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

Connecting & sharing world changing stories

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

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

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

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

On Earth

Green Stories of the Day ~ Climate News

Earth and Space, Politics

GreenPolicy360

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

Frontlines of Green Best Practices

Visit the GreenLinks Network

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'Global citizenship': How's It Going?

It's getting hotter

GreenLinks Trending News

Re:Publica 2016

May 2016

The Digital World, Free Software and Next Generation Internet

Empire & Internet Empowerment

Re:Publica, Last Kilometer, Last Chance

They're Watching You (You Have No Idea How Closely)

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Earth Day / Countries Signing Climate Action Plans

Achievement Like a Green Aurora Over Earth

Paris Agreement Signatures

175 Nations Sign on Earth Day

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U.S. Presidential Campaign: Environmental Threats

Trump v the World: Announces his Energy policy

Republican presidential candidate -- Cancel the Paris agreement, More fossil fuels, Less Clean/Renewable Energy

Trump declares he doesn't believe the science, believes climate change a hoax and 'BS'

Trump tweet: This very expensive GLOBAL WARMING bullshit has got to stop.

Our planet is freezing, record low temps,and our GW scientists are stuck in ice

Clinton on Climate Change -- Campaign

Sanders Climate Plan -- Campaign

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In Canada, a political battle over energy & environment policy

○ http://strategicdemands.com/the-leap-manifesto/

○ http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Leap_Manifesto

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In the U.S., as Republican presidential candidates act to undercut US & global security, strategies for energy innovation emerge

Energy Innovation: Batteries & the Grid / Tesla Electric Vehicles / At the ARPA-E Innovation Summit

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After a Year in Space, Scott Kelly Says 'I'm More of an Environmentalist'...

Welcome home Planet Citizen.... thanks for reminding us "how the atmosphere looks and how fragile it looks... It makes you more of an environmentalist... looking down at our planet from a great vantage point."

The 'Overview Effect': Experiencing Life Changing Realizations of the Home Planet and Us

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Green Issues Around the Globe, 360°, Online

Countries Worldwide/Climate Action INDC Plans

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Threat Environment

Next US Supreme Court Justice Will Be Crucial to Climate Policy

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ExxonMobile Under Fire

Letter from President of Union of Concerned Scientists to Lamar Smith, Chair of House Science Com't

“There is no doubt”: Exxon Knew CO2 Pollution Was A Global Threat By Late 1970s

Wall Street Journal Editorial Board Meltsdown over Exxon with Bizarre Accusation: Like Cromwell Did Catholics?

>U.S. Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, Rhode Island Democrat, leading voice on climate change, locked in bitter brawl with Wall Street Journal editorial page over his proposal to sue fossil fuel companies for fraud

NY's State Attorney and Calif's AG Go After ExxonMobil ♦ Exxon Bkrd ♦ Exxon, the Road Not Taken ♦ FBI Probe, More AGs Support Investigation of ExxonMobil

>Money-in-Politics: Giants of the oil and gas industry spend millions in 2015 to manipulate lawmakers and public discourse on climate change

Oil Change International ... "Exposing the true costs of fossil fuels"

Markets Are Spooked ... Oil Slide Continues

While Renewable Energy expands globally with a wide range of investments in energy alternatives to fossil fuels, ExxonMobil predicts "long-term energy demand growth", increased oil/gas profits and "gains in energy efficiency and increased use of renewable energy and lower carbon fuels such as natural gas likely will help lower by half the “carbon intensity of the global economy.”

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'External Costs' Adding Up: Mother Nature's 'Invisible Hand'

Oceans heating accelerates

2015: Hottest in modern times -- Not new news, it's hotter

More Green-Politics from DeSmog -- Desmog Blog

It's Hot: Is It Deniable? Ask the US Congress -- Climate News

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Reviewing the Paris Climate Summit & Politics

China and US To Sign Climate Summit Agreement on April 22, Earth Day

Planet Citizens: Action Plans, Country by Country, Region by Region"

GreenPolicy's Online Update of Country Climate Action Plans

December 2015: The Paris Agreement Approved

GreenPolicy's Report on the Climate Change Summit

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Pope Francis speaks of the Climate mtgs

"It would be sad, and dare I say even catastrophic, were special interests to prevail over the common good and lead to manipulating information in order to protect their own plans and interests."

"The Pope takes particular aim at those who reject the science behind global warming..."

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Looking back at 2015, Green Progress and GOP Buffoonery

Washington Post editorial, January 3, 2016

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U.S. Senate Republicans Say 'No' to Paris Climate Accord / GOP On Lockdown

Via the New Republic "The only remaining global outlier — the only major political party that denies climate science and opposes even the effort to reach a climate deal — is here in the U.S.: the Republican Party ..."

"Republicans attempt to derail the climate talks" / Via The Atlantic, Dec 1, 2015

"Obama is paving the way for success in Paris": US Climate Politics / Via Grist

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U.S. Congress/Science Committee News (Not Good News)

Lamar Smith, Chair of Science Com't Accusing Scientists (Video)

Earth Science Politics

Letter to Science Committee re: integrity

Science Orgs respond to attacks by Science Committee

Environmental Security

GreenPolicy's listing of 189 country climate plans

Climate News

Earth Observations

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Nationally determined climate plans | resilient | renewable | clean energy

Visit GreenPolicy's Int'l List of Countries and Climate Plans

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http://newsroom.unfccc.int/cop21parisinformationhub/

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UN / Climate Plans "Synthesis Report"

Christiana Figueres @CFigueres #UNFCCC

Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change

Nov 15: Will not stop -- Must contine

Figueres - REDDIT AMA

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!

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

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

Join In, Act, Follow, Be Out in Front

It's Your Breathing Planet

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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? / Eleven Countries that are Leading the Shift to Renewable Energy

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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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"Nothing to See Here"

Only "the greatest environmental disaster of the 21st Century (so far)"

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"What's up with sea level rise?"

NASA experts update current conditions & projections of sea level rise

@EarthVitalSigns ♦ #EarthRightNow ♦ Rising Seas

Warming Wonders of the World

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Endangered:

The 'Tiny Little Ones' &
Large 'Charismatic' Creatures

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Warming Oceans Phytoplankton & Photosynthesis

Plankton: The Ocean Food Chain & Atmospheric Oxygen

Tiny Blue Green

More than Meets the Eye

"A single kind of blue-green algae in the ocean produces the oxygen in one of every five breaths we take"

~ from "The World Is Blue: How Our Fate and the Ocean’s Are One" by Sylvia Earle

Visit GreenPolicy360's newly launched site -- www.tinybluegreen.com

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DSCOVR/EPIC 'News from a Million Miles'

You are being imaged!

Visit EarthPOV for DSCOVR/EPIC News

● VR -- The "Big Picture" -- Earth ●

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The Earth & Moon as Never Before Seen

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President Obama Announces U.S. Clean Power Plan

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DSCOVR with EPIC imaging goes LIVE! --- "Beautiful reminder that we need to protect the only planet we have"

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Vatican announcement of the eco-encyclical --- Laudato Si' --- Catholic Pontiff Speaks of an 'Integral Ecology'

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Open source 'Tree of Life' 1.0

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PLANETARY ... RECONNECT

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Bioneers Gathering

"When I listen with my heart, I am pierced with an empathic awareness that calls me into action beyond what any amount of learning, reading or mental understanding can prompt."

-- Nina Simons, Shifting Guidance from Head to Heart,

Revolution from the Heart of Nature - #‎Bioneers15‬

http://conference.bioneers.org/

For 25 years, the annual national Bioneers Conference has connected thousands of people with practical, visionary solutions for pressing environmental and social challenges

Epic Change, Part 1 by Kenny Ausubel

Epic Change, Part 2

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Images from the Himawari-8 satellite's first official day paint a living Earth portrait

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We have updated the 'Overview Effect' --- We Are Planetary: The Movie

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CELEBRATE

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ORBITING the Earth --- On the ISS

Orbital Perspective is #Earth360

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In the Smallest Creatures

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"Racing Extinction" - The Movie

“We’re not making a movie, we’re starting a movement. This film is one component of a movement that will go on and on...

to live in people’s hearts and minds and change behavior. We are the only generation that can save species for millions of years going forward.”

There is No Plan(et) B

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Climate News --- Planet Citizen --- #HelloEarth

Recently Added Planet Citizen, Planet Scientist Pages

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Thank You Planet Citizens

Syvia Earle, Bill McKibben, Elon Musk

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GreenPolicy360 Networking/GreenLinks

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California out in front modeling and sharing green best practices

http://www.bioneers.org/bioneers-e-book-california-climate-leadership/

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

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

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Planet Labs / New Space

Planet Labs Platform Beta to Advance Sustainable Development Goals

Open California -- California imaging from Planet Labs fleet, a "full historical archive" now available under a CC BY-SA license

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Climate Publishers Network

May 2015, New International Media Network to share climate change news

“Climate change is the biggest challenge humanity is currently facing and requires new ways of collaborating across geographic as well as political boundaries.”

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Astronaut Gerst --- 'Planet Citizen' Video

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Watching the Planet Breathe

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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Earth and Space, Politics

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 Archive Highlights 2014

Review some of our best in 2014

GreenPolicy360 Archive Highlights 2013

Review some of our best in 2013

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Open Government/Digital Services

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