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The story arc of GreenPolicy360, in its span and scope, tracks back to the late 1960s when Steve Schmidt, our founder and current siterunner, began to work alongside a new Congressman from East Los Angeles, Rep. George E. Brown. Their work as detailed in GreenPolicy360 reveals a narrative and scientific journey into the origins, development, Earth Science and political activism that helped set in motion the modern environmental movement.


Connecting & sharing world changing stories

"GreenPolicy360 journeys across 50+ years of the modern environmental movement"


Today's challenges come into the light as a half century journey of key players, events, struggles, and decisions are revealed. Green politics and the modern environmental movement have progressed far from first-era Whole Earth images of the 1960s and a first "Earth Day" of 1970.

GreenPolicy360 speaks of green, life affirming values, "a politics of values" that we see as needed "for the long run" as humanity navigates the challenges and demands of the 21st century.

The media is welcome onboard. Search & explore GreenPolicy360's curated collection of stories from around the world.


On Earth

Green Stories of the Day ~ Climate News

Earth and Space, Politics

 

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Continuing decades of environmental work, GreenPolicy360 launched in 2005-2006


Read more about GreenPolicy360 here --


Also visit GreenPolicy360's Associated website -- Strategic Demands


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2006, Clearwater, Florida


Steven J. Schmidt (SJS)

GreenPolicy360 Founder / Siterunner

Siterunner @ GreenPolicy360

Email: [email protected]

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Our Home Planet

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"There is no wisdom that is not related to earth, or does not partake of its nature."

-- Marjory Stoneman Douglas


Stories Featured on GreenPolicy360's Eco-Network


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January 27, 2019

Tierra Time ... Time for Planet Citizens

GreenPolicy360 in Clearwater/St.Pete/Tampa is encouraging and assisting in the start-up work of the new U.S. House climate change committee. Go Kathy Castor, move with all due speed! The times demand decisive action.


Tampa Bay's Kathy Castor, point person on Congressional environmental action

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


January 24, 2019

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January 23, 2019

Via World Resources Institute / Tracking Climate Crisis Response in Key Sectors

Six milestones—in energy, transport, land use, industry, infrastructure, and finance—that would need to be met by 2020 to bend the curve in global greenhouse gas emissions and put the world on a pathway consistent with the Paris international climate agreement.


January 20, 2019

"Globalization 4.0 ", World Economic Forum, Davos Meetup & Agenda, a 'Top of the World' View

https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2019/01/the-shrinking-arctic-ice-protects-all-of-us-its-time-to-save-it

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Arctic


January 17, 2019

Lost in the Daily News Cycle: US Environmental Protection Nominee Supports Coal, Downplays Climate Change Crisis

Andrew Wheeler, Trump's EPA pick says climate change 'not the greatest crisis'. The former coal lobbyist took over the EPA when his predecessor Scott Pruitt resigned after months of controversy. Wheeler says, in confirmation hearings (reported by few media outlets), that "he is carrying out the president’s “regulatory reform agenda” and that the US is the “gold standard for environmental progress”.

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January 15, 2019

Recalling Buckminster Fuller's World Game Project


January 13, 2019

Economically feasible CO2 reduction of emissions?

'Powder' to capture carbon pollution from power plants

Ion-activated carbon nanospheres for CO2 capture


January 11, 2019

'Race against time'...


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January 9, 2019

After three years of decline, carbon emissions rose sharply in the US in 2018

Via CNN / Carbon emissions increased 3.4% in 2018, marking the second-largest annual gain in more than two decades, according to preliminary power generation data analyzed by the Rhodium Group, an independent economic policy research provider... US power sector emissions as a whole rose by 1.9% and that the transportation sector "held its title as the largest source of US emissions for the third year running," due to a growth in demand for diesel and jet fuel offsetting a modest decline in gasoline use.

The lack of strategy in the country's decarbonization efforts, the research says, has contributed to the gap in meeting the goal set in the Paris Agreement on climate change, a landmark 2015 accord that the US Trump administration has promised to abandon. President Trump has at times denied the basic science of climate change, which states that burning coal, oil and natural gas produces emissions that trap heat in the atmosphere, warming the planet. But it has become increasingly clear that warming is happening faster than previously thought and with worse results.


January 7, 2019

Brookings climate study: The Paris international climate agreement "significantly reduces" carbon emissions relative to a business-as-usual case. But it also further confirms how much existing pledges, called nationally determined contributions, are nonetheless insufficient.


January 5, 2019

Policymakers, act now

The clock, physics, politics demand action.


January 1, 2019

Check out Green Trending News. Follow a Tag, a Thread, Link In.

Visit GreenPolicy360's GreenLinks. Pick a fave Green org. Join Up.


December 30, 2018

Meet the Press (Transcript): Gov. Jerry Brown, Michael Bloomberg and science experts confront challenges of climate disruption / global warming


December 28, 2018

The US Office of Technology Assessment should be revived – in 2019 the world will need its expertise more than ever


GreenPolicy360 Siterunner: William Westermeyer writes of a science agency that was established thru the work of Congressman George E Brown, Congressman from East LA and a leader of California's initiatives in environmental science. Gingrich disbanded the US Office of Technology Assessment in the 1995, after its warning on climate change. Today, the science office to advise the president, Office of Science and Technology Policy also brought into existence by George Brown, is moribund with its science executive positions going unfilled. The president is on record saying he doesn't need the science... The nation, and world, heads into 2019 as science and guidance of visionary leaders are set aside.

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

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/George_E._Brown_Jr


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On the 50th Anniversary of the Apollo 8 Mission ...

"Earthrise" ... Whole Earth vision and the beginning of the modern Environmental Movement


December 24, 2018


Via CNN / Fifty years after "Earthrise"

Via USA Today / "Earthrise" on the Fiftieth Anniversary


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http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20181220-the-nasa-mission-that-broadcast-to-a-billion-people

https://qz.com/1501935/photos-apollo-8-brought-us-the-moon-as-never-seen-before/amp/

https://petapixel.com/2018/12/20/how-nasas-iconic-earthrise-photo-was-shot/


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Planet Citizen Vision of Living Earth


Planet Citizens in Action

Planet Citizens
Planet Citizens, Planet Scientists


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Can the world kick its fossil-fuel addiction fast enough?


PlanetCitizen.org / Be a Planet Citizen / Measuring "Vital Signs"


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GreenPolicy360 and our Associate StrategicDemands.com explore Earth's existential threat environment

@StrategicDemands.com


Escalating Risk of Use of Nuclear Weapons
Bill Perry Is Terrified, Why Aren't You?


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U.S. Signals Nuclear Arms Are Back in a Big Way



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Warning to Today's Generation
Planet Citizens, Look to the Future


Environmental protection
Environmental movement


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US Departure from International Cooperation:

"Sovereignty", the New Administration's Buzzword


The International Climate Agreement goes forward without the US

Nations around the world reject the US decision


Climate News / Climate Focus, Climate Politics



Battle in the US Congress between the Climate Denial faction and Science Advocates

GreenPolicy360 and Strategic Demands Advance New Definitions of National Security


New Definitions of National Security
Earth and Space, Politics

 


Mick Mulvaney, President Trump’s budget director:

“Regarding the question as to climate change, I think the President was fairly straightforward —

We’re not spending money on that anymore; we consider that to be a waste of your money to go out and do that.”


It's a "Waste Of Your Money" (Video)
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“Regarding the question as to climate change, I think the president was fairly straightforward – we’re not spending money on that anymore. We consider that to be a waste of your money.”


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Climate Change Laws Around the World
Trends in Climate Change Legislation


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Green Issues Around the Globe, 360°, Online

Countries Worldwide/Climate Action INDC Plans


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Threat Environment



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Pope Francis speaks of Climate, Politics, and Personal Responsibility

"It would be sad, and dare I say even catastrophic, were special interests to prevail over the common good and lead to manipulating information in order to protect their own plans and interests"...
"The Pope took particular aim at those who reject the science behind global warming..."


Pope Francis on the Environment


Integral Ecology


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Sea-Level Rise


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"What's up with sea level rise?"

NASA experts update current conditions & projections of sea level rise

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Extinction

Endangered Species

Destruction of Life, Large 'Charismatic' Creatures & the "Tiny Little Ones"


The 8 Million+ Species We Don’t Know

By Edward O. Wilson / NY Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/03/opinion/sunday/species-conservation-extinction.html


The most striking fact about the living environment may be how little we know about it. Even the number of living species can be only roughly calculated. A widely accepted estimate by scientists puts the number at about 10 million. In contrast, those formally described, classified and given two-part Latinized names (Homo sapiens for humans, for example) number slightly more than two million. With only about 20 percent of its species known and 80 percent undiscovered, it is fair to call Earth a little-known planet.


  • To effectively manage protected habitats, we must also learn more about all the species of our planet and their interactions within ecosystems.


The best-explored groups of organisms are the vertebrates (mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fishes), along with plants, especially trees and shrubs. Being conspicuous, they are what we familiarly call “wildlife.” A great majority of other species, however, are by far also the most abundant. I like to call them “the little things that run the world.” They teem everywhere, in great number and variety in and on all plants, throughout the soil at our feet and in the air around us. They are the protists, fungi, insects, crustaceans, spiders, pauropods, centipedes, mites, nematodes and legions of others whose scientific names are seldom heard by the bulk of humanity. In the sea and along its shores swarm organisms of the other living world — marine diatoms, crustaceans, ascidians, sea hares, priapulids, coral, loriciferans and on through the still mostly unfilled encyclopedia of life.

Do not call these organisms “bugs” or “critters.” They too are wildlife. Let us learn their correct names and care about their safety. Their existence makes possible our own. We are wholly dependent on them.


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Warming Oceans


Phytoplankton & Photosynthesis

Plankton: The Ocean Food Chain & Atmospheric Oxygen


"Tiny Blue Green"

More than Meets the Eye


"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:

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Seventy percent of the Earth's surface is ocean and here, in myriad life forms, "tiny blue-green" organisms are essential to preserving life on the planet


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The Unseen and the Seen

The "Tree of Life" 1.0


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Eco-nomics

A 21st Century paradigm in development @ GreenPolicy360

 



 

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GreenPolicy360 provides green best practices, news and updates, and an online database which lists local/global policies and successful projects and programs -- legislation / proposals / resolutions / ordinances. Green values in practice. Our GreenPolicy / GreenLinks database is growing. We've experienced millions of page visits. Our Introduction Video explains how we started and our initial goals.

We are an eco-network, a system designed for online sharing, a distributive web of green best practices.

GreenPolicy360 was developed for use in all communities, local, national, international. GreenPolicy lets you know how other communities are dealing with many of the key public policy issues of yesterday, today and tomorrow. If you're working to craft similar green legislation/proposals/resolutions/ordinances/concepts for your local community, or you just want to get an idea of best practices that might be possible, you can use the models and templates here.

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Digital Rights Movement

(FB) https://www.facebook.com/allianceforaffordableinternet
(TW) https://twitter.com/a4a_internet
(FB) https://www.facebook.com/CenterForDataInnovation
(TW) https://twitter.com/datainnovation
(FB) https://www.facebook.com/CenDemTech
(TW) https://twitter.com/CenDemTech
(Wiki) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_for_Democracy_and_Technology
(News) https://citizenlab.ca/category/lab-news/
(Blog) http://www.codeforamerica.org/blog/
(TW) https://twitter.com/codeforamerica
(FB) https://Facebook.com/CreativeCommons
(TW) https://Twitter.com/creativecommons
124K+ data sets as of 2015 - http://www.data.gov/metrics
EcoInforma http://www.data.gov/ecosystems/ecoinforma/
(TW) https://twitter.com/ePluribusUnum
(TW) https://twitter.com/digiphile
(RSS) https://www.eff.org/rss
(Wiki) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_Frontier_Foundation
(Parker Higgins-EFF) https://twitter.com/xor
Tips, Tools and How-tos for Safer Online Communications from Electronic Frontier Foundation
(recommended by EFF)
Lawgeek Lawrence Lessig's blog
Chilling Effects Clearinghouse
(TW) https://twitter.com/chillingeffects
Cyberlaw @Harvard
Ed Felten's "Freedom to Tinker"
Groklaw
Slashdot: Your Rights Online
Ernest Miller's "The Importance Of..."
Sabrina Pacifi's "Be Spacific"
(TW) https://twitter.com/EPICprivacy
Advancing the International Bill of Human Rights - http://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Publications/Compilation1.1en.pdf
  • Fact-Checking Projects
http://www.poynter.org/2017/there-are-now-114-fact-checking-initiatives-in-47-countries/450477/
http://www.poynter.org/2016/there-are-96-fact-checking-projects-in-37-countries-new-census-finds/396256/
Beginning with PolitiFact, the original project at Poynter Institute in St. Petersburg, Florida - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PolitiFact.com
http://www.poynter.org/about-the-international-fact-checking-network/
http://reporterslab.org/fact-checking/
http://reporterslab.org/category/fact-checking/#article-1384
http://reporterslab.org/global-fact-checking-up-50-percent/
(TW) https://twitter.com/fightfortheftr
(TW) https://twitter.com/FreedomofPress
(FreedomPress Organizations) https://freedom.press/organizations
(TW) https://twitter.com/FundarMexico
Principles on Freedom of Expression and Privacy - https://globalnetworkinitiative.org//principles/index.php
https://globalnetworkinitiative.org/sites/default/files/GNI_-_Principles_1_.pdf
GNU Project - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Project
(FB) https://www.facebook.com/GovernmentAccountabilityProject
(TW) https://twitter.com/GovAcctProj
(TW) https://twitter.com/TheGovLab
  • GovFuturesLab - Reimagining governance for an age of planetary challenges and human responsibility
(FB) https://Facebook.com/govfutures
App4Gov (TW) https://Twitter.com/App4Gov
(FB) https://www.facebook.com/GovernmentTechnology
(TW) https://twitter.com/govtechnews
(TW) https://Twitter.com/Govtrack
(TW) https://twitter.com/itifdc
(TW) https://Twitter.com/GovFuturesLab
  • Internet Freedom Festival (IFF)
https://internetfreedomfestival.org/history/
https://www.irex.org/project/internet-freedom-festival
(TW) https://twitter.com/internetsociety
(Blog) http://www.opendatanation.com/news/
http://opendataresearch.org/emergingimpacts
http://opendataresearch.org/content/2014/646/towards-common-methods-assessing-open-data-workshop-report
https://www.opendemocracy.net/digitaliberties
https://www.opendemocracy.net/openglobalrights
(TW) https://twitter.com/opendemocracy
(TW) https://twitter.com/OpenGov
(TW) https://Twitter.com/opengovpart
(TW) https://Twitter.com/Open_Institute
(Blog) PublicBodies.org - http://blog.okfn.org/2013/07/09/introducing-open-knowledge-foundation-labs/
(Zine) http://zine.openrightsgroup.org/
(TW) https://twitter.com/openscience
http://www.niemanlab.org/2015/08/arguing-that-politicians-tweets-shouldnt-be-irrevocable-twitter-shuts-down-politwoops-worldwide/
(TW) https://twitter.com/theopenmedia
(TW) https://twitter.com/P2P_Foundation
Civic Hall - http://civichall.org/
  • Privacy Rights in the Digital Age (Published 2016)
http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Privacy_Rights


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(TW) https://twitter.com/PublicAgenda
(Wiki) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_Freedom_Law_Center
(FB) https://www.facebook.com/sunlightfoundation
(G+) https://plus.google.com/+sunlightfoundation/posts
(TW) https://twitter.com/sunfoundation
Measuring the Impact of Open Data
(TW) https://twitter.com/tconstituent
(TW) https://twitter.com/webwewant
  • Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaWiki
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikimedia_Foundation
Jimmy Wales / Founder - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jimmy_Wales
  • WWW Origins-Foundation, est. by World Wide Web founder Tim Berners-Lee, "devoted to all people having access to the Web"
WebFoundation.org -- "The Web Belongs to All of Us"


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