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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.

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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.

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

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December 2014

Take a look at the UN Climate Change Newsroom

The World Bank's point of view re climate change

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New ECO OS published by Green Horizon

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Here come the 'EV Corridors' and Solar-Charging Stations -- New Motto, More Sun, Less Exxon

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Global Weather, Interactive

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November 2014

The recent U.S. elections have produced a 'turn-back-the-clock caucus' in Congress. The resulting efforts to roll back environmental laws passed with success over the yrs will present a challenge to profound green progress. We should consider again the beginning of the green era in the U.S. and successive accomplishments in law and practice that clearly deserve to be built upon, not to be dismantled by retro-policies.

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GreenPolicy360 Highlights

This week GreenPolicy360 highlights George Brown Jr.

Last week we highlighted the remarkable work of Rebecca Moore.

Rebecca envisioned setting up Google Outreach -- and she did.

As our site mgr Steve wrote: Rebecca had an idea how to save trees around her home

and her idea led to setting up Google Outreach - She had a great idea, she made it happen,

she is continuing to make it happen ! Each day there's new progress, local and global...

Global Forest Watch & Global Fishing Watch are two most recent successful launches.

Here's a tip of our green hat to Rebecca's 'planet citizen' work !

Thank You Rebecca, congratulations - time to see how it's all connected !

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Act Now on Climate Change IPCC Synthesis Report

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October 2014

Practical Solutions, Green Practices @work

Project Drawdown -- Reviewed by GreenBiz

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Good green times

Los Angeles and the US clean up the air... Calif, over the yrs, out in front of the US in green legislating [1] [2] [3]

Jerry Brown: “What happens here doesn’t stay here. It goes all around the country and all around the world.” [4]

The 'greening' results are starting to show

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It’s here; It matters. There is today a climate movement.

Signs from the March

September 23rd -- UN Climate Summit

September 21st -- #PeoplesClimateMarch

Green friend, Louie Schwartzberg's newest film opening the UN Climate session

"Choose to make a difference -- this is our only home..." What's Possible

No apologies, take a stance

Five from the March

... w/ a wry eye on the March (and DC) here's the Daily Show with Jon Stewart

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Iain Keith from Avaaz:

"We realized that a March could send a powerful signal.

Marches don't always change the world.

Sometimes they are the only things

that shake the system into widespread change."

InsideClimate News (TW)

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Naomi Klein, "This Changes Everything" Naomi Klein speaks at the Bioneers Conference

NY Times..."the most momentous and contentious environmental book since 'Silent Spring.'"

Climate Leadership (Conf videos)

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Bioneers celebrating their 25th Anniversary Conference [5] [6] [7]

Long time, very good friends of GreenPolicy360 and a preeminent eco-network

Here's to the Bioneers and many more good years of eco-healing !

Hearty Congratulations especially go to co-founders Kenny and Nina !!

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Last week Green Policy highlighted Carbon Brief - FB - TW

They asked 25 thinkers, writers and journalists a simple question:

What books or readings inspired you to get involved in climate-related work?

They got back some very interesting insights into why people work on climate,

why they started, and why they carry on. Warming Earth

Inspirational books and readings

p.s. Could this green rock save the planet? [8]

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New update to GreenPolicy's database:

Example of model/template legislation being made available at GreenPolicy360 --

California 'Ban the Bags' bill passes and green recycling moves a step forward -- spread the word --

Recycle this news to other states - and other countries http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/California,_Plastic_Bag_Ban [9] [10]

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Amid global conflicts and escalating threats, for redefinitions of security priorities and policies, visit #EnvironmentalSecurity at StrategicDemands.com

Visit our newest 'satellite site' #PlanetCitizen

Hello Where are you #PlanetCitizen on #PlanetEarth?

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Coming Soon, NextGen #ISS Earth-facing cams New live 'video+ platform' w/ #EarthView streaming from the #ISS via @UrtheCast & NanoRacks

International Astronautical Congress IAC 2014: UrtheCast Robot-arm install Future of #ISS

OCO-2 Orbiting Carbon Observatory continues on its historic mission Counting carbon over Southern California - OCO-2 at work

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"Ground Truth" [11] Wiki-GroundTruth CERES Project [12] AVIRIS-JPL

Hyspiri [13] Spectroscopy, unique views of the surface of Earth...

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Immediate Risk to National Security Climate Change: Pentagon Devises Strategy to Respond"' [14]

Climate Change = "Threat Multiplier"

U.S. Military Prepares for Climate Change [15] DoD looks toward renewable energy [16]

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Question: Is the Earth blue even at night? Astronaut Gerst answers

With appreciation of the Overview Effect / Overview: the Movie Planetary

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Aug/July/June 2014 Updates:

We have added to our GreenLinks online listing of Green groups, local, regional and global, ranging from international NGO's to collections of green news and journalism, from borderless non-profit work to local green activism, from open-source, open data sharing to democracy and independent green, sustainable living advocates... GreenPolicy360 networking in practice...

We welcome additions of active and exceptional green organizations. More updates are coming each month as we extend GreenPolicy's shareable community resources.

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Also take a look at the updated list of Green Parties, a movement across the globe, now in over 100 countries... Green Parties - International PDF

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We also invite you to Visit our new GreenBestPractices sites at:

◊ GreenPolicy360 Twitter

◊ GreenPolicy360 Facebook

◊ GreenPolicy360 Google+

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And check out our associated #Earth360 sites

◊ EarthPOV and

◊ PlanetCitizen

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Visit StrategicDemands and Consider

National Security ↔ Environmental Security

New Definitions of National & Global Security

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NASA opens a new era in its exploration of our home planet with the launch of the first in a series of #EarthScience instruments to the International Space Station.

New earth-observing array of instruments will be exterior mounted on the #ISS. ISS-RapidScat will monitor ocean winds for climate research, weather predictions and hurricane monitoring. The second instrument, the laser Cloud-Aerosol Transport System (CATS), will measure clouds and location and distribution of pollution, dust, smoke, and other particulates in the atmosphere. #RapidScat [17] #EarthRightNow

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The "New Space" field is pioneering the study of our blue planet with multiple new platforms monitoring earth systems and resources. PlanetLabs is a recently founded company that is out in front with its emphasis on open data sharing. Its mini satellites are called "Doves" and they "flock" for #earthmonitoring and rapid sequence imaging. When Doves fly, watch them!

An API for the Planet #PlanetLabs Open Source Conference keynote [18]

Mission: "Democratizing Access to Information About the Changing Planet"

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OCO-2 Orbiting Carbon Observatory

"Watching the Earth Breathe from Space" [19] [20] [21] [22] [23]

◊ Observing Global Warming with #OCO-2 Historic launch #PlanetCitizen mission to study #EarthsAtmosphere

"First Light!" [24] [25] OCO-2 announces 'We have data!'

What monitoring a potential existential crisis looks like...spectra from #OCO-2

Earth observing satellites, the "Afternoon Constellation", the "A-Train" joined by ‪#‎OCO-2 newly launched and historic in its mission to study global warming Orbiting Carbon Observatory

Looking closer at OCO-2 [26] [27] [28] OCO-2 tweets - https://twitter.com/IamOCO2

Earth science data is coming in and being openly distributed. Take up the challenge, perhaps with NEX here and multiple venues that are being made available for the first time...

Add your resources. With the launch of OCO-2, a "game changer", the data of #Earth360 will grow in unprecedented ways...

#Earthdata enables informed decisions and policy [File:Landsat Issues, Oct 2014, US Congressional Research Service.pdf] Landsat update]

"You can manage only what you can measure"

NASA Earth Sciences Asks Public to Join In

Add your #PlanetCitizen talent to a future of seeing with an #EarthPOV

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◊ No time for climate denial... President says it's time for action on Climate Change in Commencement at UC Irvine, June 14, 2014

Climate Rules to Rewrite US Energy Map

Rule proposed by the Environmental Protection Agency would cut carbon pollution from power plants 30 percent by 2030 – equivalent of taking 2/3 of all cars and trucks in America off the road

Overview EPA summary Republicans hesitate -- 645 pages [29] [30] [31][32]

West Coast Leaders Applaud Obama Administration Proposal to Cut Carbon Pollution [33]California has head start Pacific Coast Climate Action Plan - 2013

Alexander Gerst on the #ISS writes home in tweets and his live blogging... "Our Blue Dot"

From the ISS - Live Astro Gerst blog

GreenPolicy360, from AstroGerst

"Look at how thin our atmosphere is. This is all there is between humankind and deadly space."

GreenPolicy360: A thin atmospheric layer enabling life as we know it...

GP360: "Look at our atmosphere around the earth, twelve miles high in the troposphere..." [34]

Images revealing the 'height', the narrow band of life-giving atmosphere surrounding Earth

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We are in the first era of geo-monitoring our 'thin atmosphere', earth resources and biosphere from space... [41] [42]

Beginning with first-ever images of our home planet, Earth, taken from the Apollo era... [43] [44]

Now follows #Earth360 planet monitoring, continuing first-generation data and #sustainability realizations.

An #EarthPOV, an "Overview" that, over time, will educate and open us to new challenges

and new possibilities as citizens of the planet...

"Thin" layer of atmosphere absorbing the sum of human-produced hydrocarbon & emission "externalities"

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NASA’s Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2): A game changer? [45]

Seeing climate change from space: NASA creates image-based iPad app [46]

Soon, each of us will be able to connect to and share earth-data as students of earth-space science and new digital networks.

With open data, links and digital apps, schools and future generations will learn new ways of seeing as citizens of the planet.

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Aug 19 Planet Labs/NYT Planet Labs, newly #ISS deployed Doves Smartphones in space!

◊ Launch of new Flock of Dove Satellites to Image Earth Doves fly Doves flock

Planet Labs 'Dove' micro-satellites [47]

"Rapid cadence imagery, like Planet Labs is developing, helps us become better, more sustainable stewards of Earth." NYT

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◊ Geoscience: Eyes in the Sky, Monitoring the Earth by Satellite

◊ A New Era of Space Startups

"Earth Imaging" -- NextGen #EarthScience in an era of #climatechange and #globalsecurity threats

"New Space" startup companies to watch (our eyes are especially on Planet Labs) [48]... BlackBridge [49], Dauria [50], DigitalGlobe [51] #DigitalGlobe, highest rez commercially avail #earthimaging from space [52] [53] [54] GeoEye [55], Firefly Space Systems [56] [57], GeoOptics [58], NanoRacks [59], [60] [61], NovaWurks [62], OmniEarth [63] [64] [65] [66], OrbitLogic [67], PlanetiQ [68], Planet Labs [69] Pulse [70] [71] [72], RapidEye [73], Skybox [74] [75] [76], Teledyne [77], Tyvak Nano-Sat [78], Urthecast [79]

"New Space" [80] [81]

“With all these start-ups, the things you’ll be able to do with satellite images will grow exponentially.” - IEEE-May 2014

Moving from almost exclusively multi-billion dollar military/defense-communication satellite operations to nextgen 'small cap' startups and 'New Space' ventures and applications with earth systems monitoring, resources, sustainable business, and low-earth orbit space travel with companies like Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic...

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24/7 high-definition 'Ride with Us' #ISS video of Earth [82] Urthecast APIs

Live from the International Space Station [83] Watch Earth roll by in streamed HD [84] [85] [86]

Earth sciences/NASA-JPL and gov contractors 'Eyes on the Earth' [87] [88] [89] [90] -- @OCO-2 I am OCO! Tweet!!

EarthRightNow

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Neil deGrasse Tyson in Cosmos takes on Climate Change

Our Blue Marble, Pale Blue Dot

Remembering Carl Sagan in the original Cosmos

"The Earth is where we make our stand... our Pale Blue Dot, suspended in a sunbeam."

"For us it is to cherish and protect the only home we've ever known..."

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An oasis in the vastness of space

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United States space program - earth system monitoring

NASA's Earth Science Enterprise (ESE) -- Originally called "Mission to Planet Earth (MTPE)"

October 2014 http://bit.ly/VitalSignsPulseofthePlanet / Video To fully appreciate the detail of the models, click on the gear symbol and set to 720p resolution and choose full screen video

ESE is dedicated to "understanding the total Earth system and the effects of natural and human-induced changes on the global environment." [96]

Mission to Planet Earth's successor, NASA’s Earth Observing System (EOS), provides long-term global observations of the land surface, biosphere, solid Earth, atmosphere, and oceans.

Earth Observing System Data and Information System - Maps

Suomi NPP - Next-generation Earth-observing satellite system NPP Images Gallery

Next generation NASA-NOAA #EarthMonitoring satellite to launch in 2017

"The ultimate beneficiaries are the present and future generations of the people on Earth..."

The goal of the Earth Observing project is "improved understanding of the Earth as an integrated system."

ESE's Mission: "To improve life here" and "to understand and protect our home planet." [97]

#EarthScience, #GeoScience, #Earth360, #GP360, #EarthPOV

Eyes on the Earth-Earth Right Now, Earth Observing System Project, Earth Data, Earth Observatory, [98], Grace, Grace-JPL, Grace-UTexas

Visible Earth, Global Maps, Visible Earth_2, Visible Earth_3, Visible Earth_4, Earth Mission List

IceSat-2 [99] - [100] [101]

Monitoring #Earth at night [102] [103] [104] [105]

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European space program - earth system monitoring

European Space Agency "Living Planet Programme" managed by Earth Observation Programmes - [106]

GOCE – Gravity Field and Steady-State Ocean Circulation Explorer - launched on March 17, 2009 - [107]

SMOS – Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity satellite - studying ocean salinity and soil moisture; launched in 2 November 2009 - [108]

CryoSat is designed to map the Earth's ice cover. CryoSat-2 was launched 8 April 2010 - [109] - Euro Cryo Satellite/Earth Imaging

◊ Geo-science: Eyes in the Sky Antarctic Ice Loss Antarctic Ice Sheet Expands, Why?

Swarm – is a trio of satellites to map the Earth's magnetism. The SWARM constellation was launched successfully on 22 November 2013 - [110]

Aeolus – Atmospheric Dynamics Mission will use an innovative laser to measure winds. Due for launch in 2015 - [111]

EarthCARE – Earth Clouds Aerosols and Radiation Explorer will examine the formation and effects of clouds. Due for launch in 2016 - [112]

BIOMASS is designed to calculate the amount of carbon stored in the world's forests, and to monitor for any changes over the course of its five-year mission. Due to launch in 2020 - [113]

Recently Added
to Green Policy:

May/Apr 2014

GP360 News: We have updated GreenPolicy360 to MediaWiki 1.19 [114][115]

Upward and onward GP360! In progress - updated maps. Semantic MediaWiki

Florida, Los Angeles, New York vulnerable to climate change...

US gov efforts to assess risk now include interagency coordination.

◊ Rising Seas - Against the Tide

March 2014

31 March 2014/Japan/IPCC international conference - "The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued a report today that says the effects of climate change are already occurring on all continents and across the oceans. The extensive set of documents, continuing a multi-year series of scientific documentation and analyses, details latest developments and warns that the world is "ill-prepared" for risks from a changing climate. The report also states that there are "opportunities" to respond to such risks, though the risks will be difficult to manage with high levels of warming... [116] [117] [118] #climatechange

IPCC Update

Government officials and top climate scientists will meet in Berlin from April 7-12 to review a 29-page next steps draft that estimates the needed shift to low-carbon energies will cost between two and six percent of world output by 2050... The IPCC draft report is the third and final study in a U.N. series about climate change, updating findings from 2007. [119] [120] [121]

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Climate.Data.gov launches [122] [123]

In the pilot-stage of Climate.Data.gov, you will find resources "to help companies, communities, and citizens understand and prepare for the impacts of coastal flooding and sea level rise." Over time, the "Climate Data community" will expand to include more datasets, web services, and tools. "It will also cover other themes such as the vulnerability of the food supply and the threats to human health from climate change."

The resources page features datasets and services on coastal vulnerability. [124]

Tools and information to help communities prepare for coastal inundation... [125] [126]

Mar/Feb/Jan 2014

Cities now reporting more than 8,000 climate actions currently underway...

Take climate action in your community - Add to 8,068 climate change actions reported at the international C40 conference [127]

More C40, cities, webcam, [128], [129], [130]

Global Forest Watch launches - Google Outreach continues its impact

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November 2014

Global Fishing Watch launches - Google Outreach out in front again

Global Fishing Watch_newly launched [135]

Agroecological Farming

◊ “Business as usual” of expanding industrialized agriculture is not a viable option for meeting the challenges we face in the future. ◊ We must transition to greener, sustainable agriculture and food systems. ◊ Family farmer agroecology works and is a vital part of the solution.

Agroecology_Groundswell [136]

From GP360's "Little Green Book"

eco Operating System featured in Green Horizon

EOS -- Networking effective green politics on a global, international scale...

eOS - Part One - Global Best Practices

eOS - Part Two - ECO OS Challenges & Opportunities

eOS - Part Three - Seeing the World in New Ways

GreenPolicy360/eOS -- Expanding the GreenPolicy360 database of green best practices for use in all communities -- local, national, international

Remembering 'Earthrise' - December 1968

Earthrise memories on the 45th anniversary - Earth-home, the historic view of Earth from Apollo

"The earth from here [circling the moon] is a grand oasis in the big vastness of space." — Jim Lovell, live Apollo 8 - 1968

"If somebody had said before the flight, 'Are you going to get carried away looking at the earth from the moon?' I would have said, 'No, no way.' But yet when I first looked back at the earth, standing on the moon, I cried." — Alan Shepard, Astronaut

"As you pass from sunlight into darkness and back again every hour and a half, you become startlingly aware how artificial are thousands of boundaries we've created to separate and define. And for the first time in your life you feel in your gut the precious unity of the Earth and all the living things it supports." — Russell Schweikart, Apollo 9

"As we got further and further away, it [the Earth] diminished in size. Finally it shrank to the size of a marble, the most beautiful you can imagine. That beautiful, warm, living object looked so fragile, so delicate..." — James Irwin, Apollo 15

The Overview Effect

What a View!

Overview refers to the experience of seeing firsthand the reality of the Earth in space, which is immediately understood to be a tiny, fragile ball of life, hanging in the void, shielded and nourished by a paper-thin atmosphere. From space, the astronauts tell us, national boundaries vanish, the conflicts that divide us become less important and the need to create a planetary society with the united will to protect our "pale blue dot."

"One connected system #BlueDot"

Visit the Overview Institute

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Watch magnificent time-lapse Earth views

All Alone in the Night

Serving Suggestion: FULL Screen, 1080p, lights off, volume up, lean back and fly

The View Outside My Window-Vimeo The View-YouTube

Serving Suggestion: FULL Screen, 1080p, lights off, volume up. Even better, 'Original' 4K / 2160p

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Environment & Security, National Security ↔ Environmental Security

Strategic Demands, in association with GreenPolicy360, continues its work to visualize Environmental Security as a critical field of global concern...

New Definitions of National Security - Environmental Security

Earth's atmosphere, "a thin layer of blue" - EarthPOV - PlanetCitizen

News Archive

November/December 2013

Good Government & the Digital Era

"What good governance and the good society look like is now inextricably linked to an understanding of the digital." -- Tim O'Reilly

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Open Government/Digital Services

October 2013

A Model for Regional/Local Approaches to Climate Change - Pacific Coast Action Plan on Climate & Energy

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Two new cool tools for digital visualizations

RAW TableauPublic

September 2013

The ALEC agenda, not a green agenda but a powerful lobbying agenda that too often attempts to push back a green agenda... Here the ALEC org fails - "Renewable energy overpowers ALEC" [137]

August 2013

Wikimedia commons-Couverture Turning the Tide On Climate Change.jpg

US/Climate Change/Response Planning by States

Maryland Advances Climate/Energy Plan... emission reduction goals surpass California and all states except Massachusetts

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Maryland Governor Unveils Strongest US Plan To Fight Climate Change [140]

Maryland Gov. O'Malley ups ante for reduction of statewide greenhouse gases. Stating that "we trust in the fierce urgency of now," Maryland's Gov. proposes to reduce economy-wide greenhouse gas emissions 25 percent by 2020 and state policy proposals include accelerating state clean energy and efficiency goals. "We move forward, not back..." [141] PDF

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2013/2014 Ongoing

Half of North America bird species at risk of extinction due to climate change Audubon study Threatening Times Hundreds of species at risk

The bigger extinction picture is dire according to scientific research. As reported by the Institute for Biological Diversity our planet is now in the midst of its sixth mass extinction of plants and animals...

The sixth wave of extinctions we're currently experiencing is the worst spate of species die-offs since the loss of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago.

How You Can Help Protect Species

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Drought -- Historic-drought (climate change warning)

California aquifers at risk [142]

California warning from the LA [Times http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-famiglietti-southern-california-drought-20140709-story.html]

Five Maps of U.S. Drought [143]

California's emergency measures [144] [145]

California's drought is being billed as the driest period in the state's recorded rainfall history ...
California is coming off its driest year since record-keeping began in the 1800s
Never in the State Water Project's 54-year history has there been zero water allocation
California Drought: The Worst Yet To Come?
Historic California drought called a red flag for future of US (+video)
NASA [146]

Sources, click thru (PDF)

Climate Change and California's epic drought [147]

Climate Extremes are Unprecedented - BBC Global News [148] Warmest decade in 2001-2010, WMO survey shows

Water Alert - US Groundwater Depletion "accelerating", May 2013 [149] / Water Stress - NatGeo US [150]

Climate Change / US Drought Monitor [151]

History-making drought conditions - new water conservation measures announced

TX [152]

TX [153]

TX [154]

NM [155]

NM [156]

NM [157]

AZ [158]

UT [159]

Colorado River watershed Aug 2014 [160]

Southwest [161]

Southwest [162]

Southwest [163]

Midwest/Aquifers [164]

National Water Resources Information [165]

Nationally - two thirds of the country in drought conditions, one third severe [166]

National - Maps/Infographics [167]

GIF

National/State online drought resources [168]

Dust-bowl proportions [169]

US gov monitoring drought conditions [170]

US drought designations as of June 2013 PDF

US Climate prediction/drought [171]

International - July 2013: The Guardian

Global - July 2013: Latest NOAA Climatic Data Center report shows *global* June 2013 temperatures as 5th highest on record (summary at [172]). First half of 2013 (Jan–Jun) 7th warmest on record.

More GP360/eOS Networking

The Bioneers is a network of social and scientific innovators with practical and visionary solutions for the world’s most pressing environmental and social challenges.

A celebration of the genius of nature and human ingenuity, the Bioneers Annual Conference is in its 25th year in 2014! Congratulations Bioneers!!

It’s the moment of truth to turn vision into action

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Appropedia http://Appropedia.org

Here's to growing the MediaWiki 'Appropriate Technology' community. We're looking forward at Green Policy to growing our connections with Appropedia.

Take an Up Close Look at Appropedia if you haven't already... thousands upon thousands of sustainable, forward thinking green projects for each and every community... Join in! Model projects welcome. Cultivate, grow, nurture and spread new ideas...

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Related appropriate tech: Engineering for Change - E4C provides a forum to connect, collaborate, solve challenges and share knowledge among engineers, technologists, social scientists, NGOs, local governments and community advocates dedicated to improving the quality of life -- helpful engineers w/o borders [177]

AskNature -- a free, open source project, built by and for the community. Biomimicry Institute - http://biomimicry.org - http://biomimicry.net/

AskNature is the world’s most comprehensive catalog of nature’s solutions to human design challenges. A one-of-a-kind online library features free information on natural phenomena and bio-inspired/biomimicry applications... [178]

The goal of this eResource is to make the act of asking nature for “advice” a smart part of the innovation process. Be inspired to create life-friendly technologies that are healthy for people and the planet.

Biomimicry (from bios, meaning life, and mimesis, meaning to imitate) is a design discipline that seeks sustainable solutions. Nature’s time-tested patterns and strategies are a guide... [179]

Plant a Tree, a Simple Act in Your Neighborhood!

http://TreePeople.org/how-plant-tree

Let the Sunshine in -- using the power of the Internet to deliver greater government openness and transparency [180] [181] [182]

Open States searchable database to check on U.S. state government representatives Open States: Data for all 50 States [183]

Introducing 'The Congress App' for iOS and Android [184] [185]

Money, Politics & Transparency Project / March 2014 [186] online resource following global developments in money and politics

GP360-About Us

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

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, copy and paste what has worked in other communities and locations and modify to your own needs. "Think and act global and local!"

BTW, GreenPolicy360 is also an excellent reference source for students and online education. With a wide array of topics, GreenPolicy360 will save you time and energy as you look to learn about and become engaged in work to improve your community and our world. Whatever country you are in, you can learn from best practices from your region, bioregion or similar regions. Rather than spend hours and hours trying to locate source material, you can find many models and examples of what you're looking for right here, right now.

How to Use this Site

Our team has worked very hard to make it easy for you to find what you're looking for! We've created many tools for you to use as outlined below.

1) Browse our All Pages Index

The All Pages Index is broken down into categories and lists every single entry in GreenPolicy360.

~~2) Google Maps~~

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3) Browse/Search GreenPolicy360 through the use of a wide variety of categories

Have you stopped by to see if you can find models for green policy in your community or are you interested in discovering green ideas of what might be possible to introduce in your community or region or country even?

Use this link to view all the topics we presently cover (e.g., Peace, Housing, Youth, etc.)
Use this link to search by location (e.g., U.S. States, etc.)
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Use this link to see all Notable Cities, and Notable Colleges
Use this link to peruse all the categories in use on GreenPolicy360.

4) Searching the site on your own terms

Simply enter your search words in the box to the left and click on Policy Search. You can enter subject words, place names, anything you want, and in any combination you want. Please be aware that searches must be at least three characters long. The database will not search for two-character search strings.

5) A Note about the "background info" tab

As we continue to develop the various capabilities of GreenPolicy360, it is our intent to provide you with more background information in the form of summaries, analyses, news article, interviews and first person narratives.

To know whether or not any given entry possesses background information, all you need to identify is the color of the tab. If the tab has blue lettering, then the entry does include background information. If the tab has red lettering, it means that it does NOT include background information...yet.

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GreenLinks

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Internet-World Wide Web / green organizations

EarthPOV and PlanetCitizen

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Digital Rights / Open Data Open Government

Strategic Policy - Internet/Online Rights

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Open Forum/Twitter

#OpenData - https://twitter.com/hashtag/OpenData?src=hash

#DigitalRights - https://twitter.com/hashtag/DigitalRights?src=hash

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Digital Rights/OpenData OpenGov http://bit.ly/DigitalRightsLinks

Alliance for Affordable Internet - http://a4ai.org/

(FB) https://www.facebook.com/allianceforaffordableinternet

(TW) https://twitter.com/a4a_internet

ArcGIS Open Data Platform - https://opendata.arcgis.com/about

Center for Data Innovation - http://www.datainnovation.org/ - http://www.datainnovation.org/2014/04/the-economic-impact-of-open-data/

(FB) https://www.facebook.com/CenterForDataInnovation

(TW) https://twitter.com/datainnovation

Center for Democracy and Technology - https://cdt.org/

(FB) https://www.facebook.com/CenDemTech

(TW) https://twitter.com/CenDemTech

(Wiki) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_for_Democracy_and_Technology

Code for America - http://codeforamerica.org/issues/openness/

(Blog) http://www.codeforamerica.org/blog/

CommonFutures EU/Int'l - http://CommonFutures.eu/the-future-of-open-possibly-the-largest-open-network-in-the-world

Creative Commons - http://CreativeCommons.org

(FB) https://Facebook.com/CreativeCommons

(TW) https://Twitter.com/creativecommons

Dbpedia - http://dbpedia.org/About

Digital Bill of Rights - http://jameslosey.com/post/79356515492/an-overview-of-calls-for-rights-or-principles-for-the

Electronic Frontier Foundation - https://www.eff.org/

(RSS) https://www.eff.org/rss

(Wiki) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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"

Electronic Privacy Information Center (EPIC) - https://www.epic.org/

(TW) https://twitter.com/EPICprivacy

Energy and Environment Legislation Tracking Database (US) - http://NCSL.org/issues-research/energyhome/energy-environment-legislation-tracking-database.aspx

Fight for the Future - http://www.fightforthefuture.org/

(TW) https://twitter.com/fightfortheftr

Freedom of Information Requests/Government Attic (US) - http://GovernmentAttic.org

Freedom of the Press Foundation - https://freedom.press/ - https://freedom.press/about/board

(TW) https://twitter.com/FreedomofPress

(FreedomPress Organizations) https://freedom.press/organizations

Freedom Online Coalition - http://www.freedomonline.ee/ - http://www.freedomonline.ee/about-us/Freedom-online-coalition

Freenet - https://freenetproject.org/

Fundar - http://fundar.org.mx/

(TW) https://twitter.com/FundarMexico

Future of the Internet (blog) - http://futureoftheinternet.org/blog/

Github and Open Data update - https://github.com/project-open-data - http://m.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/02/catch-my-diff-githubs-new-feature-means-big-things-for-open-data/283673/

Global Open Data Initiative - http://GlobalOpenDataInitiative.org

Global Partners - http://www.global-partners.co.uk/

Global Voices - http://globalvoicesonline.org/-/topics/digital-activism/

Government Accountability Project - http://www.whistleblower.org/

(FB) https://www.facebook.com/GovernmentAccountabilityProject

(TW) https://twitter.com/GovAcctProj

GovFuturesLab - Reimagining governance for an age of planetary challenges and human responsibility

(FB) https://Facebook.com/govfutures

App4Gov (TW) https://Twitter.com/App4Gov

GovTech - http://Govtech.com/e-government/Introducing-the-21st-Century-City-Hall.html

(FB) https://www.facebook.com/GovernmentTechnology

(TW) https://twitter.com/govtechnews

GovTrack - https://www.Govtrack.us/

(TW) https://Twitter.com/Govtrack

Institute for the Future - http://iftf.org/govfutures

(TW) https://Twitter.com/GovFuturesLab

Internet Bill of Rights / Internet Rights and Principles Coalition - http://internetrightsandprinciples.org/site/

Internet Governance Project - http://www.internetgovernance.org/

IT for Change (India) - http://www.itforchange.net/

Linked Data - http://linkeddata.org/

Online Magna Carta - http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/mar/12/online-magna-carta-berners-lee-web [194]

Open Data Institute UK-Int'l - http://TheODI.org/about-us - http://TheGuardian.com/public-leaders-network/2013/oct/22/open-data-institute-summit-gavin-starks

Open Data movement_Wikipedia - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_Data

Open Data Research Network - http://opendataresearch.org/

http://opendataresearch.org/emergingimpacts

http://opendataresearch.org/content/2014/646/towards-common-methods-assessing-open-data-workshop-report

Open Data - World Bank - http://data.worldbank.org/

Open Government Initiative (US) - http://www.whitehouse.gov/open

(TW) https://twitter.com/OpenGov

Open Government in Practice - https://openlibrary.org/books/OL24435672M/Open_Government

Open Government Partnership - International - http://OpenGovPartnership.org

(TW) https://Twitter.com/opengovpart

Open Institute - http://openinstitute.com/

(TW) https://Twitter.com/Open_Institute

Open Knowledge Foundation Lab - http://okfn.org/

(Blog) PublicBodies.org - http://blog.okfn.org/2013/07/09/introducing-open-knowledge-foundation-labs/

Open Rights Group - https://www.openrightsgroup.org/

(Zine) http://zine.openrightsgroup.org/

Open Science - http://opensciencefederation.com/

(TW) https://twitter.com/openscience

Open Secrets/Center for Responsive Politics - http://www.opensecrets.org/

Open Source Hardware (wiki) - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_source_hardware

Open Standards Principles (UK) - https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/open-standards-principles/open-standards-principles

Open Technology Institute/New America Foundation - http://newamerica.org/oti/

OpenGov Foundation - http://OpenGovFoundation.org

OpenMedia International - https://openmedia.org/

(TW) https://twitter.com/theopenmedia

OpenNet Initiative - http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/research/opennet

Piwik analytics - http://piwik.org/

Project on Government Oversight - http://www.pogo.org/

PublicAgenda - http://PublicAgenda.org

(TW) https://twitter.com/PublicAgenda

Public Resource Org ("Making Government Information More Accessible") - https://public.resource.org/

RDF Standards - http://W3.org/RDF

Reform Government Surveillance - https://www.reformgovernmentsurveillance.com/

Research Data Sharing without Barriers - https://RD-Alliance.org

Reset the Net - https://www.resetthenet.org/

Save the Internet (US) - http://www.savetheinternet.com/sti-home

Schneier on Security - https://www.schneier.com/about.html

SpiderOak - https://spideroak.com/

State Decoded - http://StateDecoded.com

Sunlight Foundation - http://sunlightfoundation.com/

(FB) https://www.facebook.com/sunlightfoundation

(G+) https://plus.google.com/+sunlightfoundation/posts

(TW) https://twitter.com/sunfoundation

Surveillance Studies Centre - http://www.sscqueens.org/ - http://www.surveillance-studies.net/

The Constituent (US) - https://The-Constituent.com

(TW) https://twitter.com/tconstituent

Thoughtworks - http://www.thoughtworks.com/

UN/United Nations Promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism - https://firstlook.org/theintercept/2014/10/15/un-investigator-report-condemns-mass-surveillance/

US Gov-EPA Databases - http://Water.EPA.gov/aboutow/owow/data.cfm

VYPR VPN - http://www.goldenfrog.com/vyprvpn

World Summit on the Information Society +10/ - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Summit_on_the_Information_Society

Worldwide Web Consortium - http://www.w3.org/

WWW Foundation, established by World Wide Web founder Tim Berners-Lee, devoted to all people having access to the Web - WWW at the beginning [195] WebFoundation.org

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