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Every Day Is Earth Day

 

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Photo credit: Jack Fusco

 


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Photo credit: David Lancaster

 

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A PlanetCitizen Paradigm

Planet Citizen Voyagers
* http://www.planetcitizen.org
* http://www.planetcitizens.org


Planet Citizen Action
"Vita contemplativa to Vita activa"


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Connecting & sharing stories changing the world
Green Networking, Green Best Practices

 

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Act Now for a Liveable Future
www.planetcitizen.org | www.planetcitizens.org

 

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Vorsorgeprinzip at GreenPolicy360

* https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vorsorgeprinzip
* https://link.springer.com/referenceworkentry/10.1007/978-94-007-1433-5_38


Steven Schmidt/SJS: Vorsorgeprinzip ... Our "Generation Green", started talking about vorsorgeprinzip in the 1970s. The first 'Earth Day' we organized was a 'teach-in' and we talked about vorsorgeprinzip and, in English, we translated this principle into a broader 'environmental protection' whole earth movement. Today, we call vorsorgeprinzip a "Precautionary Principle". In business, it's about being careful as we look at the consequences of our lives, our 'externalities'. Pollution of the 'ThinBlueLayer' is one example, destruction of biodiversity, life on earth is another. We were realizing Planet Earth is in our hands.


The idea of becoming and being a "planet citizen" was also forming in the late 1960s as our generation saw what hadn't been seen before. At first, the new visions were delivered from above, photos taken looking out of spaceship windows and given names like "Earthrise" (in 1968) and "Blue Marble" (in 1972). The news shows, newspapers and magazines of the era shocked us into a realization of "Whole Earth" awareness. We began to see ourselves as, yes, "planet citizens".
* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Whole_Earth


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SJS: Being there was an accident of birth and place, and a decision to act.


Picture yourself like me, a young student in East Los Angeles who was a science 'early geek' fan of TV's Mr. Wizard science experiments in the early years of television. Years later I'd meet, and become friends with and a book editor of Mr. Wizard, Don Herbert, in New York City. From East LA to NYC was a leap and a US Congressman pushed me.


in the mid-1960s I was a high school student, a debater (the topic was nuclear weapons proliferation, coming soon after the close call of the "Cuban Missile Crisis". I decided I would bike over to meet our newly elected Congressman and ask him, as a student newspaper editor, what he was doing to prevent nuclear war. The meeting changes my life, the results are here in memories of "My Friend George" and throughout the GreenPolicy360 website, network, and political history.


* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/George_E._Brown_Jr


Over decades, George Brown became a friend, mentor, then colleague. George went on to garner a reputation in the 1970s/80s/90s as the "Big Science" guy in Congress. George was low key in his approach, but a true leader as he envisioned the need for science education and "science in the field and up above". He acted to create what I saw as "generational science".
From beginnings, the first Earth Day, with George along with George and Senator Nelson, and then thru years of politics and science, I learned of and participated in foundational Earth Science as George set in motion in Congress and oversaw missions like Landsat. We shared plans, dreams, and stories. Many of the memories are recalled here at GreenPolicy360 and Representative George Brown's green, environmental science carries on today.


Beginnings of the Modern Environmental Movement
Planet Citizens, Planet Scientists


Riding a bike to meet George -- and embarking on a road that led to the founding of Earth Day in 1970.


* https://greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Day - https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Earth_Day


* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Environmental_protection - https://greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Environmental_Protection
* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Environmental_Full-cost_Accounting
* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Externalities


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Flash forward... soon we were launching science missions (with NASA's assist) into orbit with a first generation of digital scanning, measuring and monitoring of Earth's living, changing systems
We began calling these "Ecosystems" and the science data began showing how It's All Related
Together, learning how to manage, protect and preserve life on Earth for today's and future generations
With green politics in mind, we look to dealing with climate change, top of mind as science rings alarms


"We have to identify the problem, then act in many ways to solve the problem. Global warming is the threat of our times."
-- Jerry Brown, California Governor


"Weโ€™re going to need to use every tool in the toolbox if weโ€™re going to solve this problem."
-- Michael E. Mann


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On Earth, a Blue-Green Action Agenda


Generation Green ... Going Green


Planet Citizen, This Is Your Time
Each of us can make a positive difference


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Look Up: Consider Our Life Enabling Atmosphere
www.ThinBlueLayer.com


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Look at how thin our atmosphere is


 

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Monitoring CO2 in Earth's Atmosphere


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View Full Screen

 


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* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Anthropocene
* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Science_Vital_Signs
* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Right_Now


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NASA: Astronaut Views of Our Planet & Earth's Life-Enabling Atmosphere


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New Definitions of National Security


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GreenPolicy360 & Strategic Demands
"Advancing new definitions of national & global security"
Decades of Earth Science, Environmental Activism, a 360 Green Vision


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


* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/New_Definitions_of_National_Security
* https://strategicdemands.com/new-definitions-of-security/


I am rivers and forests And winds and I'm earth
I am oceans and mountains I whisper unheard
And before you lies everything you'd ever want
I am your, Your Imagination ...


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Planet Citizen Vision of Living Earth
Planet Citizens, Protecting & Preserving Life on Earth


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Looking around us, listening, learning, envisioning what can be...
"Eco-visioning": It's All Related ...


 


Looking back, looking forward, looking inward, looking outward

Walking in Beauty

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Chief Lyons, as a 'Bioneer' and Planet Citizen brought a message to us - http://www.bioneers.org/staff/chief-oren-lyons/ - https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Seventh_Generation

"The Roots of American Democracy" (w/ Video)


"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?"

-- Oren Lyons, Chief of the Onondaga Iroquois Nation, speaks of ancient wisdom


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Apollo 8

Earthrise Photo


๐ŸŒŽ https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Apollo.jpg

๐ŸŒŽ https://greenpolicy360.net/w/Apollo_8

๐ŸŒŽ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthrise


Earthrise


June 7, 2024 ... In Memory of Astronaut William Anders


Associated Press / Former astronaut William Anders, who took iconic Earthrise photo, killed in Washington plane crash


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Apollo 8 Earthrise Photos
December 1968
โ€ข http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earthrise


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Apollo 8 photos in Life Magazine, January 1969


 

Earthrise

Apollo 8's View of Earth on December 24, 1968


December 21, 1968 ... Apollo 8 launches from the Kennedy Space Center, the first humans on the way to the Moon --- and a vision looking back at home that empowered the modern environmental movement.

Apollo's mission? To explore the Moon in preparation for a Moon landing. A surprise comes into view as the spaceship circles the Moon. A window view, Whole Earth awareness of ourselves as #PlanetCitizens. "Earthrise" ... a profound image, first by human hands taken of our home planet. We see our #PlanetEarth with new born eyes ...

The Earthrise photo history
100 Photographs That Changed the World
NASA simulation video of Earthrise on the 45th anniversary


โ€ข http://www.youtube.com/embed/dE-vOscpiNc

โ€ข http://www.abc.net.au/science/moon/earthrise.htm

โ€ข http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Apollo_8,_Life_Jan10,1969.png


Aboard Apollo, December 24, 1968...
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http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Apollo_8


As the spaceship swings around the Moon...

unexpectedly the Earth rises in the Apollo ship's window and the astronauts are amazed at what is coming into view...


Astronaut Bill Anders is the first to see the Earth...


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Anders: "Oh, my God, look at that picture over there," he can be heard saying. "There's the Earth coming up. Wow, is that pretty!"


What happened next will sound familiar to anyone who remembers the days before digital cameras:


Anders (to astronaut Jim Lovell): "You got a color film, Jim? Hand me a roll of color, quick, would you?"

Lovell: "Oh, man, that's great! Where is it?"

Anders: "Hurry. Quick."

Lovell: "Down here?"

Anders: "Just grab me a color. A color exterior. Hurry up. Got one?"

Lovell: "Yeah, I'm lookin' for one. C368."

Anders: "Anything quick."


Lovell hands him the film just as Anders is heard saying, "I think we missed it."


But within seconds, Lovell sees the shot again in another window of the command module. He asks for the camera from Anders, who seems a bit defensive at having his role as mission photographer usurped.


Anders: "Wait a minute, just let me get the right setting here now, just calm down. Calm down, Lovell!"


Anders then gets the shot that has been reproduced innumerable times all over the world...


Changing forever humanity's vision of ourselves, of who we are


#PlanetCitizens

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GreenPolicy360 Siterunner: (Connecting the 'dots')


December 1968 "Earthrise" led to April 1970 "Earth Day" which led the first National Climate Act in 1978 which led to the first "Earth Summit" in 1992 which began international climate conferences that brought the nations of the world the 2015 Climate Change agreement in Paris with ~200 "Intended National Climate Contributions" (National Climate Plans)


Looking back: the First Earth Summit and Climate Conference

June 1992, Rio de Janeiro


Earth Summit (First Global Climate Conference)

 

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Environmental movement | Earth Science Vital Signs

Environmental protection | The Commons


Intro/GreenPolicy360 Siterunner:


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Steve Schmidt


For some 40+ years your GreenPolicy360 siterunner has worked in many varied ways to get the word out on the crucial importance of environmental security. From the first Earth Day to the first 1977-78 warnings from the new committee of science with the push from Congressman George E. Brown, through various career incarnations I have attempted to 'work the message', gathering (curating as it's now called) the best science and writing up and sharing key strategies and goals even against the odds. The risks we have identified and shared have now turned into a crisis.

Perhaps it is human nature to be overwhelmed, or what my teacher Hannah Arendt described in the 'Human Condition' as the realms of labor, work, and action. Many choose to go along to get along, and not act when the threats grow extreme, even existential. But to those who take the chance to make a difference and stand up and do your best to make changes that change the world for the better, I salute you for your bravery.

Now comes another warning from the international science community. This warning is dire. The latest news looms to such an extent as to be overwhelming, depressing and potentially driving us toward resignation and inaction, but it should not prevent us from action as Michael E. Mann's latest book, 'The Fight to Take Back Our Planet' argues persuasively.

Act with hope and not fear. Earth is in our hands. Take in the news, consider the science, then in your own way, act.

Act to make a positive difference. Don't give up, never give up.


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Democracy 360

Protecting Freedom, Protecting Rights, Protecting Democracy Nation-by-Nation


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Democracy


December 2023
Washington Post Editorial Board:
โ€œThe worldโ€™s democracies should create a system to fight back that can speak plainly and consistently about the inherent advantages of democratic systems, while admitting the imperfections, and use creative ways to illuminate the flaws and depredations of authoritarian regimes.โ€
* https://wapo.st/3TyP9iU


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GreenPolicy360:

On the Merits, Facts Count


Make Your Argument, Your Opinion, Your Case -- On the Merits



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Get Smart, Scholarly


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A 21st Century AI/Machine Learning Case Study

Toolformer: Language Models Can Teach Themselves to Use Tools


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Learning, Teaching, Living, Acting with Green Values

Acting to Make a Difference


Short Circuiting Policy

Interest Groups and the Battle Over Clean Energy and Climate Policy in the American States


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NOAA scientists harness machine learning to advance climate models

March 1st, 2023


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


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.


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Leah Stokes, a Young Planet Citizen from UCSB, the University of California, Santa Barbara

Much more than an academic with a PhD from MIT


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GreenPolicy360: We're Into Earth Science

We believe in 'critical thinking skills'


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Stardust Origins

Cosmos: A Personal Voyage


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In passing ...

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The greatest of mysteries, on to the Cosmos ... 1996


Our Planet Connection, the Science and the Threats: Carl Sagan explains in 1990


Carl Sagan talks about the 'big picture', about life, about threats to life, carbon dioxide, greenhouse gases, global warming... across national boundaries


Look at how thin our atmosphere is | The Commons | Earth Right Now


In 1990, at an Emerging Issues Forum, Carl Sagan explains why we must be aware and act now to protect life on Earth

Solving the serious emerging problem of climate change requires 'transnational' cooperation to realize and confront the coming climate crisis


Planet Citizens | Planet Citizens, Planet Scientists


GreenPolicy360: Watch & listen carefully to Carl Sagan's one hour+ tour de force speech


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E.O. Wilson, Planet Citizen:

He discovered hundreds of new species by putting his hands in the dirt as a field biologist, synthesized evolving thinking in science and coined new terms, such as biodiversity and biophilia, to explain it. Of his many accomplishments in evolutionary biology, his biggest contribution was probably in the new scientific field of sociobiology, in which he addressed the biological basis of social behavior in animals, including humans.


E.O. Wilson: His 2006 book "The Creation: An Appeal to Save Life on Earth," a series of letters written to an imaginary Baptist preacher in pursuit of an ecological alliance to save the Earth.


E.O. Wilson: Naturalist dubbed a modern-day Darwin, dies at 92


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William McDonough: Planet Citizen


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William McDonough Waging Peace Through Commerce

Designing the first โ€œgreen officeโ€ in New York for the Environmental Defense Fund

Work that to the formation of the US Green Building Council

Cradle to Cradle: Building to Inspire the Next Generation

Cradle to Cradle: The Book, Remaking the Way We Make Things

Cradle-to-Cradle Design: Creating Healthy Emissionsโ€”A Strategy for Eco-Effective Product and System Design

The Hannover Principles Design for Sustainability (https://www.academia.edu/8123529/The_Hannover_Principles_Design_for_Sustainability Download PDF)


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Climate Change Impacts to Hit Sooner than Predicted

Climate change will fundamentally reshape life on Earth in the coming decades, even if humans can tame planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions, according to a landmark draft report from the UN's climate science advisors obtained by AFP.

Species extinction, more widespread disease, unliveable heat, ecosystem collapse, cities menaced by rising seasโ€”these and other devastating climate impacts are accelerating and bound to become painfully obvious before a child born today turns 30.

The choices societies make now will determine whether our species thrives or simply survives as the 21st century unfolds, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) says in a draft report seen exclusively by AFP.

But dangerous thresholds are closer than once thought, and dire consequences stemming from decades of unbridled carbon pollution are unavoidable in the short term.

"The worst is yet to come, affecting our children's and grandchildren's lives much more than our own."


Crushing Climate Impacts: Draft UN report

PARIS (AFP) / June 23, 2021 - Climate change will fundamentally reshape life on Earth in the coming decades, even if humans can tame planet-warming greenhouse gas emissions, according to a landmark draft report from the UN's climate science advisers obtained by Agence France-Presse.

Species extinction, more widespread disease, unliveable heat, ecosystem collapse, cities menaced by rising seas - these and other devastating climate impacts are accelerating and bound to become painfully obvious before a child born today turns 30.

The choices societies make now will determine whether our species thrives or simply survives as the 21st century unfolds, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) says in a draft report seen exclusively by AFP...


"The worst is yet to come, affecting our children's and grandchildren's lives much more than our own," the report says.

By far the most comprehensive catalogue ever assembled of how climate change is upending our world, the report reads like a 4,000-page indictment of humanity's stewardship of the planet.

But the document, designed to influence critical policy decisions, is not scheduled for release until February 2022 - too late for crunch UN summits this year on climate, biodiversity and food systems...


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Speed & Scale Action Plan


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Every Day Is Earth Day


Earth Day 2020

GreenPolicy360 Siterunner: Memories of the First Earth Day


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The Original Mission Statement of NASA (1958) provided Congressional intent and guidance to the first generation of space programs. GreenPolicy360's founder heard Congressman George E. Brown Jr speak often of the 'home planet' earth science mission ...

From the original NASA space program Mission Statement:

โ€œTo understand and protect our home planet; to explore the universe and search for life; to inspire the next generation of explorers ... as only NASA can.โ€


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Strategies of Resilience & Survival


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Planet Citizen Vision of Living Earth


โ—‹ "There is no wisdom that is not related to earth, or does not partake of its nature."

-- Marjory Stoneman Douglas


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Greening Our Blue Planet


New Visions of Security in a Changing World
Environmental Security & National Security

 


Visit GreenPolicy360's associate, Strategic Demands

www.strategicdemands.com


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On the Horizon / Strategic Demands

 

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In Memory of Planet Citizen Konrad Steffen

Renowned climate scientist dies in Greenland ice sheet accident


In 2017, Konrad Steffen talks about the Polar Research Station, climate change and the Greenland landscape


Past the 'Point of No Return', the Tipping Point in Greenland


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Earth in Our Hands

 

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Planet Citizen Action


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Facing the Climate Crisis


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Yes We Can (Leave the World a Better Place)

 


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Planet Citizen Action

 

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Personal action... Direct action...
Planet Citizens, Positive Change

 

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Green Network, GreenLinks action
Going Green, #GreenNetworking
GreenLinks @ GreenPolicy360

 


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Nonviolent Action in Practice
198 Ways to Act, Count 'em
File:Methods of Nonviolent Action.pdf

 


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Thinking Global

'Global Forever' Stamps


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Stepping It Up


Climate Activists & Green Organizers: California Builds Bridges to Extend International Cooperation

Global Climate Action Summit


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In Memory of a Florida "Planet Citizen"


Nathaniel Reed, environmental advocate and co-author of the Endangered Species Act, dies at 84


Via the Tampa Bay Times / Craig Pittman

Nathaniel "Nat" Reed, 84, a Hobe Sound resident whose childhood ardor for Floridaโ€™s natural wonders led to him becoming a tireless crusader for the environment, died in a Quebec hospital Wednesday, according to his family.

In a long career spent both in and out of government service, Mr. Reed co-wrote the Endangered Species Act, helped stop the construction of the worldโ€™s largest airport in the Big Cypress Swamp, and later founded the group 1,000 Friends of Florida...



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Stephen Hawking / "Planet Citizen"


"Here lies what was mortal of Stephen Hawking 1942 - 2018"

June 15, 2018 / More than 1,000 people gathered today for a memorial service in London for theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking whose ashes were buried between graves of Darwin and Newton at Westminster Abbey...


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A Last(ing) Editorial from Professor Hawking...

https://www.unlimited.world/ubs/stephen-hawking-in-memoriam


This is the most dangerous time for our planet

by Stephen Hawking

Via The Guardian


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"My perceptions of the world shifted"


Aboard the International Space Station. Ride along with Planet Citizen astronauts.

Experience the Whole Earth and see our home planet through their eyes...



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Planet Citizen on a Spacewalk

Mike Massimino


"This is what heaven must look like... I felt like I was looking into a paradise" ... He sounds dramatic, religious, maybe Italian like his name.

Or maybe a green evangelical environista'.

Floating high, Starchild...


#PlanetCitizen


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NASA / In the beginning, big ideas required big rockets. Now, we can launch satellites that fit in the palm of our hand.

Discover how by watching this video



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Orphans No More, Sheldrick Wildlife Trust


Conservation Policies vs. Hunting 'Trophies', Poaching, and Destruction of Species


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February 22, 2018, the beginning of a SpaceX planet-network
SpaceX's ultimate goal is to provide gigabit broadband worldwide


"Starlink, Planet Internet"



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HelloEarth โ—‹ Earth 'Dailies' via DSCOVR-EPIC


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Before there was the Internet, and the World Wide Web, before there was a Digital Revolution, Streaming Data, Wireless and Wired Media always on 24/7/365, there was Hanna warning us about 'Gleichschaltung', the 'coordination process', and how lies are spread ...

The Authoritarian state of mind, the methods and techniques, were being called out for what they were and are as Hannah Arendt looked back at 20th Century conditions that brought on war across the planet.

Arendt warns of conditions that continue to this day...

Disinformation - Online - Dangerous


Hannah Arendt made the following comments in 1974 during an interview with the French writer Roger Errera.


Totalitarianism

Totalitarianism begins in contempt for what you have. The second step is the notion: โ€œThings must changeโ€”no matter how, Anything is better than what we have.โ€ Totalitarian rulers organize this kind of mass sentiment, and by organizing it articulate it, and by articulating it make the people somehow love it. They were told before, thou shalt not kill; and they didnโ€™t kill. Now they are told, thou shalt kill; and although they think itโ€™s very difficult to kill, they do it because itโ€™s now part of the code of behavior. They learn whom to kill and how to kill and how to do it together. This is the much talked about Gleichschaltungโ€”the coordination process. You are coordinated not with the powers that be, but with your neighborโ€”coordinated with the majority. But instead of communicating with the other you are now glued to him. And you feel of course marvelous. Totalitarianism appeals to the very dangerous emotional needs of people who live in complete isolation and in fear of one another.


Hannah Arendt - If, everybody lies to you, if everybody always lies to you, the consequence is not that you believe the lies, but rather that nobody believes anything any longerโ€ฆAnd a people that can no longer believe anything, cannot make up its mind. It is deprived, not only of its capacity to act, but also of its capacity to think and to judge. And with such a people, you can then do what you please.


Lies

The moment we no longer have a free press, anything can happen. What makes it possible for a totalitarian or any other dictatorship to rule is that people are not informed; how can you have an opinion if you are not informed? If everybody always lies to you, the consequence is not that you believe the lies, but rather that nobody believes anything any longer. This is because lies, by their very nature, have to be changed, and a lying government has constantly to rewrite its own history. On the receiving end you get not only one lieโ€”a lie which you could go on for the rest of your daysโ€”but you get a great number of lies, depending on how the political wind blows. And a people that no longer can believe anything cannot make up its mind. It is deprived not only of its capacity to act but also of its capacity to think and to judge. And with such a people you can then do what you please.


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Time for Facts, Fact Checking, Reasoned Judgment & Thoughtfulness


Vita Contemplativa / Vita Activa


Green 'Vita Activa'

Stay aware, Be thoughtful, Act with knowledge and wisdom


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Planet Citizens, Digital Rights @GreenPolicy360



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On the Eve of Destruction


U.S. Signals Nuclear Arms Are Back (Again!) in a Big Way



"Surviving Victory":

Moving Away from "Perpetual War"


Shifting from Fossil Fuel Causes of Conflict to Renewable Energy Alternatives


"Strategic Demands, a 21st Century Vision"

Survival Strategies, Security Priorities



New Definitions of National Security


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International Climate Conference Updates

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United States only country to refuse climate change agreement


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Changes/Turnarounds at the US Energy Department

Via 'The Hill' / Resisting the Trump-Perry Agenda

Technological change and market forces are making clean energy competitive with dirty fossil and nuclear energy, helped along by small tax credits (which are nonetheless dwarfed by much larger fossil fuel and nuclear subsidies).

Coal-fired power generation capacity has decreased, nuclear capacity has stagnated, and even natural gas capacity has barely ticked upward โ€” while solar and wind capacity have grown by double digits. Plus, according to Perry's own department, wind and solar now employ hundreds of thousands more Americans than older industries like coal.

Together with impressive advances in energy storage and smart grid technology, those trends are reducing the need for a large baseload capacity by making it possible to store renewable energy and distribute it wherever it's needed.


Renewable Energy @ GreenPolicy

www.netzeropolicy.com


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Climate Change Laws Around the World

Trends in Climate Change Legislation


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Continuing Cutbacks at US Environmental Protection Agency


Citing the Bible, the EPA Just 'Blew Up' Its Science Advisory Boards


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Fire Scientists, Shut Down Advisory Panels, Remove Data

Slice and Dice, Hack and Chop, Delete and Disappear the Climate Language
Trump admin has hidden or taken offline 40,000 data sets that used to be public
EPA dismisses half of key boardโ€™s scientific advisers; Interior suspends more than 200 advisory panels
Government Failure: Order to shut down access to data services


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Environmental Protection Agency Open Being 'Data-Edited'?

https://opendata.epa.gov/home.xhtml?view
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https://catalog.data.gov/dataset?q=environment
https://twitter.com/hashtag/EPAdata


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The Physics of Climate Change/Global Warming


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You Can Run from the Facts, but the Facts Are What They Are

March to Support Science: Facts Matter


Stats - Green Research & Science


Carl Sagan, Planet Citizen, Lecture Notes for Astronomy 490 Class at the Smithsonian Museum

https://cdn.loc.gov/service/mss/mss85590/033/033.pdf
https://www.loc.gov/item/cosmos000035/


The 'Pale Blue Dot'

https://www.loc.gov/item/cosmos000110/ (Recording)


March for Science

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_for_Science
https://satellites.marchforscience.com/
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Earth and Space, Politics


GreenPolicy360 & StrategicDemands.com advocating for --

New Definitions of National Security


"New Definitions of National Security"

"Look at how thin our atmosphere is"


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Earth Science Research from Space


Radiant Earth Project


Open geospatial data for positive global impact, and improved decision-making

Over the past five years the number of operational satellites has jumped 40%, and nearly 1,400 now orbit the Earth.

This number could more than double over the next five years as satellites become smaller, lighter and more affordable.

Satellites collecting data and monitoring the Earth

Applications are far reaching - from tracking plant health through chlorophyll to gauging the impact of natural disasters and the surveillance of illegal logging.

India recently participated in the launch of 104 satellites โ€” 101 of them for foreign companies and agencies - in a single mission as part of its strategic bid for a bigger share of the $300 billion global space industry.

Experts at the Seattle summit said the multiple launch, described as a world record by its space agency, was also significant because 88 were shoebox-sized Dove satellites launched by Planet, a San Francisco-based private satellite operator founded by former NASA scientists.

The constellation of small satellites will, once settled into orbit in six months' time, will photograph the entire Earth every day.

"Satellite imagery might be one of the most powerful and unbiased tools to tell people what is going on with the planet", explains Albert Lin, Research Scientist at the University of California, San Diego.

The key, he said, lay in finding ways to translate enormous amounts of information into something that can be understood by everyone.

This means finding ways of sorting and interlinking the trillions of bits of data sent to Earth and re-construct them into readable, digital and sometimes 3D models.

In some cases, data can be analyzed with the help of communities of "citizen scientists sitting alone at their computers all over the world."

"This is a wake-up call that satellite imagery is not just about questions and insights but also about engaging the entire planet in observing the planet, together."


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Press Release / March 23, 2017

Actions to Protect Earth Science/Climate Data

Records Requests Seek to Preserve Hundreds of Data Sets on Wildlife, Oil Industry, Climate Change, Sea-level Rise

WASHINGTON โ€” The Center for Biological Diversity, along with noted conservation biologist Stuart Pimm and the Center for Media and Democracy, launched an effort today to prevent hundreds of environmental data sets on government websites from being removed by the Trump administration.

To preserve or resurrect what has already been removed by the administration, the centers and Dr. Pimm submitted three separate Freedom of Information Act requests for data sets to eight federal agencies: the Army Corps of Engineers, the Council on Environmental Quality, the Environmental Protection Agency, NASA and the departments of agriculture, commerce, energy and interior.

Under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), when federal agencies receive requests for the same records three or more times, they must make the records freely available to the public on their websites, a rule known as โ€œthe Beetlejuice provision.โ€

โ€œBy removing or hiding hundreds of data sets [PDF] containing critical information about the climate, wildlife and the health of our oceans, Trump and his cronies are blatantly trying to conceal the truth from the American people,โ€ said Amy Atwood, a senior attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity. โ€œThankfully our scientists have the Freedom of Information Act to keep this vital information in the light of day.โ€

Todayโ€™s legal requests seek hundreds of data sets on energy usage, renewables, oil and gas projections, coal reserves, climate data, sea-level rise, human population, environmental justice and the status of scores of endangered and threatened species and other wildlife. More specifically, they seek information relating to conservation of aquatic systems, residential energy consumption and Endangered Species Act โ€œSection 7โ€ consultations, a step taken by federal agencies to avoid jeopardizing listed species.

Media outlets have reported on the loss and vulnerability of federal data relating to some of todayโ€™s most pressing environmental issues, pointing out the disappearance of data sets from agency websites under the Trump administration and documenting scientistsโ€™ efforts to save them.

โ€œThe U.S. government produces and maintains some of the most important information that scientists use in their research,โ€ said Dr. Stuart Pimm, a Duke University professor and research scientist โ€” and a founder of conservation biology โ€” and the second requester of data. โ€œAlong with the Herculean efforts of volunteer scientists around the country, Iโ€™m doing what I can to protect this information because itโ€™s critical these data remain available to academic institutions for scientists and future generations.โ€



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Memories of George Brown, a Planet Citizen Who Envisioned an Environmental Renaissance

Remembering the 'start-up' of the environmental movement and the first US environmental laws... founding legal precedents many of which came from forward-looking green visionaries like your GreenPolicy siterunner's friend and mentor, George, who passed away suddenly in 1999.

Rep. George E. Brown, Calif

George's decades of work in Congress in air quality/clean air, water and the founding of the EPA highlighted the era's achievement... George was out in front in "big science" -- his profound accomplishments are esp missed now as anti-science positions threaten in the current US Congress


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Astronauts Sam Cristoforetti, Ron Garan, and "Overview Effect"


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Yes, to Italian "Astro Sam" and her #HelloEarth views and messages to us here on the home Planet.

And we greatly appreciate the newest from Astronaut Ron Garan as his interactive project "Orbital Perspective" is published this week. Some 45 years ago, near the end of December 1968 and beginning of an auspicious 1969, we began seeing the Apollo 8 mission's first-ever images of our "whole earth". It's not overstating to say - these images from above changed everything. These pictures from space looking back at Earth, taken as Apollo circled around the moon, carried realizations with the images -- that together we are planet citizens.


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We welcomed a perspective that no human had ever had.

January 1969 was an eye-opener as the images of Earth were broadcast. We celebrated the images and our place in the cosmos even as we, the planet and our populations, were in the midst of violent war and troubled times.

Today, the famous Earthrise photo rekindles our memory, and the serendipity of how the Apollo 8 crew was lucky that day as, looking out their window, the Earth suddenly came into view. There was no "mission plan" to take Earth photos and the astronauts scrambled to get to a camera, put in film and shoot a few frames. They were in awe, they said, and fortune was in play that day. There we were, us, Earth. In the Earthrise images our space traveling planet citizens captured a realization of our wholeness, connectedness, and our shared future as together we spin thru space.

Later, the Apollo 17 mission, as the program was coming to its end, brought home the "Blue Marble" photograph, the first complete 360ยฐ image of our planet, a high-res Earth described as the most reproduced photo in history. It is the first photograph taken of the whole round Earth and still is only one of the whole earth ever snapped by a human being. Of the two living astronauts, Cernan and Schmitt, who believe they were the photographer who took the photo, here is how one describes his view.... Whichever astronaut of the three aboard Apollo 17 who snapped the picture, what is most memorable is Earth360:

"You have to literally just pinch yourself and ask yourself the question, silently: Do you know where you are at this point in time and space, and in reality and in existence, when you can look out the window and you're looking at the most beautiful star in the heavens -- the most beautiful because it's the one we understand and we know, it's home, it's people, family, love, life -- and besides that it is beautiful. You can see from pole to pole and across oceans and continents and you can watch it turn and there's no strings holding it up, and it's moving in a blackness that is almost beyond conception."


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The sense of awe, an Earth point of view, has continued to be communicated by astronauts since and has continued to be shared, more recently with high tech ways to see and experience our Earth as planetary citizens as we see from the International Space Station. The term "Overview Effect" begins to share the experience.

We celebrate our Planet Citizens who bring home messages how we can collaborate to make a difference, to make the world a better place.

Ron Garan: "You donโ€™t need to be an astronaut to have the orbital perspective"...

"When we look down at the earth from space, we see this amazing, indescribably beautiful planet. It looks like a living, breathing organism. But it also, at the same time, looks extremely fragile... Anybody else who's ever gone to space says the same thing because it really is striking and it's really sobering to see this paper-thin layer and to realize that that little paper-thin layer is all that protects every living thing on Earth from death, basically. From the harshness of space."

"The Goal is to bring people along on our space missions not as spectators but as fellow crew mates." -- http://www.rongaran.com/gallery/

"It is truly moving to look at Earth from space. And when we do โ€“ we also have the privilege of sharing this orbital perspective with people back on our planet. We are all riding through the universe together on this spaceship we call Earth, we are all interconnected, we are all in this together. We are all family."


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Planet citizen Naomi Klein, "This Changes Everything"

Speaking @ the Bioneers conference, 2014


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Bill McKibben, founder of www.350.org, planet citizen, and former advisor to our GreenPolicy new venture.

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Bill_McKibben,_planet_citizen


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GreenPolicy360 highlights Rebecca Moore

Rebecca envisioned setting up "Google Earth Outreach", she envisioned it, presented the idea, and, as a citizen of the planet, she took a great idea into reality!


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Pope Francis, the first Catholic pontiff to name himself after the patron saint of the environment

Catholic pontiff speaks of the environment


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Winona LaDuke, Native-American environmentalist, economist, ecofeminist and writer.

In 1996 and 2000, Winona ran for Vice President as the nominee of the Green Party of the United States, on a ticket headed by Ralph Nader.


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Rebecca Solnit

"There are really only two questions for activists: what do you want to achieve? And who do you want to be? And those two questions are deeply entwined...
Every minute of every hour of every day you are making the world, just as you are making yourself, and you might as well do it with generosity and kindness and style. That is the small ongoing victory on which great victories can be built, and you do want victories, don't you?"


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January 2017


Green Stories of the Day, Become a Planet Citizen, Join with Planet Citizens Around the Globe


GreenPolicy360 Stories of the Day


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Watching the Arctic Thaw


The US and Russia, Exxon and Rosneft, Attempt Political Drive to Launch Historic Gas/Oil Drilling in the Arctic

Consequences and Costs Only Beginning to Be Estimated


Visit GreenPolicy's Arctic Page for Updates


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Hear ye, Hear ye

A 'Planet Citizen', California Governor Jerry Brown steps up at the AGU to deliver a speech for the times


All Hands on Deck

Eyes open, stay sharp, on alert

Americaโ€™s science community is getting organised as never before to hold the new administration and Congress to account


To Andrew Revkin, 'Planet Citizen Reporter' as he signs out at Dot Earth & moves on to ProPublica

Andrew Revkin to Join ProPublica as Senior Reporter on Climate Change

A Dot Earth Farewell


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www.thinbluelayer.com


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StrategicDemands.com: Time for New Definitions of National Security


The Military and Climate Security Budgets Compared

The U.S. militaryโ€™s latest National Security Strategy says that climate change is โ€œan urgent and growing threat to our national security, contributing to increased natural disasters, refugee flows, and conflicts over basic resources like food and water.โ€

What they donโ€™t say is that the overall balance of U.S. security spending should be adjusted to fit that assessment. And we know less about how much we are spending on this urgent threat than we used to, since the federal government hasnโ€™t produced a climate security budget since 2013.

In this new report, Combat vs. Climate, the Institute for Policy Studies steps in to provide the most accurate climate change security budget currently available, drawing data from multiple agencies. And it looks at how these expenditures stack up within the overall 'security budget.'


Report: Combat Vs. Climate

http://www.ips-dc.org/report-combat-vs-climate/

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Planet Citizens in Action: Update: 2018, Leonardo DiCaprio


Reefscape
Satellite Doves to Aid Coral Conservation
Planet API


To gather a more comprehensive understanding of the condition of global reef ecosystems, we need a way to assess and monitor them on a large geographic scale.
The Reefscape project aims to improve our understanding of the condition of coral reefs worldwide, while simultaneously developing spectral libraries needed to advance the development of a new satellite mission.
New satellites, such as those from Planet (formerly Planet Labs), are, as of 2017, able to capture near-daily imagery of coral reefs worldwide. Planetโ€™s high-resolution imagery of reef locations provides new imaging, science and understanding of the composition and extent of shallow, horizontally oriented reefs.


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Before the Flood Documentary
Hollywood Reporter Review
Leonardo DiCaprio Oscar Speech


Planet Citizens & Bioneers

Bioneers Lyons, Kucinich, DiCaprio
Fellow Planet Citizens-Bioneers / Leo's close friend, Oren Lyons, Chief of the Onondaga Iroquois
Oren Lyons - "We Are Part of the Earth" (Video / 7:38)
Speaking to the Seventh Generation
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Remembering Rachel, Planet Citizen

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"Eco-nomics" for the 21st Century

  • A Necessary Challenge to Neoliberal Economics
  • A Shift from Short-term Profits to Resilient, Sustainable Economies


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Stephen Hawking on ITV (and PBS)

"Runaway climate change... A rise in ocean temperature would melt the ice-caps... with catastrophic effects." #AGW #CAGW


Often referred to as an Einstein of our current era, Stephen Hawking points to "runaway climate change" as a profound threat to global security. In the same (labored) breath, he communicates a profound warning re: the other existential threat he sees -- nuclear weapons. At Strategic Demands the escalating threat of nuclear weapons is revealed and tracked -- as Cold War 2.0.


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Elon Musk & Co
Renewable Energy: Beyond Tesla with #PlanetCitizen


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Another Record for the Hottest Year


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Climate Change Denial in Motion

Defenders of Fossil Fuel Business-as-Usual Push Defense

Via Inside Climate News

August 31, 2016 - The chairman of the House Science Committee has announced a hearing next month into the refusal by two state attorneys general to comply with subpoenas seeking information on their investigations into ExxonMobil...


US House Science Committee Acts to Defend ExxonMobile Against Attorneys General

ExxonMobile Faces Multi-state AG Investigation


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Politics: US Democratic Party Platcom Meetings

Democratic Party environmental positions voted into platform

Update from the Democratic Party Platform Hearing on Environmental/Climate Issues

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Via George Monbiot

August 3, 2016 -- This (year), on current trends, will be the hottest year ever measured. The previous record was set in 2015; the one before in 2014. Fifteen of the 16 warmest years have occurred in the 21st century. Each of the past 14 months has beaten the global monthly temperature record. But you can still hear people repeating the old claim, first proposed by fossil fuel lobbyists, that global warming stopped in 1998. Arctic sea ice covered a smaller area last winter than in any winter since records began...

If you blinked you would have missed the reports, but perhaps the most striking aspect of the Democratic platform (the partyโ€™s manifesto) approved in Philadelphia last week was its position on climate change. Hillary Clintonโ€™s campaign now promises a national and global mobilisation โ€œon a scale not seen since World War IIโ€. She will seek to renegotiate trade deals to protect the living world, to stop oil drilling in the Arctic and Atlantic, and to ensure the US is โ€œrunning entirely on clean energy by mid-centuryโ€.

There are some crashing contradictions in the platform. To judge by one bizarre paragraph, the Democrats believe they can solve climate change by expanding roads and airports. It boasts about record sales in the car industry and promises to cut โ€œred tapeโ€, which is the term used by corporate lobbyists for the public protections they hate. But where it is good it is very good, reflecting the influence of Bernie Sanders and the nominees he proposed to the drafting committee.

Donald Trump, on the other hand โ€“ well, what did you expect? Climate change is a โ€œcon-jobโ€ and a โ€œhoaxโ€ that was โ€œcreated by and for the Chinese in order to make US manufacturing non-competitiveโ€.

His manifesto reads like a love letter to the coal industry. Coal, it says, โ€œis an abundant, clean, affordable, reliable domestic energy resourceโ€. He will defend the industry by rejecting the Paris agreement, stopping funds for the UNโ€™s climate change work, ditching President Obamaโ€™s clean power plan and forbidding the Environmental Protection Agency from regulating carbon dioxide.


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Warning Signs: Warming Oceans and the Great Barrier Reef


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Earth Day / Countries Signing Climate Action Plans

Paris Agreement Signatures Today at the UN in New York

Via Mother Jones - Something Genuinely Good for the Earth Is Happening on Earth Day

175 Nations Sign on Earth Day


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Solar Energy / EVs / ZEVs / NextGen Trans


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A Question of Questions

A multi-language 'Thank You' to Planet Citizens: ~ Sylvia Earle, ~ Bill McKibben and ~ Elon Musk

 

Planet Citizen/Climate Citizen News

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Polls: Planet citizens & global citizenship

'Global citizenship' on Upward Trend


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Remembering Bucky & Yes, we are on 'Spaceship Earth'

Buckminster Fuller, who helped to open our eyes to the big picture


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After a Year in Space, Scott Kelly Says: I'm an Environmentalist

"The Earth is a beautiful planet. It's practically everything to us. It's very important to our survival, and the Space Station is a great vantage point to observe it, and to share our planet in pictures," Kelly said during a press conference on his return from the International Space Station.

His photos earned him a wide social media following as he gazed down on everything from smog-choked cities to spiraling hurricanes and typhoons.

"You notice how the atmosphere looks and how fragile it looks," Kelly said. "It makes you more of an environmentalist after spending so much time looking down at our planet."

Overview Effect

Kelly now holds the NASA record for the most days in space as an American astronaut and is currently undergoing a battery of medical tests along with his twin brother, former astronaut Mark Kelly in order to help NASA learn more about how the human body changes throughout long-duration stays in space.


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Back in the USA: Climate Politics

"US Supreme Court's order blocking President Obamaโ€™s plan to cut emissions from coal-burning power plants is unprecedented step and one of the most environmentally harmful decisions ever made by the nationโ€™s highest court"


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Tiny Blue Green


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"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 Oceanโ€™s Are One" by Sylvia Earle
Visit GreenPolicy360's new site, proposed and co-designed by 14 yr old Olivia Schmidt
Oh Phyto!! -- the Zooplankton Keep On Hanging On & Drifting Along with You!!
Planet Citizens, Planet Scientists
~ www.tinybluegreen.com


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Thin Blue Layer

Remembering an Astronaut who was one of the first to look back at Planet Earth and our thin, fragile atmosphere
Astronaut Mitchell telling us how profoundly beautiful -- and in danger -- our world was from his 'Planet Overview'


February 4, 2016 ... In memory of Edgar Mitchell
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One of Mitchell's last interviews -- "In the big picture... we are stardust, this was a wow experience...
as we were coming home... where you see things in their natural state... a feeling of oneness"


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Climate Agreement In Paris

Renewable Energy Investment Growth


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"Toward a Renewable Energy Future:" Implementing the 'INDCs'

GreenPolicy's list of Countries & Climate Action INDC Plans

Moving Beyond the Goals in Each Nation's INDC-Climate Plan


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A Generation's Challenge

Renewables ---- 'Decarbonizing' ---- Transitioning to Clean Energy Globally


In Paris for the Climate Summit

Paris Climate Agreement: Moments

Falling Short on Climate in Paris

What the Paris conference on climate change can do for planet Earth


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Chris Mooney/Washington Post after the Paris Agreement

What happens next?


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November

Road to Paris

Global Climate March - News/Actions

Paris marches rescheduled -- 2,000+ worldwide climate change events ready-to-go ... 175+ Countries

Events/Locations 350.org #ClimateMarch

Paris Climate Summit, Opening Nov 30 - Information Hub

Agenda -- Meetings -- Schedule

Important: Legal forms for Paris climate agreement


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Join In, Act, Follow, Be Out in Front

It's Your Breathing Planet

#climateaction
#COP21
#INDCs
#climatechange


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Eco-disaster viewed from satellite


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DSCOVR/EPIC

Visit EarthPOV for Latest News

EarthPOV.com

A million mile view


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"Northern Lights over Alaska"

--- 2015, photo by Astronaut Scott Kelly from the International Space Station


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Environmental Security: a Planet Citizen Vision

Climate Summit / Road to Paris

UN / Climate Plans "Synthesis Report" -- Oct 30


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2020 Update: From Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac


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Christiana Figueres @CFigueres

Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change


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UN Climate Action @UNFCCC

October 19, 2015
Opening plenary of the latest @UN climate negotiations
#ADP2
#ADP2 session... steps toward Paris... Focus!
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Follow @UNFCCC

#COP21 #INDCs #climatechange #climateaction


UN Conferences / Eyes on the Future


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"We can commit to do more."

- Gavin Schmidt, NASA Goddard climate science director


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Oct 20, 2015
150 countries representing approx 90% of worldโ€™s carbon emissions have filed pledges


@ GreenPolicy, Review Climate Action National Plans/INDCs

Which Countries Are Doing the Most?

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@ GreenPolicy, 2015 UN Climate Change Conference


The International Climate Conference in Paris


We Mean Business on Climate Change


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Historic Earth Images from the DSCOVR Mission

GreenPolicy assists the NASA mission team

December 2015


First images of Moon and Earth from DSCOVR-EPIC


Planet Citizens, DSCOVR and the New Blue Marble

Planet Earth, the first whole Earth image since the original Blue Marble image taken by Apollo 17 in 1972.


GreenPolicy360 assisted in the release of these historic online views of Earth, made available in near real time, in coordination with Dr. Szabo and the NASA/NOAA DSCOVR project team.

"The high quality of the EPIC images exceeded all of our expectations in resolution," said Adam Szabo, DSCOVR project scientist at NASAโ€™s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. "The images clearly show desert sand structures, river systems and complex cloud patterns. There will be a huge wealth of new data for scientists to explore."


#Earth360 Updates

Planet Citizen will be assisting in delivering NASA/NOAA DSCOVR/EPIC data and imagery

The Planet Citizen site will be expanding to highlight the new DSCOVR products and EPIC whole earth images

In addition to a new NASA DSCOVR/EPIC website in development and a selection of #โ€ŽEarth360โ€ฌ images planned to be made available online daily beginning in August, there will be unprecedented accompanying data/imagery made avail for โ€ช#โ€ŽEarthScienceโ€ฌ and climate/atmospheric monitoring.

The following is from a NASA Goddard communication, March 11th to us @PlanetCitizen, discussing additional calibrated data products to come from DSCOVR...

>The individual 10 different wavelength EPIC data will be served from the Atmospheric Science Data Center (ASDC) at Langley (https://eosweb.larc.nasa.gov) Once we will be active, on the left side of this page DSCOVR will appear as a project. Clicking on it will give you a list of available products...

The DSCOVR satellite with its EPIC cam, PlasMag & NISTAR instrument package... is on a million mile journey and in approx four months, DSCOVR will "light up", be tested, and begin delivering data to Earth. In its historic mission, DSCOVR and its EPIC imaging system will begin sending near real-time images of the whole Earth... it has been many years since whole Earth images have been readily available...


It's been decades since December 7, 1972 when the only picture ever snapped by a human of the whole earth was captured -- our iconic "Blue Marble" Planet Earth. NASA engineers named the historic image -- AS17-148-22727'

As we have been recalling the history, we haven't had returned to us a 'whole earth' image since 1972. Today, the Associated Press reports Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Florida, pointing out from Washington that there hasn't been a "full, sunlit picture of the Earth since Apollo 17 in 1972 - NASA's last manned moon-landing mission". Subsequent images "have been stitched together", the Senator explained, for composite shots. The Florida Senator has an exceptional point of view re: this amazing fact, as he was an astronaut who flew on the Space Shuttle from Florida's "Space Coast". In January 1986, Nelson spent six days orbiting Earth as a payload specialist aboard space shuttle Columbia. His NASA bio adds "The experience gave him a new perspective on the Earthโ€™s fragile environment and a greater appreciation of the importance of our nationโ€™s space exploration program."

The DSCOVR satellite launches into deep orbit with multiple missions -- to monitor space weather and, due to the satellite's orbital distance from Earth (1 mil miles), DSCOVR will be sending back daily images of the whole earth via its EPIC image-taking system and via its NISTAR system measuring earth's earth's temperature, our "radiation balance" ("albedo").


"DSCOVR will be beaming back a steady stream of images of our home planet from space... with the images expected to be available online the next day."

"They'll be posted on a website for the public to see," said Steven Clarke, director of NASA's Joint Agency Satellite Division. "I think it will be an inspiration for people to see the sunlit disk of the Earth."


"Most impressive from DSCOVR will be the images of us, Planet Earth 360ยฐ. To see โ€ชand to experience #โ€ŽEarth360โ€ฌ daily, it's going to be a spectacular re-reminder of our place in the cosmos..." - Steven Schmidt โ€ช

Scientists will soon get a steady stream of data about how both the Earth and the Sun are doing, for years to come.

The livestream of our planet will inform, immerse and inspire. Online the images from DSCOVR and EPIC will deliver majestic new visions of our home planet.


For many Earth scientists, the centerpiece of the satellite is the National Institute of Standards Advanced Radiometer, or NISTAR, named for the Maryland-based government laboratory that designed it. The apparatus was built to shed light on Earthโ€™s โ€œradiation balanceโ€โ€”the radiation we receive from our sun minus the radiation we reflect back into space. The difference is retained by our planet as heat, and is calculated by measuring Earthโ€™s reflectivity, called the albedo. Data showing whether Earthโ€™s albedo is decreasing, meaning the atmosphere is retaining more heat because of greenhouse gases or other reasons, could be a significant piece of the climate puzzle.

What is revolutionary isnโ€™t the basic technology for tracking albedo โ€” it is measuring it from the million-mile perspective out at L1. Most satellites circle the planet at about one-thousandth of that distance, so their readings encompass only a small slice of land, a view that shifts rapidly as they circle the planet every two hours or so. Different climate zones โ€” ice caps, deserts, tropical forestsโ€”have different reflectivities, independent of the atmosphere, which needs to be factored in to the overall measurement; itโ€™s virtually impossible to create a whole-Earth portrait from a deck of low-orbit snapshots. โ€œBy the time you stitch together all the separate bits of data, the margin of error is too large to be useful,โ€ Dr. Asrar at NASA says.

DSCOVR is "like having a thermometer for the whole planet.โ€ Itโ€™s not a perfect gauge, NASAโ€™s Dr. Adam Szabo cautions. โ€œEarth isโ€ฆ a sphere that reflects light in all directions. So a measurement from any one point will not be the final word. But it will still be very important for the conversation about climate change.โ€


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New Ways to See and Experience Planet Earth


How Beautiful Planet Earth Is


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EARTH FROM ORBIT / VIDEO IN HD


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Watching Earth Roll By: On the International Space Station

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Visit Google Earth's 10th anniversary:

Journey with Voyager +

Introducing Voyager & Earth View


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Earthviews from Above

Remember "Earthrise"

Our "Blue Marble"

"The only home we've got..."


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Planet Labs 'Doves' fly from the ISS


Planet Labs & NanoRacks

Doves


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Planet Citizen: Elon

Consider how years ago now, NASA put out a call about launching services for the DSCOVR mission -- Guess who was one of those who replied? A young visionary dreaming of what could be, even before his SpaceX was ready to go... Elon Musk, becoming a planet citizen. He spoke of how the iconic whole earth "Blue Marble" photo of Earth had inspired him to dream and to move his technology plans toward a space & earth connection.


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Overview and Perspective

See and experience the Earth in new ways

The Overview Effect

Orbital Perspective


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#Earth360: The Overview


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As the New Year Dawns, Earth from Space


With appreciation ~ for the space experience and the wisdom of the Overview Effect

Overview

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From Above, beauty and awe...


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All Alone in the Night


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The View Outside My Window


Astronaut Alex Gerst: A 'Planet Citizen's' view of Earth...


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"Game changer"

Historic Orbiting Carbon Observatory Satellite Sends Back Most Detailed CO2 View Ever / Dec 18, 2014


OCO-2 begins to measure atmospheric CO2 levels with unprecedented science


The 'Initial Level 1 round' of data was made available to the public on Dec 30, 2014.


A full set of CO2 data is available in March for scientists and public "planet citizens" to download and explore


First OCO Data via Phys.org
Discover OCO
OCO @ Nature


Sample Data -- OCO-2 Data Portal


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For #PlanetCitizen gazing, visit the "Blue Marble" Collection

Security by Design, new definitions of national security to be found in environmental security, planning for global trends


You Are Here

And Here!


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Up Here, #EarthPOV

Earth's Observation's new website

Vid Watch

Look

Green Skies


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Earth: How are you?

@EarthVitalSigns
#EarthRightNow




About Planet Citizen

#PlanetCitizen #EarthPOV


SJS/GreenPolicy360 Siterunner:

In the 1960s in the US and globally a modern environmental movement was being created as first-ever visions of Planet Earth were sent from Apollo missions. The images of the Whole Earth in space changed perceptions in every nation. A realization of a common, shared home -- and responsibility to care for our home -- was born.

Soon political leaders stepped up, both looking backward and forward. A new field of science, earth science, began to spring up. In the US Congress, leaders like George Brown were saying no to war in Vietnam and Asia, and the Mideast, and no to nuclear weapons, while saying yes to a first generation of NASA earth science missions.

This was called 'Big Science' by some and 'its a critical mission' by others.

Rep. George E. Brown was out in front.

From the mid 1960s until his death in 1999, his work in Congress was instrumental in proposing, shaping, and protecting Big Science - Earth Science.


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Our new era of #Earth360 exploration, using the tools of the digital age and Internet connectivity, is making it possible to see and experience a connected, Planet Earth 360 and to begin studying life-enabling systems (and life-threatening changes) with means never before possible.

Space- and earth-based observation platforms are delivering "intelligence reports" in effect, strategic insights that can broaden our knowledge and perceptions of who we are and how we respond to our global, common future.

In unprecedented ways, intelligence about our planet's systems can be shared and networked via the worldwide web and a larger Internet, linking us together wherever our community and whatever our nation.

We look out at a critical, developing field of #EnvironmentalSecurity as a generation of Planet Citizen voyagers.


Generation Green


  • Planet Citizens and GreenPolicy hold a simple value proposition:


  • Cleaner air and water and food is a good thing. Reducing pollution is a necessary thing. Health of our environment is a vital thing.



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An API for the Planet

Planet API

Earth Imaging-New Space


www.Planet.com

Planet Labs Pulse

#PlanetLabs @Open Source Conference

With the Planet-Lab Platform, Connect to our Planet as Citizens of the Planet

Mission: Democratizing Access to Information About the Changing Planet


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Planet Labs/NYT

Launch of new Flock of Dove Satellites to Image Earth

Doves fly

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Planet Labs 'Dove' micro-satellites


"Rapid cadence imagery, like Planet Labs is developing, helps us become better, more sustainable stewards of Earth."


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Environmental Security @Strategic Demands

 

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21st Century definitions of national and international security

A realization that "Security is indivisible" is on the horizon and security definitions are changing as a result of the dynamics of interactive networks.

The sharing of information is creating a new science of networking. Information is being looked at as never before and #earthscience data is now being collected by networked computers across an interconnected world. In historic ways, open data is being publicly distributed far beyond the restrictive policies of previous times and closed-loop systems.

Today #earthsciences are at the cusp of a rich new world of information. As we share these new realizations, images, data, experiences and understandings, we can be certain of a new, growing awareness of our planet and our 'citizenship' together.

Even now, we have inklings of what is coming. Let's look at one called OCO-2. With the launch of OCO-2, a "game changer", in the summer of 2014, the data of #Earth360 will grow in unprecedented ways as this first orbiting observatory of global warming conditions takes to space and begins to report home - I am OCO-2

Although the Orbiting Carbon Observatory is just the beginning, the future of #earthscience from space is here as we see in new ways and observe our environment with new information never before accessible. Space-imaging is opening up amazing views, with 3D and big-screens and home theaters. Coming soon will be views beyond IMAX as companies like Virgin and SpaceX carry citizen travelers into orbit. Educational and scientific information about our communities is being shared, and linked to, and distributed around the Net. From space, the earth is borderless and with vision of the planet and common-good #biosphere and #ecosystem comes responsibility for our shared security.

On to first steps... We are all connected and wherever we are, geographically, nationally, we share common-ground and common-atmosphere. Let's look at our home and, with an "overview" from space, see the 'Big Picture' and let's look at the details, let's manage and sustain our earth resources and, as we go, look to our shared quality of life on the "only home we've ever known."


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Here's to our future and future of #Environmental Security


 

The Big Picture: Earth from Space

 

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Our world of is in flux.

The term "New Space" and "Democratization of Space" have come to represent a first generation of earth research and study from space by start up companies designing, building and launching small, mini- and micro-satellites.

New visions of Earth and new players are challenging the old system of governments that spend billions to explore, commercialize and militarize space.

Barriers to entry are being broken and young companies are launching flocks of satellite birds into space. Earth monitoring is going planetary and a next generation is at the forefront pushing to address threats to the environment.

Let's go there to this new world, not a "new world order" but a world that is being connected and is sharing, linking and seeing the bigger picture. The way we observe and 'feel' about our planet is changing in one generation.

Beginning with the first Whole Earth pictures relayed from the Apollo voyages to the Moon, we have for the first time in history experienced a vision of our planet from afar -- we are, we realize, a 'blue' oasis in space.

Now, nearly five decades after the original awe-inspiring Earthrise images from Apollo 8 were revealed, we find everyday citizens in every nation realizing our commonalities.

The Apollo mission helped us open our eyes and today we are seeing our planet and our place in the universe in new light, with new missions and and new possibilities to secure our environment for ages to come.


We are citizens of our common home, planet Earth.


Add your talent to the grand project of planet citizenship, of seeing with an EarthPOV so that we can make informed decisions and policy...

Observe, consider, act. NextGen #earthscience in an era of #climatechange and #globalsecurity challenges and opportunities...

Make a difference, join with GreenPolicy360's global work. In every community there are green groups at work.

Visit and use our GreenLinks to see a multi-colored, deep and diverse range of resources and friends of GreenPolicy.

It's time, your time to Go Green!  

www.planetaryawareness.org


Earth Right Now


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Citizens of Planet Earth

Arise, Look Up, Around, Outward and Inward


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Planet Citizen, Forward-looking Vision

A Vision of Dynamic Change


EarthPOV

Hello Earth

Tiny Blue Green

Thin Blue Layer

Overview Effect

Orbital Perspective


Citizen Science

Planet Scientist

Planet Citizens, Planet Scientists

Planet API


Earth Observations, Strategic Missions

Environmental Security - Global/National

New Definitions of National Security


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Carl Sagan: Our Origins Are in the Stars

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To Be, or Not to Be a Planet Citizen


www.planetcitizens.org

www.planetcitizen.org


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The 1992 International Earth Summit

@Wikipedia -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Summit

The United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), also known as the Rio Conference or the Earth Summit (Portuguese: ECO92), was a major United Nations conference held in Rio de Janeiro from June 3 to June 14, 1992.

Earth Summit was created as a response for member states to cooperate together internationally on development issues after the Cold War. Due to issues relating to sustainability being too big for individual member states to handle, Earth Summit was held as a platform for other member states to collaborate.

A key achievement of the 1992 conference was the establishment of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) established in part as an international environmental treaty to combat "dangerous human interference with the climate system" and to stabilize greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere. It was signed by 154 states at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED). By 2022, the UNFCCC had 198 parties. Its supreme decision-making body, the Conference of the Parties (COP) meets annually to assess progress in dealing with climate change.

Since the creation of the UNFCC many related environmental conferences, climate-related forums, and ongoing scientific research initiatives in the fields of sustainability, climate, and environmental security have continued to develop these intersecting issues. Non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and educational institutions have been prominent participants.


@Wikipedia -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Nations_Framework_Convention_on_Climate_Change

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) established an international environmental treaty to combat "dangerous human interference with the climate system", in part by stabilizing greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere.[1] It was signed by 154 states at the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development (UNCED), informally known as the Earth Summit, held in Rio de Janeiro from 3 to 14 June 1992... The treaty called for ongoing scientific research and regular meetings, negotiations, and future policy agreements designed to allow ecosystems to adapt naturally to climate change, to ensure that food production is not threatened and to enable economic development to proceed in a sustainable manner.


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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: 1968 to 1992, and 1992 to 2023 and on and on

The journey began in 1968 along with the beginnings of the modern environmental movement. We saw "Earthrise" and we also rose with organizing of the first "Earth Day" in 1970.

Earth Day Memories on the 50th Anniversary


YourGreenPolicy360 founder moved on to helping a US political visionary with Earth Science and a first-gen foundation of legislation legislation and joined in environmental organizing.

In 1992, it was time for a presidential campaign, and 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....


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On the Road

GreenPolicy360 Siterunner Comments


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