmental data sets on government websites from being removed by the Trump administration.''
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''To preserve or resurrect what has already been removed by the administration, the centers and Dr. Pimm submitted three separate Freedom of Information Act requests for data sets to eight federal agencies: the Army Corps of Engineers, the Council on Environmental Quality, the Environmental Protection Agency, NASA and the departments of agriculture, commerce, energy and interior.''


''Under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), when federal agencies receive requests for the same records three or more times, they must make the records freely available to the public on their websites, a rule known as “the Beetlejuice provision.”''


''“By removing or hiding hundreds of data sets [http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/campaigns/open_government/pdfs/2017_03_23_Center_PIMM_DMD_Compiled_Datasets_FOIA.pdf [PDF]] containing critical information about the climate, wildlife and the health of our oceans, Trump and his cronies are blatantly trying to conceal the truth from the American people,” said Amy Atwood, a senior attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity. “Thankfully our scientists have the Freedom of Information Act to keep this vital information in the light of day.”''
[[Planet Citizen Vision of Living Earth]]


''Today’s legal requests seek hundreds of data sets on energy usage, renewables, oil and gas projections, coal reserves, climate data, sea-level rise, human population, environmental justice and the status of scores of endangered and threatened species and other wildlife. More specifically, they seek information relating to conservation of aquatic systems, residential energy consumption and Endangered Species Act “Section 7” consultations, a step taken by federal agencies to avoid jeopardizing listed species.''
* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Planet_Citizen_Vision_of_Living_Earth


''Media outlets have reported on the loss and vulnerability of federal data relating to some of today’s most pressing environmental issues, pointing out the disappearance of data sets from agency websites under the Trump administration and documenting scientists’ efforts to save them.''


''“The U.S. government produces and maintains some of the most important information that scientists use in their research,” said Dr. Stuart Pimm, a Duke University professor and research scientist — and a founder of conservation biology — and the second requester of data. “Along with the Herculean efforts of volunteer scientists around the country, I’m doing what I can to protect this information because it’s critical these data remain available to academic institutions for scientists and future generations.”''


<small>○ ''"There is no wisdom that is not related to earth, or does not partake of its nature."''</small>
:<small>-- Marjory Stoneman Douglas''</small> 


* [https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/mar/28/arctic-researcher-donald-trump-deleting-my-citations '''''How destruction of climate science documents/data sets/online info proceeds even as legal actions move to block the administration's attempt to purge facts and scientific evidence''''']


* [https://qz.com/928236/the-word-science-has-disappeared-from-the-mission-statement-of-the-epas-office-of-science-and-technology/ '''''Disappearing “Science” from the Core Mission Statement of the EPA Office of Science and Technology''''']


* [http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/news/press_releases/2017/publc-records-03-23-2017.php '''''Activists Rush to Save Government Science Data''''']
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<big>'''''Challenges: Of Course and We're Taking Them On'''''</big>
<big><big>'''''[[Greening Our Blue Planet]]'''''</big></big>


:[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Planet_Citizen <big>'''''To Be — or Not to Be a Planet Citizen'''''</big>]
::[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Challenge_of_Acting_for_the_Commons.png <big>'''''Acting on Behalf of the Common Good'''''</big>]




: [[File:Earth in Human Hands.jpg]]
:<big><big>'''''New Visions of Security in a Changing World'''''</big></big>
::[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/New_Definitions_of_National_Security <big>'''''Environmental Security & National Security'''''</big>]  


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=='''As the New Year Dawns, We Share a Moment with Planet Citizens'''==


<big>'''''Visit GreenPolicy360's associate, Strategic Demands'''''</big>


<big>'''''To Andrew Revkin, a True 'Planet Citizen' as Dot Earth Signs Off and Andrew Moves on to ProPublica'''''</big>
[http://www.strategicdemands.com <big>''www.strategicdemands.com''</big>]




:[https://www.propublica.org/about/andrew-revkin-to-join-propublica-as-senior-reporter-on-climate-change ''Andrew Revkin to Join ProPublica as Senior Reporter on Climate Change'']
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<big>'''On the Horizon / Strategic Demands'''</big>


* https://www.strategicdemands.com/


'''Planet citizen Bill Mollison, who presented a gift of Permaculture globally'''
* https://www.strategicdemands.com/nuclear-issues-cold-war-2-0/


[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Bill_Mollison_courtesy_of_Permaculture_magazine.jpg '''''In Memory of Bill''''']
* https://www.strategicdemands.com/new-definitions-of-security/


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<big>'''Memories of George Brown, a Planet Citizen Who Envisioned an Environmental Renaissance'''</big>
[[File:We must flatten the curve, yes ... August 2020.jpg]]


[https://plus.google.com/104105656721944993244/posts/34gu9y59nh2 Remembering the 'start-up' of the environmental movement] and the first US environmental laws... founding legal precedents many of which came from forward-looking green visionaries like your GreenPolicy siterunner's friend and mentor, George, who passed away suddenly in 1999.


[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/George_E._Brown_Jr Rep. George E. Brown, Calif]


George's decades of work in Congress in air quality/clean air, water and the founding of the EPA highlighted the era's achievement... George was out in front in "big science" -- his profound accomplishments are esp missed now as [http://inhabitat.com/house-passes-bill-that-prohibits-expert-scientific-advice-to-the-epa/ anti-science positions] threaten in the current US Congress
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<big>'''In Memory of Planet Citizen Konrad Steffen'''</big>


Renowned climate scientist dies in Greenland ice sheet accident


:'''Astronauts Sam Cristoforetti, Ron Garan, and "Overview Effect"'''
* https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/08/13/konrad-steffen-death-climate-change-scientist-dies-greenland/3362486001/


* https://www.cbsnews.com/news/konrad-steffen-koni-climate-scientist-dies-greenland-ice-sheet-crevasse/


:[[File:Astro Sam w new espresso machine's first cuppa java May2015.png]]
* https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/13/climate/konrad-steffen-dead.html


* https://www.dailycamera.com/2020/08/10/konrad-steffen-former-cires-director-dies-in-greenland-accident/


Yes, to Italian "Astro Sam" and her [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/HelloEarth #HelloEarth views and messages] to us here on the home Planet.
* https://twitter.com/algore/status/1292979399005024256


And we greatly appreciate the newest from Astronaut Ron Garan as his interactive project [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Orbital_Perspective '''"Orbital Perspective"'''] is published this week. Some 45 years ago, near the end of December 1968 and beginning of an auspicious 1969, we began seeing the Apollo 8 mission's first-ever images of our "whole earth". It's not overstating to say - these images from above changed everything. These pictures from space looking back at Earth, taken as Apollo circled around the moon, carried realizations with the images -- that together we are [http://www.planetcitizen.org planet citizens].


In 2017, Konrad Steffen talks about the Polar Research Station, climate change and the Greenland landscape


[[File:Apollo Earth 350x350.jpg]] 
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emHW-GKBIfk




We welcomed a perspective that no human had ever had.
Past the 'Point of No Return', the Tipping Point in Greenland


January 1969 was an eye-opener as the images of Earth were broadcast. We celebrated the images and our place in the cosmos even as we, the planet and our populations, were in the midst of violent war and troubled times.
* https://www.sciencealert.com/greenland-s-melting-ice-sheet-has-passed-the-point-of-no-return-scientists-say/


Today, the famous [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/Earthrise_EL-2001-00365h_NASA_Apollo_8_1968.jpg '''Earthrise'''] photo rekindles our memory, and the serendipity of how the Apollo 8 crew was lucky that day as, looking out their window, the Earth suddenly came into view. There was no "mission plan" to take Earth photos and the astronauts scrambled to get to a camera, put in film and shoot a few frames. They were in awe, they said, and fortune was in play that day. There we were, us, Earth. In the Earthrise images our space traveling planet citizens captured  a realization of our wholeness, connectedness, and our shared future as together we spin thru space.  
* https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/08/20/weather/greenland-ice-sheet-melt-climate-intl-hnk/index.html


Later, the Apollo 17 mission, as the program was coming to its end, brought home the "Blue Marble" photograph, the [http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/04/the-blue-marble-shot-our-first-complete-photograph-of-earth/237167/ '''first complete 360° image of our planet'''], a [http://grin.hq.nasa.gov/IMAGES/LARGE/GPN-2000-001138.jpg '''high-res Earth'''] described as the [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Blue_Marble_photo_-_Apollo_17.jpg '''most reproduced photo in history''']. It is the first photograph taken of the whole round Earth and still is only one of the whole earth ever snapped by a human being. Of the two living astronauts, Cernan and Schmitt, who believe they were the photographer who took the photo, here is how one describes his view.... Whichever astronaut of the three aboard Apollo 17 who snapped the picture, what is most memorable is Earth360:


''"You have to literally just pinch yourself and ask yourself the question, silently: Do you know where you are at this point in time and space, and in reality and in existence, when you can look out the window and you're looking at the most beautiful star in the heavens -- the most beautiful because it's the one we understand and we know, it's home, it's people, family, love, life -- and besides that it is beautiful. You can see from pole to pole and across oceans and continents and you can watch it turn and there's no strings holding it up, and it's moving in a blackness that is almost beyond conception."''


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:::::[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Earth_in_Human_Hands.jpg <big><big><big><big>'''Earth in Our Hands'''</big></big></big></big>]


The sense of awe, an Earth point of view, has continued to be communicated by astronauts since and has continued to be shared, more recently with high tech ways to see and experience our Earth as planetary citizens as we see from [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/From_AstroTerry_January2015.png '''the International Space Station''']. The term [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Overview_Effect '''"Overview Effect"'''] begins to share the experience.
::::* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Anthropocene


We celebrate our [http://www.planetcitizens.org Planet Citizens] who bring home messages how we can collaborate to make a difference, to make the world a better place.  
::::* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Science_Vital_Signs


Ron Garan: ''"You don’t need to be an astronaut to have the orbital perspective"...''
::::* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Right_Now


''"When we look down at the earth from space, we see this amazing, indescribably beautiful planet. It looks like a living, breathing organism. But it also, at the same time, looks extremely fragile... Anybody else who's ever gone to space says the same thing because it really is striking and it's really sobering to see this paper-thin layer and to realize that that little paper-thin layer is all that protects every living thing on Earth from death, basically. From the harshness of space."''
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''"The Goal is to bring people along on our space missions not as spectators but as fellow crew mates." -- http://www.rongaran.com/gallery/''
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''"It is truly moving to look at Earth from space. And when we do – we also have the privilege of sharing this orbital perspective with people back on our planet. We are all riding through the universe together on this spaceship we call Earth, we are all interconnected, we are all in this together. We are all family."''


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'''Planet citizen Naomi Klein, "This Changes Everything"'''
: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jdaxehd0cF0 Speaking @ the Bioneers conference, 2014]


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'''Bill McKibben''', founder of [http://www.350.org '''www.350.org'''], [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Bill_McKibben,_planet_citizen '''planet citizen'''], and former advisor to our GreenPolicy new venture.


<small>https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Bill_McKibben,_planet_citizen</small>


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Rebecca envisioned setting up [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:G_Earth_Outreach.jpg "Google Earth Outreach"], she envisioned it, presented the idea, and, as a citizen of the planet, she took a great idea into reality!'''
<big><big><big>'''''Yes We Can (Leave the World a Better Place''''')</big></big></big>


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'''Pope Francis, the first Catholic pontiff to name himself after the patron saint of the environment'''


[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Pope_Francis_on_the_Environment Catholic pontiff speaks of the environment]
::::::::[http://www.planetcitizen.org <big><big><big>'''''Planet Citizen Action'''''</big></big></big>]


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:::::::<big><big><big><big>''Personal action... Direct action...''</big></big></big></big>


'''Winona LaDuke, [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Indigenous_Peoples Native-American environmentalist], economist, [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Ecofeminism ecofeminist] and writer.
::::::::[http://www.planetcitizens.org <big>'''''Planet Citizens, Positive Change'''''</big>]


In 1996 and 2000, Winona ran for Vice President as the nominee of the Green Party of the United States, on a ticket headed by Ralph Nader.
::::::* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Climate_Policy


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


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


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'''Rebecca Solnit'''
:::::::<big><big><big><big>''Green Network, GreenLinks action''</big></big></big></big>


: ''"There are really only two questions for activists: what do you want to achieve? And who do you want to be? And those two questions are deeply entwined...''  
::::::: [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Green_Networking '''''Going Green, #GreenNetworking''''']


::''Every minute of every hour of every day you are making the world, just as you are making yourself, and you might as well do it with generosity and kindness and style. That is the small ongoing victory on which great victories can be built, and you do want victories, don't you?"''  
:::::::: [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/GreenLinks '''''GreenLinks @ GreenPolicy360''''']


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:<big>'''''January 2017'''''</big>
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::::::[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/Methods_of_Nonviolent_Action.pdf <big><big><big>'''''Nonviolent Action in Practice'''''</big></big></big>]


<big>'''''Green Stories of the Day, Become a [http://www.planetcitizen.org Planet Citizen], Join with [http://www.planetcitizens.org Planet Citizens] Around the Globe'''''</big>
::::::<big>'''198 Ways to Act, Count 'em '''</big>


::::::<big>''[[File:Methods of Nonviolent Action.pdf]]''</big>
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[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Green_Stories_of_the_Day <big>'''''GreenPolicy360 Stories of the Day'''''</big>]


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[[File:Another year, another record.png]]
<big><big> '''''Thinking Global'''''</big></big>


:''''Global Forever' Stamps




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[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Arctic <big>'''''Watching the Arctic Thaw</big>]
<big><big> '''''Stepping It Up'''''</big></big>




<big>'''The US and Russia, Exxon and Rosneft, Attempt Political Drive to Launch Historic Gas/Oil Drilling in the Arctic'''</big>  
<big>'''''Climate Activists & Green Organizers: California Builds Bridges to Extend International Cooperation'''''</big>


'''Consequences and Costs Only Beginning to Be Estimated'''
:[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Global_Climate_Action_Summit.png <big>''Global Climate Action Summit''</big>]




[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Arctic '''''Visit GreenPolicy's Arctic Page for Updates''''']
::[[File:Global Climate Action Summit.png]]






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<big><big><big>'''''In Memory of a Florida "Planet Citizen"'''''</big></big></big>


<big>'''''December 2016'''''</big>


'''''Nathaniel Reed, environmental advocate and co-author of the Endangered Species Act, dies at 84'''''


<big>'''''Hear ye, Hear ye'''''</big>


:'''''A 'Planet Citizen', California Governor Jerry Brown steps up [http://blogs.agu.org/geoedtrek/2016/12/14/jerry-brown/ at the AGU] to deliver [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Jerry_Brown_AGU-Dec14,2016.png a speech for the times]'''''
[https://www.tampabay.com/news/environment/Nathaniel-Reed-Florida-environmental-advocate-and-co-author-of-the-Endangered-Species-Act-dies-at-84_169924582 ''Via the Tampa Bay Times / Craig Pittman'']


''Nathaniel "Nat" Reed, 84, a Hobe Sound resident whose childhood ardor for Florida’s natural wonders led to him becoming a tireless crusader for the environment, died in a Quebec hospital Wednesday, according to his family.''


''In a long career spent both in and out of government service, Mr. Reed co-wrote the Endangered Species Act, helped stop the construction of the world’s largest airport in the Big Cypress Swamp, and later founded the group 1,000 Friends of Florida...''


<big>'''''All Hands on Deck'''''</big>


[https://www.theguardian.com/science/political-science/2016/dec/01/nobel-laureates-have-spoken-out-the-battle-to-defend-science-under-trump-has-begun '''''Eyes open, stay sharp, on alert''''']
* [https://youtu.be/oW8Yzj7AlQA ''Advice? "Get educated", a video interview with Nat'']


:''America’s science community is getting organised as never before to hold the new administration and Congress to account''


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<big>'''''To Andrew Revkin, 'Planet Citizen Reporter' as he signs out at Dot Earth & moves on to ProPublica'''''</big>


[https://www.propublica.org/about/andrew-revkin-to-join-propublica-as-senior-reporter-on-climate-change ''Andrew Revkin to Join ProPublica as Senior Reporter on Climate Change'']
[[File:Stephen Hawking-Genius-2016.jpg]]


[http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/12/05/after-nine-years-and-2810-posts-a-dot-earth-farewell/ ''A Dot Earth Farewell'']


[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&profile=default&search=stephen+hawking&fulltext=Search <big>'''Stephen Hawking / "Planet Citizen"'''</big>]


<big>'''''November 2016'''''</big>


::[[File:Earth Right Now.png|link=https://plus.google.com/104105656721944993244/posts/Lq7PpMSjhJF]]
''"Here lies what was mortal of Stephen Hawking 1942 - 2018"''


''June 15, 2018 / More than 1,000 people gathered today for a memorial service in London for theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking whose ashes were buried between graves of Darwin and Newton at Westminster Abbey...''


[[File:Climate Change Agr Nov 4, 2016.png]]


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[[File:PlanetCitizen banner 800x163.jpg|link=http://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/PlanetCitizen_banner.jpg]]


:[http://www.thinbluelayer.com ''www.thinbluelayer.com'']
<font color=green><big>'''A Last(ing) Editorial from Professor Hawking...'''</big></font>


:''https://www.unlimited.world/ubs/stephen-hawking-in-memoriam''




<big><big>'''''This is the most dangerous time for our planet'''''</big></big>


'''''Elon's a planet citizen with energy powering up the vision'''''
''by Stephen Hawking''


[[File:Elon Musk Tesla-Solar City-Solar Roofs.png]]
''Via [https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/dec/01/stephen-hawking-dangerous-time-planet-inequality The Guardian]''




<big>'''''October 2016'''''</big>
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<big>'''''The Military and Climate Security Budgets Compared'''''</big>
<big>''''' "My perceptions of the world shifted" '''''</big>


''The U.S. military’s latest National Security Strategy says that climate change is “an urgent and growing threat to our national security, contributing to increased natural disasters, refugee flows, and conflicts over basic resources like food and water.”''


''What they don’t say is that the overall balance of U.S. security spending should be adjusted to fit that assessment. And we know less about how much we are spending on this urgent threat than we used to, since the federal government hasn’t produced a climate security budget since 2013.''
'''''Aboard the International Space Station. Ride along with Planet Citizen astronauts.'''''  


''In this new report, [http://www.ips-dc.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/CvsC-Report-1.pdf Combat vs. Climate], the Institute for Policy Studies steps in to provide the most accurate climate change security budget currently available, drawing data from multiple agencies. And it looks at how these expenditures stack up within the overall 'security budget.'''
'''''Experience [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Whole_Earth the Whole Earth] and see our home planet through their eyes...'''''


* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Environmental_Security Environmental Security]


* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Environmental_Security,_National_Security Environmental Security, National Security]  
:*[https://www.facebook.com/NGM/videos/10156076557406005/ ''3D Video via Facebook'']


* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Global_Security Global Security]  
:*[https://youtu.be/dwHBpykTloY ''3D Video via YouTube'']


* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/New_Definitions_of_National_Security New Definitions of National Security]




'''''Report: [http://www.ips-dc.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/CvsC-Report-1.pdf Combat Vs. Climate''''']
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:''http://www.ips-dc.org/report-combat-vs-climate/''


[[File:Combat Vs Climate FOC-Oct2016 IPS.png|link=http://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/Combat_vs_Climate-Report-1.pdf]]




[[File:Astro POV - Mike Massimino - PlanetCitizen.png]]




<big>'''Planet Citizen on a Spacewalk'''</big>


[[File:Before the Flood Oct 3, 2016-White House film premiere.png|link=https://www.facebook.com/LeonardoDiCaprio/videos/10153830716807116/]]
'''Mike Massimino'''




::::<big><big>'''Planet Citizens in Action: Update: 2018, Leonardo DiCaprio'''</big></big>
"This is what heaven must look like... I felt like I was looking into a paradise" ... He sounds dramatic, religious, maybe Italian like his name.


Or maybe a green evangelical ''environista'''.


:::::[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Reefscape.png '''Reefscape''']
Floating high, [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:2001_pic3.jpeg Starchild]...


:::::[https://www.leonardodicaprio.org/reefscape-a-global-reef-survey-to-build-better-satellites-for-coral-conservation/ '''Satellite Doves to Aid Coral Conservation''']


:::::[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Planet_API '''Planet API''']
[https://twitter.com/hashtag/PlanetCitizen #PlanetCitizen]




:::::''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.''
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:::::''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:Away fly the Doves March4,2015.png]]




'''''NASA / In the beginning, big ideas required big rockets. Now, we can launch satellites that fit in the palm of our hand.'''''


:[http://inhabitat.com/elon-musk-and-leonardo-dicaprio-discuss-climate-issues-in-before-the-flood-documentary/ ''Before the Flood Documentary'']
'''''Discover how by watching [https://twitter.com/NASA/status/993643757986775042 this video]'''''


:[http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/before-flood-927190 ''Hollywood Reporter Review'']


:[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Leo's_Oscar_Speech_2016.png Leonardo DiCaprio Oscar Speech'']
:* [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Micro-satellites Micro-Satellites] / [http://www.planet.com Planet Doves]


:* [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Democratization_of_Space Democratization of Space]


:* [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_and_Space,_Politics US Politics & Earth Science from Space]


<big><big>'''''Planet Citizens & [http://www.bioneers.org Bioneers]'''''</big></big>
:* [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Earth_Observations Earth Observation]


:[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Bioneers_Lyons,_Kucinich,_DiCaprio_247x225_Sept2014NYC.jpg Bioneers Lyons, Kucinich, DiCaprio]


:Fellow Planet Citizens-Bioneers / Leo's close friend, Oren Lyons, Chief of the Onondaga Iroquois 


:Oren Lyons - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSwmqZ272As "We Are Part of the Earth"] (Video / 7:38)
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:: Speaking to the [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Seventh_Generation Seventh Generation]


::[[File:Oren-lyons.jpg|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSwmqZ272As]]


[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:DSWT-Daphne_hugging_elephant_adoptee.png <big>'''''Orphans No More, Sheldrick Wildlife Trust'''''</big>]


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'''''Conservation Policies vs. Hunting 'Trophies', Poaching, and Destruction of Species'''''


<big>'''''Remembering Rachel, Planet Citizen'''''</big>


[[File:Rachel Carson ecology - ecosystem.png|link=http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Rachel_Carson_ecology_-_ecosystem.png]]
[[File:Elephant trophies.png]]




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<big>'''''September 2016'''''</big>




[[File:ECO-NOMICS.jpg|link=http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Eco-nomics]]
[[File:Starlink-nasa image.jpg]]




[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Eco-nomics <big>'''"Eco-nomics" for the 21st Century'''</big>]
:''February 22, 2018, the beginning of a SpaceX planet-network''


*''A Necessary Challenge to Neoliberal Economics''  
::''SpaceX's ultimate goal is to provide [https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/02/spacexs-satellite-broadband-nears-fcc-approval-and-first-test-launch/ gigabit broadband worldwide]''


*''A Shift from Short-term Profits to Resilient, Sustainable Economies''


::<big><big>'''''"Starlink, Planet Internet"'''''</big></big>


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::* [https://www.pocket-lint.com/gadgets/news/143663-starlink-satellites-will-blanket-earth-with-superfast-internet-by-2025 ''Starlink will 'blanket the earth with superfast internet by 2025''']


[[File:Stephen Hawking Genius on PBS 1.jpg]]
::* [https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/29/fcc-approves-spacex-plan-for-4425-satellite-broadband-network/ ''FCC approves SpaceX plan for 4,425-satellite broadband network'']




<big>'''Stephen Hawking on ITV (and [https://twitter.com/hashtag/HawkingGeniusPBS?src=hash PBS])'''</big>


:'''"Runaway climate change... A rise in ocean temperature would melt the ice-caps... with catastrophic effects." [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Climate_News #AGW #CAGW]'''
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Often referred to as an Einstein of our current era, Stephen Hawking points to ''"runaway climate change"'' as a profound threat to global security. In the same (labored) breath, he communicates a profound warning re: the other existential threat he sees -- [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/max-tegmark/hawking-says-dont-bank-on_b_9606926.html '''nuclear weapons''']. At '''Strategic Demands''' the escalating threat of [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Nuclear_Weapons nuclear weapons] is revealed and tracked -- [http://strategicdemands.com/nuclear-issues-cold-war-2-0/ as Cold War 2.0].
::::<big><u>'''''[[HelloEarth]]'''''</u></big> ○ <big>'''''Earth 'Dailies' [https://epic.gsfc.nasa.gov/ via DSCOVR-EPIC]'''''</big>




[[File:Earth Image Dailies from DSCOVR-EPIC.png | link=https://epic.gsfc.nasa.gov/]]


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:<big>'''''August 2016'''''</big>


:[http://touch.latimes.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-88015513/ <big>'''''Elon Musk & Co'''''</big>]
[[File:The Human Condition - Hannah Arendt.jpg]]


:'''''Renewable Energy: Beyond Tesla with #PlanetCitizen''''' 




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Before there was the Internet, and the World Wide Web, before there was a Digital Revolution, Streaming Data, Wireless and Wired Media always on 24/7/365, there was Hanna warning us about 'Gleichschaltung', the 'coordination process', and how lies are spread ...


The Authoritarian state of mind, the methods and techniques, were being called out for what they were and are as Hannah Arendt looked back at 20th Century conditions that brought on war across the planet.


:<big>'''''July 2016'''''</big>
Arendt warns of conditions that continue to this day...


:[https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2016/jul/11/we-just-broke-the-record-for-hottest-year-9-straight-times <big>'''''Another Record for the Hottest Year'''</big>]
<big>'''[[Disinformation - Online - Dangerous]]'''</big>




[[File:NASA MODIS One week in April 2016.jpg]]
Hannah Arendt made the following comments in 1974 during an interview with the French writer Roger Errera.




'''''Totalitarianism'''''


''Totalitarianism begins in contempt for what you have. The second step is the notion: “Things must change—no matter how, Anything is better than what we have.” Totalitarian rulers organize this kind of mass sentiment, and by organizing it articulate it, and by articulating it make the people somehow love it. They were told before, thou shalt not kill; and they didn’t kill. Now they are told, thou shalt kill; and although they think it’s very difficult to kill, they do it because it’s now part of the code of behavior. They learn whom to kill and how to kill and how to do it together. This is the much talked about Gleichschaltung—the coordination process. You are coordinated not with the powers that be, but with your neighbor—coordinated with the majority. But instead of communicating with the other you are now glued to him. And you feel of course marvelous. Totalitarianism appeals to the very dangerous emotional needs of people who live in complete isolation and in fear of one another.''


<big>'''''Climate Change Denial in Motion'''''</big>


:'''''Defenders of Fossil Fuel Business-as-Usual Push Defense'''''
''Hannah Arendt - If, everybody lies to you, if everybody always lies to you, the consequence is not that you believe the lies, but rather that nobody believes anything any longer…And a people that can no longer believe anything, cannot make up its mind. It is deprived, not only of its capacity to act, but also of its capacity to think and to judge. And with such a people, you can then do what you please.''


[https://insideclimatenews.org/news/31082016/lamar-smith-calls-science-committee-hearings-discuss-exxon-subpoenas-maura-healey-eric-schneiderman '''''Via Inside Climate News''''']


''August 31, 2016 - The chairman of the House Science Committee has announced a hearing next month into the refusal by two state attorneys general to comply with subpoenas seeking information on their investigations into ExxonMobil...''  
'''''Lies'''''


''The moment we no longer have a free press, anything can happen. What makes it possible for a totalitarian or any other dictatorship to rule is that people are not informed; how can you have an opinion if you are not informed? If everybody always lies to you, the consequence is not that you believe the lies, but rather that nobody believes anything any longer. This is because lies, by their very nature, have to be changed, and a lying government has constantly to rewrite its own history. On the receiving end you get not only one lie—a lie which you could go on for the rest of your days—but you get a great number of lies, depending on how the political wind blows. And a people that no longer can believe anything cannot make up its mind. It is deprived not only of its capacity to act but also of its capacity to think and to judge. And with such a people you can then do what you please.''


<big>'''''US House Science Committee Acts to Defend ExxonMobile Against Attorneys General'''''</big>


[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/ExxonMobil_and_US_House_Science_Committee_v_US_Attorneys_General_and_Environmental_Groups '''''ExxonMobile Faces Multi-state AG Investigation''''']
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'''''Time for Facts, Fact Checking, Reasoned Judgment & Thoughtfulness'''


* https://www.nybooks.com/articles/1978/10/26/hannah-arendt-from-an-interview/


<big>'''''Politics: US Democratic Party Platcom Meetings'''''</big>
* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Disinformation_-_Online_-_Dangerous


[http://grist.org/election-2016/sanders-final-win-climate-action-in-the-democratic-platform/ '''''Democratic Party environmental positions voted into platform''''']
* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Fact_Checking


:[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Democratic_Party_Platform_Committee,_2016_-_Green_Issues_Transcript_from_Real_News '''''Update from the Democratic Party Platform Hearing on Environmental/Climate Issues''''']
* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Good_science_needs_good_data_.png


* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Stats_-_Green_Research_%26_Science


[https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/aug/03/climate-crisis-media-relegates-greatest-challenge-hurtle-us-collapse-planet '''''Via George Monbiot''''']


''August 3, 2016 -- This (year), on current trends, will be the hottest year ever measured. The previous record was set in 2015; the one before in 2014. Fifteen of the 16 warmest years have occurred in the 21st century. Each of the past 14 months has beaten the global monthly temperature record. But you can still hear people repeating the old claim, first proposed by fossil fuel lobbyists, that global warming stopped in 1998. Arctic sea ice covered a smaller area last winter than in any winter since records began...''


''If you blinked you would have missed the reports, but perhaps the most striking aspect of the Democratic platform (the party’s manifesto) approved in Philadelphia last week was its position on climate change. Hillary Clinton’s campaign now promises a national and global mobilisation “on a scale not seen since World War II”. She will seek to renegotiate trade deals to protect the living world, to stop oil drilling in the Arctic and Atlantic, and to ensure the US is “running entirely on clean energy by mid-century”.''
<big>Vita Contemplativa / Vita Activa</big>


''There are some crashing contradictions in the platform. To judge by one bizarre paragraph, the Democrats believe they can solve climate change by expanding roads and airports. It boasts about record sales in the car industry and promises to cut “red tape”, which is the term used by corporate lobbyists for the public protections they hate. But where it is good it is very good, reflecting the influence of Bernie Sanders and the nominees he proposed to the drafting committee.''


''Donald Trump, on the other hand – well, what did you expect? Climate change is a “con-job” and a “hoax” that was “created by and for the Chinese in order to make US manufacturing non-competitive”.''
'''Green 'Vita Activa''''


''His manifesto reads like a love letter to the coal industry. Coal, it says, “is an abundant, clean, affordable, reliable domestic energy resource”. He will defend the industry by rejecting the Paris agreement, stopping funds for the UN’s climate change work, ditching President Obama’s clean power plan and forbidding the Environmental Protection Agency from regulating carbon dioxide.''
Stay aware, Be thoughtful, Act with knowledge and wisdom




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[[File:Living Earth.png]]
<big><big>'''''Planet Citizens, Digital Rights @GreenPolicy360'''''</big></big>




<big>'''''Warning Signs: The Great Barrier Reef'''''</big>
:* [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Strategic_Policy-Internet_Online_Rights '''''An Internet Bill of Rights''''']


:* [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Digital_Citizen '''''Digital Citizen''''']


[[File:Great Barrier Reef May 2016 m.png]]
:* [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Digital_Rights '''''Digital Rights''''']


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


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:* [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Online_Privacy '''''Online Privacy''''']




<big>'''''Earth Day / Countries Signing Climate Action Plans'''''</big>
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::[http://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/blog/2016/04/parisagreementsingatures '''''Paris Agreement Signatures Today at the UN in New York''''']


'''''Via Mother Jones''''' - [http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2016/04/paris-agreement-signing-earth-day '''''Something Genuinely Good for the Earth Is Happening on Earth Day''''']
[[File:Nowhere to Hide.jpg]]


::[http://touch.latimes.com/#section/2426/article/p2p-86754843/ '''''175 Nations Sign on Earth Day''''']




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[[File:A Stark Nuclear Warning from William J Perry.png]]




[[File:Ocn logo.png | link=http://www.wri.org/our-work/project/open-climate-network]]
:[[File:My-Journey-at-the-Nuclear-Brink Perry-235x300.png]]




:[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:My-Journey-at-the-Nuclear-Brink_Perry-235x300.png <big>'''''On the Eve of Destruction'''''</big>]


[[File:INDC signings 175 countries on Earth Day 2016.png | link=http://cait.wri.org/indc/#/ratification]]


[https://nyti.ms/2GJgxTA '''''U.S. Signals Nuclear Arms Are Back (Again!) in a Big Way''''']




[[File:Earth day 2016.jpg]]
* ''http://strategicdemands.com/us-nuclear-posture-review-released/''


* ''http://strategicdemands.com/nuclear-weapons-time/''


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* ''http://strategicdemands.com/two-minutes-midnight/''




<big>'''''Solar Energy / EVs / ZEVs / NextGen Trans'''''</big>


<big><big>'''''"Surviving Victory":'''''</big></big>


<big>'''Going Green'''</big> [[File:Best Practices check sm.png | link=http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Going_Green]]
'''''Moving Away from "Perpetual War"'''''




''''''Planet Citizen' Elon introduces the [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Tesla,_electric_cars Model 3]'''''
'''''Shifting from Fossil Fuel Causes of Conflict to Renewable Energy Alternatives'''''


:* https://www.strategicdemands.com/costsofwar/


[[File:Elon.jpg]]
:* https://www.strategicdemands.com/new-definitions-of-security/


:* https://www.strategicdemands.com/nuclear-issues-cold-war-2-0/


''Elon Musk: The car represents the culmination of a long-held dream to bring affordable, zero-pollution vehicles [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/EV_Corridors_Electric_Vehicles_Zero_Emission_Vehicles to the world's highways]...''


''With [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Global_CO2_Emissions_1900-2010.png CO2 levels] and [https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2016/04/19/in-march-earths-temperature-deviated-more-from-normal-than-any-previous-month/ global temperatures at record highs], the Model 3 will help bring engineering solutions to the climate change problem.''  
'''''"Strategic Demands, a 21st Century Vision"'''''


[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/EV_Corridors_Electric_Vehicles_Zero_Emission_Vehicles '''''EV - Electric- and Zero-Emission Vehicles Corridors'''''] -- ''As of April 20, 2016 - 20,823 Alternative fuel stations mapped in the United States''
:[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Surviving_Victory:_Security_Priorities '''Survival Strategies, Security Priorities''']




[[File:Tesla Model 3 Introduced.jpg]]
:* http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Surviving-Victory-conference-Washington-DC-2006.pdf


:* http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Surviving_Victory.png


[[File:Renewable Potential US-Utility Scale PV.png]]


[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:New_Definitions_of_National_Security.png New Definitions of National Security]


[[File:Earthrise2015 m.png]]
:* [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Environmental_Security Environmental Security pages @GreenPolicy360]


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:* [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Global_Security Global Security pages @GreenPolicy360]


<big><big>'''''A Question of Questions'''''</big></big>


''A multi-language [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Thank-you-thank-you_s.jpg ''''Thank You''''] to Planet Citizens:'' [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:The_World_Is_Blue.jpg '''''~ Sylvia Earle'''''], [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Bill_McKibben,_planet_citizen '''''~ Bill McKibben'''''] ''and'' [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Elon-musk_and_tesla_alternative_to_fossil_energy.jpg '''''~ Elon Musk''''']


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== [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Climate_News '''''Planet Citizen/Climate Citizen News'''''] ==




[[File:PlanetCitizen banner 2.jpg|link=http://www.thinbluelayer.com]]


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<big>'''''Polls: Planet citizens & global citizenship'''''</big>


[http://www.bbc.com/news/world-36139904 '''''BBC: 'Global citizenship' on Upward Trend''''']


[[File:Best Practices check sm.png]] [https://www.climaterealityproject.org/blog/ten-ways-get-involved-people-climate-movement <big><big><font color=green><u>'''''Get Going with Climate Action'''''</u></font></big></big>]


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* https://www.strategicdemands.com/environmental-security/




<big>'''''After a Year in Space, Scott Kelly Says: I'm an Environmentalist'''''</big>
<big>'''''International Climate Conference Updates'''''</big>


''"The Earth is a beautiful planet. It's practically everything to us. It's very important to our survival, and the Space Station is a great vantage point to observe it, and to share our planet in pictures," Kelly said during a press conference on his return from the International Space Station.''
[[File:Climate Change Conf Nov 6-17.png]]


''His photos earned him a wide social media following as he gazed down on everything from smog-choked cities to spiraling hurricanes and typhoons.''


''"You notice how the atmosphere looks and how fragile it looks," Kelly said. "It makes you more of an environmentalist after spending so much time looking down at our planet."
:* http://unfccc.int/2860.php


''Kelly now holds the NASA record for the most days in space as an American astronaut and is currently undergoing a battery of medical tests along with his twin brother, former astronaut Mark Kelly in order to help NASA learn more about how the human body changes throughout long-duration stays in space.''
:* https://cop23.unfccc.int/


:* https://cop23.unfccc.int/news/cop23-kicks-off-with-strong-calls-to-hold-to-paris-agreement-path


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<big>'''''Back in the USA: Climate Politics'''''</big>
<big>''United States only country to refuse climate change agreement''</big>


''"US Supreme Court's order blocking President Obama’s plan to cut emissions from coal-burning power plants is unprecedented step and one of the most environmentally harmful decisions ever made by the nation’s highest court"''
* http://e360.yale.edu/features/why-post-paris-climate-challenge-is-even-harder-than-we-thought


:* [http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/17/business/economy/next-supreme-court-justice-will-be-crucial-to-climate-change.html '''''Next US Supreme Court Justice Will Be Crucial to US Climate Policy''''']
* http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=57807#.Wdga_1tSy70


:* [http://e360.yale.edu/feature/the_courts_irresponsible_action_threatens_vital_climate_policies/2962/ '''''Supreme Court’s Action Threatens Vital Climate Policies''''']


:* [http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-35605916 '''''Consequences if the US Quits Climate Agreement''''']
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<big>'''''Changes/Turnarounds at the US Energy Department'''''</big>


[http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/energy-environment/348716-energy-dept-whistleblowers-can-resist-trump-perry-from ''Via 'The Hill' / Resisting the Trump-Perry Agenda'']


[http://www.tinybluegreen.com <big><big>'''''Tiny Blue Green'''''</big></big>]
''Technological change and market forces are making clean energy competitive with dirty fossil and nuclear energy, helped along by small tax credits (which are nonetheless dwarfed by much larger fossil fuel and nuclear subsidies).''


''Coal-fired power generation capacity has decreased, nuclear capacity has stagnated, and even natural gas capacity has barely ticked upward — while solar and wind capacity have grown by double digits. Plus, according to Perry's own department, wind and solar now employ hundreds of thousands more Americans than older industries like coal.''


:[[File:Prochlorococcus blue-green.tiny ones.png|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ty5puoADMU]]
''Together with impressive advances in energy storage and smart grid technology, those trends are reducing the need for a large baseload capacity by making it possible to store renewable energy and distribute it wherever it's needed.''




:'''''"A single kind of blue-green algae in the ocean produces the oxygen in one of every five breaths we take"'''''  
[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Renewable_Energy '''''Renewable Energy @ GreenPolicy''''']
:: ~ ''from "The World Is Blue: How Our Fate and the Ocean’s Are One" by Sylvia Earle''


::''Visit GreenPolicy360's new site, proposed and co-designed by 14 yr old Olivia Schmidt''
: [http://www.netzeropolicy.com '''''www.netzeropolicy.com''''']


:[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Phytoplankton.jpg '''''Oh Phyto!!'''''] -- the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zooplankton '''''Zooplankton'''''] ''Keep On Hanging On & Drifting Along with You!!''


:[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Planet_Citizens,_Planet_Scientists '''''Planet Citizens, Planet Scientists''''']
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::~ [http://www.tinybluegreen.com '''''www.tinybluegreen.com''''']


[https://www.carbonbrief.org/mapped-climate-change-laws-around-world <big><u>'''''Climate Change Laws Around the World'''''</u></big>]


: [http://www.lse.ac.uk/GranthamInstitute/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Global-trends-in-climate-change-legislation-and-litigation-WEB.pdf <big><u>'''''Trends in Climate Change Legislation'''''</u></big>]


::[[File:Planktonbluegreen tinyones.jpg]]
* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Environmental_Laws




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[http://www.thinbluelayer.com <big><big>'''''Thin Blue Layer'''''</big></big>]


::''Remembering an Astronaut who was one of the first to look back at Planet Earth and our [http://www.thinbluelayer.com thin, fragile atmosphere]''
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::''Astronaut Mitchell telling us how profoundly beautiful -- and in danger -- our world was from his [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Overview_Effect 'Planet Overview']'' 




::<big>'''''February 4, 2016 ... In memory of Edgar Mitchell'''''</big>
<big><big>'''''Continuing Cutbacks at US Environmental Protection Agency'''''</big></big>


::[[File:Edgar Mitchell 1930-2016.png|link=https://vimeo.com/154398850]]


::''One of Mitchell's last interviews -- "In the big picture... we are stardust, this was a wow experience...''  
[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Pruitt%27s_EPA.png '''''Citing the Bible, the EPA Just 'Blew Up' Its Science Advisory Boards''''']
::''as we were coming home... where you see things in their natural state... a feeling of oneness"''




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<big><big>'''''Climate Agreement In Paris'''''</big></big>
<big><big>'''''Fire Scientists, Shut Down Advisory Panels, Remove Data'''''</big></big>


<big>'''''Renewable Energy Investment Growth'''''</big>
: [https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/14/donald-trump-climate-change-mentions-government-websites '''''Slice and Dice, Hack and Chop, Delete and Disappear the Climate Language''''']


:: [https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/under-trump-inconvenient-data-is-being-sidelined/2017/05/14/3ae22c28-3106-11e7-8674-437ddb6e813e_story.html '''''Trump admin has hidden or taken offline 40,000 data sets that used to be public''''']


[[File:Renewable Energy investment growth chart 2004-2014.jpg]]
::: [https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/05/07/epa-dismisses-half-of-its-scientific-advisers-on-key-board-citing-clean-break-with-obama-administration/ '''''EPA dismisses half of key board’s scientific advisers; Interior suspends more than 200 advisory panels''''']


:::: [http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/donald-trump-epa-website-turn-off-environmental-protection-agency-government-administration-a7698736.html '''''Government Failure: Order to shut down access to data services''']


[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/INDCs ''''' "Toward a Renewable Energy Future:" Implementing the 'INDCs' ''''']


[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:INDC '''''GreenPolicy's list of Countries & Climate Action INDC Plans''''']
[[File:About Baselines and Change.png]]


'''''Moving Beyond the Goals in [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Intended_Nationally_Determined_Contributions Each Nation's INDC-Climate Plan''''']




[[File:Paris 1.5 s.jpg|link=https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/2646001/Final-COP21-draft.pdf]]
<big>'''''Environmental Protection Agency Open Being 'Data-Edited'?</big>


: https://opendata.epa.gov/home.xhtml?view
:: https://opendata.epa.gov/home.xhtml
::: https://catalog.data.gov/dataset?q=environment
:::: https://twitter.com/hashtag/EPAdata


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<big>'''''A Generation's Challenge'''''</big>
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[https://www.iea.org/topics/renewables/ '''''Renewables ----'''''] [https://100.org/100-goes-global-maps/ ''''''Decarbonizing' ---- Transitioning to Clean Energy Globally]


<big>'''''The Physics of Climate Change/Global Warming'''''</big>


<big>'''''In Paris for the Climate Summit'''''</big>


[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Climate_Change_Summit_Paris '''''Paris Climate Agreement: Moments''''']
[[File:Floating floating over the ocean seas.jpg|link=https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Arctic]]


[http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/14/opinion/falling-short-on-climate-in-paris.html '''''Falling Short on Climate in Paris''''']


[http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-mckibben-paris-un-climate-conference-20151129-story.html '''''What the Paris conference on climate change can do for planet Earth''''']


[[File:Anti science, anti open data - EPA April 2017.png|link=http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/donald-trump-epa-website-turn-off-environmental-protection-agency-government-administration-a7698736.html]]


[[File:Planet Citizen @ParisSummit Dec1.png|link=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2015/12/01/these-are-the-key-tricky-details-that-will-determine-whether-the-paris-climate-meeting-succeeds/]]




[https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2015/12/12/proposed-historic-climate-pact-nears-final-vote/ '''''Chris Mooney/Washington Post after the Paris Agreement''''']  
[[File:Global Temp Chart-sources-1880-2016.png]]


[https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2015/12/12/countries-just-adopted-a-historic-climate-change-accord-heres-what-happens-next/ '''''What happens next?''''']




[[File:Work to do to get to renewable goals.jpg]]


<big><big>'''''You Can Run from the Facts, but the Facts Are What They Are'''''</big></big>


'''''November '''''
[https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/apr/24/why-we-joined-the-march-for-science <big>''''' March to Support Science: Facts Matter'''''</big>]


<big>'''''Road to Paris'''''</big>


[http://350.org/global-climate-march/ '''''Global Climate March - News/Actions''''']
<big><u>'''''[[Stats - Green Research & Science]]'''''</u></big>


''Paris marches rescheduled -- 2,000+ worldwide climate change events ready-to-go ... 175+ Countries''


[https://www.avaaz.org/en/event/globalclimatemarch/?slideshow ''Events/Locations''] [https://twitter.com/350 ''350.org''] [https://twitter.com/hashtag/ClimateMarch?src=hash ''#ClimateMarch'']
'''''Carl Sagan, Planet Citizen, Lecture Notes for Astronomy 490 Class at the Smithsonian Museum'''''
: https://cdn.loc.gov/service/mss/mss85590/033/033.pdf
: https://www.loc.gov/item/cosmos000035/


[http://newsroom.unfccc.int/cop21parisinformationhub/ '''''Paris Climate Summit, Opening Nov 30 - Information Hub''''']


[http://unfccc.int/2860.php '''''Agenda -- Meetings -- Schedule''''']
'''''The 'Pale Blue Dot' '''''
: https://www.loc.gov/item/cosmos000110/ (Recording)


[http://www.carbonbrief.org/explainer-the-legal-form-of-the-paris-climate-agreement '''''Important: Legal forms for Paris climate agreement''''']




[[File:BreathingEarth.gif|link=https://youtu.be/r2yLSLmnsY4]]
<big>'''''March for Science'''''</big>


:: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_for_Science
::: https://satellites.marchforscience.com/
:::: https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:March_for_Science-2.png
::::: https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Bill_nye-march_for_science-earth_day.jpg


<big>'''''Join In, Act, Follow, Be Out in Front'''''</big>


[https://youtu.be/r2yLSLmnsY4 <big>'''''It's Your Breathing Planet'''''</big>]


: [https://twitter.com/hashtag/ClimateAction?src=hash #climateaction]
<big><u>'''''[[Earth and Space, Politics]]'''''</u></big>


: [https://twitter.com/hashtag/COP21?src=hash #COP21]


: [https://twitter.com/hashtag/INDCs?src=hash #INDCs]
GreenPolicy360 & StrategicDemands.com advocating for --


: [https://twitter.com/hashtag/ClimateChange?src=hash #climatechange]
<big><u>'''''[[New Definitions of National Security]]'''''</u></big>




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[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/New_Definitions_of_National_Security "New Definitions of National Security"]


[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Look_at_how_thin_our_atmosphere_is "Look at how thin our atmosphere is"]


[http://www.monbiot.com/2015/10/30/nothing-to-see-here/ ''Eco-disaster viewed from satellite'']




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'''''DSCOVR/EPIC New Site Goes Live'''''
'''[[Earth Science Research from Space]]'''
:''Visit EarthPOV for Latest News''


[http://www.earthpov.com '''''EarthPOV.com''''']


[http://epic.gsfc.nasa.gov/ '''''A million mile view''''']
<big><big>'''''Radiant Earth Project'''''</big></big>




[[File:DSCOVR-EPIC ImagingofPlanetEarth.png]]
''Open geospatial data for positive global impact, and improved decision-making''


''Over the past five years the number of operational satellites has jumped 40%, and nearly 1,400 now orbit the Earth.''


[[File:DSCOVR-EPIC ImagingofPlanetEarth 2.png]]
''This number could more than double over the next five years as satellites become smaller, lighter and more affordable.''


'''''Satellites collecting data and monitoring the Earth'''''


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''Applications are far reaching - from tracking plant health through chlorophyll to gauging the impact of natural disasters and the surveillance of illegal logging.''


''India recently participated in the launch of 104 satellites — 101 of them for foreign companies and agencies - in a single mission as part of its strategic bid for a bigger share of the $300 billion global space industry.


<big>'''''"Northern Lights over Alaska"'''''</big> ''
''Experts at the Seattle summit said the multiple launch, described as a world record by its space agency, was also significant because 88 were shoebox-sized Dove satellites launched by [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Planet_Labs_Doves_Fly Planet], a San Francisco-based private satellite operator founded by former NASA scientists.''
:--- ''2015, photo by Astronaut Scott Kelly from the International Space Station''


''The constellation of small satellites will, once settled into orbit in six months' time, will photograph the entire Earth every day.''


[[File:Northern Lights over Alaska from Astro Scott, Oct2015.jpg]]
''"Satellite imagery might be one of the most powerful and unbiased tools to tell people what is going on with the planet", explains Albert Lin, Research Scientist at the University of California, San Diego.''


''The key, he said, lay in finding ways to translate enormous amounts of information into something that can be understood by everyone.''


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''This means finding ways of sorting and interlinking the trillions of bits of data sent to Earth and re-construct them into readable, digital and sometimes 3D models.''


''In some cases, data can be analyzed with the help of communities of "citizen scientists sitting alone at their computers all over the world."''


<big><big>'''''Environmental Security: a Planet Citizen Vision'''''</big></big>
''"This is a wake-up call that satellite imagery is not just about questions and insights but also about engaging the entire planet in observing the planet, together."''  


<big>'''''Climate Summit / Road to Paris'''''</big>
<small>
* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:New_Space


[http://unfccc.int/resource/docs/2015/cop21/eng/07.pdf ''UN / Climate Plans "Synthesis Report"] -- Oct 30''
* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Science_Research_from_Space


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


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


* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Imaging-New_Space


<big>2020 Update: From Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac</big>
* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Micro-satellites </small>




[[File:In the UK, US, time to choose the future.jpg]]


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<big>''Christiana Figueres'' [https://twitter.com/CFigueres ''@CFigueres'']</big>


:''Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change''
[[File:Foley on March29,2017.png]]


[[File:Politics and Science in the House un-Science Committee.png]]


:[https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/3qkkzw/i_am_christiana_figueres_the_top_un_climate/ ''Figueres - REDDIT AMA -- Oct 28'']




'''''UN Climate Action @UNFCCC'''''
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* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Climate_Change_Summit_Paris
:''October 19, 2015''


:''Opening plenary of the latest @UN climate negotiations''
:* ''http://bit.ly/1OObz76''


:[https://twitter.com/hashtag/ADP2?src=hash ''#ADP2'']
'''''[http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/news/press_releases/2017/publc-records-03-23-2017.php Press Release] / March 23, 2017'''''


:''#ADP2 session... steps toward Paris... Focus!''  
<big>'''''Actions to Protect Earth Science/Climate Data'''''</big>


:[https://twitter.com/CFigueres/status/656024169868611584/photo/1 ''pic.twitter.com/A63Cyfds2N'']
'''''Records Requests Seek to Preserve Hundreds of Data Sets on Wildlife, Oil Industry, Climate Change, Sea-level Rise'''''


''WASHINGTON — The Center for Biological Diversity, along with noted conservation biologist Stuart Pimm and the Center for Media and Democracy, launched an effort today to prevent hundreds of environmental data sets on government websites from being removed by the Trump administration.''


[[File:Trending Green News link-image.jpeg|link=https://twitter.com/Momentum_UNFCCC]]
''To preserve or resurrect what has already been removed by the administration, the centers and Dr. Pimm submitted three separate Freedom of Information Act requests for data sets to eight federal agencies: the Army Corps of Engineers, the Council on Environmental Quality, the Environmental Protection Agency, NASA and the departments of agriculture, commerce, energy and interior.''


''Under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), when federal agencies receive requests for the same records three or more times, they must make the records freely available to the public on their websites, a rule known as “the Beetlejuice provision.”''


''Follow'' [https://twitter.com/UNFCCC ''@UNFCCC'']
''“By removing or hiding hundreds of data sets [http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/campaigns/open_government/pdfs/2017_03_23_Center_PIMM_DMD_Compiled_Datasets_FOIA.pdf [PDF]] containing critical information about the climate, wildlife and the health of our oceans, Trump and his cronies are blatantly trying to conceal the truth from the American people,” said Amy Atwood, a senior attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity. “Thankfully our scientists have the Freedom of Information Act to keep this vital information in the light of day.”''


:''#COP21 #INDCs #climatechange #climateaction''  
''Today’s legal requests seek hundreds of data sets on energy usage, renewables, oil and gas projections, coal reserves, climate data, sea-level rise, human population, environmental justice and the status of scores of endangered and threatened species and other wildlife. More specifically, they seek information relating to conservation of aquatic systems, residential energy consumption and Endangered Species Act “Section 7” consultations, a step taken by federal agencies to avoid jeopardizing listed species.''


''Media outlets have reported on the loss and vulnerability of federal data relating to some of today’s most pressing environmental issues, pointing out the disappearance of data sets from agency websites under the Trump administration and documenting scientists’ efforts to save them.''


''“The U.S. government produces and maintains some of the most important information that scientists use in their research,” said Dr. Stuart Pimm, a Duke University professor and research scientist — and a founder of conservation biology — and the second requester of data. “Along with the Herculean efforts of volunteer scientists around the country, I’m doing what I can to protect this information because it’s critical these data remain available to academic institutions for scientists and future generations.”''


<big><big>'''''UN Conferences / Eyes on the Future'''''</big></big>


* [https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/mar/28/arctic-researcher-donald-trump-deleting-my-citations '''''How destruction of climate science documents/data sets/online info proceeds even as legal actions move to block the administration's attempt to purge facts and scientific evidence''''']


:[[File:Sustainable Development Goals.jpg|link=http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Sustainable_Development_Goals_-_UN_Conference_2015]]
* [https://qz.com/928236/the-word-science-has-disappeared-from-the-mission-statement-of-the-epas-office-of-science-and-technology/ '''''Disappearing “Science” from the Core Mission Statement of the EPA Office of Science and Technology''''']


* [http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/news/press_releases/2017/publc-records-03-23-2017.php '''''Activists Rush to Save Government Science Data''''']


[http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/28/world/limited-progress-seen-even-as-more-nations-step-up-on-climate.html?_r=0 '''''"We can commit to do more."''''']


:''- Gavin Schmidt, NASA Goddard climate science director''
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<big>'''Memories of George Brown, a Planet Citizen Who Envisioned an Environmental Renaissance'''</big>


[https://plus.google.com/104105656721944993244/posts/34gu9y59nh2 Remembering the 'start-up' of the environmental movement] and the first US environmental laws... founding legal precedents many of which came from forward-looking green visionaries like your GreenPolicy siterunner's friend and mentor, George, who passed away suddenly in 1999.


'''''ClimateCentral (@ClimateCentral)'''''
[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/George_E._Brown_Jr Rep. George E. Brown, Calif]
: ''Oct 20, 2015''


: ''150 countries representing approx 90% of world’s carbon emissions have [http://www.climatecentral.org/news/150-countries-pledge-to-curb-emissions-19560 filed pledges]''
George's decades of work in Congress in air quality/clean air, water and the founding of the EPA highlighted the era's achievement... George was out in front in "big science" -- his profound accomplishments are esp missed now as [http://inhabitat.com/house-passes-bill-that-prohibits-expert-scientific-advice-to-the-epa/ anti-science positions] threaten in the current US Congress




[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Intended_Nationally_Determined_Contributions '''''@ GreenPolicy, Review Climate Action National Plans/INDCs''''']
[http://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2015/oct/16/which-countries-are-doing-the-most-to-stop-dangerous-global-warming '''''Which Countries Are Doing the Most?''''']


[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Sustainable_Development_Goals_-_UN_Conference_2015 '''''Sustainable Development Goals''''']
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[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/UN_Framework_Convention_on_Climate_Change-2015 '''''@ GreenPolicy, 2015 UN Climate Change Conference''''']
:'''Astronauts Sam Cristoforetti, Ron Garan, and "Overview Effect"'''


[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:United_Nations_Framework_Convention_on_Climate_Change ''The International Climate Conference in Paris'']


* ''http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Climate_Conference_-_Paris_2015''  
:[[File:Astro Sam w new espresso machine's first cuppa java May2015.png]]




[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:We_Mean_Business_on_Climate_Change_2015.png ''We Mean Business on Climate Change''] 
Yes, to Italian "Astro Sam" and her [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/HelloEarth #HelloEarth views and messages] to us here on the home Planet.


And we greatly appreciate the newest from Astronaut Ron Garan as his interactive project [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Orbital_Perspective '''"Orbital Perspective"'''] is published this week. Some 45 years ago, near the end of December 1968 and beginning of an auspicious 1969, we began seeing the Apollo 8 mission's first-ever images of our "whole earth". It's not overstating to say - these images from above changed everything. These pictures from space looking back at Earth, taken as Apollo circled around the moon, carried realizations with the images -- that together we are [http://www.planetcitizen.org planet citizens].




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We welcomed a perspective that no human had ever had.


<big><big>'''''Historic Earth Images from the DSCOVR Mission'''''</big></big>
January 1969 was an eye-opener as the images of Earth were broadcast. We celebrated the images and our place in the cosmos even as we, the planet and our populations, were in the midst of violent war and troubled times.


'''''GreenPolicy assists the NASA mission team'''''
Today, the famous [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/Earthrise_EL-2001-00365h_NASA_Apollo_8_1968.jpg '''Earthrise'''] photo rekindles our memory, and the serendipity of how the Apollo 8 crew was lucky that day as, looking out their window, the Earth suddenly came into view. There was no "mission plan" to take Earth photos and the astronauts scrambled to get to a camera, put in film and shoot a few frames. They were in awe, they said, and fortune was in play that day. There we were, us, Earth. In the Earthrise images our space traveling planet citizens captured  a realization of our wholeness, connectedness, and our shared future as together we spin thru space.


'''''December 2015'''''
Later, the Apollo 17 mission, as the program was coming to its end, brought home the "Blue Marble" photograph, the [http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/04/the-blue-marble-shot-our-first-complete-photograph-of-earth/237167/ '''first complete 360° image of our planet'''], a [http://grin.hq.nasa.gov/IMAGES/LARGE/GPN-2000-001138.jpg '''high-res Earth'''] described as the [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Blue_Marble_photo_-_Apollo_17.jpg '''most reproduced photo in history''']. It is the first photograph taken of the whole round Earth and still is only one of the whole earth ever snapped by a human being. Of the two living astronauts, Cernan and Schmitt, who believe they were the photographer who took the photo, here is how one describes his view.... Whichever astronaut of the three aboard Apollo 17 who snapped the picture, what is most memorable is Earth360:


''"You have to literally just pinch yourself and ask yourself the question, silently: Do you know where you are at this point in time and space, and in reality and in existence, when you can look out the window and you're looking at the most beautiful star in the heavens -- the most beautiful because it's the one we understand and we know, it's home, it's people, family, love, life -- and besides that it is beautiful. You can see from pole to pole and across oceans and continents and you can watch it turn and there's no strings holding it up, and it's moving in a blackness that is almost beyond conception."''


[http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=86353 '''''First images of Moon and Earth from DSCOVR-EPIC''''']


[[File:Blue Marble photo - Apollo 17.jpg]]


'''''July 2015'''''


[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Planet_Citizens ''Planet Citizens, DSCOVR and the New Blue Marble'']
The sense of awe, an Earth point of view, has continued to be communicated by astronauts since and has continued to be shared, more recently with high tech ways to see and experience our Earth as planetary citizens as we see from [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/From_AstroTerry_January2015.png '''the International Space Station''']. The term [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Overview_Effect '''"Overview Effect"'''] begins to share the experience.


''[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/DSCOVR-EPIC_187_1003705_americas_dxm.png '''Planet Earth], the first whole Earth image since the original Blue Marble image taken by [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Apollo_17 Apollo 17] in 1972.'''''
We celebrate our [http://www.planetcitizens.org Planet Citizens] who bring home messages how we can collaborate to make a difference, to make the world a better place.  


'''''DSCOVR-EPIC images will begin to be made available by September.'''''  
Ron Garan: ''"You don’t need to be an astronaut to have the orbital perspective"...''


''GreenPolicy will assist in the release of these historic online views of Earth, made available in near real time, in coordination with Dr. Szabo and the NASA/NOAA DSCOVR project team.''
''"When we look down at the earth from space, we see this amazing, indescribably beautiful planet. It looks like a living, breathing organism. But it also, at the same time, looks extremely fragile... Anybody else who's ever gone to space says the same thing because it really is striking and it's really sobering to see this paper-thin layer and to realize that that little paper-thin layer is all that protects every living thing on Earth from death, basically. From the harshness of space."''


''"The high quality of the EPIC images exceeded all of our expectations in resolution," said Adam Szabo, DSCOVR project scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. "The images clearly show desert sand structures, river systems and complex cloud patterns. There will be a huge wealth of new data for scientists to explore."''
''"The Goal is to bring people along on our space missions not as spectators but as fellow crew mates." -- http://www.rongaran.com/gallery/''


''http://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-satellite-camera-provides-epic-view-of-earth''
''"It is truly moving to look at Earth from space. And when we do – we also have the privilege of sharing this orbital perspective with people back on our planet. We are all riding through the universe together on this spaceship we call Earth, we are all interconnected, we are all in this together. We are all family."''


* ''http://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/DSCOVR/''


* ''http://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/DSCOVR/press.html''
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* ''http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=86257''


'''Planet citizen Naomi Klein, "This Changes Everything"'''
: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jdaxehd0cF0 Speaking @ the Bioneers conference, 2014]




; <big><big>''#Earth360 Updates''</big></big>
[[File:Naomi Klein speaking at the Bioneers conf.png|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jdaxehd0cF0]]


<big>'''''Planet Citizen will be assisting in delivering NASA/NOAA DSCOVR/EPIC data and imagery'''''</big>


'''''The [http://www.planetcitizen.org Planet Citizen] site will be expanding to highlight the new DSCOVR products and EPIC whole earth images'''''


''In addition to a new [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:NASA '''NASA'''] [http://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/DSCOVR/ '''DSCOVR/EPIC] website in development''' and '''a selection of #‎Earth360‬ images planned to be made available online daily beginning in August''', there will be '''unprecedented accompanying data/imagery made avail for ‪#‎EarthScience‬ and climate/atmospheric monitoring.''
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''The following is from a NASA Goddard communication, March 11th to us @PlanetCitizen, discussing additional calibrated data products to come from DSCOVR...''


>''The individual 10 different wavelength EPIC data will be served from the Atmospheric Science Data Center (ASDC) at Langley ('''https://eosweb.larc.nasa.gov''') Once we will be active, on the left side of this page DSCOVR will appear as a project. Clicking on it will give you a list of available products...''


[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:DSCOVR_w_EPICcam,_PlasMag_%26_NISTAR.png '''The DSCOVR satellite with its EPIC cam, PlasMag & NISTAR instrument package''']... is on a million mile journey and in approx four months, DSCOVR will "light up", be tested, and begin delivering data to Earth. In its historic mission, DSCOVR and its EPIC imaging system will begin sending near real-time images of the whole Earth... it has been many years since whole Earth images have been readily available...
'''Bill McKibben''', founder of [http://www.350.org '''www.350.org'''], [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Bill_McKibben,_planet_citizen '''planet citizen'''], and former advisor to our GreenPolicy new venture.


<small>https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Bill_McKibben,_planet_citizen</small>




'''''It's been decades since December 7, 1972 when the only picture ever snapped by a human of the whole earth was captured -- [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Blue_Marble_photo_-_Apollo_17.jpg our iconic "Blue Marble" Planet Earth.] NASA engineers named the historic image -- '''AS17-148-22727'''
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As we have been recalling the history, '''we haven't had returned to us a 'whole earth' image since 1972'''. Today, the Associated Press reports Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Florida, pointing out from Washington that there hasn't been a "full, sunlit picture of the Earth since [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Apollo_17 '''Apollo 17'''] in 1972 - NASA's last manned moon-landing mission". Subsequent images "have been stitched together", the Senator explained, for composite shots. The Florida Senator has an exceptional point of view re: this amazing fact, as he was an astronaut who flew on the Space Shuttle from Florida's "Space Coast". In January 1986, Nelson spent six days orbiting Earth as a payload specialist aboard space shuttle Columbia. His NASA bio adds "The experience gave him a new perspective on the Earth’s fragile environment and a greater appreciation of the importance of our nation’s space exploration program."


The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Space_Climate_Observatory DSCOVR satellite] launches into deep orbit with multiple missions -- to monitor space weather and, due to the satellite's orbital distance from Earth (1 mil miles), DSCOVR will be sending back daily images of the whole earth via its EPIC image-taking system and via its NISTAR system [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 measuring earth's earth's temperature, our "radiation balance" ("albedo").]


[[File:Rebecca Google Outreach.jpg]]


'''''"DSCOVR will be beaming back a steady stream of images of our home planet from space... with the images expected to be available online the next day."'''''  
<h3 id="story-heading" class="story-heading">'''GreenPolicy360 highlights Rebecca Moore'''</h3>


'''''"They'll be posted on a website for the public to see," said Steven Clarke, director of NASA's Joint Agency Satellite Division. "I think it will be an inspiration for people to see the sunlit disk of the Earth."'''''
Rebecca envisioned setting up [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:G_Earth_Outreach.jpg "Google Earth Outreach"], she envisioned it, presented the idea, and, as a citizen of the planet, she took a great idea into reality!'''






''"Most impressive from DSCOVR will be the images of us, Planet Earth 360°. To see ‪and to experience #‎Earth360‬ daily, it's going to be a spectacular re-reminder of our place in the cosmos..." - Steven Schmidt'' ‪
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''Scientists will soon get a steady stream of data about how both the Earth and the Sun are doing, for years to come.''


'''''The livestream of our planet will inform, immerse and inspire. Online the images from DSCOVR and EPIC will deliver majestic new visions of our home planet.'''''


'''Pope Francis, the first Catholic pontiff to name himself after the patron saint of the environment'''


[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Pope_Francis_on_the_Environment Catholic pontiff speaks of the environment]


''For many Earth scientists, the centerpiece of the satellite is the National Institute of Standards Advanced Radiometer, or '''NISTAR''', named for the Maryland-based government laboratory that designed it. The apparatus was built to shed light on Earth’s “radiation balance”—the radiation we receive from our sun minus the radiation we reflect back into space. The difference is retained by our planet as heat, and is calculated by measuring Earth’s reflectivity, called the albedo. Data showing whether Earth’s albedo is decreasing, meaning the atmosphere is retaining more heat because of greenhouse gases or other reasons, could be a significant piece of the climate puzzle.


''What is revolutionary isn’t the basic technology for tracking albedo — it is measuring it from the million-mile perspective out at L1. Most satellites circle the planet at about one-thousandth of that distance, so their readings encompass only a small slice of land, a view that shifts rapidly as they circle the planet every two hours or so. Different climate zones — ice caps, deserts, tropical forests—have different reflectivities, independent of the atmosphere, which needs to be factored in to the overall measurement; it’s virtually impossible to create a whole-Earth portrait from a deck of low-orbit snapshots. “By the time you stitch together all the separate bits of data, the margin of error is too large to be useful,” [http://www.nasa.gov/about/highlights/asrar_bio.html Dr. Asrar] at NASA says.''
[[File:Pope, protecting nature is a moral issue April 2015.jpg]]


''DSCOVR is "like having a thermometer for the whole planet.” It’s not a perfect gauge, NASA’s '''Dr. Adam Szabo''' cautions. “Earth is… a sphere that reflects light in all directions. So a measurement from any one point will not be the final word. But it will still be very important for the conversation about climate change.”''




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; <big><big>''New Ways to See and Experience Planet Earth''</big></big>


[[File:Winona laduke.jpg]]


<big>'''''How Beautiful Planet Earth Is'''''</big>


'''Winona LaDuke, [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Indigenous_Peoples Native-American environmentalist], economist, [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Ecofeminism ecofeminist] and writer.


[[File:Immersive Earth experience.jpg | link=http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Overview_Effect]]
In 1996 and 2000, Winona ran for Vice President as the nominee of the Green Party of the United States, on a ticket headed by Ralph Nader.




[http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov//vis/a010000/a011800/a011858/Earth_from_Orbit_2014_prores.webm '''''EARTH FROM ORBIT / VIDEO IN HD''''']


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'''View the [http://www.thinbluelayer.com 'Thin Blue'], Earth's Life-enabling Atmosphere'''
'''Rebecca Solnit'''


<big>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouv1Un1F36A&feature=youtu.be '''''Watching Earth Roll By: On the International Space Station''''']</big>
: ''"There are really only two questions for activists: what do you want to achieve? And who do you want to be? And those two questions are deeply entwined...''  


[[File:ISS in HD 2015.png|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouv1Un1F36A&feature=youtu.be]]
::''Every minute of every hour of every day you are making the world, just as you are making yourself, and you might as well do it with generosity and kindness and style. That is the small ongoing victory on which great victories can be built, and you do want victories, don't you?"''




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<big><big>[https://www.urthecast.com/live '''''Planet Live via UrtheCast''''']</big></big>
:<big>'''''January 2017'''''</big>




<big>'''''Green Stories of the Day, Become a [http://www.planetcitizen.org Planet Citizen], Join with [http://www.planetcitizens.org Planet Citizens] Around the Globe'''''</big>


<big><big>[http://www.ustream.tv/channel/iss-hdev-payload '''''Earth Viewing Live via UStream''''']</big></big>


[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Green_Stories_of_the_Day <big>'''''GreenPolicy360 Stories of the Day'''''</big>]


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<big><big>'''''Visit Google Earth's 10th anniversary:</big></big>
[[File:Another year, another record.png]]


<big>'''''Journey with Voyager +'''''</big>


<big>[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Google_Earth '''''Introducing Voyager'''''] ''&'' [https://earthview.withgoogle.com/ '''''Earth View''''']</big>


[[File:Arctic1 by Timo Lieber 800x480.jpg]]






[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Planetary.org <big>'''''Going Planetary.org'''''</big>]
[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Arctic <big>'''''Watching the Arctic Thaw</big>]  


[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earthviews_from_Astronauts '''''Earthviews from Above''''']


[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Apollo.jpg '''''Remember "Earthrise" ''''']
<big>'''The US and Russia, Exxon and Rosneft, Attempt Political Drive to Launch Historic Gas/Oil Drilling in the Arctic'''</big>


[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Blue_Marble_Collection '''''Our "Blue Marble"''''']
'''Consequences and Costs Only Beginning to Be Estimated'''


[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Pale_blue_dot ''''' "The only home we've got..." ''''']


[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Arctic '''''Visit GreenPolicy's Arctic Page for Updates''''']


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; <big><big>''Planet Labs 'Doves' fly from the ISS''</big></big>
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[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Micro-satellites '''''Planet Labs & NanoRacks''''']


[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Planet_Labs_Doves_Fly '''''Doves''''']
<big>'''''Hear ye, Hear ye'''''</big>


:'''''A 'Planet Citizen', California Governor Jerry Brown steps up [http://blogs.agu.org/geoedtrek/2016/12/14/jerry-brown/ at the AGU] to deliver [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Jerry_Brown_AGU-Dec14,2016.png a speech for the times]'''''


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<big>'''''Planet Citizen: Elon'''''</big>
<big>'''''All Hands on Deck'''''</big>


''Consider how years ago now, NASA put out a call about launching services for the DSCOVR mission -- Guess who was one of those who replied? A young visionary dreaming of what could be, even before his [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX '''SpaceX'''] was ready to go... [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk Elon Musk, becoming a planet citizen]. He spoke of how the iconic whole earth [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Blue_Marble_photo_-_Apollo_17.jpg "Blue Marble" photo] of Earth had inspired him to dream and to move his technology plans toward a space & earth connection.''  
[https://www.theguardian.com/science/political-science/2016/dec/01/nobel-laureates-have-spoken-out-the-battle-to-defend-science-under-trump-has-begun '''''Eyes open, stay sharp, on alert''''']


:''America’s science community is getting organised as never before to hold the new administration and Congress to account''


[[File:Blue Marble photo - Apollo 17.jpg]]


<big>'''''To Andrew Revkin, 'Planet Citizen Reporter' as he signs out at Dot Earth & moves on to ProPublica'''''</big>


[https://www.propublica.org/about/andrew-revkin-to-join-propublica-as-senior-reporter-on-climate-change ''Andrew Revkin to Join ProPublica as Senior Reporter on Climate Change'']


[http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/12/05/after-nine-years-and-2810-posts-a-dot-earth-farewell/ ''A Dot Earth Farewell'']




[[File:Earth (03-02-15) 432x768.jpg]]


::[[File:Earth Right Now.png|link=https://plus.google.com/104105656721944993244/posts/Lq7PpMSjhJF]]


; <big><big>''Overview and Perspective''</big></big>


'''''See and experience the Earth in new ways'''''
[[File:Climate Change Agr Nov 4, 2016.png]]


[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Overview_Effect '''''The Overview Effect''''']


[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Orbital_Perspective '''''Orbital Perspective''''']
[[File:PlanetCitizen banner 800x163.jpg|link=http://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/PlanetCitizen_banner.jpg]]


:[http://www.thinbluelayer.com ''www.thinbluelayer.com'']


'''''January 2015'''''




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* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Overview_Effect Overview Effect]
* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Orbital_Perspective Orbital Perspective]
* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Imaging-New_Space Earth Imaging-"New Space"]
* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Planet_API Planet API]
* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Right_Now "Earth Right Now, Vital Signs"]
* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Citizen_Science Citizen Science]
* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Planet_Citizens,_Planet_Scientists Planet Citizens, Planet Scientists]
* [http://www.green-horizon.org/eos-part-3/ EOS Eco Operating System - 3]
* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Virtual_Earth Virtual Earth Maps]


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StrategicDemands.com: Time for '''[[New Definitions of National Security]]'''




<big>'''''The Military and Climate Security Budgets Compared'''''</big>


''The U.S. military’s latest National Security Strategy says that climate change is “an urgent and growing threat to our national security, contributing to increased natural disasters, refugee flows, and conflicts over basic resources like food and water.”''


''What they don’t say is that the overall balance of U.S. security spending should be adjusted to fit that assessment. And we know less about how much we are spending on this urgent threat than we used to, since the federal government hasn’t produced a climate security budget since 2013.''


''In this new report, [http://www.ips-dc.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/CvsC-Report-1.pdf Combat vs. Climate], the Institute for Policy Studies steps in to provide the most accurate climate change security budget currently available, drawing data from multiple agencies. And it looks at how these expenditures stack up within the overall 'security budget.'''


&nbsp;
* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Environmental_Security Environmental Security]


* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Environmental_Security,_National_Security Environmental Security, National Security]


* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Global_Security Global Security]


* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/New_Definitions_of_National_Security New Definitions of National Security]




'''''Report: [http://www.ips-dc.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/CvsC-Report-1.pdf Combat Vs. Climate''''']
:''http://www.ips-dc.org/report-combat-vs-climate/''


[[File:Combat Vs Climate FOC-Oct2016 IPS.png|link=http://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/Combat_vs_Climate-Report-1.pdf]]






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[[File:Before the Flood Oct 3, 2016-White House film premiere.png|link=https://www.facebook.com/LeonardoDiCaprio/videos/10153830716807116/]]


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::::<big><big>'''Planet Citizens in Action: Update: 2018, Leonardo DiCaprio'''</big></big>


; <big><big>''#Earth360: The Overview''</big></big>


:::::[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Reefscape.png '''Reefscape''']


[[File:'Thin Blue Layer' of Earth's Atmosphere m.jpg]]
:::::[https://www.leonardodicaprio.org/reefscape-a-global-reef-survey-to-build-better-satellites-for-coral-conservation/ '''Satellite Doves to Aid Coral Conservation''']


[http://strategicdemands.com/earthoverview/ '''''As the New Year Dawns, Earth from Space''''']
:::::[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Planet_API '''Planet API''']


'''''With appreciation ~ for the space experience and the wisdom of the [http://www.overviewthemovie.com/the-overview-effect-and-overview-2/ Overview Effect]'''''


[http://vimeo.com/55073825 '''''Overview''''']
:::::''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.''


[http://vimeo.com/60234866 '''''Planetary'''''] --- [https://vimeo.com/ondemand/planetary/121840700 '''''Planetary, trailer, pre-release March 2015''''']
:::::''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.''




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<big><big>'''''From Above, beauty and awe...'''''</big></big>




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:[http://inhabitat.com/elon-musk-and-leonardo-dicaprio-discuss-climate-issues-in-before-the-flood-documentary/ ''Before the Flood Documentary'']


:[http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/before-flood-927190 ''Hollywood Reporter Review'']


[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FG0fTKAqZ5g&list=UUIcA_1j7WQ8VXyygM6qI-fw '''''All Alone in the Night''''']  
:[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Leo's_Oscar_Speech_2016.png Leonardo DiCaprio Oscar Speech'']




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<big><big>'''''Planet Citizens & [http://www.bioneers.org Bioneers]'''''</big></big>


:[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Bioneers_Lyons,_Kucinich,_DiCaprio_247x225_Sept2014NYC.jpg Bioneers Lyons, Kucinich, DiCaprio]


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:Fellow Planet Citizens-Bioneers / Leo's close friend, Oren Lyons, Chief of the Onondaga Iroquois 


:Oren Lyons - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSwmqZ272As "We Are Part of the Earth"] (Video / 7:38)
:: Speaking to the [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Seventh_Generation Seventh Generation]


[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOAEIMx39-w '''''The View Outside My Window''''']  
::[[File:Oren-lyons.jpg|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSwmqZ272As]]




[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:The_Home_Planet.jpg '''''Astronaut Alex Gerst: A 'Planet Citizen's' view of Earth'''''...]
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<big>'''''Remembering Rachel, Planet Citizen'''''</big>


[[File:Rachel Carson ecology - ecosystem.png|link=http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Rachel_Carson_ecology_-_ecosystem.png]]




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; <big><big>''"Game changer"''</big></big>


'''''Historic Orbiting Carbon Observatory Satellite Sends Back Most Detailed CO2 View Ever / Dec 18, 2014'''''
[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Eco-nomics <big>'''"Eco-nomics" for the 21st Century'''</big>]


*''A Necessary Challenge to Neoliberal Economics''


[http://climate.nasa.gov/blog/1105/ '''''OCO-2 begins to measure atmospheric CO2 levels with unprecedented science''''']
*''A Shift from Short-term Profits to Resilient, Sustainable Economies''  




[http://disc.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/OCO-2/data-holdings/oco-2 '''''The 'Initial Level 1 round'] of data was made available to the public on Dec 30, 2014.''''' 
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'''''A full set of CO2 data is available in March for scientists and public "planet citizens" to download and explore'''''
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: [http://phys.org/news/2014-08-oco-.html '''''First OCO Data via Phys.org''''']
<big>'''Stephen Hawking on ITV (and [https://twitter.com/hashtag/HawkingGeniusPBS?src=hash PBS])'''</big>


: [http://news.discovery.com/earth/global-warming/nasa-satellite-sends-back-most-detailed-co2-view-141218.htm ''Discover OCO'']
:'''"Runaway climate change... A rise in ocean temperature would melt the ice-caps... with catastrophic effects." [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Climate_News #AGW #CAGW]'''


: [http://www.nature.com/news/satellite-maps-global-carbon-dioxide-levels-1.16615 '' OCO @ Nature'']


Often referred to as an Einstein of our current era, Stephen Hawking points to ''"runaway climate change"'' as a profound threat to global security. In the same (labored) breath, he communicates a profound warning re: the other existential threat he sees -- [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/max-tegmark/hawking-says-dont-bank-on_b_9606926.html '''nuclear weapons''']. At '''Strategic Demands''' the escalating threat of [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Nuclear_Weapons nuclear weapons] is revealed and tracked -- [http://strategicdemands.com/nuclear-issues-cold-war-2-0/ as Cold War 2.0].


: [http://oco.jpl.nasa.gov/science/ocodatacenter/ '''''Sample Data'''''] -- [https://co2.jpl.nasa.gov/ '''''OCO-2 Data Portal''''']


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[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Blue_Marble_Collection '''''For #PlanetCitizen gazing, visit the "Blue Marble" Collection''''']


[http://strategicdemands.com/security-design/ '''''Security by Design, new definitions of national security to be found in environmental security, planning for global trends''''']


:[http://touch.latimes.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-88015513/ <big>'''''Elon Musk & Co'''''</big>]


:'''''Renewable Energy: Beyond Tesla with #PlanetCitizen''''' 


'''''November 2014'''''


[http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/you-are-here-around-world-92-minutes-chris-hadfields-photos-earth-space-1471014 '''''You Are Here''''']
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[http://www.fastcocreate.com/3038304/lessons-in-combining-art-and-science-and-shooting-dope-photos-from-rockstar-astronaut-chris-#6 '''''And Here!''''']


:[https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2016/jul/11/we-just-broke-the-record-for-hottest-year-9-straight-times <big>'''''Another Record for the Hottest Year'''</big>]


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[[File:NASA MODIS One week in April 2016.jpg]]


[https://plus.google.com/u/0/104105656721944993244/posts/KWKPZequzoL '''''Up Here, #EarthPOV''''']


[http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/ '''''Earth's Observation's new website''''']


[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8OBbY3Z_uY '''''Vid Watch''''']


[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5_GlAOCHyE '''''Look''''']
<big>'''''Climate Change Denial in Motion'''''</big>


[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Aurora_Australis.ogv '''''Green Skies''''']
:'''''Defenders of Fossil Fuel Business-as-Usual Push Defense'''''


[https://insideclimatenews.org/news/31082016/lamar-smith-calls-science-committee-hearings-discuss-exxon-subpoenas-maura-healey-eric-schneiderman '''''Via Inside Climate News''''']
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''August 31, 2016 - The chairman of the House Science Committee has announced a hearing next month into the refusal by two state attorneys general to comply with subpoenas seeking information on their investigations into ExxonMobil...''


<big>'''''Earth: How are you?'''''</big>


: [https://twitter.com/EarthVitalSigns '''''@EarthVitalSigns''''']
<big>'''''US House Science Committee Acts to Defend ExxonMobile Against Attorneys General'''''</big>


: [https://twitter.com/hashtag/earthrightnow ''#EarthRightNow'']  
[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/ExxonMobil_and_US_House_Science_Committee_v_US_Attorneys_General_and_Environmental_Groups '''''ExxonMobile Faces Multi-state AG Investigation''''']




* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/Hello2.jpg '''''Looking out at our home planet from the International Space Station''''']


* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Nov-8-2014_2-01-50_PM_EST.jpg '''''Look mom, look''''']


* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Pictures_from_ISS '''''Where are you? Find your place on #PlanetEarth''''']
<big>'''''Politics: US Democratic Party Platcom Meetings'''''</big>


* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Look_at_how_thin_our_atmosphere_is '''''"Thin Blue" ... www.thinbluelayer.com''''']  
[http://grist.org/election-2016/sanders-final-win-climate-action-in-the-democratic-platform/ '''''Democratic Party environmental positions voted into platform''''']  


* [http://www.pinterest.com/stratdem/environmental-security/ '''''Environmental Security...''''']  
:[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Democratic_Party_Platform_Committee,_2016_-_Green_Issues_Transcript_from_Real_News '''''Update from the Democratic Party Platform Hearing on Environmental/Climate Issues''''']




[https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/aug/03/climate-crisis-media-relegates-greatest-challenge-hurtle-us-collapse-planet '''''Via George Monbiot''''']


''August 3, 2016 -- This (year), on current trends, will be the hottest year ever measured. The previous record was set in 2015; the one before in 2014. Fifteen of the 16 warmest years have occurred in the 21st century. Each of the past 14 months has beaten the global monthly temperature record. But you can still hear people repeating the old claim, first proposed by fossil fuel lobbyists, that global warming stopped in 1998. Arctic sea ice covered a smaller area last winter than in any winter since records began...''


=== [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/PlanetCitizen#About_PlanetCitizen '''''About Planet Citizen'''''] ===
''If you blinked you would have missed the reports, but perhaps the most striking aspect of the Democratic platform (the party’s manifesto) approved in Philadelphia last week was its position on climate change. Hillary Clinton’s campaign now promises a national and global mobilisation “on a scale not seen since World War II”. She will seek to renegotiate trade deals to protect the living world, to stop oil drilling in the Arctic and Atlantic, and to ensure the US is “running entirely on clean energy by mid-century”.''


''There are some crashing contradictions in the platform. To judge by one bizarre paragraph, the Democrats believe they can solve climate change by expanding roads and airports. It boasts about record sales in the car industry and promises to cut “red tape”, which is the term used by corporate lobbyists for the public protections they hate. But where it is good it is very good, reflecting the influence of Bernie Sanders and the nominees he proposed to the drafting committee.''


<big>'''''#PlanetCitizen''''' '''''#EarthPOV'''''</big>
''Donald Trump, on the other hand – well, what did you expect? Climate change is a “con-job” and a “hoax” that was “created by and for the Chinese in order to make US manufacturing non-competitive”.''


''His manifesto reads like a love letter to the coal industry. Coal, it says, “is an abundant, clean, affordable, reliable domestic energy resource”. He will defend the industry by rejecting the Paris agreement, stopping funds for the UN’s climate change work, ditching President Obama’s clean power plan and forbidding the Environmental Protection Agency from regulating carbon dioxide.''


SJS/GreenPolicy360 Siterunner:


In the 1960s in the US and globally a modern environmental movement was being created as first-ever visions of Planet Earth were sent from Apollo missions. The images of the Whole Earth in space changed perceptions in every nation. A realization of a common, shared home -- and responsibility to care for our home -- was born.
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Soon political leaders stepped up, both looking backward and forward. A new field of science, earth science, began to spring up. In the US Congress, leaders like George Brown were saying no to war in Vietnam and Asia, and the Mideast, and no to nuclear weapons, while saying yes to a first generation of NASA earth science missions.


This was called 'Big Science' by some and 'its a critical mission' by others.
<big>'''''Warning Signs: Warming Oceans and the Great Barrier Reef'''''</big>


Rep. George E. Brown was out in front.


From the mid 1960s until his death in 1999, his work in Congress was instrumental in proposing, shaping, and protecting Big Science - Earth Science.
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Our new era of '''#Earth360 exploration''', using the tools of the digital age and Internet connectivity, is making it possible to see and experience a [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/Nov-8-2014_2-01-50_PM_EST.jpg connected, Planet Earth 360] and to begin studying life-enabling systems (and life-threatening changes) with means never before possible.
<big>'''''Earth Day / Countries Signing Climate Action Plans'''''</big>


Space- and earth-based observation platforms are delivering "intelligence reports" in effect, strategic insights that can broaden our knowledge and perceptions of who we are and how we respond to our '''global, common future'''.
::[http://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/blog/2016/04/parisagreementsingatures '''''Paris Agreement Signatures Today at the UN in New York''''']
In unprecedented ways, intelligence about our planet's systems can be shared and networked via the worldwide web and a larger Internet, linking us together wherever our community and whatever our nation.


We look out at a critical, developing field of [http://strategicdemands.com/environmental-security/ '''#EnvironmentalSecurity'''] as a generation of Planet Citizen voyagers.
'''''Via Mother Jones''''' - [http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2016/04/paris-agreement-signing-earth-day '''''Something Genuinely Good for the Earth Is Happening on Earth Day''''']


::[http://touch.latimes.com/#section/2426/article/p2p-86754843/ '''''175 Nations Sign on Earth Day''''']


* '''Planet Citizens and GreenPolicy hold a simple value proposition:'''


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* '''''Cleaner air and water and food is a good thing. Reducing pollution is a necessary thing. Health of our environment is a vital thing.'''''


[[File:Ocn logo.png | link=http://www.wri.org/our-work/project/open-climate-network]]
* '''Science is essential to [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 'measure and manage'] [http://www.earthpov.com #PlanetEarth] in sustainable, productive, life enhancing ways.'''




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== '''''An API for the Planet''''' ==


[[File:Earth day 2016.jpg]]


[http://www.planet.com/ ''www.Planet.com'']


[https://www.planet.com/pulse/ ''Planet Labs Pulse'']
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[http://t.co/dfsywixUg6 '''''#PlanetLabs @Open Source Conference''''']


[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Planet_API '''''With the Planet-Lab Platform, Connect to our Planet as Citizens of the Planet''''']
<big>'''''Solar Energy / EVs / ZEVs / NextGen Trans'''''</big>


[http://vimeo.com/88602839 '''''Mission: Democratizing Access to Information About the Changing Planet''''']


<big>'''Going Green'''</big> [[File:Best Practices check sm.png | link=http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Going_Green]]


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[[File:Renewable Potential US-Utility Scale PV.png]]


[http://nyti.ms/1BzljLJ '''''Planet Labs/NYT''''']


[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Planet_Labs_Doves_Fly '''''Launch of new Flock of Dove Satellites to Image Earth''''']  
[[File:Earthrise2015 m.png]]


[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/Dove_minisat_launch_from_ISS_m.png '''''Doves fly''''']
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[http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/news/girl_scouts_orbital_2/ '''''Doves flock''''']


[http://www.planet.com/flock1/ '''''Planet Labs 'Dove' micro-satellites''''']
<big><big>'''''A Question of Questions'''''</big></big>


''A multi-language [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Thank-you-thank-you_s.jpg ''''Thank You''''] to Planet Citizens:'' [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:The_World_Is_Blue.jpg '''''~ Sylvia Earle'''''], [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Bill_McKibben,_planet_citizen '''''~ Bill McKibben'''''] ''and'' [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Elon-musk_and_tesla_alternative_to_fossil_energy.jpg '''''~ Elon Musk''''']


''"Rapid cadence imagery, [http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/03/17/qa-with-steve-jurvetson-space-investor-and-rocket-maker like Planet Labs is developing], helps us become better, more sustainable stewards of Earth."''
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== [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Climate_News '''''Planet Citizen/Climate Citizen News'''''] ==




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[[File:PlanetCitizen banner 2.jpg|link=http://www.thinbluelayer.com]]




<big>'''''Polls: Planet citizens & global citizenship'''''</big>


=== [http://strategicdemands.com/environmental-security/ '''''Environmental Security @Strategic Demands'''''] ===
[http://www.bbc.com/news/world-36139904 ''''''Global citizenship' on Upward Trend''''']  


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:[http://strategicdemands.com/about/ '''21st Century definitions of national and international security'''] 


A realization that "'''Security is indivisible'''" is on the horizon and security definitions are changing as a result of the dynamics of interactive networks.


The sharing of information is creating a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linked:_The_New_Science_of_Networks '''new science of networking''']. Information is being looked at as never before and '''#earthscience''' data is now being collected by networked computers across an interconnected world. In historic ways, open data is being publicly distributed far beyond the restrictive policies of previous times and closed-loop systems.
'''Remembering Bucky & Yes, we are on 'Spaceship Earth''''


Today #earthsciences are at the cusp of a rich new world of information. As we share these new realizations, images, data, experiences and understandings, we can be certain of a new, growing awareness of our planet and our 'citizenship' together. 
: Buckminster Fuller, who helped to open our eyes to the big picture


Even now, we have inklings of what is coming. Let's look at one called [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/OCO-2 '''OCO-2''']. With the launch of OCO-2, a "game changer", in the summer of 2014, the data of #Earth360 will grow in unprecedented ways as this first orbiting observatory of global warming conditions takes to space and begins to report home - [https://twitter.com/IamOCO2 '''I am OCO-2''']


Although the '''Orbiting Carbon Observatory''' is just the beginning, the future of #earthscience from space is here as we see in new ways and observe our environment with new information never before accessible. Space-imaging is opening up amazing views, with 3D and big-screens and home theaters. Coming soon will be views beyond IMAX as companies like Virgin and SpaceX carry citizen travelers into orbit. Educational and scientific information about our communities is being shared, and linked to, and distributed around the Net. From space, the earth is borderless and with vision of the planet and common-good #biosphere and #ecosystem comes responsibility for our shared security.
: [[File:Bucky Trimtab.jpg]]


On to first steps... [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Nov-8-2014_2-01-50_PM_EST.jpg '''We are all connected'''] and wherever we are, geographically, nationally, we share common-ground and common-atmosphere. Let's look at our home and, with an "overview" from space, see the 'Big Picture' and let's look at the details, let's manage and sustain our earth resources and, as we go, look to our shared quality of life on the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozXVgQUUPNQ '''"only home we've ever known."''']




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<big>'''''After a Year in Space, Scott Kelly Says: I'm an Environmentalist'''''</big>


''"The Earth is a beautiful planet. It's practically everything to us. It's very important to our survival, and the Space Station is a great vantage point to observe it, and to share our planet in pictures," Kelly said during a press conference on his return from the International Space Station.''


'''''Here's to our future and future of [http://strategicdemands.com/environmental-security/ #Environmental Security]'''''
''His photos earned him a wide social media following as he gazed down on everything from smog-choked cities to spiraling hurricanes and typhoons.''  


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''"You notice how the atmosphere looks and how fragile it looks," Kelly said. "It makes you more of an environmentalist after spending so much time looking down at our planet."


== <big>'''''The Big Picture: Earth from Space''''' </big>==
'''[[Overview Effect]]'''


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''Kelly now holds the NASA record for the most days in space as an American astronaut and is currently undergoing a battery of medical tests along with his twin brother, former astronaut Mark Kelly in order to help NASA learn more about how the human body changes throughout long-duration stays in space.''


::[[File:Earth Day Flag.png]].


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'''Our world of is in flux.'''
 
 
<big>'''''Back in the USA: Climate Politics'''''</big>
The term [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/New_Space "New Space"] and [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Democratization_of_Space "Democratization of Space"] have come to represent a first generation of earth research and study from space by start up companies designing, building and launching small, mini- and micro-satellites.  
 
 
''"US Supreme Court's order blocking President Obama’s plan to cut emissions from coal-burning power plants is unprecedented step and one of the most environmentally harmful decisions ever made by the nation’s highest court"''
New visions of Earth and new players are challenging the old system of governments that spend billions to explore, commercialize and militarize space.  
 
 
:* [http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/17/business/economy/next-supreme-court-justice-will-be-crucial-to-climate-change.html '''''Next US Supreme Court Justice Will Be Crucial to US Climate Policy''''']
Barriers to entry are being broken and [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Micro-satellites young companies are launching flocks of satellite birds into space]. Earth monitoring is going planetary and a next generation is at the forefront pushing to address threats to the environment.
 
:* [http://e360.yale.edu/feature/the_courts_irresponsible_action_threatens_vital_climate_policies/2962/ '''''Supreme Court’s Action Threatens Vital Climate Policies''''']
 
:* [http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-35605916 '''''Consequences if the US Quits Climate Agreement''''']
 
 
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[http://www.tinybluegreen.com <big><big>'''''Tiny Blue Green'''''</big></big>]
 
 
:[[File:Prochlorococcus blue-green.tiny ones.png|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ty5puoADMU]]
 
 
:'''''"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''
 
::''Visit GreenPolicy360's new site, proposed and co-designed by 14 yr old Olivia Schmidt''
 
:[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Phytoplankton.jpg '''''Oh Phyto!!'''''] -- the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zooplankton '''''Zooplankton'''''] ''Keep On Hanging On & Drifting Along with You!!''
 
:[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Planet_Citizens,_Planet_Scientists '''''Planet Citizens, Planet Scientists''''']
 
::~ [http://www.tinybluegreen.com '''''www.tinybluegreen.com''''']
 
 
 
::[[File:Planktonbluegreen tinyones.jpg]]
 
 
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[http://www.thinbluelayer.com <big><big>'''''Thin Blue Layer'''''</big></big>]
 
::''Remembering an Astronaut who was one of the first to look back at Planet Earth and our [http://www.thinbluelayer.com thin, fragile atmosphere]''
::''Astronaut Mitchell telling us how profoundly beautiful -- and in danger -- our world was from his [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Overview_Effect 'Planet Overview']'' 
 
 
::<big>'''''February 4, 2016 ... In memory of Edgar Mitchell'''''</big>
 
::[[File:Edgar Mitchell 1930-2016.png|link=https://vimeo.com/154398850]]
 
::''One of Mitchell's last interviews -- "In the big picture... we are stardust, this was a wow experience...''
::''as we were coming home... where you see things in their natural state... a feeling of oneness"''
 
 
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<big><big>'''''Climate Agreement In Paris'''''</big></big>
 
<big>'''''Renewable Energy Investment Growth'''''</big>
 
 
[[File:Renewable Energy investment growth chart 2004-2014.jpg]]
 
 
[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/INDCs ''''' "Toward a Renewable Energy Future:" Implementing the 'INDCs' ''''']
 
[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:INDC '''''GreenPolicy's list of Countries & Climate Action INDC Plans''''']
 
'''''Moving Beyond the Goals in [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Intended_Nationally_Determined_Contributions Each Nation's INDC-Climate Plan''''']
 
 
[[File:Paris 1.5 s.jpg|link=https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/2646001/Final-COP21-draft.pdf]]
 
 
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<big>'''''A Generation's Challenge'''''</big>
 
[https://www.iea.org/topics/renewables/ '''''Renewables ----'''''] [https://100.org/100-goes-global-maps/ ''''''Decarbonizing' ---- Transitioning to Clean Energy Globally]
 
 
<big>'''''In Paris for the Climate Summit'''''</big>
 
[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Climate_Change_Summit_Paris '''''Paris Climate Agreement: Moments''''']
 
[http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/14/opinion/falling-short-on-climate-in-paris.html '''''Falling Short on Climate in Paris''''']
 
[http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-mckibben-paris-un-climate-conference-20151129-story.html '''''What the Paris conference on climate change can do for planet Earth''''']
 
 
[[File:Planet Citizen @ParisSummit Dec1.png|link=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2015/12/01/these-are-the-key-tricky-details-that-will-determine-whether-the-paris-climate-meeting-succeeds/]]
 
 
[https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2015/12/12/proposed-historic-climate-pact-nears-final-vote/ '''''Chris Mooney/Washington Post after the Paris Agreement''''']
 
[https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2015/12/12/countries-just-adopted-a-historic-climate-change-accord-heres-what-happens-next/ '''''What happens next?''''']
 
 
[[File:Work to do to get to renewable goals.jpg]]
 
 
'''''November '''''
 
<big>'''''Road to Paris'''''</big>
 
[http://350.org/global-climate-march/ '''''Global Climate March - News/Actions''''']
 
''Paris marches rescheduled -- 2,000+ worldwide climate change events ready-to-go ... 175+ Countries''
 
[https://www.avaaz.org/en/event/globalclimatemarch/?slideshow ''Events/Locations''] [https://twitter.com/350 ''350.org''] [https://twitter.com/hashtag/ClimateMarch?src=hash ''#ClimateMarch'']
 
[http://newsroom.unfccc.int/cop21parisinformationhub/ '''''Paris Climate Summit, Opening Nov 30 - Information Hub''''']
 
[http://unfccc.int/2860.php '''''Agenda -- Meetings -- Schedule''''']
 
[http://www.carbonbrief.org/explainer-the-legal-form-of-the-paris-climate-agreement '''''Important: Legal forms for Paris climate agreement''''']
 
 
[[File:BreathingEarth.gif|link=https://youtu.be/r2yLSLmnsY4]]
 
 
<big>'''''Join In, Act, Follow, Be Out in Front'''''</big>
 
[https://youtu.be/r2yLSLmnsY4 <big>'''''It's Your Breathing Planet'''''</big>]
 
: [https://twitter.com/hashtag/ClimateAction?src=hash #climateaction]
 
: [https://twitter.com/hashtag/COP21?src=hash #COP21]
 
: [https://twitter.com/hashtag/INDCs?src=hash #INDCs]
 
: [https://twitter.com/hashtag/ClimateChange?src=hash #climatechange]
 
 
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[http://www.monbiot.com/2015/10/30/nothing-to-see-here/ ''Eco-disaster viewed from satellite'']
 
 
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'''''DSCOVR/EPIC'''''
:''Visit EarthPOV for Latest News''
 
[http://www.earthpov.com '''''EarthPOV.com''''']
 
[http://epic.gsfc.nasa.gov/ '''''A million mile view''''']
 
 
[[File:DSCOVR-EPIC ImagingofPlanetEarth.png]]
 
 
[[File:DSCOVR-EPIC ImagingofPlanetEarth 2.png]]
 
 
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<big>'''''"Northern Lights over Alaska"'''''</big> ''
:--- ''2015, photo by Astronaut Scott Kelly from the International Space Station''
 
 
[[File:Northern Lights over Alaska from Astro Scott, Oct2015.jpg]]
 
 
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<big><big>'''''Environmental Security: a Planet Citizen Vision'''''</big></big>
 
<big>'''''Climate Summit / Road to Paris'''''</big>
 
[http://unfccc.int/resource/docs/2015/cop21/eng/07.pdf ''UN / Climate Plans "Synthesis Report"] -- Oct 30''
 
 
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<big>2020 Update: From Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac</big>
 
 
[[File:In the UK, US, time to choose the future.jpg]]
 
 
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<big>''Christiana Figueres'' [https://twitter.com/CFigueres ''@CFigueres'']</big>
 
:''Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change''
 
 
:[https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/3qkkzw/i_am_christiana_figueres_the_top_un_climate/ ''Figueres - REDDIT AMA -- Oct 28'']
 
 
'''''UN Climate Action @UNFCCC'''''
 
* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Climate_Change_Summit_Paris
:''October 19, 2015''
 
:''Opening plenary of the latest @UN climate negotiations''
:* ''http://bit.ly/1OObz76''
 
:[https://twitter.com/hashtag/ADP2?src=hash ''#ADP2'']
 
:''#ADP2 session... steps toward Paris... Focus!''
 
:[https://twitter.com/CFigueres/status/656024169868611584/photo/1 ''pic.twitter.com/A63Cyfds2N'']
 
 
[[File:Trending Green News link-image.jpeg|link=https://twitter.com/Momentum_UNFCCC]]
 
 
''Follow'' [https://twitter.com/UNFCCC ''@UNFCCC'']
 
:''#COP21 #INDCs #climatechange #climateaction''
 
 
 
<big><big>'''''UN Conferences / Eyes on the Future'''''</big></big>
 
 
:[[File:Sustainable Development Goals.jpg|link=http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Sustainable_Development_Goals_-_UN_Conference_2015]]
 
 
[http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/28/world/limited-progress-seen-even-as-more-nations-step-up-on-climate.html?_r=0 '''''"We can commit to do more."''''']
 
:''- Gavin Schmidt, NASA Goddard climate science director''
 
 
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'''''ClimateCentral (@ClimateCentral)'''''
: ''Oct 20, 2015''
 
: ''150 countries representing approx 90% of world’s carbon emissions have [http://www.climatecentral.org/news/150-countries-pledge-to-curb-emissions-19560 filed pledges]''
 
 
[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Intended_Nationally_Determined_Contributions '''''@ GreenPolicy, Review Climate Action National Plans/INDCs''''']
[http://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2015/oct/16/which-countries-are-doing-the-most-to-stop-dangerous-global-warming '''''Which Countries Are Doing the Most?''''']
 
[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Sustainable_Development_Goals_-_UN_Conference_2015 '''''Sustainable Development Goals''''']
 
 
 
[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/UN_Framework_Convention_on_Climate_Change-2015 '''''@ GreenPolicy, 2015 UN Climate Change Conference''''']
 
[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:United_Nations_Framework_Convention_on_Climate_Change ''The International Climate Conference in Paris'']
 
* ''http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Climate_Conference_-_Paris_2015''
 
 
[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:We_Mean_Business_on_Climate_Change_2015.png ''We Mean Business on Climate Change''] 
 
 
 
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<big><big>'''''Historic Earth Images from the DSCOVR Mission'''''</big></big>
 
'''''GreenPolicy assists the NASA mission team'''''
 
'''''December 2015'''''
 
 
[http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=86353 '''''First images of Moon and Earth from DSCOVR-EPIC''''']
 
 
 
[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Planet_Citizens ''Planet Citizens, DSCOVR and the New Blue Marble'']
 
''[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/DSCOVR-EPIC_187_1003705_americas_dxm.png '''Planet Earth], the first whole Earth image since the original Blue Marble image taken by [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Apollo_17 Apollo 17] in 1972.'''''
 
 
'''GreenPolicy360 assisted in the release of these historic online views of Earth, made available in near real time, in coordination with Dr. Szabo and the NASA/NOAA DSCOVR project team.'''
 
''"The high quality of the EPIC images exceeded all of our expectations in resolution," said Adam Szabo, DSCOVR project scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. "The images clearly show desert sand structures, river systems and complex cloud patterns. There will be a huge wealth of new data for scientists to explore."''
 
* http://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-satellite-camera-provides-epic-view-of-earth
 
* http://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/DSCOVR/
 
* http://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/DSCOVR/press.html
 
* ''http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=86257''
 
 
 
; <big><big>''#Earth360 Updates''</big></big>
 
<big>'''''Planet Citizen will be assisting in delivering NASA/NOAA DSCOVR/EPIC data and imagery'''''</big>
 
'''''The [http://www.planetcitizen.org Planet Citizen] site will be expanding to highlight the new DSCOVR products and EPIC whole earth images'''''
 
''In addition to a new [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:NASA '''NASA'''] [http://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/DSCOVR/ '''DSCOVR/EPIC] website in development''' and '''a selection of #‎Earth360‬ images planned to be made available online daily beginning in August''', there will be '''unprecedented accompanying data/imagery made avail for ‪#‎EarthScience‬ and climate/atmospheric monitoring.''
 
''The following is from a NASA Goddard communication, March 11th to us @PlanetCitizen, discussing additional calibrated data products to come from DSCOVR...''
 
>''The individual 10 different wavelength EPIC data will be served from the Atmospheric Science Data Center (ASDC) at Langley ('''https://eosweb.larc.nasa.gov''') Once we will be active, on the left side of this page DSCOVR will appear as a project. Clicking on it will give you a list of available products...''
 
[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:DSCOVR_w_EPICcam,_PlasMag_%26_NISTAR.png '''The DSCOVR satellite with its EPIC cam, PlasMag & NISTAR instrument package''']... is on a million mile journey and in approx four months, DSCOVR will "light up", be tested, and begin delivering data to Earth. In its historic mission, DSCOVR and its EPIC imaging system will begin sending near real-time images of the whole Earth... it has been many years since whole Earth images have been readily available...
 
 
 
'''''It's been decades since December 7, 1972 when the only picture ever snapped by a human of the whole earth was captured -- [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Blue_Marble_photo_-_Apollo_17.jpg our iconic "Blue Marble" Planet Earth.] NASA engineers named the historic image -- '''AS17-148-22727'''
 
As we have been recalling the history, '''we haven't had returned to us a 'whole earth' image since 1972'''. Today, the Associated Press reports Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Florida, pointing out from Washington that there hasn't been a "full, sunlit picture of the Earth since [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Apollo_17 '''Apollo 17'''] in 1972 - NASA's last manned moon-landing mission". Subsequent images "have been stitched together", the Senator explained, for composite shots. The Florida Senator has an exceptional point of view re: this amazing fact, as he was an astronaut who flew on the Space Shuttle from Florida's "Space Coast". In January 1986, Nelson spent six days orbiting Earth as a payload specialist aboard space shuttle Columbia. His NASA bio adds "The experience gave him a new perspective on the Earth’s fragile environment and a greater appreciation of the importance of our nation’s space exploration program."
 
The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Space_Climate_Observatory DSCOVR satellite] launches into deep orbit with multiple missions -- to monitor space weather and, due to the satellite's orbital distance from Earth (1 mil miles), DSCOVR will be sending back daily images of the whole earth via its EPIC image-taking system and via its NISTAR system [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 measuring earth's earth's temperature, our "radiation balance" ("albedo").]
 
 
'''''"DSCOVR will be beaming back a steady stream of images of our home planet from space... with the images expected to be available online the next day."'''''
 
'''''"They'll be posted on a website for the public to see," said Steven Clarke, director of NASA's Joint Agency Satellite Division. "I think it will be an inspiration for people to see the sunlit disk of the Earth."'''''
 
 
 
''"Most impressive from DSCOVR will be the images of us, Planet Earth 360°. To see ‪and to experience #‎Earth360‬ daily, it's going to be a spectacular re-reminder of our place in the cosmos..." - Steven Schmidt'' ‪
 
''Scientists will soon get a steady stream of data about how both the Earth and the Sun are doing, for years to come.''
 
'''''The livestream of our planet will inform, immerse and inspire. Online the images from DSCOVR and EPIC will deliver majestic new visions of our home planet.'''''
 
 
 
''For many Earth scientists, the centerpiece of the satellite is the National Institute of Standards Advanced Radiometer, or '''NISTAR''', named for the Maryland-based government laboratory that designed it. The apparatus was built to shed light on Earth’s “radiation balance”—the radiation we receive from our sun minus the radiation we reflect back into space. The difference is retained by our planet as heat, and is calculated by measuring Earth’s reflectivity, called the albedo. Data showing whether Earth’s albedo is decreasing, meaning the atmosphere is retaining more heat because of greenhouse gases or other reasons, could be a significant piece of the climate puzzle.
 
''What is revolutionary isn’t the basic technology for tracking albedo — it is measuring it from the million-mile perspective out at L1. Most satellites circle the planet at about one-thousandth of that distance, so their readings encompass only a small slice of land, a view that shifts rapidly as they circle the planet every two hours or so. Different climate zones — ice caps, deserts, tropical forests—have different reflectivities, independent of the atmosphere, which needs to be factored in to the overall measurement; it’s virtually impossible to create a whole-Earth portrait from a deck of low-orbit snapshots. “By the time you stitch together all the separate bits of data, the margin of error is too large to be useful,” [http://www.nasa.gov/about/highlights/asrar_bio.html Dr. Asrar] at NASA says.''
 
''DSCOVR is "like having a thermometer for the whole planet.” It’s not a perfect gauge, NASA’s '''Dr. Adam Szabo''' cautions. “Earth is… a sphere that reflects light in all directions. So a measurement from any one point will not be the final word. But it will still be very important for the conversation about climate change.”''
 
 
 
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; <big><big>''New Ways to See and Experience Planet Earth''</big></big>
 
 
<big>'''''How Beautiful Planet Earth Is'''''</big>
 
 
[[File:Immersive Earth experience.jpg | link=http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Overview_Effect]]
 
 
[http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov//vis/a010000/a011800/a011858/Earth_from_Orbit_2014_prores.webm '''''EARTH FROM ORBIT / VIDEO IN HD''''']
 
 
[[File:From above m.png|link=http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov//vis/a010000/a011800/a011858/Earth_from_Orbit_2014_prores.webm]]
 
 
 
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<big>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouv1Un1F36A&feature=youtu.be '''''Watching Earth Roll By: On the International Space Station''''']</big>
 
[[File:ISS in HD 2015.png|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouv1Un1F36A&feature=youtu.be]]
 
 
 
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<big><big>'''''Visit Google Earth's 10th anniversary:</big></big>
 
<big>'''''Journey with Voyager +'''''</big>
 
<big>[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Google_Earth '''''Introducing Voyager'''''] ''&'' [https://earthview.withgoogle.com/ '''''Earth View''''']</big>
 
 
 
 
[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Planetary.org <big>'''''Going Planetary.org'''''</big>]
 
[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earthviews_from_Astronauts '''''Earthviews from Above''''']
 
[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Apollo.jpg '''''Remember "Earthrise" ''''']
 
[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Blue_Marble_Collection '''''Our "Blue Marble"''''']
 
[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Pale_blue_dot ''''' "The only home we've got..." ''''']
 
 
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; <big><big>''Planet Labs 'Doves' fly from the ISS''</big></big>
 
 
[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Micro-satellites '''''Planet Labs & NanoRacks''''']
 
[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Planet_Labs_Doves_Fly '''''Doves''''']
 
 
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<big>'''''Planet Citizen: Elon'''''</big>
 
''Consider how years ago now, NASA put out a call about launching services for the DSCOVR mission -- Guess who was one of those who replied? A young visionary dreaming of what could be, even before his [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX '''SpaceX'''] was ready to go... [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk Elon Musk, becoming a planet citizen]. He spoke of how the iconic whole earth [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Blue_Marble_photo_-_Apollo_17.jpg "Blue Marble" photo] of Earth had inspired him to dream and to move his technology plans toward a space & earth connection.''
 
 
[[File:Blue Marble photo - Apollo 17.jpg]]
 
 
 
 
[[File:Earth (03-02-15) 432x768.jpg]]
 
 
; <big><big>''Overview and Perspective''</big></big>
 
'''''See and experience the Earth in new ways'''''
 
[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Overview_Effect '''''The Overview Effect''''']
 
[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Orbital_Perspective '''''Orbital Perspective''''']
 
 
 
[[File:Astronaut Photography of Earth ISS Cupola 2014.png]]
 
 
 
 
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; <big><big>''#Earth360: The Overview''</big></big>
 
 
[[File:'Thin Blue Layer' of Earth's Atmosphere m.jpg]]
 
[http://strategicdemands.com/earthoverview/ '''''As the New Year Dawns, Earth from Space''''']
 
 
'''''With appreciation ~ for the space experience and the wisdom of the [http://www.overviewthemovie.com/the-overview-effect-and-overview-2/ Overview Effect]'''''
 
[http://vimeo.com/55073825 '''''Overview''''']
 
[http://vimeo.com/60234866 '''''Planetary'''''] --- [https://vimeo.com/ondemand/planetary/121840700 '''''Planetary, trailer, pre-release March 2015''''']
 
 
 
 
<big><big>'''''From Above, beauty and awe...'''''</big></big>
 
 
[[File:Settings.png]]  '''''Settings: FULL Screen, 1080p, Room lights off, Music up, Lean back and fly'''''
 
 
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FG0fTKAqZ5g&list=UUIcA_1j7WQ8VXyygM6qI-fw '''''All Alone in the Night''''']
 
 
[[File:All Alone In the Night.png | link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FG0fTKAqZ5g&list=UUIcA_1j7WQ8VXyygM6qI-fw]]
 
 
 
[[File:Settings.png]]  '''''Set FULL Screen 1080p, lights off, Audio up. Adjust YouTube setting for HighDef 4K, 2160p'''''
 
 
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOAEIMx39-w '''''The View Outside My Window''''']
 
 
[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:The_Home_Planet.jpg '''''Astronaut Alex Gerst: A 'Planet Citizen's' view of Earth'''''...]
 
 
[[File:Settings.png]]  '''''Set FULL on HD 4K, 2160p'''''... '''''https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNwWOul4i9Y''''' --- '''''https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ifjaOHHO98'''''
 
 
 
 
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; <big><big>''"Game changer"''</big></big>
 
'''''Historic Orbiting Carbon Observatory Satellite Sends Back Most Detailed CO2 View Ever / Dec 18, 2014'''''
 
 
[http://climate.nasa.gov/blog/1105/ '''''OCO-2 begins to measure atmospheric CO2 levels with unprecedented science''''']
 
 
[http://disc.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/OCO-2/data-holdings/oco-2 '''''The 'Initial Level 1 round'] of data was made available to the public on Dec 30, 2014.''''' 
 
 
'''''A full set of CO2 data is available in March for scientists and public "planet citizens" to download and explore'''''
 
 
: [http://phys.org/news/2014-08-oco-.html '''''First OCO Data via Phys.org''''']
 
: [http://news.discovery.com/earth/global-warming/nasa-satellite-sends-back-most-detailed-co2-view-141218.htm ''Discover OCO'']
 
: [http://www.nature.com/news/satellite-maps-global-carbon-dioxide-levels-1.16615 '' OCO @ Nature'']
 
 
: [http://oco.jpl.nasa.gov/science/ocodatacenter/ '''''Sample Data'''''] -- [https://co2.jpl.nasa.gov/ '''''OCO-2 Data Portal''''']
 
 
 
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[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Blue_Marble_Collection '''''For #PlanetCitizen gazing, visit the "Blue Marble" Collection''''']
 
[http://strategicdemands.com/security-design/ '''''Security by Design, new definitions of national security to be found in environmental security, planning for global trends''''']
 
 
 
[http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/you-are-here-around-world-92-minutes-chris-hadfields-photos-earth-space-1471014 '''''You Are Here''''']
 
[http://www.fastcocreate.com/3038304/lessons-in-combining-art-and-science-and-shooting-dope-photos-from-rockstar-astronaut-chris-#6 '''''And Here!''''']
 
 
[[File:You are here 1.jpg]]
 
 
[https://plus.google.com/u/0/104105656721944993244/posts/KWKPZequzoL '''''Up Here, #EarthPOV''''']
 
[http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/ '''''Earth's Observation's new website''''']
 
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8OBbY3Z_uY '''''Vid Watch''''']
 
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5_GlAOCHyE '''''Look''''']
 
[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Aurora_Australis.ogv '''''Green Skies''''']
 
 
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<big>'''''Earth: How are you?'''''</big>
 
: [https://twitter.com/EarthVitalSigns '''''@EarthVitalSigns''''']
 
: [https://twitter.com/hashtag/earthrightnow ''#EarthRightNow'']
 
 
* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/Hello2.jpg '''''Looking out at our home planet from the International Space Station''''']
 
* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Nov-8-2014_2-01-50_PM_EST.jpg '''''Look mom, look''''']
 
* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Pictures_from_ISS '''''Where are you? Find your place on #PlanetEarth''''']
 
* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Look_at_how_thin_our_atmosphere_is '''''"Thin Blue" ... www.thinbluelayer.com''''']
 
* [http://www.pinterest.com/stratdem/environmental-security/ '''''Environmental Security...''''']
 
 
 
 
=== [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/PlanetCitizen#About_PlanetCitizen '''''About Planet Citizen'''''] ===
 
 
<big>'''''#PlanetCitizen''''' '''''#EarthPOV'''''</big>
 
 
SJS/GreenPolicy360 Siterunner:
 
In the 1960s in the US and globally a modern environmental movement was being created as first-ever visions of Planet Earth were sent from Apollo missions. The images of the Whole Earth in space changed perceptions in every nation. A realization of a common, shared home -- and responsibility to care for our home -- was born.
 
Soon political leaders stepped up, both looking backward and forward. A new field of science, earth science, began to spring up. In the US Congress, leaders like George Brown were saying no to war in Vietnam and Asia, and the Mideast, and no to nuclear weapons, while saying yes to a first generation of NASA earth science missions.
 
This was called 'Big Science' by some and 'its a critical mission' by others.
 
Rep. George E. Brown was out in front.
 
From the mid 1960s until his death in 1999, his work in Congress was instrumental in proposing, shaping, and protecting Big Science - Earth Science.
 
 
[[File:George Brown, Sci Com't.jpg]]
 
 
Our new era of '''#Earth360 exploration''', using the tools of the digital age and Internet connectivity, is making it possible to see and experience a [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/Nov-8-2014_2-01-50_PM_EST.jpg connected, Planet Earth 360] and to begin studying life-enabling systems (and life-threatening changes) with means never before possible.
 
Space- and earth-based observation platforms are delivering "intelligence reports" in effect, strategic insights that can broaden our knowledge and perceptions of who we are and how we respond to our '''global, common future'''.
In unprecedented ways, intelligence about our planet's systems can be shared and networked via the worldwide web and a larger Internet, linking us together wherever our community and whatever our nation.
 
We look out at a critical, developing field of [http://strategicdemands.com/environmental-security/ '''#EnvironmentalSecurity'''] as a generation of Planet Citizen voyagers.
 
 
<big>'''[[Generation Green]]'''</big>
 
 
* '''Planet Citizens and GreenPolicy hold a simple value proposition:'''
 
 
* '''''Cleaner air and water and food is a good thing. Reducing pollution is a necessary thing. Health of our environment is a vital thing.'''''
 
* '''Science is essential to [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 'measure and manage'] [http://www.earthpov.com #PlanetEarth] in sustainable, productive, life enhancing ways.'''
 
 
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== '''''An API for the Planet''''' ==
 
<big>'''''[[Planet API]]'''''</big>
 
<big>'''''[[Earth Imaging-New Space]]'''''</big>
 
 
[http://www.planet.com/ '''''www.Planet.com''''']
 
[https://www.planet.com/pulse/ '''''Planet Labs Pulse''''']
 
[http://t.co/dfsywixUg6 '''''#PlanetLabs @Open Source Conference''''']
 
[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Planet_API '''''With the Planet-Lab Platform, Connect to our Planet as Citizens of the Planet''''']
 
[http://vimeo.com/88602839 '''''Mission: Democratizing Access to Information About the Changing Planet''''']
 
 
 
[[File:API connect.jpg]]
 
 
 
[http://nyti.ms/1BzljLJ '''''Planet Labs/NYT''''']
 
[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Planet_Labs_Doves_Fly '''''Launch of new Flock of Dove Satellites to Image Earth''''']
 
[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/Dove_minisat_launch_from_ISS_m.png '''''Doves fly''''']
[http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/news/girl_scouts_orbital_2/ '''''Doves flock''''']
 
[http://www.planet.com/flock1/ '''''Planet Labs 'Dove' micro-satellites''''']
 
 
''"Rapid cadence imagery, [http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/03/17/qa-with-steve-jurvetson-space-investor-and-rocket-maker like Planet Labs is developing], helps us become better, more sustainable stewards of Earth."''
 
 
 
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=== [http://strategicdemands.com/environmental-security/ '''''Environmental Security @Strategic Demands'''''] ===
 
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[[File:Planet cit s.jpg]]
 
 
:[http://strategicdemands.com/about/ '''21st Century definitions of national and international security'''] 
 
A realization that "'''Security is indivisible'''" is on the horizon and security definitions are changing as a result of the dynamics of interactive networks.
 
The sharing of information is creating a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linked:_The_New_Science_of_Networks '''new science of networking''']. Information is being looked at as never before and '''#earthscience''' data is now being collected by networked computers across an interconnected world. In historic ways, open data is being publicly distributed far beyond the restrictive policies of previous times and closed-loop systems.
 
Today #earthsciences are at the cusp of a rich new world of information. As we share these new realizations, images, data, experiences and understandings, we can be certain of a new, growing awareness of our planet and our 'citizenship' together. 
 
Even now, we have inklings of what is coming. Let's look at one called [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/OCO-2 '''OCO-2''']. With the launch of OCO-2, a "game changer", in the summer of 2014, the data of #Earth360 will grow in unprecedented ways as this first orbiting observatory of global warming conditions takes to space and begins to report home - [https://twitter.com/IamOCO2 '''I am OCO-2''']
 
Although the '''Orbiting Carbon Observatory''' is just the beginning, the future of #earthscience from space is here as we see in new ways and observe our environment with new information never before accessible. Space-imaging is opening up amazing views, with 3D and big-screens and home theaters. Coming soon will be views beyond IMAX as companies like Virgin and SpaceX carry citizen travelers into orbit. Educational and scientific information about our communities is being shared, and linked to, and distributed around the Net. From space, the earth is borderless and with vision of the planet and common-good #biosphere and #ecosystem comes responsibility for our shared security.
 
On to first steps... [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Nov-8-2014_2-01-50_PM_EST.jpg '''We are all connected'''] and wherever we are, geographically, nationally, we share common-ground and common-atmosphere. Let's look at our home and, with an "overview" from space, see the 'Big Picture' and let's look at the details, let's manage and sustain our earth resources and, as we go, look to our shared quality of life on the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozXVgQUUPNQ '''"only home we've ever known."''']
 
 
 
[[File:Olive-branch.png]]
 
 
 
'''''Here's to our future and future of [http://strategicdemands.com/environmental-security/ #Environmental Security]'''''
 
 
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== <big>'''''The Big Picture: Earth from Space''''' </big>==
 
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::[[File:Earth Day Flag.png]].
 
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'''Our world of is in flux.'''
 
The term [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/New_Space "New Space"] and [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Democratization_of_Space "Democratization of Space"] have come to represent a first generation of earth research and study from space by start up companies designing, building and launching small, mini- and micro-satellites.  
 
New visions of Earth and new players are challenging the old system of governments that spend billions to explore, commercialize and militarize space.  
 
Barriers to entry are being broken and [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Micro-satellites young companies are launching flocks of satellite birds into space]. Earth monitoring is going planetary and a next generation is at the forefront pushing to address threats to the environment.
 
Let's go there to this new world, not a "new world order" but a world that is being connected and is sharing, linking and seeing the bigger picture. The way we observe and 'feel' about our planet is changing in one generation.
 
Beginning with the first [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/Whole_Earth_1972_Apollo_17.jpg Whole Earth] pictures relayed from the Apollo voyages to the Moon, we have for the first time in history experienced a vision of our planet from afar -- [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/3D_Overview.jpg we are, we realize, a 'blue' oasis in space].
 
Now, nearly five decades after the original awe-inspiring [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Apollo.jpg Earthrise images from Apollo 8] were revealed, we find everyday citizens in every nation realizing our commonalities.
 
The [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/Apollo.jpg Apollo mission] helped us open our eyes and today we are seeing our planet and our place in the universe in new light, with new missions and and new possibilities to secure our environment for ages to come.
 
 
'''We are citizens of our common home, planet Earth'''.
 
 
Add your talent to the grand project of planet citizenship, of seeing with an [http://www.earthpov.com '''EarthPOV'''] so that we can make informed decisions and policy...
 
Observe, consider, act. NextGen #earthscience in an era of #climatechange and #globalsecurity  challenges and opportunities...
 
Make a difference, join with GreenPolicy360's global work. In every community there are green groups at work.
 
Visit and use our [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/GreenLinks'''GreenLinks'''] to see a multi-colored, deep and diverse range of resources and [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Friends_of_GreenPolicy360#GreenPolicy360_Open_Data_Distributive_Web_Online_Resources '''friends of GreenPolicy'''].
 
'''It's time, your time to Go Green!'''
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[http://www.planetaryawareness.org www.planetaryawareness.org]
 
; <big><big>[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Isn%27t_it_time.jpg ''Earth Right Now''</big></big>]
 
 
[[File:EarthNow our planet is changing.jpg]]
 
 
 
 
[[File:One Year as the Earth Rolls.jpg]]
 
 
 
 
'''''Citizens of Planet Earth''''' 
 
[http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2011/09aug_perseids2011/ '''''Arise, Look Up, Around, Outward and Inward]
 
 
 
[[File:2001 pic3.jpeg]]
 
 
[http://www.planetcitizen.org '''''Planet Citizen, Forward-looking Vision''''']
 
[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Planet_Citizen_Vision_of_Living_Earth '''''A Vision of Dynamic Change''''']
 
 
[http://www.earthpov.com '''''EarthPOV''''']
 
[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/HelloEarth '''''Hello Earth''''']
 
[http://www.tinybluegreen.com '''''Tiny Blue Green''''']
 
[http://www.thinbluelayer.com '''''Thin Blue Layer''''']
 
[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Overview_Effect '''''Overview Effect''''']
 
[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Orbital_Perspective '''''Orbital Perspective''''']
 
 
 
[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Citizen_Science '''''Citizen Science''''']
 
[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Planet_Scientist '''''Planet Scientist''''']
 
[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Planet_Citizens,_Planet_Scientists '''''Planet Citizens, Planet Scientists''''']
 
[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Planet_API '''''Planet API''''']
 
 
[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Earth_Observations '''''Earth Observations, Strategic Missions''''']
 
[http://strategicdemands.com/environmental-security/ '''''Environmental Security - Global/National''''']
 
[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/New_Definitions_of_National_Security '''''New Definitions of National Security''''']
 
 
 
[[File:GreeningOurBluePlanet 2.png]]
 
 
 
 
[[File:Earths rotation as we roll thru space.jpg|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zJ9FnQXmJI]]
 
 
[https://greenpolicy360.net/w/Stardust_Origins <big><big>Carl Sagan: Our Origins Are in the Stars</big></big>]
 
[[File:We are stardust.jpg]]
 
 
 
:[[File:Planetcitizens-336x336.png]]
 
 
[http://www.planetcitizen.org <big>'''''To Be, or Not to Be a Planet Citizen'''''</big>]
 
 
<big>'''''[http://www.planetcitizens.org www.planetcitizens.org]'''''</big>
 
<big>'''''[http://www.planetcitizens.org www.planetcitizen.org]'''''</big>
 
 
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Let's go there to this new world, not a "new world order" but a world that is being connected and is sharing, linking and seeing the bigger picture. The way we observe and 'feel' about our planet is changing in one generation.


Beginning with the first [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/Whole_Earth_1972_Apollo_17.jpg Whole Earth] pictures relayed from the Apollo voyages to the Moon, we have for the first time in history experienced a vision of our planet from afar -- [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/3D_Overview.jpg we are, we realize, a 'blue' oasis in space].


Now, nearly five decades after the original awe-inspiring [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Apollo.jpg Earthrise images from Apollo 8] were revealed, we find everyday citizens in every nation realizing our commonalities.
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The [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/Apollo.jpg Apollo mission] helped us open our eyes and today we are seeing our planet and our place in the universe in new light, with new missions and and new possibilities to secure our environment for ages to come.
Ecolivia on Earth Day


'''We are citizens of our common home, planet Earth'''.


Add your talent to the grand project of planet citizenship, of seeing with an [http://www.earthpov.com '''EarthPOV'''] so that we can make informed decisions and policy...


Observe, consider, act. NextGen #earthscience in an era of #climatechange and #globalsecurity  challenges and opportunities...
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Make a difference, join with GreenPolicy360's global work. In every community there are green groups at work.


Visit and use our [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/GreenLinks'''GreenLinks'''] to see a multi-colored, deep and diverse range of resources and [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Friends_of_GreenPolicy360#GreenPolicy360_Open_Data_Distributive_Web_Online_Resources '''friends of GreenPolicy'''].


'''It's time, your time to Go Green!'''
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[http://www.planetaryawareness.org www.planetaryawareness.org]
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; <big><big>[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Isn%27t_it_time.jpg ''Earth Right Now''</big></big>]


'''Photo by Steven J. Schmidt (Wikipedia name: Greenalot)'''


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* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/User:Siterunner




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<big>'''The 1992 International Earth Summit'''</big>


@Wikipedia -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Summit


''The United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), also known as the Rio Conference or the Earth Summit (Portuguese: ECO92), was a major United Nations conference held in Rio de Janeiro from June 3 to June 14, 1992.''


''Earth Summit was created as a response for member states to cooperate together internationally on development issues after the Cold War. Due to issues relating to sustainability being too big for individual member states to handle, Earth Summit was held as a platform for other member states to collaborate.''


'''''Citizens of Planet Earth'''''
''A key achievement of the 1992 conference was the establishment of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) established in part as an international environmental treaty to combat "dangerous human interference with the climate system" and to stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere. It was signed by 154 states at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED). By 2022, the UNFCCC had 198 parties. Its supreme decision-making body, the Conference of the Parties (COP) meets annually to assess progress in dealing with climate change.''


[http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2011/09aug_perseids2011/ '''''Arise, Look Up, Around, Outward and Inward]
''Since the creation of the UNFCC many related environmental conferences, climate-related forums, and ongoing scientific research initiatives in the fields of sustainability, climate, and environmental security have continued to develop these intersecting issues. Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and educational institutions have been prominent participants.''






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@Wikipedia -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Framework_Convention_on_Climate_Change 
   
   
''The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) established an international environmental treaty to combat "dangerous human interference with the climate system", in part by stabilizing greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere.[1] It was signed by 154 states at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), informally known as the Earth Summit, held in Rio de Janeiro from 3 to 14 June 1992... The treaty called for ongoing scientific research and regular meetings, negotiations, and future policy agreements designed to allow ecosystems to adapt naturally to climate change, to ensure that food production is not threatened and to enable economic development to proceed in a sustainable manner.''




[http://www.planetcitizen.org '''''Planet Citizen, Forward-looking Vision''''']
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[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Planet_Citizen_Vision_of_Living_Earth '''''A Vision of Dynamic Change''''']
 
 
[http://www.earthpov.com '''''EarthPOV''''']
 
[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/HelloEarth '''''Hello Earth''''']
 
[http://www.tinybluegreen.com '''''Tiny Blue Green''''']
 
[http://www.thinbluelayer.com '''''Thin Blue Layer''''']
 
[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Overview_Effect '''''Overview Effect''''']
 
[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Orbital_Perspective '''''Orbital Perspective''''']
 
 
 
[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Citizen_Science '''''Citizen Science''''']
 
[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Planet_Scientist '''''Planet Scientist''''']


[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Planet_Citizens,_Planet_Scientists '''''Planet Citizens, Planet Scientists''''']


[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Planet_API '''''Planet API''''']


<big><big>'''Remembering the First Earth Summit'''</big></big>


[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Earth_Observations '''''Earth Observations, Strategic Missions''''']
"It has been a long, long road" -- 1968 to 1992 -- and the journey continues ...


[http://strategicdemands.com/environmental-security/ '''''Environmental Security - Global/National''''']


[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/New_Definitions_of_National_Security '''''New Definitions of National Security''''']
Steve Schmidt, GreenPolicy360 Siterunner: 1968 to 1992, and 1992 to 2023 and on and on


The journey began in 1968 along with the [https://greenpolicy360.net/w/Environmental_movement '''beginnings of the modern environmental movement'''.] We saw [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Apollo.jpg '''"Earthrise"'''] and we also rose with [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Day_Memories_on_the_50th_Anniversary '''organizing of the first "Earth Day" in 1970'''].


'''[[Earth Day Memories on the 50th Anniversary]]'''


[[File:GreeningOurBluePlanet 2.png]]


YourGreenPolicy360 founder moved on to helping a US political visionary with [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/George_E._Brown_Jr '''Earth Science and a first-gen foundation of legislation legislation'''] and joined in [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/1969_beginnings_of_the_modern_environmental_movement.pdf ''' environmental organizing'''.]


In 1992, it was time for a presidential campaign, and environmental protection platform drafting, and then a [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Summit '''first Earth Summit'''] and creation of the annual international climate conferences [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Framework_Convention_on_Climate_Change '''(the UNFCCCs "Conferences of the Parties").''']


Fifty+ years of environmental, green activism and still going and going and going ....


[[File:Planetcitizens.org.png]]
I'm older now and looking back over the years from those first photos of our home planet that opened our student eyes.... There were those early years of [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Vietnam_Moratorium_Committee-Documentary_Intro.jpg '''organizing for peace'''] and pushing for environmental protection as we put forward [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Moratorium_October_15_1969.jpg ''' 'teach ins' '''] and moved our message [https://greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Earth_Day '''to the first Earth Day'''].


Then there was continuing the work with Congressman Brown and an international cast of scientists via the US Congress and the Committee on Science, Technology and Space, the first of a host of 'Earth Science Missions from Space', and the first 'National Climate Act in 1978 and the famous US Senate hearings in the late 80s, 1988 in fact with [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Hansen-testimony-1988.jpg '''warnings from Dr. James Hansen'''.] The warnings of of climate change and global warming were in the news and on front pages, at least for awhile.


Then came organizing and reporting of  at the first "Earth Summit", a conference of nations, organizations, and activists that led to the first global climate 'Conference of the Parties' (UNFCCCs). My reports to the Environmental News Service (ENS) were picked up and I would add positions into environmental platform planks in the [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Jerry_w_Steve_%2792_pres_campaign_at_the_Dem_plat_hearing_m.jpg '''the 'Platform in Progress' for California Governor Jerry Brown's presidential campaign'''.] Soon came [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Green_Platform '''drafting of the original US Green Party platform'''.] Today, the work continues... 1968 to 1992 and 1992 to today, over half a century and still going....




<big><big>'''''[http://www.planetcitizens.org www.planetcitizens.org]'''''</big></big>


<big><big>'''''[http://www.planetcitizens.org www.planetcitizen.org]'''''</big></big>
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"Earth Day Celebration, Graphic Courtesy of NASA


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:<big>'''''On the Road'''''</big>
<big>'''''On the Road'''''</big>


::[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/User_talk:Siterunner#Occasional_Siterunner_Comments ''GreenPolicy360 Siterunner Comments'']
:[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/User_talk:Siterunner#Occasional_Siterunner_Comments ''GreenPolicy360 Siterunner Comments'']




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Every Day Is Earth Day

 

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A PlanetCitizen Paradigm

Planet Citizen Voyagers
* http://www.planetcitizen.org
* http://www.planetcitizens.org


Planet Citizen Action
"Vita contemplativa to Vita activa"


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Connecting & sharing stories changing the world
Green Networking, Green Best Practices

 

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Act Now for a Liveable Future
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Vorsorgeprinzip at GreenPolicy360

* https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vorsorgeprinzip
* https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-94-007-1433-5_38


Steven Schmidt/SJS: Vorsorgeprinzip ... Our "Generation Green", started talking about vorsorgeprinzip in the 1970s. The first 'Earth Day' we organized was a 'teach-in' and we talked about vorsorgeprinzip and, in English, we translated this principle into a broader 'environmental protection' whole earth movement. Today, we call vorsorgeprinzip a "Precautionary Principle". In business, it's about being careful as we look at the consequences of our lives, our 'externalities'. Pollution of the 'ThinBlueLayer' is one example, destruction of biodiversity, life on earth is another. We were realizing Planet Earth is in our hands.


The idea of becoming and being a "planet citizen" was also forming in the late 1960s as our generation saw what hadn't been seen before. At first, the new visions were delivered from above, photos taken looking out of spaceship windows and given names like "Earthrise" (in 1968) and "Blue Marble" (in 1972). The news shows, newspapers and magazines of the era shocked us into a realization of "Whole Earth" awareness. We began to see ourselves as, yes, "planet citizens".
* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Whole_Earth


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SJS: Memories of a the first "Earth Day"
Picture yourself like me, a young student in East Los Angeles, a kid who was a science 'early geek' fan of TV's Mr. Wizard's science experiments in the early years of television. Years later I'd meet, and become friends with and a science education book editor of Mr. Wizard, Don Herbert, in New York City. From East LA to NYC was a leap and a US Congressman set me on the road.


In the mid-1960s I was a high school student, a debater and the topic of the year in the mid-60s was nuclear weapons proliferation, coming soon after the 'duck & cover' close calls of the "Cuban Missile Crisis". I decided I would bike over to meet our newly elected Congressman, George Brown, and ask him, as a school newspaper editor, what he was doing to prevent nuclear war. The meeting changed my life. George became a friend of over thirty years and I try to tell highlights of George's story throughout the GreenPolicy360 website. Representative George E. Brown was, simply stated, a great figure in Earth science, environmental protection, and politics.
In my eyes George Brown was a Planet Citizen for the ages.
* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/George_E._Brown_Jr


Over decades, George Brown became a friend, mentor, then colleague. George went on to garner a reputation in the 1970s/80s/90s as the "Big Science" guy in Congress. George was low key in his approach, but a true leader as he envisioned the need for science education and "science in the field and up above". He acted to create what I saw as "generational science".
From beginnings, the first Earth Day, with George along with George and Senator Nelson, and then thru years of politics and science, I learned of and participated in foundational Earth science initiatives George set in motion in Congress, shepherded and protected. So many like Landsat. We shared plans, dreams, and stories. Accomplishments and the memories are recalled here at GreenPolicy360 as Representative George Brown's green, environmental work continues to carry on today, every day.


Beginnings of the Modern Environmental Movement
Planet Citizens, Planet Scientists


Riding a bike to meet George -- and embarking on a road that led to the founding of Earth Day in 1970
* https://greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Day - https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Earth_Day


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* https://greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Earth_Day_memories.png


* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Environmental_protection - https://greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Environmental_Protection
* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Environmental_Full-cost_Accounting
* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Externalities


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Flash forward... soon we were launching science missions (with NASA's assist) into orbit with a first generation of digital scanning, measuring and monitoring of Earth's living, changing systems
We began calling these "Ecosystems" and the science data began showing how It's All Related
Together, learning how to manage, protect and preserve life on Earth for today's and future generations
With green politics in mind, we look to dealing with climate change, top of mind as science rings alarms


"We have to identify the problem, then act in many ways to solve the problem. Global warming is the threat of our times."
-- Jerry Brown, California Governor


"We’re going to need to use every tool in the toolbox if we’re going to solve this problem."
-- Michael E. Mann


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On Earth, a Blue-Green Action Agenda


Generation Green ... Going Green


Planet Citizen, This Is Your Time
Each of us can make a positive difference


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Look Up: Consider Our Life Enabling Atmosphere
www.ThinBlueLayer.com


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Look at how thin our atmosphere is


 

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Monitoring CO2 in Earth's Atmosphere


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* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Anthropocene
* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Science_Vital_Signs
* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Right_Now


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NASA: Astronaut Views of Our Planet & Earth's Life-Enabling Atmosphere


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New Definitions of National Security


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GreenPolicy360 & Strategic Demands
"Advancing new definitions of national & global security"
Decades of Earth Science, Environmental Activism, a 360 Green Vision


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


* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/New_Definitions_of_National_Security
* https://strategicdemands.com/new-definitions-of-security/


I am rivers and forests And winds and I'm earth
I am oceans and mountains I whisper unheard
And before you lies everything you'd ever want
I am your, Your Imagination ...


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Planet Citizen Vision of Living Earth
Planet Citizens, Protecting & Preserving Life on Earth


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Looking around us, listening, learning, envisioning what can be...
"Eco-visioning": It's All Related ...


 


Looking back, looking forward, looking inward, looking outward

Walking in Beauty

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Chief Lyons, as a 'Bioneer' and Planet Citizen brought a message to us - http://www.bioneers.org/staff/chief-oren-lyons/ - https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Seventh_Generation

"The Roots of American Democracy" (w/ Video)


"We are looking ahead, as is one of the first mandates given us as chiefs, to make sure and to make every decision that we make relate to the welfare and well-being of the seventh generation to come....

"What about the seventh generation? Where are you taking them? What will they have?"

-- Oren Lyons, Chief of the Onondaga Iroquois Nation, speaks of ancient wisdom


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Apollo 8

Earthrise Photo


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

🌎 https://greenpolicy360.net/w/Apollo_8

🌎 http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthrise


Earthrise


June 7, 2024 ... In Memory of Astronaut William Anders


Associated Press / Former astronaut William Anders, who took iconic Earthrise photo, killed in Washington plane crash


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Apollo 8 Earthrise Photos
December 1968
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthrise


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Apollo 8 photos in Life Magazine, January 1969


 

Earthrise

Apollo 8's View of Earth on December 24, 1968


December 21, 1968 ... Apollo 8 launches from the Kennedy Space Center, the first humans on the way to the Moon --- and a vision looking back at home that empowered the modern environmental movement.

Apollo's mission? To explore the Moon in preparation for a Moon landing. A surprise comes into view as the spaceship circles the Moon. A window view, Whole Earth awareness of ourselves as #PlanetCitizens. "Earthrise" ... a profound image, first by human hands taken of our home planet. We see our #PlanetEarth with new born eyes ...

The Earthrise photo history
100 Photographs That Changed the World
NASA simulation video of Earthrise on the 45th anniversary


http://www.youtube.com/embed/dE-vOscpiNc

http://www.abc.net.au/science/moon/earthrise.htm

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Aboard Apollo, December 24, 1968...
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http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Apollo_8


As the spaceship swings around the Moon...

unexpectedly the Earth rises in the Apollo ship's window and the astronauts are amazed at what is coming into view...


Astronaut Bill Anders is the first to see the Earth...


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Anders: "Oh, my God, look at that picture over there," he can be heard saying. "There's the Earth coming up. Wow, is that pretty!"


What happened next will sound familiar to anyone who remembers the days before digital cameras:


Anders (to astronaut Jim Lovell): "You got a color film, Jim? Hand me a roll of color, quick, would you?"

Lovell: "Oh, man, that's great! Where is it?"

Anders: "Hurry. Quick."

Lovell: "Down here?"

Anders: "Just grab me a color. A color exterior. Hurry up. Got one?"

Lovell: "Yeah, I'm lookin' for one. C368."

Anders: "Anything quick."


Lovell hands him the film just as Anders is heard saying, "I think we missed it."


But within seconds, Lovell sees the shot again in another window of the command module. He asks for the camera from Anders, who seems a bit defensive at having his role as mission photographer usurped.


Anders: "Wait a minute, just let me get the right setting here now, just calm down. Calm down, Lovell!"


Anders then gets the shot that has been reproduced innumerable times all over the world...


Changing forever humanity's vision of ourselves, of who we are


#PlanetCitizens

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GreenPolicy360 Siterunner: (Connecting the 'dots')


Thank you George, thank you Jim


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In December 1968 "Earthrise" led to April 1970's "Earth Day" which led to the first National Climate Act in 1978 drafted by Representative George Brown which led to Jim Hansen's climate change warnings to the US Senate in 1988... then we went onto the first "Earth Summit" in 1992 which began international climate conferences that brought the nations of the world to the 2015 Climate Change agreement in Paris with ~ 200 "Intended National Climate Contributions" and today's National Climate Plans... Welcome onboard Planet Citizens, get with the Planet Citizen Action...


Looking back: the First Global Earth Summit and Climate Conference

June 1992, Rio de Janeiro


Earth Summit (First Global Climate Conference)

 

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Environmental movement | Earth Science Vital Signs

Environmental protection | The Commons


Intro/GreenPolicy360 Siterunner:


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Steve Schmidt


For some 40+ years your GreenPolicy360 siterunner has worked in many varied ways to get the word out on the crucial importance of environmental security. From the first Earth Day to the first 1977-78 warnings from the new committee of science with the push from Congressman George E. Brown, through various career incarnations I have attempted to 'work the message', gathering (curating as it's now called) the best science and writing up and sharing key strategies and goals even against the odds. The risks we have identified and shared have now turned into a crisis.

Perhaps it is human nature to be overwhelmed, or what my teacher Hannah Arendt described in the 'Human Condition' as the realms of labor, work, and action. Many choose to go along to get along, and not act when the threats grow extreme, even existential. But to those who take the chance to make a difference and stand up and do your best to make changes that change the world for the better, I salute you for your bravery.

Now comes another warning from the international science community. This warning is dire. The latest news looms to such an extent as to be overwhelming, depressing and potentially driving us toward resignation and inaction, but it should not prevent us from action as Michael E. Mann's latest book, 'The Fight to Take Back Our Planet' argues persuasively.

Act with hope and not fear. Earth is in our hands. Take in the news, consider the science, then in your own way, act.

Act to make a positive difference. Don't give up, never give up.


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Democracy 360

Protecting Freedom, Protecting Rights, Protecting Democracy Nation-by-Nation


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Democracy


December 2023
Washington Post Editorial Board:
“The world’s democracies should create a system to fight back that can speak plainly and consistently about the inherent advantages of democratic systems, while admitting the imperfections, and use creative ways to illuminate the flaws and depredations of authoritarian regimes.”
* https://wapo.st/3TyP9iU


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GreenPolicy360:

On the Merits, Facts Count


Make Your Argument, Your Opinion, Your Case -- On the Merits



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Get Smart, Scholarly


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A 21st Century AI/Machine Learning Case Study

Toolformer: Language Models Can Teach Themselves to Use Tools


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Learning, Teaching, Living, Acting with Green Values

Acting to Make a Difference


Short Circuiting Policy

Interest Groups and the Battle Over Clean Energy and Climate Policy in the American States


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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)


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.


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Leah Stokes, a Young Planet Citizen from UCSB, the University of California, Santa Barbara

Much more than an academic with a PhD from MIT


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GreenPolicy360: We're Into Earth Science

We believe in 'critical thinking skills'


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Stardust Origins

Cosmos: A Personal Voyage


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In passing ...

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The greatest of mysteries, on to the Cosmos ... 1996


Our Planet Connection, the Science and the Threats: Carl Sagan explains in 1990


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


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


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 'transnational' cooperation to realize and confront the coming climate crisis


Planet Citizens | Planet Citizens, Planet Scientists


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


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E.O. Wilson, Planet Citizen:

He 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


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William McDonough: Planet Citizen


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William McDonough Waging Peace Through Commerce

Designing the first “green office” in New York for the Environmental Defense Fund

Work that to the formation of the US Green Building Council

Cradle to Cradle: Building to Inspire the Next Generation

Cradle to Cradle: The Book, Remaking the Way We Make Things

Cradle-to-Cradle Design: Creating Healthy Emissions—A Strategy for Eco-Effective Product and System Design

The Hannover Principles Design for Sustainability (https://www.academia.edu/8123529/The_Hannover_Principles_Design_for_Sustainability Download PDF)


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Climate Change Impacts to Hit Sooner than Predicted

Climate change will fundamentally reshape life on Earth in the coming decades, even if humans can tame planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions, according to a landmark draft report from the UN's climate science advisors obtained by AFP.

Species extinction, more widespread disease, unliveable heat, ecosystem collapse, cities menaced by rising seas—these and other devastating climate impacts are accelerating and bound to become painfully obvious before a child born today turns 30.

The choices societies make now will determine whether our species thrives or simply survives as the 21st century unfolds, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) says in a draft report seen exclusively by AFP.

But dangerous thresholds are closer than once thought, and dire consequences stemming from decades of unbridled carbon pollution are unavoidable in the short term.

"The worst is yet to come, affecting our children's and grandchildren's lives much more than our own."


Crushing Climate Impacts: Draft UN report

PARIS (AFP) / June 23, 2021 - Climate change will fundamentally reshape life on Earth in the coming decades, even if humans can tame planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions, according to a landmark draft report from the UN's climate science advisers obtained by Agence France-Presse.

Species extinction, more widespread disease, unliveable heat, ecosystem collapse, cities menaced by rising seas - these and other devastating climate impacts are accelerating and bound to become painfully obvious before a child born today turns 30.

The choices societies make now will determine whether our species thrives or simply survives as the 21st century unfolds, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) says in a draft report seen exclusively by AFP...


"The worst is yet to come, affecting our children's and grandchildren's lives much more than our own," the report says.

By far the most comprehensive catalogue ever assembled of how climate change is upending our world, the report reads like a 4,000-page indictment of humanity's stewardship of the planet.

But the document, designed to influence critical policy decisions, is not scheduled for release until February 2022 - too late for crunch UN summits this year on climate, biodiversity and food systems...


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Speed & Scale Action Plan


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Every Day Is Earth Day


Earth Day 2020

GreenPolicy360 Siterunner: Memories of the First Earth Day


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The Original Mission Statement of NASA (1958) provided Congressional intent and guidance to the first generation of space programs. GreenPolicy360's founder heard Congressman George E. Brown Jr speak often of the 'home planet' earth science mission ...

From the original NASA space program Mission Statement:

“To understand and protect our home planet; to explore the universe and search for life; to inspire the next generation of explorers ... as only NASA can.”


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Strategies of Resilience & Survival


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Planet Citizen Vision of Living Earth


"There is no wisdom that is not related to earth, or does not partake of its nature."

-- Marjory Stoneman Douglas


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Greening Our Blue Planet


New Visions of Security in a Changing World
Environmental Security & National Security

 


Visit GreenPolicy360's associate, Strategic Demands

www.strategicdemands.com


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On the Horizon / Strategic Demands

 

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In Memory of Planet Citizen Konrad Steffen

Renowned climate scientist dies in Greenland ice sheet accident


In 2017, Konrad Steffen talks about the Polar Research Station, climate change and the Greenland landscape


Past the 'Point of No Return', the Tipping Point in Greenland


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Earth in Our Hands

 

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Planet Citizen Action


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Facing the Climate Crisis


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Yes We Can (Leave the World a Better Place)

 


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Planet Citizen Action

 

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Personal action... Direct action...
Planet Citizens, Positive Change

 

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Green Network, GreenLinks action
Going Green, #GreenNetworking
GreenLinks @ GreenPolicy360

 


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Nonviolent Action in Practice
198 Ways to Act, Count 'em
File:Methods of Nonviolent Action.pdf

 


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Thinking Global

'Global Forever' Stamps


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Stepping It Up


Climate Activists & Green Organizers: California Builds Bridges to Extend International Cooperation

Global Climate Action Summit


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In Memory of a Florida "Planet Citizen"


Nathaniel Reed, environmental advocate and co-author of the Endangered Species Act, dies at 84


Via the Tampa Bay Times / Craig Pittman

Nathaniel "Nat" Reed, 84, a Hobe Sound resident whose childhood ardor for Florida’s natural wonders led to him becoming a tireless crusader for the environment, died in a Quebec hospital Wednesday, according to his family.

In a long career spent both in and out of government service, Mr. Reed co-wrote the Endangered Species Act, helped stop the construction of the world’s largest airport in the Big Cypress Swamp, and later founded the group 1,000 Friends of Florida...



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Stephen Hawking / "Planet Citizen"


"Here lies what was mortal of Stephen Hawking 1942 - 2018"

June 15, 2018 / More than 1,000 people gathered today for a memorial service in London for theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking whose ashes were buried between graves of Darwin and Newton at Westminster Abbey...


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A Last(ing) Editorial from Professor Hawking...

https://www.unlimited.world/ubs/stephen-hawking-in-memoriam


This is the most dangerous time for our planet

by Stephen Hawking

Via The Guardian


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"My perceptions of the world shifted"


Aboard the International Space Station. Ride along with Planet Citizen astronauts.

Experience the Whole Earth and see our home planet through their eyes...



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Planet Citizen on a Spacewalk

Mike Massimino


"This is what heaven must look like... I felt like I was looking into a paradise" ... He sounds dramatic, religious, maybe Italian like his name.

Or maybe a green evangelical environista'.

Floating high, Starchild...


#PlanetCitizen


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NASA / In the beginning, big ideas required big rockets. Now, we can launch satellites that fit in the palm of our hand.

Discover how by watching this video



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Orphans No More, Sheldrick Wildlife Trust


Conservation Policies vs. Hunting 'Trophies', Poaching, and Destruction of Species


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February 22, 2018, the beginning of a SpaceX planet-network
SpaceX's ultimate goal is to provide gigabit broadband worldwide


"Starlink, Planet Internet"



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HelloEarthEarth 'Dailies' via DSCOVR-EPIC


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Before there was the Internet, and the World Wide Web, before there was a Digital Revolution, Streaming Data, Wireless and Wired Media always on 24/7/365, there was Hanna warning us about 'Gleichschaltung', the 'coordination process', and how lies are spread ...

The Authoritarian state of mind, the methods and techniques, were being called out for what they were and are as Hannah Arendt looked back at 20th Century conditions that brought on war across the planet.

Arendt warns of conditions that continue to this day...

Disinformation - Online - Dangerous


Hannah Arendt made the following comments in 1974 during an interview with the French writer Roger Errera.


Totalitarianism

Totalitarianism begins in contempt for what you have. The second step is the notion: “Things must change—no matter how, Anything is better than what we have.” Totalitarian rulers organize this kind of mass sentiment, and by organizing it articulate it, and by articulating it make the people somehow love it. They were told before, thou shalt not kill; and they didn’t kill. Now they are told, thou shalt kill; and although they think it’s very difficult to kill, they do it because it’s now part of the code of behavior. They learn whom to kill and how to kill and how to do it together. This is the much talked about Gleichschaltung—the coordination process. You are coordinated not with the powers that be, but with your neighbor—coordinated with the majority. But instead of communicating with the other you are now glued to him. And you feel of course marvelous. Totalitarianism appeals to the very dangerous emotional needs of people who live in complete isolation and in fear of one another.


Hannah Arendt - If, everybody lies to you, if everybody always lies to you, the consequence is not that you believe the lies, but rather that nobody believes anything any longer…And a people that can no longer believe anything, cannot make up its mind. It is deprived, not only of its capacity to act, but also of its capacity to think and to judge. And with such a people, you can then do what you please.


Lies

The moment we no longer have a free press, anything can happen. What makes it possible for a totalitarian or any other dictatorship to rule is that people are not informed; how can you have an opinion if you are not informed? If everybody always lies to you, the consequence is not that you believe the lies, but rather that nobody believes anything any longer. This is because lies, by their very nature, have to be changed, and a lying government has constantly to rewrite its own history. On the receiving end you get not only one lie—a lie which you could go on for the rest of your days—but you get a great number of lies, depending on how the political wind blows. And a people that no longer can believe anything cannot make up its mind. It is deprived not only of its capacity to act but also of its capacity to think and to judge. And with such a people you can then do what you please.


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Time for Facts, Fact Checking, Reasoned Judgment & Thoughtfulness


Vita Contemplativa / Vita Activa


Green 'Vita Activa'

Stay aware, Be thoughtful, Act with knowledge and wisdom


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Planet Citizens, Digital Rights @GreenPolicy360



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On the Eve of Destruction


U.S. Signals Nuclear Arms Are Back (Again!) in a Big Way



"Surviving Victory":

Moving Away from "Perpetual War"


Shifting from Fossil Fuel Causes of Conflict to Renewable Energy Alternatives


"Strategic Demands, a 21st Century Vision"

Survival Strategies, Security Priorities



New Definitions of National Security


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International Climate Conference Updates

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United States only country to refuse climate change agreement


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Changes/Turnarounds at the US Energy Department

Via 'The Hill' / Resisting the Trump-Perry Agenda

Technological change and market forces are making clean energy competitive with dirty fossil and nuclear energy, helped along by small tax credits (which are nonetheless dwarfed by much larger fossil fuel and nuclear subsidies).

Coal-fired power generation capacity has decreased, nuclear capacity has stagnated, and even natural gas capacity has barely ticked upward — while solar and wind capacity have grown by double digits. Plus, according to Perry's own department, wind and solar now employ hundreds of thousands more Americans than older industries like coal.

Together with impressive advances in energy storage and smart grid technology, those trends are reducing the need for a large baseload capacity by making it possible to store renewable energy and distribute it wherever it's needed.


Renewable Energy @ GreenPolicy

www.netzeropolicy.com


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Climate Change Laws Around the World

Trends in Climate Change Legislation


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Continuing Cutbacks at US Environmental Protection Agency


Citing the Bible, the EPA Just 'Blew Up' Its Science Advisory Boards


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Fire Scientists, Shut Down Advisory Panels, Remove Data

Slice and Dice, Hack and Chop, Delete and Disappear the Climate Language
Trump admin has hidden or taken offline 40,000 data sets that used to be public
EPA dismisses half of key board’s scientific advisers; Interior suspends more than 200 advisory panels
Government Failure: Order to shut down access to data services


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Environmental Protection Agency Open Being 'Data-Edited'?

https://opendata.epa.gov/home.xhtml?view
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https://catalog.data.gov/dataset?q=environment
https://twitter.com/hashtag/EPAdata


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The Physics of Climate Change/Global Warming


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You Can Run from the Facts, but the Facts Are What They Are

March to Support Science: Facts Matter


Stats - Green Research & Science


Carl Sagan, Planet Citizen, Lecture Notes for Astronomy 490 Class at the Smithsonian Museum

https://cdn.loc.gov/service/mss/mss85590/033/033.pdf
https://www.loc.gov/item/cosmos000035/


The 'Pale Blue Dot'

https://www.loc.gov/item/cosmos000110/ (Recording)


March for Science

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_for_Science
https://satellites.marchforscience.com/
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Earth and Space, Politics


GreenPolicy360 & StrategicDemands.com advocating for --

New Definitions of National Security


"New Definitions of National Security"

"Look at how thin our atmosphere is"


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Earth Science Research from Space


Radiant Earth Project


Open geospatial data for positive global impact, and improved decision-making

Over the past five years the number of operational satellites has jumped 40%, and nearly 1,400 now orbit the Earth.

This number could more than double over the next five years as satellites become smaller, lighter and more affordable.

Satellites collecting data and monitoring the Earth

Applications are far reaching - from tracking plant health through chlorophyll to gauging the impact of natural disasters and the surveillance of illegal logging.

India recently participated in the launch of 104 satellites — 101 of them for foreign companies and agencies - in a single mission as part of its strategic bid for a bigger share of the $300 billion global space industry.

Experts at the Seattle summit said the multiple launch, described as a world record by its space agency, was also significant because 88 were shoebox-sized Dove satellites launched by Planet, a San Francisco-based private satellite operator founded by former NASA scientists.

The constellation of small satellites will, once settled into orbit in six months' time, will photograph the entire Earth every day.

"Satellite imagery might be one of the most powerful and unbiased tools to tell people what is going on with the planet", explains Albert Lin, Research Scientist at the University of California, San Diego.

The key, he said, lay in finding ways to translate enormous amounts of information into something that can be understood by everyone.

This means finding ways of sorting and interlinking the trillions of bits of data sent to Earth and re-construct them into readable, digital and sometimes 3D models.

In some cases, data can be analyzed with the help of communities of "citizen scientists sitting alone at their computers all over the world."

"This is a wake-up call that satellite imagery is not just about questions and insights but also about engaging the entire planet in observing the planet, together."


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Press Release / March 23, 2017

Actions to Protect Earth Science/Climate Data

Records Requests Seek to Preserve Hundreds of Data Sets on Wildlife, Oil Industry, Climate Change, Sea-level Rise

WASHINGTON — The Center for Biological Diversity, along with noted conservation biologist Stuart Pimm and the Center for Media and Democracy, launched an effort today to prevent hundreds of environmental data sets on government websites from being removed by the Trump administration.

To preserve or resurrect what has already been removed by the administration, the centers and Dr. Pimm submitted three separate Freedom of Information Act requests for data sets to eight federal agencies: the Army Corps of Engineers, the Council on Environmental Quality, the Environmental Protection Agency, NASA and the departments of agriculture, commerce, energy and interior.

Under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), when federal agencies receive requests for the same records three or more times, they must make the records freely available to the public on their websites, a rule known as “the Beetlejuice provision.”

“By removing or hiding hundreds of data sets [PDF] containing critical information about the climate, wildlife and the health of our oceans, Trump and his cronies are blatantly trying to conceal the truth from the American people,” said Amy Atwood, a senior attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity. “Thankfully our scientists have the Freedom of Information Act to keep this vital information in the light of day.”

Today’s legal requests seek hundreds of data sets on energy usage, renewables, oil and gas projections, coal reserves, climate data, sea-level rise, human population, environmental justice and the status of scores of endangered and threatened species and other wildlife. More specifically, they seek information relating to conservation of aquatic systems, residential energy consumption and Endangered Species Act “Section 7” consultations, a step taken by federal agencies to avoid jeopardizing listed species.

Media outlets have reported on the loss and vulnerability of federal data relating to some of today’s most pressing environmental issues, pointing out the disappearance of data sets from agency websites under the Trump administration and documenting scientists’ efforts to save them.

“The U.S. government produces and maintains some of the most important information that scientists use in their research,” said Dr. Stuart Pimm, a Duke University professor and research scientist — and a founder of conservation biology — and the second requester of data. “Along with the Herculean efforts of volunteer scientists around the country, I’m doing what I can to protect this information because it’s critical these data remain available to academic institutions for scientists and future generations.”



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Memories of George Brown, a Planet Citizen Who Envisioned an Environmental Renaissance

Remembering the 'start-up' of the environmental movement and the first US environmental laws... founding legal precedents many of which came from forward-looking green visionaries like your GreenPolicy siterunner's friend and mentor, George, who passed away suddenly in 1999.

Rep. George E. Brown, Calif

George's decades of work in Congress in air quality/clean air, water and the founding of the EPA highlighted the era's achievement... George was out in front in "big science" -- his profound accomplishments are esp missed now as anti-science positions threaten in the current US Congress


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Astronauts Sam Cristoforetti, Ron Garan, and "Overview Effect"


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Yes, to Italian "Astro Sam" and her #HelloEarth views and messages to us here on the home Planet.

And we greatly appreciate the newest from Astronaut Ron Garan as his interactive project "Orbital Perspective" is published this week. Some 45 years ago, near the end of December 1968 and beginning of an auspicious 1969, we began seeing the Apollo 8 mission's first-ever images of our "whole earth". It's not overstating to say - these images from above changed everything. These pictures from space looking back at Earth, taken as Apollo circled around the moon, carried realizations with the images -- that together we are planet citizens.


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We welcomed a perspective that no human had ever had.

January 1969 was an eye-opener as the images of Earth were broadcast. We celebrated the images and our place in the cosmos even as we, the planet and our populations, were in the midst of violent war and troubled times.

Today, the famous Earthrise photo rekindles our memory, and the serendipity of how the Apollo 8 crew was lucky that day as, looking out their window, the Earth suddenly came into view. There was no "mission plan" to take Earth photos and the astronauts scrambled to get to a camera, put in film and shoot a few frames. They were in awe, they said, and fortune was in play that day. There we were, us, Earth. In the Earthrise images our space traveling planet citizens captured a realization of our wholeness, connectedness, and our shared future as together we spin thru space.

Later, the Apollo 17 mission, as the program was coming to its end, brought home the "Blue Marble" photograph, the first complete 360° image of our planet, a high-res Earth described as the most reproduced photo in history. It is the first photograph taken of the whole round Earth and still is only one of the whole earth ever snapped by a human being. Of the two living astronauts, Cernan and Schmitt, who believe they were the photographer who took the photo, here is how one describes his view.... Whichever astronaut of the three aboard Apollo 17 who snapped the picture, what is most memorable is Earth360:

"You have to literally just pinch yourself and ask yourself the question, silently: Do you know where you are at this point in time and space, and in reality and in existence, when you can look out the window and you're looking at the most beautiful star in the heavens -- the most beautiful because it's the one we understand and we know, it's home, it's people, family, love, life -- and besides that it is beautiful. You can see from pole to pole and across oceans and continents and you can watch it turn and there's no strings holding it up, and it's moving in a blackness that is almost beyond conception."


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The sense of awe, an Earth point of view, has continued to be communicated by astronauts since and has continued to be shared, more recently with high tech ways to see and experience our Earth as planetary citizens as we see from the International Space Station. The term "Overview Effect" begins to share the experience.

We celebrate our Planet Citizens who bring home messages how we can collaborate to make a difference, to make the world a better place.

Ron Garan: "You don’t need to be an astronaut to have the orbital perspective"...

"When we look down at the earth from space, we see this amazing, indescribably beautiful planet. It looks like a living, breathing organism. But it also, at the same time, looks extremely fragile... Anybody else who's ever gone to space says the same thing because it really is striking and it's really sobering to see this paper-thin layer and to realize that that little paper-thin layer is all that protects every living thing on Earth from death, basically. From the harshness of space."

"The Goal is to bring people along on our space missions not as spectators but as fellow crew mates." -- http://www.rongaran.com/gallery/

"It is truly moving to look at Earth from space. And when we do – we also have the privilege of sharing this orbital perspective with people back on our planet. We are all riding through the universe together on this spaceship we call Earth, we are all interconnected, we are all in this together. We are all family."


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Planet citizen Naomi Klein, "This Changes Everything"

Speaking @ the Bioneers conference, 2014


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Bill McKibben, founder of www.350.org, planet citizen, and former advisor to our GreenPolicy new venture.

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Bill_McKibben,_planet_citizen


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GreenPolicy360 highlights Rebecca Moore

Rebecca envisioned setting up "Google Earth Outreach", she envisioned it, presented the idea, and, as a citizen of the planet, she took a great idea into reality!


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Pope Francis, the first Catholic pontiff to name himself after the patron saint of the environment

Catholic pontiff speaks of the environment


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Winona LaDuke, Native-American environmentalist, economist, ecofeminist and writer.

In 1996 and 2000, Winona ran for Vice President as the nominee of the Green Party of the United States, on a ticket headed by Ralph Nader.


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Rebecca Solnit

"There are really only two questions for activists: what do you want to achieve? And who do you want to be? And those two questions are deeply entwined...
Every minute of every hour of every day you are making the world, just as you are making yourself, and you might as well do it with generosity and kindness and style. That is the small ongoing victory on which great victories can be built, and you do want victories, don't you?"


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January 2017


Green Stories of the Day, Become a Planet Citizen, Join with Planet Citizens Around the Globe


GreenPolicy360 Stories of the Day


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Watching the Arctic Thaw


The US and Russia, Exxon and Rosneft, Attempt Political Drive to Launch Historic Gas/Oil Drilling in the Arctic

Consequences and Costs Only Beginning to Be Estimated


Visit GreenPolicy's Arctic Page for Updates


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Hear ye, Hear ye

A 'Planet Citizen', California Governor Jerry Brown steps up at the AGU to deliver a speech for the times


All Hands on Deck

Eyes open, stay sharp, on alert

America’s science community is getting organised as never before to hold the new administration and Congress to account


To Andrew Revkin, 'Planet Citizen Reporter' as he signs out at Dot Earth & moves on to ProPublica

Andrew Revkin to Join ProPublica as Senior Reporter on Climate Change

A Dot Earth Farewell


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StrategicDemands.com: Time for New Definitions of National Security


The Military and Climate Security Budgets Compared

The U.S. military’s latest National Security Strategy says that climate change is “an urgent and growing threat to our national security, contributing to increased natural disasters, refugee flows, and conflicts over basic resources like food and water.”

What they don’t say is that the overall balance of U.S. security spending should be adjusted to fit that assessment. And we know less about how much we are spending on this urgent threat than we used to, since the federal government hasn’t produced a climate security budget since 2013.

In this new report, Combat vs. Climate, the Institute for Policy Studies steps in to provide the most accurate climate change security budget currently available, drawing data from multiple agencies. And it looks at how these expenditures stack up within the overall 'security budget.'


Report: Combat Vs. Climate

http://www.ips-dc.org/report-combat-vs-climate/

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Planet Citizens in Action: Update: 2018, Leonardo DiCaprio


Reefscape
Satellite Doves to Aid Coral Conservation
Planet API


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.


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Before the Flood Documentary
Hollywood Reporter Review
Leonardo DiCaprio Oscar Speech


Planet Citizens & Bioneers

Bioneers Lyons, Kucinich, DiCaprio
Fellow Planet Citizens-Bioneers / Leo's close friend, Oren Lyons, Chief of the Onondaga Iroquois
Oren Lyons - "We Are Part of the Earth" (Video / 7:38)
Speaking to the Seventh Generation
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Remembering Rachel, Planet Citizen

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"Eco-nomics" for the 21st Century

  • A Necessary Challenge to Neoliberal Economics
  • A Shift from Short-term Profits to Resilient, Sustainable Economies


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Stephen Hawking on ITV (and PBS)

"Runaway climate change... A rise in ocean temperature would melt the ice-caps... with catastrophic effects." #AGW #CAGW


Often referred to as an Einstein of our current era, Stephen Hawking points to "runaway climate change" as a profound threat to global security. In the same (labored) breath, he communicates a profound warning re: the other existential threat he sees -- nuclear weapons. At Strategic Demands the escalating threat of nuclear weapons is revealed and tracked -- as Cold War 2.0.


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Elon Musk & Co
Renewable Energy: Beyond Tesla with #PlanetCitizen


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Another Record for the Hottest Year


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Climate Change Denial in Motion

Defenders of Fossil Fuel Business-as-Usual Push Defense

Via Inside Climate News

August 31, 2016 - The chairman of the House Science Committee has announced a hearing next month into the refusal by two state attorneys general to comply with subpoenas seeking information on their investigations into ExxonMobil...


US House Science Committee Acts to Defend ExxonMobile Against Attorneys General

ExxonMobile Faces Multi-state AG Investigation



Politics: US Democratic Party Platcom Meetings

Democratic Party environmental positions voted into platform

Update from the Democratic Party Platform Hearing on Environmental/Climate Issues

Via George Monbiot

August 3, 2016 -- This (year), on current trends, will be the hottest year ever measured. The previous record was set in 2015; the one before in 2014. Fifteen of the 16 warmest years have occurred in the 21st century. Each of the past 14 months has beaten the global monthly temperature record. But you can still hear people repeating the old claim, first proposed by fossil fuel lobbyists, that global warming stopped in 1998. Arctic sea ice covered a smaller area last winter than in any winter since records began...

If you blinked you would have missed the reports, but perhaps the most striking aspect of the Democratic platform (the party’s manifesto) approved in Philadelphia last week was its position on climate change. Hillary Clinton’s campaign now promises a national and global mobilisation “on a scale not seen since World War II”. She will seek to renegotiate trade deals to protect the living world, to stop oil drilling in the Arctic and Atlantic, and to ensure the US is “running entirely on clean energy by mid-century”.

There are some crashing contradictions in the platform. To judge by one bizarre paragraph, the Democrats believe they can solve climate change by expanding roads and airports. It boasts about record sales in the car industry and promises to cut “red tape”, which is the term used by corporate lobbyists for the public protections they hate. But where it is good it is very good, reflecting the influence of Bernie Sanders and the nominees he proposed to the drafting committee.

Donald Trump, on the other hand – well, what did you expect? Climate change is a “con-job” and a “hoax” that was “created by and for the Chinese in order to make US manufacturing non-competitive”.

His manifesto reads like a love letter to the coal industry. Coal, it says, “is an abundant, clean, affordable, reliable domestic energy resource”. He will defend the industry by rejecting the Paris agreement, stopping funds for the UN’s climate change work, ditching President Obama’s clean power plan and forbidding the Environmental Protection Agency from regulating carbon dioxide.


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Warning Signs: Warming Oceans and the Great Barrier Reef


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Earth Day / Countries Signing Climate Action Plans

Paris Agreement Signatures Today at the UN in New York

Via Mother Jones - Something Genuinely Good for the Earth Is Happening on Earth Day

175 Nations Sign on Earth Day


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Solar Energy / EVs / ZEVs / NextGen Trans


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A Question of Questions

A multi-language 'Thank You' to Planet Citizens: ~ Sylvia Earle, ~ Bill McKibben and ~ Elon Musk

 

Planet Citizen/Climate Citizen News

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Polls: Planet citizens & global citizenship

'Global citizenship' on Upward Trend


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Remembering Bucky & Yes, we are on 'Spaceship Earth'

Buckminster Fuller, who helped to open our eyes to the big picture


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After a Year in Space, Scott Kelly Says: I'm an Environmentalist

"The Earth is a beautiful planet. It's practically everything to us. It's very important to our survival, and the Space Station is a great vantage point to observe it, and to share our planet in pictures," Kelly said during a press conference on his return from the International Space Station.

His photos earned him a wide social media following as he gazed down on everything from smog-choked cities to spiraling hurricanes and typhoons.

"You notice how the atmosphere looks and how fragile it looks," Kelly said. "It makes you more of an environmentalist after spending so much time looking down at our planet."

Overview Effect

Kelly now holds the NASA record for the most days in space as an American astronaut and is currently undergoing a battery of medical tests along with his twin brother, former astronaut Mark Kelly in order to help NASA learn more about how the human body changes throughout long-duration stays in space.


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Back in the USA: Climate Politics

"US Supreme Court's order blocking President Obama’s plan to cut emissions from coal-burning power plants is unprecedented step and one of the most environmentally harmful decisions ever made by the nation’s highest court"


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Tiny Blue Green


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"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
Visit GreenPolicy360's new site, proposed and co-designed by 14 yr old Olivia Schmidt
Oh Phyto!! -- the Zooplankton Keep On Hanging On & Drifting Along with You!!
Planet Citizens, Planet Scientists
~ www.tinybluegreen.com


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Thin Blue Layer

Remembering an Astronaut who was one of the first to look back at Planet Earth and our thin, fragile atmosphere
Astronaut Mitchell telling us how profoundly beautiful -- and in danger -- our world was from his 'Planet Overview'


February 4, 2016 ... In memory of Edgar Mitchell
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One of Mitchell's last interviews -- "In the big picture... we are stardust, this was a wow experience...
as we were coming home... where you see things in their natural state... a feeling of oneness"


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Climate Agreement In Paris

Renewable Energy Investment Growth


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"Toward a Renewable Energy Future:" Implementing the 'INDCs'

GreenPolicy's list of Countries & Climate Action INDC Plans

Moving Beyond the Goals in Each Nation's INDC-Climate Plan


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A Generation's Challenge

Renewables ---- 'Decarbonizing' ---- Transitioning to Clean Energy Globally


In Paris for the Climate Summit

Paris Climate Agreement: Moments

Falling Short on Climate in Paris

What the Paris conference on climate change can do for planet Earth


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Chris Mooney/Washington Post after the Paris Agreement

What happens next?


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November

Road to Paris

Global Climate March - News/Actions

Paris marches rescheduled -- 2,000+ worldwide climate change events ready-to-go ... 175+ Countries

Events/Locations 350.org #ClimateMarch

Paris Climate Summit, Opening Nov 30 - Information Hub

Agenda -- Meetings -- Schedule

Important: Legal forms for Paris climate agreement


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Join In, Act, Follow, Be Out in Front

It's Your Breathing Planet

#climateaction
#COP21
#INDCs
#climatechange


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DSCOVR/EPIC

Visit EarthPOV for Latest News

EarthPOV.com

A million mile view


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"Northern Lights over Alaska"

--- 2015, photo by Astronaut Scott Kelly from the International Space Station


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Environmental Security: a Planet Citizen Vision

Climate Summit / Road to Paris

UN / Climate Plans "Synthesis Report" -- Oct 30


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2020 Update: From Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac


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Christiana Figueres @CFigueres

Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change


Figueres - REDDIT AMA -- Oct 28


UN Climate Action @UNFCCC

October 19, 2015
Opening plenary of the latest @UN climate negotiations
#ADP2
#ADP2 session... steps toward Paris... Focus!
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Follow @UNFCCC

#COP21 #INDCs #climatechange #climateaction


UN Conferences / Eyes on the Future


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"We can commit to do more."

- Gavin Schmidt, NASA Goddard climate science director


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ClimateCentral (@ClimateCentral)

Oct 20, 2015
150 countries representing approx 90% of world’s carbon emissions have filed pledges


@ GreenPolicy, Review Climate Action National Plans/INDCs

Which Countries Are Doing the Most?

Sustainable Development Goals


@ GreenPolicy, 2015 UN Climate Change Conference


The International Climate Conference in Paris


We Mean Business on Climate Change


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Historic Earth Images from the DSCOVR Mission

GreenPolicy assists the NASA mission team

December 2015


First images of Moon and Earth from DSCOVR-EPIC


Planet Citizens, DSCOVR and the New Blue Marble

Planet Earth, the first whole Earth image since the original Blue Marble image taken by Apollo 17 in 1972.


GreenPolicy360 assisted in the release of these historic online views of Earth, made available in near real time, in coordination with Dr. Szabo and the NASA/NOAA DSCOVR project team.

"The high quality of the EPIC images exceeded all of our expectations in resolution," said Adam Szabo, DSCOVR project scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. "The images clearly show desert sand structures, river systems and complex cloud patterns. There will be a huge wealth of new data for scientists to explore."


#Earth360 Updates

Planet Citizen will be assisting in delivering NASA/NOAA DSCOVR/EPIC data and imagery

The Planet Citizen site will be expanding to highlight the new DSCOVR products and EPIC whole earth images

In addition to a new NASA DSCOVR/EPIC website in development and a selection of #‎Earth360‬ images planned to be made available online daily beginning in August, there will be unprecedented accompanying data/imagery made avail for ‪#‎EarthScience‬ and climate/atmospheric monitoring.

The following is from a NASA Goddard communication, March 11th to us @PlanetCitizen, discussing additional calibrated data products to come from DSCOVR...

>The individual 10 different wavelength EPIC data will be served from the Atmospheric Science Data Center (ASDC) at Langley (https://eosweb.larc.nasa.gov) Once we will be active, on the left side of this page DSCOVR will appear as a project. Clicking on it will give you a list of available products...

The DSCOVR satellite with its EPIC cam, PlasMag & NISTAR instrument package... is on a million mile journey and in approx four months, DSCOVR will "light up", be tested, and begin delivering data to Earth. In its historic mission, DSCOVR and its EPIC imaging system will begin sending near real-time images of the whole Earth... it has been many years since whole Earth images have been readily available...


It's been decades since December 7, 1972 when the only picture ever snapped by a human of the whole earth was captured -- our iconic "Blue Marble" Planet Earth. NASA engineers named the historic image -- AS17-148-22727'

As we have been recalling the history, we haven't had returned to us a 'whole earth' image since 1972. Today, the Associated Press reports Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Florida, pointing out from Washington that there hasn't been a "full, sunlit picture of the Earth since Apollo 17 in 1972 - NASA's last manned moon-landing mission". Subsequent images "have been stitched together", the Senator explained, for composite shots. The Florida Senator has an exceptional point of view re: this amazing fact, as he was an astronaut who flew on the Space Shuttle from Florida's "Space Coast". In January 1986, Nelson spent six days orbiting Earth as a payload specialist aboard space shuttle Columbia. His NASA bio adds "The experience gave him a new perspective on the Earth’s fragile environment and a greater appreciation of the importance of our nation’s space exploration program."

The DSCOVR satellite launches into deep orbit with multiple missions -- to monitor space weather and, due to the satellite's orbital distance from Earth (1 mil miles), DSCOVR will be sending back daily images of the whole earth via its EPIC image-taking system and via its NISTAR system measuring earth's earth's temperature, our "radiation balance" ("albedo").


"DSCOVR will be beaming back a steady stream of images of our home planet from space... with the images expected to be available online the next day."

"They'll be posted on a website for the public to see," said Steven Clarke, director of NASA's Joint Agency Satellite Division. "I think it will be an inspiration for people to see the sunlit disk of the Earth."


"Most impressive from DSCOVR will be the images of us, Planet Earth 360°. To see ‪and to experience #‎Earth360‬ daily, it's going to be a spectacular re-reminder of our place in the cosmos..." - Steven Schmidt

Scientists will soon get a steady stream of data about how both the Earth and the Sun are doing, for years to come.

The livestream of our planet will inform, immerse and inspire. Online the images from DSCOVR and EPIC will deliver majestic new visions of our home planet.


For many Earth scientists, the centerpiece of the satellite is the National Institute of Standards Advanced Radiometer, or NISTAR, named for the Maryland-based government laboratory that designed it. The apparatus was built to shed light on Earth’s “radiation balance”—the radiation we receive from our sun minus the radiation we reflect back into space. The difference is retained by our planet as heat, and is calculated by measuring Earth’s reflectivity, called the albedo. Data showing whether Earth’s albedo is decreasing, meaning the atmosphere is retaining more heat because of greenhouse gases or other reasons, could be a significant piece of the climate puzzle.

What is revolutionary isn’t the basic technology for tracking albedo — it is measuring it from the million-mile perspective out at L1. Most satellites circle the planet at about one-thousandth of that distance, so their readings encompass only a small slice of land, a view that shifts rapidly as they circle the planet every two hours or so. Different climate zones — ice caps, deserts, tropical forests—have different reflectivities, independent of the atmosphere, which needs to be factored in to the overall measurement; it’s virtually impossible to create a whole-Earth portrait from a deck of low-orbit snapshots. “By the time you stitch together all the separate bits of data, the margin of error is too large to be useful,” Dr. Asrar at NASA says.

DSCOVR is "like having a thermometer for the whole planet.” It’s not a perfect gauge, NASA’s Dr. Adam Szabo cautions. “Earth is… a sphere that reflects light in all directions. So a measurement from any one point will not be the final word. But it will still be very important for the conversation about climate change.”


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New Ways to See and Experience Planet Earth


How Beautiful Planet Earth Is


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EARTH FROM ORBIT / VIDEO IN HD


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Watching Earth Roll By: On the International Space Station

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Visit Google Earth's 10th anniversary:

Journey with Voyager +

Introducing Voyager & Earth View



Going Planetary.org

Earthviews from Above

Remember "Earthrise"

Our "Blue Marble"

"The only home we've got..."


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Planet Labs 'Doves' fly from the ISS


Planet Labs & NanoRacks

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Planet Citizen: Elon

Consider how years ago now, NASA put out a call about launching services for the DSCOVR mission -- Guess who was one of those who replied? A young visionary dreaming of what could be, even before his SpaceX was ready to go... Elon Musk, becoming a planet citizen. He spoke of how the iconic whole earth "Blue Marble" photo of Earth had inspired him to dream and to move his technology plans toward a space & earth connection.


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Overview and Perspective

See and experience the Earth in new ways

The Overview Effect

Orbital Perspective


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#Earth360: The Overview


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As the New Year Dawns, Earth from Space


With appreciation ~ for the space experience and the wisdom of the Overview Effect

Overview

Planetary --- Planetary, trailer, pre-release March 2015



From Above, beauty and awe...


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All Alone in the Night


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The View Outside My Window


Astronaut Alex Gerst: A 'Planet Citizen's' view of Earth...


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"Game changer"

Historic Orbiting Carbon Observatory Satellite Sends Back Most Detailed CO2 View Ever / Dec 18, 2014


OCO-2 begins to measure atmospheric CO2 levels with unprecedented science


The 'Initial Level 1 round' of data was made available to the public on Dec 30, 2014.


A full set of CO2 data is available in March for scientists and public "planet citizens" to download and explore


First OCO Data via Phys.org
Discover OCO
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Sample Data -- OCO-2 Data Portal


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For #PlanetCitizen gazing, visit the "Blue Marble" Collection

Security by Design, new definitions of national security to be found in environmental security, planning for global trends


You Are Here

And Here!


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Up Here, #EarthPOV

Earth's Observation's new website

Vid Watch

Look

Green Skies


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Earth: How are you?

@EarthVitalSigns
#EarthRightNow




About Planet Citizen

#PlanetCitizen #EarthPOV


SJS/GreenPolicy360 Siterunner:

In the 1960s in the US and globally a modern environmental movement was being created as first-ever visions of Planet Earth were sent from Apollo missions. The images of the Whole Earth in space changed perceptions in every nation. A realization of a common, shared home -- and responsibility to care for our home -- was born.

Soon political leaders stepped up, both looking backward and forward. A new field of science, earth science, began to spring up. In the US Congress, leaders like George Brown were saying no to war in Vietnam and Asia, and the Mideast, and no to nuclear weapons, while saying yes to a first generation of NASA earth science missions.

This was called 'Big Science' by some and 'its a critical mission' by others.

Rep. George E. Brown was out in front.

From the mid 1960s until his death in 1999, his work in Congress was instrumental in proposing, shaping, and protecting Big Science - Earth Science.


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Our new era of #Earth360 exploration, using the tools of the digital age and Internet connectivity, is making it possible to see and experience a connected, Planet Earth 360 and to begin studying life-enabling systems (and life-threatening changes) with means never before possible.

Space- and earth-based observation platforms are delivering "intelligence reports" in effect, strategic insights that can broaden our knowledge and perceptions of who we are and how we respond to our global, common future.

In unprecedented ways, intelligence about our planet's systems can be shared and networked via the worldwide web and a larger Internet, linking us together wherever our community and whatever our nation.

We look out at a critical, developing field of #EnvironmentalSecurity as a generation of Planet Citizen voyagers.


Generation Green


  • Planet Citizens and GreenPolicy hold a simple value proposition:


  • Cleaner air and water and food is a good thing. Reducing pollution is a necessary thing. Health of our environment is a vital thing.



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An API for the Planet

Planet API

Earth Imaging-New Space


www.Planet.com

Planet Labs Pulse

#PlanetLabs @Open Source Conference

With the Planet-Lab Platform, Connect to our Planet as Citizens of the Planet

Mission: Democratizing Access to Information About the Changing Planet


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Planet Labs/NYT

Launch of new Flock of Dove Satellites to Image Earth

Doves fly

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Planet Labs 'Dove' micro-satellites


"Rapid cadence imagery, like Planet Labs is developing, helps us become better, more sustainable stewards of Earth."


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Environmental Security @Strategic Demands

 

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21st Century definitions of national and international security

A realization that "Security is indivisible" is on the horizon and security definitions are changing as a result of the dynamics of interactive networks.

The sharing of information is creating a new science of networking. Information is being looked at as never before and #earthscience data is now being collected by networked computers across an interconnected world. In historic ways, open data is being publicly distributed far beyond the restrictive policies of previous times and closed-loop systems.

Today #earthsciences are at the cusp of a rich new world of information. As we share these new realizations, images, data, experiences and understandings, we can be certain of a new, growing awareness of our planet and our 'citizenship' together.

Even now, we have inklings of what is coming. Let's look at one called OCO-2. With the launch of OCO-2, a "game changer", in the summer of 2014, the data of #Earth360 will grow in unprecedented ways as this first orbiting observatory of global warming conditions takes to space and begins to report home - I am OCO-2

Although the Orbiting Carbon Observatory is just the beginning, the future of #earthscience from space is here as we see in new ways and observe our environment with new information never before accessible. Space-imaging is opening up amazing views, with 3D and big-screens and home theaters. Coming soon will be views beyond IMAX as companies like Virgin and SpaceX carry citizen travelers into orbit. Educational and scientific information about our communities is being shared, and linked to, and distributed around the Net. From space, the earth is borderless and with vision of the planet and common-good #biosphere and #ecosystem comes responsibility for our shared security.

On to first steps... We are all connected and wherever we are, geographically, nationally, we share common-ground and common-atmosphere. Let's look at our home and, with an "overview" from space, see the 'Big Picture' and let's look at the details, let's manage and sustain our earth resources and, as we go, look to our shared quality of life on the "only home we've ever known."


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Here's to our future and future of #Environmental Security


 

The Big Picture: Earth from Space

 

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Our world of is in flux.

The term "New Space" and "Democratization of Space" have come to represent a first generation of earth research and study from space by start up companies designing, building and launching small, mini- and micro-satellites.

New visions of Earth and new players are challenging the old system of governments that spend billions to explore, commercialize and militarize space.

Barriers to entry are being broken and young companies are launching flocks of satellite birds into space. Earth monitoring is going planetary and a next generation is at the forefront pushing to address threats to the environment.

Let's go there to this new world, not a "new world order" but a world that is being connected and is sharing, linking and seeing the bigger picture. The way we observe and 'feel' about our planet is changing in one generation.

Beginning with the first Whole Earth pictures relayed from the Apollo voyages to the Moon, we have for the first time in history experienced a vision of our planet from afar -- we are, we realize, a 'blue' oasis in space.

Now, nearly five decades after the original awe-inspiring Earthrise images from Apollo 8 were revealed, we find everyday citizens in every nation realizing our commonalities.

The Apollo mission helped us open our eyes and today we are seeing our planet and our place in the universe in new light, with new missions and and new possibilities to secure our environment for ages to come.


We are citizens of our common home, planet Earth.


Add your talent to the grand project of planet citizenship, of seeing with an EarthPOV so that we can make informed decisions and policy...

Observe, consider, act. NextGen #earthscience in an era of #climatechange and #globalsecurity challenges and opportunities...

Make a difference, join with GreenPolicy360's global work. In every community there are green groups at work.

Visit and use our GreenLinks to see a multi-colored, deep and diverse range of resources and friends of GreenPolicy.

It's time, your time to Go Green!  

www.planetaryawareness.org


Earth Right Now


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Citizens of Planet Earth

Arise, Look Up, Around, Outward and Inward


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Planet Citizen, Forward-looking Vision

A Vision of Dynamic Change


EarthPOV

Hello Earth

Tiny Blue Green

Thin Blue Layer

Overview Effect

Orbital Perspective


Citizen Science

Planet Scientist

Planet Citizens, Planet Scientists

Planet API


Earth Observations, Strategic Missions

Environmental Security - Global/National

New Definitions of National Security


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Carl Sagan: Our Origins Are in the Stars

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To Be, or Not to Be a Planet Citizen


www.planetcitizens.org

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The 1992 International Earth Summit

@Wikipedia -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Summit

The United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), also known as the Rio Conference or the Earth Summit (Portuguese: ECO92), was a major United Nations conference held in Rio de Janeiro from June 3 to June 14, 1992.

Earth Summit was created as a response for member states to cooperate together internationally on development issues after the Cold War. Due to issues relating to sustainability being too big for individual member states to handle, Earth Summit was held as a platform for other member states to collaborate.

A key achievement of the 1992 conference was the establishment of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) established in part as an international environmental treaty to combat "dangerous human interference with the climate system" and to stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere. It was signed by 154 states at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED). By 2022, the UNFCCC had 198 parties. Its supreme decision-making body, the Conference of the Parties (COP) meets annually to assess progress in dealing with climate change.

Since the creation of the UNFCC many related environmental conferences, climate-related forums, and ongoing scientific research initiatives in the fields of sustainability, climate, and environmental security have continued to develop these intersecting issues. Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and educational institutions have been prominent participants.


@Wikipedia -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Framework_Convention_on_Climate_Change

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) established an international environmental treaty to combat "dangerous human interference with the climate system", in part by stabilizing greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere.[1] It was signed by 154 states at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), informally known as the Earth Summit, held in Rio de Janeiro from 3 to 14 June 1992... The treaty called for ongoing scientific research and regular meetings, negotiations, and future policy agreements designed to allow ecosystems to adapt naturally to climate change, to ensure that food production is not threatened and to enable economic development to proceed in a sustainable manner.


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Remembering the First Earth Summit

"It has been a long, long road" -- 1968 to 1992 -- and the journey continues ...


Steve Schmidt, GreenPolicy360 Siterunner: 1968 to 1992, and 1992 to 2023 and on and on

The journey began in 1968 along with the beginnings of the modern environmental movement. We saw "Earthrise" and we also rose with organizing of the first "Earth Day" in 1970.

Earth Day Memories on the 50th Anniversary


YourGreenPolicy360 founder moved on to helping a US political visionary with Earth Science and a first-gen foundation of legislation legislation and joined in environmental organizing.

In 1992, it was time for a presidential campaign, and environmental protection platform drafting, and then a first Earth Summit and creation of the annual international climate conferences (the UNFCCCs "Conferences of the Parties").

Fifty+ years of environmental, green activism and still going and going and going ....

I'm older now and looking back over the years from those first photos of our home planet that opened our student eyes.... There were those early years of organizing for peace and pushing for environmental protection as we put forward 'teach ins' and moved our message to the first Earth Day.

Then there was continuing the work with Congressman Brown and an international cast of scientists via the US Congress and the Committee on Science, Technology and Space, the first of a host of 'Earth Science Missions from Space', and the first 'National Climate Act in 1978 and the famous US Senate hearings in the late 80s, 1988 in fact with warnings from Dr. James Hansen. The warnings of of climate change and global warming were in the news and on front pages, at least for awhile.

Then came organizing and reporting of at the first "Earth Summit", a conference of nations, organizations, and activists that led to the first global climate 'Conference of the Parties' (UNFCCCs). My reports to the Environmental News Service (ENS) were picked up and I would add positions into environmental platform planks in the the 'Platform in Progress' for California Governor Jerry Brown's presidential campaign. Soon came drafting of the original US Green Party platform. Today, the work continues... 1968 to 1992 and 1992 to today, over half a century and still going....


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On the Road

GreenPolicy360 Siterunner Comments


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