Planet Citizen Vision of Living Earth

It's All Related

See the Big Picture, It's All Connected

SJS / GreenPolicy360 Siterunner: As interconnected Planet Citizens our challenge is to improve our Quality of Life and Secure our Common Future...

Launch new initiatives, improve the environment, change the way governments run, impact and transform how businesses work

We encourage you to join in, dream and create your own green stories venturing on and making a positive difference every day

Now is time to go beyond old ways of thinking and shape new visions of our communities and our living home -- Planet Earth

It's Your Breathing Planet

www.planetcitizen.org

PlanetCitizen.org / Earth System Science / Measuring "Vital Signs"

New Ways of Seeing Our World

Planet Citizens, Planet Scientists

Earth Science Vital Signs

Earth Right Now

Planetary Awareness www.planetaryawareness.org

Thin Blue Layer

Earth's Atmosphere Enables Life on Earth

When we act to protect and preserve The Commons, we act to protect life...

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Climate Policy: Planet Citizens in Action

• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Planet_Citizen_Action

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.

• https://phys.org/news/2021-01-co2-year-percent-higher-18th.html

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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?"

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

Today's Challenge

Generational Thinking, Sustainable Living

• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Seventh_Generation_Sustainability

"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.

Seventh Generation

Indigenous Vision for a Sustainable Earth

• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Seventh_Generation_Sustainability

Sustainability

Sustainable Thinking, Sustainable Design, Sustainable Living,

Ancient Wisdom, Modern Vision, Future Focus

• http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Sustainable_Development

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SJS / GreenPolicy360 Siterunner: "Can we talk?" I remember Joan Rivers. She was a river, always moving. She was a force. And so it was back in the day when the modern world, before Joan, was created and we learned, some of us learned, how things happened. Like with the discovery of the 'New World', which in fact was the 'Old World'. Perhaps teachers in modern world, that is to say the modern world of U.S. circa 1950 to 2000 explained how https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Columbus Christopher Columbus, a Spaniard or Italian with Spanish support, sailed across to the west, across the Ocean with three small ships looking for 'spice in the Far East', gold and treasure and 'discovered' the indigenous peoples of what became know as 'the Americas'.

What was never told to the students in modern America as a matter of fact, but 'can we talk?' should've been told, in great detail, was what is known as the Doctrine of Discovery or, to be more specific, the Christian Doctrine of Discovery which bequeathed all of the land, legally, discovered by European explorers, Catholics in fact, to the Christian colonialists and set the foundation in place for expropriating and exploiting the lands of ancient people, the indigenous peoples who were there and had deep value systems distinct from the so-called 'discoverers'. The Catholic Pope who first provided a 'bull' giving 'ownership' to the native people's lands was and is a moment that should have been spoken of by educators, but wasn't.

We speak of it here. Take a long look at this link... THE DOCTRINE OF CHRISTIAN DISCOVERY

• https://www.onondaganation.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/05/DoctrineLRev.pdf

"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.

• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/Doctrine_of_Christian_Discovery_-_by_Joseph_Heath%2C_Esq.pdf

File:Doctrine of Christian Discovery - by Joseph Heath, Esq.pdf

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.