PlanetCitizen

Earth Day / April 22, 2016

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

Going Green

'Planet Citizen' Elon introduces the Model 3

Elon Musk: The car represents the culmination of a long-held dream to bring affordable, zero-pollution vehicles to the world's highways...

With CO2 levels and global temperatures at record highs, the Model 3 will help bring engineering solutions to the climate change problem.

EV - Electric- and Zero-Emission Vehicles Corridors -- As of April 20, 2016 - 20,823 Alternative fuel stations mapped in the United States

A Question of Questions

To Be or Not to Be a Planet Citizen -- A Planet Citizen Vision of Dynamic Change

A multi-language 'Thank You' to Planet Citizens: ~ Sylvia Earle, ~ Bill McKibben and ~ Elon Musk

Planet Citizen/Climate Citizen News

Polls: Planet citizens & global citizenship

BBC: 'Global citizenship' on Upward Trend

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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."

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"

Next US Supreme Court Justice Will Be Crucial to US Climate Policy

Supreme Court’s Action Threatens Vital Climate Policies

Consequences if the US Quits Climate Agreement

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Tiny Blue Green

"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

~ 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

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

"2016 and Beyond"

Renewable Energy Investment Growth

"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

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Former adviser to Green Institute, Bill McKibben, speaks out about the Paris Climate Summit

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?

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

Join In, Act, Follow, Be Out in Front

It's Your Breathing Planet

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Eco-disaster viewed from Earth Observatory NASA satellite

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DSCOVR/EPIC New Site Goes Live

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

Christiana Figueres @CFigueres

Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change

Figueres - REDDIT AMA -- Oct 28

UN Climate Action @UNFCCC

Oct 19

Opening plenary of the latest @UN climate negotiations

http://bit.ly/1OObz76

#ADP2

#ADP2 session... steps toward Paris... Focus!

pic.twitter.com/A63Cyfds2N

http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Intended_Nationally_Determined_Contributions

http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/UN_Framework_Convention_on_Climate_Change-2015

Follow @UNFCCC

#COP21 #INDCs #climatechange #climateaction

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UN Conferences / Eyes on the Future

"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 around 90% of the world’s carbon emissions have now filed pledges

♦ Climate Action National Plans/INDCs Arriving / Which Countries Are Doing the Most?

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♦ Sustainable Development Goals

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♦ Peace Keeping Summit [1]

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♦ Conference of Parties 21, UN Climate Change Conference

Read More: ♦ [2] ♦ [3] ♦ [4] ♦ [5] ♦ [6]

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Historic from the DSCOVR Mission

December 2015

NASA Updates Its Home Page Image

August 2015

A first image of Moon and Earth from DSCOVR-EPIC

July 2015

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.

DSCOVR-EPIC images will begin to be made available by September.

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.

"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

#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...

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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").

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"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."

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"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.

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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

EARTH FROM ORBIT / VIDEO IN HD

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On the ISS

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Planet Live via UrtheCast

Earth Viewing Live via UStream

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June/July 2015

Visit Google Earth's 10th anniversary new feature, Voyager +

Introducing Voyager & Earth View

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Going Planetary.org

Earthviews from Above

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Planet Labs 'Doves' fly from the ISS

Planet Labs & NanoRacks / Doves

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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

January 2015

Recently Added Planet Citizen, Planet Scientist Pages

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#Earth360: The Overview

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

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From Above, beauty and awe...

Settings Suggestion: FULL Screen, 1080p, Room lights off, Music up, lean back and fly

All Alone in the Night

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Set FULL Screen 1080p, lights off, Audio up. Even better, adjust YouTube player setting for HighDef 4K, 2160p

The View Outside My Window

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Astronaut Alex Gerst: A 'Planet Citizen's' view of Earth...

Settings FULL on HD 4K, 2160p... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNwWOul4i9Y --- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ifjaOHHO98

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December 2014

"Game changer"

OCO-2 begins to measure atmospheric CO2 levels with unprecedented science

Historic Orbiting Carbon Observatory Satellite Sends Back Most Detailed CO2 View Ever / Dec 18, 2014

The 'Initial Level 1 round' of data was made available to the public on Dec 30, 2014.

A full Level 2 set of CO2 data is scheduled to be available in March for scientists and the public "planet citizens" to download and explore.

Phys.org - Discovery - Weather - Nature

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

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November 2014

You Are Here And Here!

Up Here, #EarthPOV Earth's Observation's new website Vid Watch Look Greening

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Earth: How are you?

@EarthVitalSigns #EarthRightNow

Looking out at our Planet from the International Space Station [7]

Where are you? Find Astropix of your place on #PlanetEarth

Perspective, real perspective... --- A "thin" layer of atmosphere...

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About Planet Citizen

#PlanetCitizen #EarthPOV

A coming 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.

Planet Citizen holds 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 'measure and manage' #PlanetEarth in sustainable, productive, life enhancing ways.

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An API for the Planet

#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

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

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

Planet Labs Planet Labs Pulse [8] [9] [10]

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Environmental Security @Strategic Demands

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."

Here's to our future and future of #Environmental Security

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The Big Picture: Earth from Space

The world of space is a world in flux. The term "New Space" has come to represent a first generation of start ups that are designing, building and launching small, mini- and micro-satellites. 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 start-up companies are launching flocks of satellite birds into space. Earth monitoring is going planetary and nextgen companies are at the forefront, even as the "old" establishment is shifting 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, thirty+ years after the Apollo images of #planetearth360 returned, we find everyday "citizens of the planet" planning to go into space and a new generation of New Space mini-sats sending full-spectrum imaging back with an array of new views of our planet. Apollo's famous iconic images are being enhanced with new ways of seeing and experiencing our planet -- and opening new possibilities to secure our environment for ages to come.

Let's start by looking at an astro-space establishment, the images of earth and data about earth being sent back from space by established multi-billion dollar companies/ government companies and 'New Space' companies that are now on radar and reporting back with multi-spectra #Earth360 data.

Start with NEX, NASA's version of crowdsourcing... NASA's social media experiment. Ready? Are you interested in using your digital skills to help the government/NASA with environmental security? Perhaps you might start here - The NEX Challenge

Add your talent to the grand project of seeing with an EarthPOV -- so that we can make informed decisions and policy... [11]

Observe, consider, act - "The Big Picture"

NextGen #earthscience in an era of #climatechange and #globalsecurity threats...

Join up with GreenPolicy360 and share our GreenLinks and GP360 Open Data. Time to get going -- planet citizens @work

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Earth Right Now

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August 2014

Citizens of planet earth typically watch meteor showers by looking up. But this remarkable view, captured on 8/13/11 by astronaut Ron Garan, caught a Perseid meteor by looking down. From Garan's perspective onboard the ISS orbiting at an altitude of about 380 kilometers, the Perseid meteors streak below. The glowing comet dust grains are traveling at about 60 kilometers per second through the denser atmosphere around 100 kilometers above Earth's surface. -- SETI Institute [12]

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The First Veggie Harvest: Lettuce in space ;-

NASA studies a garden in space in preparation for journey to Mars

"We call it 'Veggie' "It's a plant growth chamber designed to make gardens thrive in weightlessness... Our first crop will be a variety of lettuce called 'Outredgeous,'" says Kennedy Space Center team leader Gioia Massa. "It is delicious."

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Update: August 10, 2015

Thank you Gioia Massa ! -- http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/aug/10/nasa-astronauts-lettuce-vegetables-grown-space

First space-grown veggie/lettuce eaten in space

-- http://motherboard.vice.com/en_uk/read/astronauts-dine-on-the-first-100-space-grown-food

The astronauts used "extra virgin olive oil and balsamic vinegar" over their (non-GMO) "Outredgeous" lettuce salad

-- http://www.territorialseed.com/product/Outredgeous_Lettuce_Seed/386

-- https://www.wildgardenseed.com/ -- https://www.wildgardenseed.com/product_info.php?products_id=105&osCsid=b7c7bd2262b3a7452825aa52b7ac7e5a

-- http://www.space.com/30209-astronauts-eat-space-lettuce.html

-- http://www.vox.com/2015/8/10/9126949/nasa-food-space-station

http://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/Outredgeous_Lettuce_in_space_-_VEGGIE.jpg

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Gardens in space? So where's Bruce Dern these days? He was growing lettuce in space wasn't he?

Silent Running... "When I was a kid, I put a note into a bottle, and it had my name and address on it. And then I threw the bottle into the ocean. And I never knew if anyone ever found it."

Douglas Trumbull's VFX vision in Silent Running & beyond continues in our memory banks