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Remembering the First Earth Summit

"It has been a long, long road" -- 1968 to 1992 -- and the journey continues...

Steve Schmidt, GreenPolicy360 Siterunner (2023): The journey began in 1968 and the beginnings of the modern environmental movement with "Earthrise" and organizing of the first "Earth Day" in 1970. Next we moved onto Earth Science and a first-gen foundation of legislation legislation and more environmental organizing up until 1992, a presidential campaign, an environmental protection platform drafting, and then a first Earth Summit and creation of the annual international climate conferences (the UNFCCCs "Conferences of the Parties").

Fifty+ years of environmental, green activism and still going and going and going ....

I'm older now and looking back over the years from those first photos of our home planet that opened our student eyes.... There were those early years of organizing for peace and pushing for environmental protection as we put forward 'teach ins' and moved our message to the first Earth Day.

Then there was continuing the work with Congressman Brown and an international cast of scientists via the US Congress and the Committee on Science, Technology and Space, the first of a host of 'Earth Science Missions from Space', and the first 'National Climate Act in 1978 and the famous US Senate hearings in the late 80s, 1988 in fact with warnings from Dr. James Hansen. The warnings of of climate change and global warming were in the news and on front pages, at least for awhile.

Then came organizing and reporting of at the first "Earth Summit", a conference of nations, organizations, and activists that led to the first global climate 'Conference of the Parties' (UNFCCCs). My reports to the Environmental News Service (ENS) were picked up and I would add positions into environmental platform planks in the the 'Platform in Progress' for California Governor Jerry Brown's presidential campaign. Soon came drafting of the original US Green Party platform. Today, the work continues... 1968 to 1992 and 1992 to today, over half a century and still going....

Here are some links from the journey -- Representative George E. Brown's work to advance climate science, beginning in earnest with the first National Climate Act of 1978 and establishment of the Office of Science and Technology Policy to push what was called a "big science, earth science" agenda with the first generation of focused earth studies and science, measuring and monitoring 'the Commons' , earth's atmosphere, natural resources (e.g., Landsat's start up and a deep, multi-decade array of NASA/NOAA/USGS missions....

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