Green Policy:About
Steven Schmidt, GreenPolicy360 Founder-Siterunner
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- GreenPolicy360 -- Greening Our Blue Planet
GreenPolicy360 is an eOS, an 'eco Operating System' designed to share green best practices.
We believe in "change, change for the better" as 'planet citizens' of a blue-green 360° world so magnificently first viewed in December 1968 from the Apollo 8 mission.
The GreenPolicy360 network is a clearinghouse where you can find what works and 'repurpose' green policies and practices without ‘reinventing the wheel’. Take the green best practices offered via Topics and Categories and pass them along. Offer your green success stories and practical solutions by uploading your model green practices for all to use.
GreenPolicy360 encourages all in our global network to work in keeping with the importance of facts and science.
We are planet citizens and planet citizens, planet scientists.
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About Your Siterunner
Steven Schmidt: GreenPolicy360 highlights green, environmental success stories, models, prototypes, templates, proposals and initiatives, resolutions, laws and ordinances. All of the elements how to envision and create successful green campaigns are made available and easily accessed. Take the best green ideas, try them, share them and send them around via social media as guide lights, city-to-city, community-to-community, region-to-region.
We are a MediaWiki Open, Global Network, an Operating System, an eOS
Y/our site runs on an open source MediaWiki platform.
Wikipedia, Wikimedia, MediaWiki, and wiki
The wikipedia - mediawiki - wiki network is among the top online networks in the world. Wikipedia itself traces, one of the top ten sites worldwide, traces its founding back to our GreenPolicy360 region, St. Petersburg-Clearwater in Florida, USA. Here is the story of the Wikipedia and why we chose to join the wiki 'open network' to deliver our Green stories, as planet citizens sharing ideas and best practices throughout our fast-connecting home planet.
We are a 'Distributive Web' and Encourage Sharing of our GreenPolicy360 content/data
GreenPolicy360 News, Stories, Media, Best Practices, Initiatives, Projects and Programs have been shared tens of millions of times. Our GreenLinks global network enables sharing designed for community-to-community, individual and peer-to-peer distribution. Sharing multiplies the green message, ripples become waves. Create green waves of change!
Our GreenPolicy360 terrestrial home base is St. Petersburg-Clearwater, Florida. We arrived in Florida in 2000 and were active in the new 'digital scene' that began making waves. We joined in and your siterunner's work included being a president of one of the largest interactive-digital companies in the U.S. This is where the story takes a turn, as a new start up came into view. The name of the local company beginning to be known was 'wikipedia' and we joined in with the 'wiki' open-source, collaborative movement. The opportunity could, as your GreenPolicy360 founder would say, "turn ripples into waves" and we wanted to make waves.
Via Green Institute, our site, built on a MediaWiki platform, started up and we began to create ripples and waves, even as Wikipedia was growing into on the top 10 websites in the world.
June 20, 2003: Wikipedia established as non-profit in St. Petersburg, FL
One of the Internet's most-used websites, Wikipedia, became the Wikimedia Foundation in St. Petersburg on June 20, 2003. In 2003. Jimmy Wales, Michael Davis and Tim Shell formed the non-profit Wikimedia Foundation and comprised its Board of Trustees. The company was first headquartered in Bomis' St. Petersburg offices. The Wikimedia Foundation moved from St. Petersburg to the San Francisco Bay Area in September 2007 to be closer to other Internet companies and to make global travel more convenient.
As of 2013, Wikipedia, the company, had $45 million in assets, employed 142 people and ranks in the top five of the world's most visited websites with 16 billion page views a month. Its 30 million articles, written by volunteers worldwide, are available in 287 languages.
Although any registered user is allowed to post an article on Wikipedia or add to existing articles, Wikipedia strives to ensure accuracy by subjecting new articles and revisions to review by a vast community of editors and administrators.
Wikipedia is 20, and its reputation has never been higher
The crowdsourced encyclopedia is a welcome oddity on the modern internet
Democratization of Knowledge
Networking and Multiplier Effect
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Your GreenPolicy360 founder-siterunner brings multiple decades of Green work and politics to the challenge facing all of us. The experiences involved in starting up what is often called a movement, a modern environmental politics, involves call to action and here at GreenPolicy360 we focus on science and facts as a foundation in our Green activism.
Over the years, beginning in the 1960s and 'teach ins', and the first Earth Day, and through the story of your GreenPolicy360 founder at work, the hope has continued that our efforts to advance environmental protection and quality of life, would become reality.
Take a look at our GreenPolicy360 science-based shared stories -- and take a look at our founder-siterunner's writing, the drafting of a founding Green Platform, and many years of international Green politics, a follow on U.S.-Euro Green 'Common Ground' and wide-ranging 'Global Green' work.
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Here is how the Green Horizon Magazine describes the organizing efforts of Steve Schmidt:
"Who Founded the Green Party in the United States?"
by John Rensenbrink, Professor Emeritus, History & Politics, Bowdoin College
Professor Rensenbrink writes of 'essential founding work' by eight individuals, including GreenPolicy360's founder and current Siterunner -- Steven Schmidt (GreenPolicy360.com)
Green Horizon Magazine, Summer/Fall 2021
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We are changing the world, the way governments run, the way businesses run, the way the world works. We are bringing sustainable change that will positively impact all of our lives and our environments. GreenPolicy's blue-green waves ripple through our world. From local to global, green actions day-to-day in every community are acting to change the world for the better.
SJS / Siterunner: GreenPolicy360 began as a project proposed to the Green Institute by your GreenPolicy siterunner. At the time I was a co-founder of the Green Institute and its publishing director. As envisioned, our GreenPolicy online network set out to be a GreenLinks global resource of shared green 'best practices'. Our goal imagined green policies flowing into practice, from local to global, a kinetics of action and dynamic change.
Green Institute's director, Dean Myerson, and the advisory board including Bill McKibben who was about to begin his "Step It Up" global warming campaign and 350.org, said "Go, greenlight" to the original GreenPolicy best practices online network. We launched!
In 2006, our first test version site went online in beta. By 2008, we had expanded our network, renamed as 'GreenPolicy360', and Green Institute transferred its .net/.com/.org domains and oversight to our current green team and MediaWiki cooperative model.
In the years following, the GreenPolicy project has grown steadily. We have tens of million views of the main home site, and tens of millions more shares, forwards and re-forwards of content and pages. Our GreenLinks network is global and our PlanetCitizens media is reaching a worldwide audience.
Our partnered organization, Strategic Demands @strategicdemands.com continues its influential work developing 'new definitions of national and global security.' GreenPolicy has extended its outreach with an eco Operating System (eOS) of sites (including thinbluelayer.com and has linked with NASA mission management and scientific studies of Earth's 'Thin Blue' atmosphere. We are expanding capabilities and apps, and linking green initiatives, policies and practices in a growing worldwide open source network.
Ongoing operating systems updates include Semantic MediaWiki updates and constant online security improvements.
Additional news and comments from our GreenPolicy360 siterunner can be seen @ User talk:Siterunner
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* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Earth_Day
- DYK? Yes, we do, we remember the beginnings !
On the 50th Anniversary
- Memories on the Road to the First Earth Day
* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Day_Memories_on_the_50th_Anniversary
... Remembering the student teach-ins, the means we used to spread the word and we did. The Vietnam Moratorium Committee became the peace group and and when we talked to Senator Nelson and George Brown about doing environmental teach-ins that would be the first in a series of annual peace and environment events they got it and put their combined weight behind the effort.
It came to be, from an Earthrise moment, to the Moratorium demonstrations and teach-in, to the teach-ins of Earth Day. What quickly followed was the passage of the first generation of US environmental protection legislation.
The environmental movement that sprang from the global realization passed on to us by the NASA Apollo missions, and student activism, are shaping a new generation and modern environmental movement.
The 1970s and 80s
Greening Our Blue Planet
An environmental foundation, initiatives and laws that serve a model for state -- and international -- action:
In 1977-78 the first climate science comes to light... first generation science for national and global environmental action set a platform in place on which to create climate policy and environmental protection over the coming decades ...
First National Climate Act, Historic Work, 1978
GreenPolicy360 Siterunner / SJS: The beginnings of modern environmental and climate science can be traced to the 60s and 70s. The U.S. National Academy of Sciences played a key role with scientific reports and data.
Energy and Climate Report, 1977, National Academy of Sciences / 175 pp. / PDF via GreenPolicy360
George Brown, taking the 1977 Energy and Climate Report from the Academy, made climate science actionable. In a historic moment, Representative Brown from East Los Angeles proposed and drafted the legislation for the first U.S. National Climate Program and shepherded its passage in 1978. In 1979 came the first follow-on National Science Academy report. This study and report of national scientists was prescient and accurate in its global warming predictions.
- This first federal program established to study and assess scientifically the issues and risks of human-caused climate change became a foundation for comprehensive initiatives, and led to an array of new Earth Science missions by NASA and NOAA, the EPA and USGS.
At the Beginning of U.S. Science on Global Warming, Strategies & Planning
1978, Launching U.S. Climate Action:
National Climate Program Act, Public Law 95-367
National Climate Program Act of September 1978
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Into the 1990s... Going Green Globally
Remembering the First Earth Summit
Activist Energy: Governor Brown's Platform & Presidential Campaign
- Pushing the U.S. Democratic Party in a New Direction
- At the Democratic Party Platform Hearings
- Presenting a forward-looking campaign vision
"Platform in Progress"
Proposing and Organizing a "Serious, Credible, Platform-based U.S. Green Party"
Organizing an international Green Platform with a Coalition of Green Parties
SJS / Siterunner: Our formative U.S. Green Party, after the 1996 campaign, reached out to European Green parties and I worked via our new U.S Green Party Platcom to draft a first-ever Green Parties "Common Ground" Platform document articulating core, shared U.S./European Green party values and positions.
The following document memorializes what we presented that was approved and passed in Paris in 1999.
US-European Green Parties Common Ground Platform Archive Link
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The New Millenium: New Green Formative Action Beyond Party Politics
Initial proposing New Definitions of National Security
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