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Today's challenges come into the light as a half century journey of key players, events, struggles, and decisions are revealed. Green politics and the modern environmental movement have progressed far from first-era Whole Earth images of the 1960s and a first "Earth Day" of 1970.

GreenPolicy360 speaks of green, life affirming values, "a politics of values" that we see as needed "for the long run" as humanity navigates the challenges and demands of the 21st century.

The media is welcome onboard. Search & explore GreenPolicy360's curated collection of stories from around the world.


On Earth

Green Stories of the Day ~ Climate News

Earth and Space, Politics

 

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Continuing decades of environmental work, GreenPolicy360 launched in 2005-2006


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Earth, Live from Space

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

-- Marjory Stoneman Douglas


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Earth Science / Environmental Security - Global Security



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Pope Francis on the Environment


"We know that the challenges facing us are interconnected... If we are to eliminate poverty and hunger ... the more than one billion people without electricity today need to gain access to it."

"But that energy should also be clean, by a reduction in the systematic use of fossil fuels," he added. "Our desire to ensure energy for all must not lead to the undesired effect of a spiral of extreme climate changes due to a catastrophic rise in global temperatures, harsher environments and increased levels of poverty."



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"Surviving Victory": Moving Away from "Perpetual War"

Shifting from Fossil Fuel Causes of Conflict to Renewable Energy Alternatives


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


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New NASA Chief Says He Will Protect Climate Research

After his previous rejection of climate science, Jim Bridenstine tells employees he will keep politics out of the agency’s work


(A)t a town hall meeting for NASA employees yesterday (May 17), where he was asked to clarify his previous comments denying human-caused climate change. Bridenstine acknowledged that humans play a significant role in global warming, using stronger language than he has in the past.

“I don’t deny the consensus that the climate is changing, in fact I fully believe and know that the climate is changing. I also know that we humans are contributing to it in a major way... Carbon dioxide is a greenhouse gas, we’re putting it into the atmosphere in volumes we haven’t seen, and that greenhouse gas is warming the planet. That is absolutely happening, and we are responsible for it.”

Bridenstine, who is the first politician to run the agency, said he would keep politics out of NASA.

“We need to make sure that NASA is continuing to do the science, and we need to make sure that the science is void and free from political kind of rhetoric and to do that, what we do and have been doing,” he said.

Bridenstine said he would protect NASA’s climate research, which has repeatedly been targeted for cuts by the Trump administration and House Republicans.

Bridenstine said he would accept the recommendations of the decadal survey of earth science conducted by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine. Those recommendations include a series of missions that would provide insight into all of the ways that humans are transforming the planet.

“NASA is the one agency on the face of the planet that has the most credibility to do the science necessary so we can understand it better than ever before,” Bridenstine said.

The decadal survey is designed to set the course for earth science research at NASA, NOAA and the U.S. Geological Survey...


The Earth is not warming. The White Cliffs of Dover are tumbling into the sea and causing sea levels to rise. Global warming is helping grow the Antarctic ice sheet.
Those are some of the skeptical assertions echoed by Republicans on the House Science, Space and Technology Committee yesterday (May 16).
The lawmakers at times embraced research that questions mainstream climate science during a hearing on how technology can be used to address global warming.
A leading climate scientist testifying before the panel spent much of the two hours correcting misstatements...


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Our Life-Supporting Earth Atmosphere


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NOAA Science On a Sphere

 

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Can the world kick its fossil-fuel addiction fast enough?

Clean energy is growing quickly. But time is running out to rein in carbon emissions


Planet Citizens in Action

Planet Citizens
Planet Citizens, Planet Scientists


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PlanetCitizen.org

Planet Citizen|Bioneer, environmental activist, Leonardo DiCaprio joins w/ Planet.com to launch global coral watch & environmental protection.
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. Planet’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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Reefs and Coral, sentinel species

Coral reefs in peril as ocean environment is transformed


 

 


 


Watching Blue Planet 2, an Amazing Journey


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Via the Lancet

"The World's First Professor of Planetary Health" / #PlanetaryHealth
https://mobile.twitter.com/hashtag/planetaryhealth?src=hashtag
Be a Planet Citizen / Measuring "Vital Signs"


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GreenPolicy360 and our Associate StrategicDemands.com explore Earth's existential threat environment

@StrategicDemands.com


Escalating Risk of Use of Nuclear Weapons
Bill Perry Is Terrified, Why Aren't You?


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U.S. Signals Nuclear Arms Are Back in a Big Way



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Warning to Today's Generation
Planet Citizens, Look to the Future



Environmental protection
Environmental movement


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More re: Shared Socioeconomic Pathways

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Global Climate Action & United Nations, as the U.S. Retreats from International Cooperation


United States only country to refuse climate change agreement


March 24, 2018 / Scientific American, Reprinted from Climatewire and E&E News



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Visit GreenPolicy's Associate, Strategic Demands


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Nobel Peace Prize Goes to ICAN

International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons


Threats of War from the US President


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US Departure from International Cooperation:

"Sovereignty", the New Administration's Buzzword


Trump's First Address at the UN - September 19, 2017

StratDem / The US President's Talk at the United Nations


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The International Climate Agreement goes forward without the US

Nations around the world reject the US decision



Climate News / Climate Focus, Climate Politics



Strategic Demands


Battle in the US Congress between the Climate Denial faction and Science Advocates

GreenPolicy360 and Strategic Demands Advance New Definitions of National Security


New Definitions of National Security
Earth and Space, Politics

 



 


Mick Mulvaney, President Trump’s budget director:

“Regarding the question as to climate change, I think the President was fairly straightforward —

We’re not spending money on that anymore; we consider that to be a waste of your money to go out and do that.”


It's a "Waste Of Your Money" (Video)
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“Regarding the question as to climate change, I think the president was fairly straightforward – we’re not spending money on that anymore. We consider that to be a waste of your money.”


  • Science? Do We Believe in Science?
http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/326380-house-votes-to-restrict-epas-use-of-science


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Climate Change Laws Around the World
Trends in Climate Change Legislation


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Trending 'Eco-Tags' & Links
On Being a Planet Citizen


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Priorities: Weapons or Health Care, Wars or Education, Conflicts or Environmental Security

Nations of the World Choose their Direction


Classic "guns or butter" case study -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guns_versus_butter_model


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Green Issues Around the Globe, 360°, Online

Countries Worldwide/Climate Action INDC Plans


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Threat Environment



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Pope Francis speaks of Climate, Politics, and 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


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"What's up with sea level rise?"

NASA experts update current conditions & projections of sea level rise

@EarthVitalSigns#EarthRightNowRising Seas

Warming Wonders of the World



Endangered

Wildlife, Large 'Charismatic' Creatures, & the "Tiny Little Ones"


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The 8 Million Species We Don’t Know

By Edward O. Wilson

March 3, 2018 / New York Times

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


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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Warming Oceans


Phytoplankton & Photosynthesis

Plankton: The Ocean Food Chain & Atmospheric Oxygen


"Tiny Blue Green"

More than Meets the Eye


"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


Visit:

www.tinybluegreen.com @GreenPolicy360


TinyBlueGreen


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


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The Unseen and the Seen

The "Tree of Life" 1.0


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Eco-nomics

A 21st Century paradigm in development @ GreenPolicy360

 




 

GreenPolicy360 Archive Highlights 2017

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GreenPolicy360 Archive Highlights 2015

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#OpenAccess - https://twitter.com/hashtag/openaccess?src=hash
#OpenData - https://twitter.com/hashtag/OpenData?src=hash
#DigitalRights - https://twitter.com/hashtag/DigitalRights?src=hash


#InfoSec - https://twitter.com/hashtag/InfoSec?src=hash
#Cybersecurity - https://twitter.com/hashtag/cybersecurity?src=hash

 

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Links via GreenPolicy's Digital360 Network

Digital Rights Movement


(FB) https://www.facebook.com/allianceforaffordableinternet
(TW) https://twitter.com/a4a_internet
(FB) https://www.facebook.com/CenterForDataInnovation
(TW) https://twitter.com/datainnovation
(FB) https://www.facebook.com/CenDemTech
(TW) https://twitter.com/CenDemTech
(Wiki) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Center_for_Democracy_and_Technology
(Blog) http://www.codeforamerica.org/blog/
(TW) https://twitter.com/codeforamerica
(FB) https://Facebook.com/CreativeCommons
(TW) https://Twitter.com/creativecommons
124K+ data sets as of 2015 - http://www.data.gov/metrics
EcoInforma http://www.data.gov/ecosystems/ecoinforma/
(TW) https://twitter.com/ePluribusUnum
(TW) https://twitter.com/digiphile
(RSS) https://www.eff.org/rss
(Wiki) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electronic_Frontier_Foundation
(Parker Higgins-EFF) https://twitter.com/xor
Tips, Tools and How-tos for Safer Online Communications from Electronic Frontier Foundation
(recommended by EFF)
Lawgeek Lawrence Lessig's blog
Chilling Effects Clearinghouse
(TW) https://twitter.com/chillingeffects
Cyberlaw @Harvard
Ed Felten's "Freedom to Tinker"
Groklaw
Slashdot: Your Rights Online
Ernest Miller's "The Importance Of..."
Sabrina Pacifi's "Be Spacific"
(TW) https://twitter.com/EPICprivacy
Advancing the International Bill of Human Rights - http://www.ohchr.org/Documents/Publications/Compilation1.1en.pdf
  • Fact-Checking Projects
http://www.poynter.org/2017/there-are-now-114-fact-checking-initiatives-in-47-countries/450477/
http://www.poynter.org/2016/there-are-96-fact-checking-projects-in-37-countries-new-census-finds/396256/
Beginning with PolitiFact, the original project at Poynter Institute in St. Petersburg, Florida - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PolitiFact.com
http://www.poynter.org/about-the-international-fact-checking-network/
http://reporterslab.org/fact-checking/
http://reporterslab.org/category/fact-checking/#article-1384
http://reporterslab.org/global-fact-checking-up-50-percent/
(TW) https://twitter.com/fightfortheftr
(TW) https://twitter.com/FreedomofPress
(FreedomPress Organizations) https://freedom.press/organizations
(TW) https://twitter.com/FundarMexico
Principles on Freedom of Expression and Privacy - https://globalnetworkinitiative.org//principles/index.php
https://globalnetworkinitiative.org/sites/default/files/GNI_-_Principles_1_.pdf
GNU Project - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Project
(FB) https://www.facebook.com/GovernmentAccountabilityProject
(TW) https://twitter.com/GovAcctProj
(TW) https://twitter.com/TheGovLab
  • GovFuturesLab - Reimagining governance for an age of planetary challenges and human responsibility
(FB) https://Facebook.com/govfutures
App4Gov (TW) https://Twitter.com/App4Gov
(FB) https://www.facebook.com/GovernmentTechnology
(TW) https://twitter.com/govtechnews
(TW) https://Twitter.com/Govtrack
(TW) https://twitter.com/itifdc
(TW) https://Twitter.com/GovFuturesLab
  • Internet Freedom Festival (IFF)
https://internetfreedomfestival.org/history/
https://www.irex.org/project/internet-freedom-festival
(TW) https://twitter.com/internetsociety
(Blog) http://www.opendatanation.com/news/
http://opendataresearch.org/emergingimpacts
http://opendataresearch.org/content/2014/646/towards-common-methods-assessing-open-data-workshop-report
https://www.opendemocracy.net/digitaliberties
https://www.opendemocracy.net/openglobalrights
(TW) https://twitter.com/opendemocracy
(TW) https://twitter.com/OpenGov
(TW) https://Twitter.com/opengovpart
(TW) https://Twitter.com/Open_Institute
(Blog) PublicBodies.org - http://blog.okfn.org/2013/07/09/introducing-open-knowledge-foundation-labs/
(Zine) http://zine.openrightsgroup.org/
(TW) https://twitter.com/openscience
http://www.niemanlab.org/2015/08/arguing-that-politicians-tweets-shouldnt-be-irrevocable-twitter-shuts-down-politwoops-worldwide/
(TW) https://twitter.com/theopenmedia
(TW) https://twitter.com/P2P_Foundation
Civic Hall - http://civichall.org/
  • Privacy Rights in the Digital Age (Published 2016)
http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Privacy_Rights


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(TW) https://twitter.com/PublicAgenda
(Wiki) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_Freedom_Law_Center
(FB) https://www.facebook.com/sunlightfoundation
(G+) https://plus.google.com/+sunlightfoundation/posts
(TW) https://twitter.com/sunfoundation
Measuring the Impact of Open Data
(TW) https://twitter.com/tconstituent
(TW) https://twitter.com/webwewant
  • WWW Origins-Foundation, est. by World Wide Web founder Tim Berners-Lee, "devoted to all people having access to the Web"
WebFoundation.org -- "The Web Belongs to All of Us"


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