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Planet Citizens, our challenge is to improve Quality of Life & Secure our Common Future Create your own green best practices... Act to make a positive difference every day Now is time to go beyond old ways of thinking & shape new visions of our living Planet Earth

"Memories on the Road to the First Earth Day" * https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Day_Memories_on_the_50th_Anniversary * https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Earth_Day

Planet Citizen Action

SJS/GreenPolicy360: The first Earth Day on April 22, 1970 presented beginnings of a wave, a powerful expression of green ideals and ideas emerging in a serious and historic event. Now, as a worldwide movement, we continue on year after year, decade after decade. As #PlanetCitizens ... "Earth Day Is Every Day"

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"Thin Blue" Look at how thin our atmosphere is * http://www.thinbluelayer.com * http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:ThinBlueLayer

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Flashback, a Beginning to Climate Action -- 1978, Climate Action Memories GreenPolicy360: We are engaged in and tracking decades of Climate and Earth Science. Start here with the story of our friend, Representative George E. Brown, who stepped up in the U.S. Congress * https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/George_E._Brown_Jr

First National Climate Act Origin stories are worth recalling and the beginnings of modern environmental and climate science can be traced to the 1960s and 1970s.

The U.S. National Academy of Sciences played a key role in laying a foundation of scientific reports and data: Energy and Climate Report, 1977, National Academy of Sciences / 175 pp. / PDF via GreenPolicy360.The Academy report was utilized and followed by the National Climate Program Act in 1978. GreenPolicy360's siterunner watched Rep. Brown speak of the findings of a first-of-its-kind Energy and Climate Report from the Academy of Sciences and the Representative from California moved decisively to make the science actionable. Rep. Brown proposed and drafted the legislation of the U.S. National Climate Program in 1977-1978 and went on to advance unprecedented Climate and Earth Science action until his death in 1999. The Congressman's record over three-decades of environment/climate/earth science initiatives and programs continue to this day, a Generation Green legacy-in-action.

The Climate Act was the first program to study and assess scientifically the issues and risks of human-caused climate change.

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The National Climate Act and 1970s/80s legislation was a foundation for comprehensive initiatives and array of decades-long Earth Science missions led by NASA, NOAA, EPA, USGS and programs/applications/research at universities and companies across the US. Today's "EOS", a 360° Earth Observing System, continues the missions that set in motion the beginnings of Earth Science Research from Space.

GreenPolicy360 looks at visionaries who were prescient, envisioning and developing digital, multispectral imaging of Planet Earth

* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Earth_Observing_System_-_fleet_of_satellites.png

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Intergenerational Planet Citizens

Beginnings of the Modern Environmental Movement * https://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/1969_beginnings_of_the_modern_environmental_movement.pdf

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Planet Citizen Vision of Living Earth GreenPolicy360 Page Highlights

A Call to Action to Preserve & Protect Life on Earth 'Each of us can make a positive difference by stepping up & doing our best"

Planet Citizen Vision of Living Earth * https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Planet_Citizen_Vision_of_Living_Earth

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Nature is sending a message: Act Now Before It's Too Late"

Bug eyes in the rainforest canopy Photo by Don Perry-2.jpg

'Bug Eyes' says now is the 'Time to Open Your Eyes'

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Earth Science to Protect a Sustainable Earth

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Earth_System_Observatory.jpg

Earth and Space, Politics 🌎

Earth Science Vital Signs 🌎

Earth Right Now 🌎

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

NASA: You can manage only what you can measure

Q: What are the main science questions you (JPL/Caltech/NASA) hope OCO-3 will answer?

The big science question is about the movement of carbon dioxide between plants and the atmosphere.

If you look at the ground-based data, it almost looks like the planet is breathing. Plants in the northern hemisphere take up carbon dioxide as they grow in the spring and summer, reducing the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere by a few parts per million. In the fall, the leaves drop and carbon is released back into the air.

But every year is different... What we want to do is find drivers of the plant uptake of carbon and use that to better predict what will happen in the future. If we have a warmer, drier climate, will plants keep taking up as much carbon?

Environmental Security

Planet Citizens in Action

Visit Our GreenLinks Network

Climate Desk

Greening Our Blue Planet

"Going Green"

Planet Citizens

Planet Citizens, Planet Scientists

Climate Change Laws Around the World

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Environmental_Laws

Multilateral Environmental Agreements (MEAs)

International Environmental Law, Knowledge Database

Negotiator's Toolkit, Resource for E-Action

Regional and Global Environmental Treaties

https://www.informea.org/en/treaties

Climate Change Laws of the World

Climate Change Litigation Databases / Caselaw

Climate Laws and Policies / Climate Litigation Cases / Countries / Mapped Data and Statistics

Trends in Climate Change Legislation

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New Definitions of National Security 🌎

GreenPolicy360 and Associate Strategic Demands explore Earth's existential threat environment

GreenPolicy360's partner site, Strategic Demands / #StratDem

@StrategicDemands.com

Visit GreenPolicy's Associate, Strategic Demands

"New Definitions of National & Global Security"

Nuclear Issues / Cold War 2.0

Escalating Risk of Use of Nuclear Weapons

Nuclear Arms Are Back in a Big Way

Nuclear Posture Review Released

Nuclear Poker, Fire & Fury

Two Minutes to Midnight

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Looking Back at an Imminent U.S. Threat to Use Nuclear Weapons

Over 50 years ago college students began 'teach-ins' and launched a national peace action called a 'Vietnam Moratorium' that grew to become the largest US peace movement in history -- It was only years later that historians documented how Americans peace demonstrations prevented Nixon and Kissinger plans to use tactical nuclear weapons

Doomsday Machine-Daniel Ellsberg-Recalling the Vietnam Moratorium Oct-Nov 1969.jpg

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Today the U.S. President has a Singular Authority to Order Use of Nuclear Weapons

Green Politics vs. Nuclear Weapons Proliferation

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Warnings from Today's Generation

Planet Citizens, Look to the Future

Can we kick our fossil-fuel addiction fast enough?

Time is running out to rein in carbon emissions

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Environmental protection

Environmental movement

Trending 'Eco-Tags' & Links

On Being a Planet Citizen

StrategicDemands.com

Strategic Demands: National Security & Global Security are interrelated

GreenPolicy360 / Strategic Demands / New Definitions of National Security

New Definitions of National Security

https://strategicdemands.com/new-definitions-of-security/

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Green Issues Around the Globe, 360°, Online

Countries Worldwide/Climate Action INDC Plans

The Fight for Earth / 2050

https://time.com/climate-change-solutions/

🥵 When it gets too hot

Even your news is hot ....

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Too_Hot

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Eco-Ethics

Pope Francis speaks of Climate, Politics, Personal Responsibility

"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 took particular aim at those who reject the science behind global warming..."

Pope Francis on the Environment

Integral Ecology

Laudato Si

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Sea-Level Rise

"Vital Signs" / Sea Level / NASA

Sea-Level Change Over Time

"What's up with sea level rise?"

NASA experts update current conditions & projections of sea level rise

@EarthVitalSigns • #EarthRightNow

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Protect Life, Be Pro-Life, Prevent Extinction

https://eowilsonfoundation.org/many-people-want-to-set-aside-half-of-earth-as-nature/

Extinction

Endangered Species

Pesticide 'Insectageddon'

The 8 Million++ Species We Don’t Know

By Edward O. Wilson / NY Times

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/03/opinion/sunday/species-conservation-extinction.html

Large 'Charismatic' Creatures & Rarely Seen "Tiny Little Ones"

Microbiomes at Risk

The most striking fact about the living environment may be how little we know about it. Even the number of living species can be only roughly calculated. A widely accepted estimate by scientists puts the number at about 10 million. In contrast, those formally described, classified and given two-part Latinized names (Homo sapiens for humans, for example) number slightly more than two million. With only about 20 percent of its species known and 80 percent undiscovered, it is fair to call Earth a little-known planet.

To effectively manage protected habitats, we must also learn more about all the species of our planet and their interactions within ecosystems.

The best-explored groups of organisms are the vertebrates (mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fishes), along with plants, especially trees and shrubs. Being conspicuous, they are what we familiarly call “wildlife.” A great majority of other species, however, are by far also the most abundant. I like to call them “the little things that run the world.” They teem everywhere, in great number and variety in and on all plants, throughout the soil at our feet and in the air around us. They are the protists, fungi, insects, crustaceans, spiders, pauropods, centipedes, mites, nematodes and legions of others whose scientific names are seldom heard by the bulk of humanity. In the sea and along its shores swarm organisms of the other living world — marine diatoms, crustaceans, ascidians, sea hares, priapulids, coral, loriciferans and on through the still mostly unfilled encyclopedia of life.

Do not call these organisms “bugs” or “critters.” They too are wildlife. Let us learn their correct names and care about their safety. Their existence makes possible our own. We are wholly dependent on them.

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Our Living Earth...

"Tiny Blue Green Life"

More than Meets the Eye, the 'Tiny Little Ones'

www.tinybluegreen.com @GreenPolicy360

TinyBlueGreen

Warming Oceans, Threats to Life

Phytoplankton & Photosynthesis

Plankton: The Ocean Food Chain & Producer of Our Atmosphere's Oxygen

"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

Seventy percent of the Earth's surface is ocean... here, in myriad life forms, "tiny blue-green" organisms are essential to preserving life on the planet.

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It's All Connected

It's All Related

Tree of Life

The "Tree of Life" 1.0

Listen to Nature, Nature's Ways

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GreenPolicy360's eco-economics: Next gen e-business

Eco-nomics

21st Century Economic Ideas in Development @ GreenPolicy360

Eco-nomics

Environmental full-cost accounting

New Economy Movement

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Environmental Studies Online

Remember, facts count... Measure to Manage

Fact Checking

Earth and Space, Politics

Stats - Green Research & Science

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GreenPolicy360:

Get Semantic, Go Scientific

Get Smart, Scholarly

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Go Searching

Astrophysics Data System / https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/

(A 21st Century AI/Machine Learning Case Study)

Toolformer: Language Models Can Teach Themselves to Use Tools

https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2023arXiv230204761S/abstract

Climate Modeling

https://allenai.org/climate-modeling

Planetary-scale Earth simulations known as global climate model projections are the primary sources of information on future climate change.

Climate models are based on mathematical equations represented using a grid mesh that covers the globe: a finer grid mesh is more accurate but much more computationally expensive. Current global climate projections agree that a world with more greenhouse gases will be warmer everywhere, especially over land and at high latitudes.

NOAA scientists harness machine learning to advance climate models

March 1st, 2023

https://www.gfdl.noaa.gov/news/noaa-scientists-harness-machine-learning-to-advance-climate-models/

https://www.gfdl.noaa.gov/

How artificial intelligence is fast becoming a key tool for climate science (2021)

https://www.carbonbrief.org/guest-post-how-artificial-intelligence-is-fast-becoming-a-key-tool-for-climate-science/

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GreenPolicy360: We're Into Earth Science

We believe in 'critical thinking skills'

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https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Stats_-_Green_Research_%26_Science

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Climate News Events Archive ... 1970 to Today

https://greenpolicy360.net/w/Climate_News_Events_Archive_..._1970_to_Today

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