Planet Citizen Vision of Living Earth
A 'living, breathing planet'
Planet Citizen Vision of Living Earth
Earth Systems, a NASA "Our Living Planet" Presentation
Mapping Global Biology
“To understand and protect our home planet..."
The Original Mission Statement of NASA (1958) provided Congressional intent and guidance to the first generation of Earth Science space programs. GreenPolicy360's founder, Steve Schmidt, heard Representative George E. Brown over three decades, beginning in the 1960s, speak of the 'home planet' mission of NASA. I am certain that Congressman Brown, if he were still here, would be doing everything within his power to protect the original mission statement... George believed strongly that the Earth Science of NASA, and agencies such as Landsat's USGS, and all the related educational, scientific, and business organizations were essential in protecting our lives and life on Planet Earth.
Environmental protection became a life mission.
- A Whole Earth Point of View
- Earth Science to Protect & Preserve a Sustainable Earth
- Back to the Beginnings: Earth Science, New Visions of Security
The Modern Environmental Movement, beginning with 'Earthrise'
- Time to act to make a positive difference
Andrew Revkin/July 22, 2006/ NY Times re: 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.....”
The Living Planet Index (LPI)
"Tracking the health of nature over 50 years"
The Living Planet Index (LPI)—which tracks populations of mammals, birds, fish, reptiles, and amphibians—reveals an average 69% decrease in monitored wildlife populations since 1970. The 2022 LPI analyzed almost 32,000 species populations. It provides the most comprehensive measure of how they are responding to pressures in their environment.
The Living Planet Report
Via the World Wildlife Fund (WWF)
Wildlife populations plummet by 69%
The Living Planet Report 2022 is a comprehensive study of trends in global biodiversity and the health of the planet. This flagship WWF publication reveals an average decline of 69% in species populations since 1970. While conservation efforts are helping, urgent action is required if we are to reverse nature loss.
Interlinked emergencies: Climate change and biodiversity loss
The evidence is unequivocal—we are living through the dual crises of biodiversity loss and climate change driven by the unsustainable use of our planet’s resources. Scientists are clear: unless we stop treating these emergencies as two separate issues neither problem will be addressed effectively.
Our broken relationship with nature
Climate change and biodiversity loss are not only environmental issues, but economic, development, security, social, moral, and ethical issues too. Industrialized countries are responsible for most environmental degradation but it is developing nations that are disproportionately impacted by biodiversity loss. We all have a role to play in building a nature-positive society that safeguards the planet for the good health of everyone.
Time to Turn Around and Act Preserve & Protect Life on Planet Earth
- "The Only Home We Have"
- NASA
Earth's 'Thin Blue' Atmosphere Enables Life on Earth
- Planetary Awareness | www.planetaryawareness.org
- When we act to protect and preserve The Commons, we act to protect life...
NASA
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Every Day Is Earth Day
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Vita Activa ...
Integral Ecology Planet Citizen Action
If you were to look at our planet with infrared eyes
Ron Merkord, California (Laser Expert-Caltech Grad) / 2021
If you were to look at our planet with infrared eyes, rather than in the visible spectrum that we're used to, you'd see a darkening layer covering the planet, as the carbon dioxide levels in our atmosphere reach 50% higher than they should be.
It's kind of like putting ink in a pool. It doesn't take much to turn the whole pool dark. Our CO2 emissions from our burning of fossil fuels is turning our atmosphere dark to infrared light, causing the greenhouse effect that is warming our planet, and melting the ice.
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Earth Day Memories on the 50th Anniversary
GreenPolicy360's Siterunner... being there, Earth Day organizing in 1970
- https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Day_Memories_on_the_50th_Anniversary
- https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Earth_Day
- The "Earth Day" Flag
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Oren Lyons, Chief of the Onondaga Iroquois Nation, speaks of ancient wisdom:
- "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?"
Seventh Generation Sustainability
GreenPolicy Siterunner: Chief Lyons is one of our favorite Bioneers who has joined with us
-- and helped to open our eyes and hearts for many years...
- New Ways of Seeing Our World
The "Tiny Little Ones"
Microbiomes empowering life, living systems, all related life...
An Unseen World
- The 'Tiny Little Ones'
Connections & Communities
Microorganisms, the basis of Soil health...
Microorganisms, the basis of the Ocean's food chain...
Microorganisms, a principal source of Earth's atmospheric oxygen...
Microorganisms, the ways and means that living bodies exist, survive and continue on...
Microorganisms, tiny, unseen unappreciated, but with profound, vital impact...
Health & Microbiomes
Food and survival, health and healthy soil
Today's Challenge
The Wisdom of Generational Thinking, Sustainable Living
"The eyes of the future are looking back at us and they are praying for us to see beyond our own time." -- Terry Tempest Williams
Seven generation sustainability is an ecological concept that urges the current generation of humans to live sustainably and work for the benefit of the seventh generation into the future. It originated with the Iroquois - Great Law of the Iroquois - which holds appropriate to think seven generations ahead (about 140 years into the future) and decide whether the decisions they make today would benefit their children seven generations into the future.
Indigenous Vision for a Sustainable Earth
- Sustainable Thinking, Sustainable Design, Sustainable Living,
- Ancient Wisdom, Modern Vision, Future Focus
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SJS / GreenPolicy360 Siterunner: "Can we talk?" These words became a mantra of Joan Rivers and she was a challenging force back in the days of 'early TV'. Before the online world came with social media streaming memes and smartphone short vids, there was "Can we talk?". Let's talk about the 'old ways'.
Teachers in Joan's world, the U.S. between 1950 to 2000, would explain how the "Old World", "discovered" the "New World and tell stories from school books how Christopher Columbus, a Spaniard or Italian with Spanish support, sailed to the West, across an unknown Ocean with three small ships looking for 'spice in the Far East' and, of course, gold and treasure and inadvertently 'discovered' the native, indigenous peoples of what became know as 'the Americas'.
"Can we talk?" Time to challenge the old ways of seeing and believing... What was never told to school students in old America but should've been told in great detail was what's known as the Doctrine of Discovery.
To be more specific, when the Old World discovered the New World, the explorers took control/provenance .. ownership, under a Christian "Doctrine of Discovery". Let's talk. This doctrine legally bequeathed all land discovered by European explorers, mainly Catholics, to the Christian sovereigns. Colonialism as it came to called. Colonialism and colonialists set a 'gospel' in place for further expropriating and exploiting the lands of ancient peoples. The value systems of the indigenous peoples were deep value systems distinct from the so-called 'discoverers'. The Catholic Pope who first provided a 'bull' giving 'ownership' of the native people's lands to the discovers should have been spoken of by educators, but wasn't.
We speak of the Doctrine of Discovery here. Take a long look at this link...
THE DOCTRINE OF CHRISTIAN DISCOVERY -- via the Onondaga Nation
"The Doctrine of Christian Discovery: Its fundamental importance in U.S. Indian Law and the need for its repudiation and removal"
- By Joseph Heath, Esq.
Here is the story of the legal underpinnings of colonial law globally, how the Church (Catholic Church) and nations of Europe combined to claim the 'discovered' lands of the world for their own. The story is one that broke with the value of what we now call today, "ecology", where the land and the wildlife, the connection of the land to the people of the land is intrinsically bound together and the people act to protect, preserve, and honor the multi-generational inheritance of their place within a larger ecosystem of life.
And it's time time to remember deeper green values, a 'politics of values', a 'values-based politics'. GreenPolicy360's origins, and friends who are along side with us and speaking of a 'living treasure' and a 'lost gospel'.
The Living Treasure
A 21st Century Vision of Agriculture: Healthy Food, Climate, Soil & Water Smart Sustainability
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A 'Lost Gospel of the Earth'
A Call for Renewing Nature, Spirit, and Politics
By Tom Hayden
Chapter One: Recovering the Lost Gospel
The Search for an Earth-Based Spirituality
- No important change in ethics was ever accomplished without an internal change in our intellectual emphasis, loyalties, affections and convictions.
- The proof that conservation has not yet touched these foundations of conduct lies in the fact that philosophy and religion have not yet heard of it.
- In our attempt to make conservation easy, we have made it trivial.
- -- ALDO LEOPOLD, The Land Ethic (1949)
TH: In the Greek myth of Sisyphus, the hero tries to aid the god of the river, Asopus, whose daughter has been carried away by the patriarchal god of the sky, Zeus. But because he questions Zeus, Sisyphus is condemned to forever roll a stone uphill in Hell.
I have no desire to be an environmental Sisyphus, nor to wish that role on anyone else. But the modern Zeus must be challenged all the same. We have abandoned the rivergod, the sacred spirit of the natural world, for a skygod that is separate from the earth. Our covenant with God has been relocated outside of nature. Until we restore a spiritual covenant with the earth, we will forever roll the environmental stone up a mountain of frustration...
On the passing of Tom Hayden
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Protecting Life on Earth
Envision How the Thin Blue Layer Enables a Living Planet
Climate Policy: Planet Citizens in Action
Planet Citizens, Planet Scientists, Preserving & Protecting the Home Planet Earth
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