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October 2014
Good green times
Los Angeles cleans up its skies
Help continue California's leadership in the Clean Air movement
Join w/ GreenPolicy360's friend the Bioneers [1]
Game changing on the climate front October 16th, San Rafael, Marin Center
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It’s here; it’s big; it’s real; it matters.
There is today a climate movement. - Todd Gitlin
September 23rd -- UN Climate Summit
September 21st -- #PeoplesClimateMarch Signs from the March
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
... 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."
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Each week we feature green best practices of our GreenLinks friends
This week we highlight a remarkable journey of the
Bioneers celebrating their 25th Anniversary Conference [2] [3] [4]
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.
Inspirational books and readings
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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 [5] [6]
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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
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- Geo-science: Eyes in the Sky Polar melt accelerates #EarthMonitoring #EarthScience
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"Ground Truth" [7] Wiki-GroundTruth CERES Project [8] AVIRIS-JPL
Hyspiri [9] Spectroscopy, unique views of the surface of Earth...
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Immediate Risk to National Security Climate Change: Pentagon Devises Strategy to Respond"'
Climate Change = "Threat Multiplier"
U.S. Military Prepares for Climate Change [10]
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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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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:
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And check out our associated #Earth360 sites
#EarthPOV and #PlanetCitizen -- Here's looking at us
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Oct/Sept 2014 - 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 [11] #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 [12]
Mission: "Democratizing Access to Information About the Changing Planet"
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OCO-2 Orbiting Carbon Observatory
"Watching the Earth Breathe from Space" [13] [14] [15] [16] [17]
- Observing Global Warming with #OCO-2 Historic launch #PlanetCitizen mission to study #EarthsAtmosphere
"First Light!" [18] [19] 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 [20] [21] [22] 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
"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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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 [23] [24] [25][26]
West Coast Leaders Applaud Obama Administration Proposal to Cut Carbon Pollution [27]California has head start Pacific Coast Climate Action Plan - 2013
Alexander Gerst on the #ISS writes home in tweets and his live blogging...
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." [28] [29]
- 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..."
Images revealing the 'height', the narrow band of life-giving atmosphere surrounding Earth
We are in the first era of geo-monitoring our 'thin atmosphere', earth resources and biosphere from space... [35] [36]
Beginning with first-ever images of our home planet, Earth, taken from the Apollo era... [37] [38]
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...
A "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? [39]
Seeing climate change from space: NASA creates image-based iPad app [40]
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/July/June 2014
Aug 19 Planet Labs/NYT Planet Labs, newly #ISS deployed Doves Smartphones in space!
Planet Labs 'Dove' micro-satellites [41]
"Rapid cadence imagery, like Planet Labs is developing, helps us become better, more sustainable stewards of Earth." NYT
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"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) [42]... BlackBridge [43], Dauria [44], DigitalGlobe [45] #DigitalGlobe, highest rez commercially avail #earthimaging from space [46] [47] [48] GeoEye [49], Firefly Space Systems [50] [51], GeoOptics [52], NanoRacks [53], [54] [55], NovaWurks [56], OmniEarth [57] [58] [59] [60], OrbitLogic [61], PlanetiQ [62], Planet Labs [63] Pulse [64] [65] [66], RapidEye [67], Skybox [68] [69] [70], Teledyne [71], Tyvak Nano-Sat [72], Urthecast [73]
“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 [76] Urthecast APIs
Live from the International Space Station [77] [78] [79] [80]
Earth sciences/NASA-JPL and gov contractors 'Eyes on the Earth' [81] [82] [83] [84] -- @OCO-2 I am OCO! Tweet!!
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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..."
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)"
ESE is dedicated to "understanding the total Earth system and the effects of natural and human-induced changes on the global environment." [90]
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.
Suomi NPP - Next-generation Earth-observing satellite system NPP Images Gallery
"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." [91]
#EarthScience, #GeoScience, #Earth360, #GP360, #EarthPOV
Eyes on the Earth-Earth Right Now, Earth Observing System Project, Earth Data, Earth Observatory, [92], Grace, Grace-JPL, Grace-UTexas
Visible Earth, Global Maps, Visible Earth_2, Visible Earth_3, Visible Earth_4, Earth Mission List
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European space program - earth system monitoring
European Space Agency "Living Planet Programme" managed by Earth Observation Programmes - [99]
- GOCE – Gravity Field and Steady-State Ocean Circulation Explorer - launched on March 17, 2009 - [100]
- SMOS – Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity satellite - studying ocean salinity and soil moisture; launched in 2 November 2009 - [101]
- CryoSat is designed to map the Earth's ice cover. CryoSat-2 was launched 8 April 2010 - [102] - Euro Cryo Satellite/Earth Imaging -- The Antarctic: Big Melt Accelerates [103] [104]
- Swarm – is a trio of satellites to map the Earth's magnetism. The SWARM constellation was launched successfully on 22 November 2013 - [105]
- Aeolus – Atmospheric Dynamics Mission will use an innovative laser to measure winds. Due for launch in 2015 - [106]
- EarthCARE – Earth Clouds Aerosols and Radiation Explorer will examine the formation and effects of clouds. Due for launch in 2016 - [107]
- 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 - [108]
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May/Apr 2014
GP360 News: We have updated GreenPolicy360 to MediaWiki 1.19 [109][110]
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.
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... [111] [112] [113] #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. [114] [115] [116]
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Climate.Data.gov launches [117] [118]
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. [119]
Tools and information to help communities prepare for coastal inundation... [120] [121]
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 [122]
More C40, cities, webcam, [123], [124], [125]
Global Forest Watch launches
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 [130]
From GP360's "Little Green Book"
eco Operating System featured in Green Horizon
eOS -- a network of effective green policies, politics and practices
eOS Part 1 December 2013 eOS... Global Green Challenge [131]
eOS Part 2 June 2014 eOS... Challenges & Opportunities
eOS Part 3 October 2014
GreenPolicy360/eOS -- extending the GP360 database of green models 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" [132] 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 this "pale blue dot"
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, go 'Original' for 2160p - 4K... What a view
News Archive
- November/December 2013
Good Government & the Digital Era
Technology is central to the design of government programs... "What good governance and the good society look like is now inextricably linked to an understanding of the digital." -- Tim O'Reilly [133]
Open Government/Digital Services
- October 2013
A Model for Regional/Local Approaches to Climate Change - Pacific Coast Action Plan on Climate & Energy
- Two new cool tools for digital visualizations
- 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" [134]
- August 2013
US/Climate Change/Response Planning by States
- Maryland Advances Climate/Energy Plan... emission reduction goals surpass California and all states except Massachusetts
- Maryland Governor Unveils Strongest US Plan To Fight Climate Change [137]
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..." [138] PDF
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2013/2014 Ongoing
Half of North America bird species at risk of extinction due to climate change Audubon study Times News
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... a sixth wave of extinctions in the past half-billion years. We’re currently experiencing the worst spate of species die-offs since the loss of the dinosaurs 65 million years ago.
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Drought -- Historic-drought (climate change warning)
- [California aquifers at risk http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2014/08/140819-groundwater-california-drought-aquifers-hidden-crisis/]
- [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 [139]
California's emergency measures [140] [141]
- 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 [142]
Sources, click thru (PDF)
Climate Change and California's epic drought [143]
Climate Extremes are Unprecedented - BBC Global News [144]
Warmest decade in 2001-2010, WMO survey shows
Water Alert - US Groundwater Depletion "accelerating", May 2013 [145] / Water Stress - NatGeo US [146]
- Climate Change / US Drought Monitor [147]
History-making drought conditions - new water conservation measures announced
- TX [148]
- TX [149]
- TX [150]
- NM [151]
- NM [152]
- NM [153]
- AZ [154]
- UT [155]
- Colorado River watershed Aug 2014 [156]
- Southwest [157]
- Southwest [158]
- Southwest [159]
- Midwest/Aquifers [160]
- National Water Resources Information [161]
- Nationally - two thirds of the country in drought conditions, one third severe [162]
- National - Maps/Infographics [163]
- GIF
- National/State online drought resources [164]
- Dust-bowl proportions [165]
- US gov monitoring drought conditions [166]
- US drought designations as of June 2013 PDF
- US Climate prediction/drought [167]
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 [168]). 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!!
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 [169]
AskNature -- a free, open source project, built by and for the community. [170]
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...
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... [171]
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 [172] [173] [174]
Open States searchable database to check on U.S. state government representatives Open States: Data for all 50 States [175]
Introducing 'The Congress App' for iOS and Android [176] [177]
Money, Politics & Transparency Project / March 2014 [178] 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.
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- 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.
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- Alliance for Affordable Internet - http://a4ai.org/
- 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/
- 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/
- CommonFutures EU/Int'l - http://CommonFutures.eu/the-future-of-open-possibly-the-largest-open-network-in-the-world
- Creative Commons - http://CreativeCommons.org
- 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)
- 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/
- 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/
- 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/
- GovFuturesLab - Reimagining governance for an age of planetary challenges and human responsibility
- (FB) https://Facebook.com/govfutures
- App4Gov (TW) https://Twitter.com/App4Gov
- GovTrack - https://www.Govtrack.us/
- Institute for the Future - http://iftf.org/govfutures
- 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 [186]
- 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 Government Initiative (US) - http://www.whitehouse.gov/open
- Open Government in Practice - https://openlibrary.org/books/OL24435672M/Open_Government
- Open Government Partnership - International - http://OpenGovPartnership.org
- OpenNet Initiative - http://cyber.law.harvard.edu/research/opennet
- Open Institute - http://openinstitute.com/
- 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/
- Open Science - http://opensciencefederation.com/
- Open Secrets/Center for Responsive Politics - http://www.opensecrets.org/
- OpenGov Foundation - http://OpenGovFoundation.org
- Piwik analytics - http://piwik.org/
- Project on Government Oversight - http://www.pogo.org/
- PublicAgenda - http://PublicAgenda.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/
- 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
- The Constituent (US) - https://The-Constituent.com
- Thoughtworks - http://www.thoughtworks.com/
- 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 [187] WebFoundation.org
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