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Earth Info Fact Sheet from NASA

• https://science.nasa.gov/earth-science/earth-information-center

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Memories of a Generation who set in motion the first era of earth science missions

Now in 2022, we have the data, the ongoing programs, the results of five plus decades of atmospheric/earth/ocean science

GreenPolicy360 recalls the vision and foresight of those who chose to go forward and establish a platform of earth systems research

🌎 The 1960s... Beginnings of the Modern Environmental Movement

On the 50th Anniversary

Memories on the Road to the First Earth Day

* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Day_Memories_on_the_50th_Anniversary

Steve Schmidt: Remembering how we acted to launch a movement and a generational mission. Many of us were inspired by NASA's Apollo first-ever images of our planet. We saw science as a tool for new understanding, and teach-ins became a means we used to spread the word of new possibilities. The Vietnam Moratorium Committee, a national pro-peace group, motivated many to constructive action and when we talked to Senator Gaylord Nelson and Representative George Brown about doing environmental teach-ins that would be the first in a series of annual peace and environment events they got onboard and put their combined weight behind the effort.

New visions of what was possible came to be ... a 1968 Earthrise moment, to the 1969 Moratorium demonstrations and peace teach-ins, to the 1970 teach-ins of the first Earth Day. What quickly followed was the passage of a platform, a first generation of U.S. environmental protection legislation.

The environmental movement that sprang from the global realization passed on to us by the NASA Apollo missions, and student activism, continue to this day shaping a new generation of environmental awareness and modern environmental movement.

GreenPolicy360 / Steven Schmidt: In the late 1960s I first discussed engineering with my newly elected Congressman from East Los Angeles. At the time I was a high school student on the debate team and that year in California debate topics centered on nuclear weapons and proliferation. George E. Brown, my district's representative, was trained in physics and engineering and was writing about international dangers of war and nuclear disaster, so I thought I'd meet with him and ask for his assistance in my debating research work. George and I began what became a long journey. In many ways George was my mentor and I believe he saw in me my generation's hope and youthful energy as we worked together. I was an activist/educator and professional whom he trusted and with whom he could share his thoughts and agenda.

Until George's passing in 1999, I was fortunate to see inside what became the U.S. earth science space missions beginnings as a visionary man took on the the great questions of our era -- from atomic issues of deep science, energy, war and peace, the need for environmental protection, and climate research, and at the heart of all George's work in the 60s/70s/80s and 90s in Congress as a Chairman and leader of budget/policy and oversight of these new challenges facing the nation and world, I saw up close the vision, goals and plans that George was putting into practice.

Earth Science Research from Space, that is, measuring and monitoring Earth Systems, Earth's living systems, was front of mind in the world of George E. Brown.

GreenPolicy360 and I have been tracking George's history and memory. Do read about this generational journey and feel free to share with your networks.

Some of the latest work from programs George was responsible for proposing, drafting enabling legislation, shepherding passage and presidential signatures approving the missions are now, some 50 years on, producing unique data that scientists are using to reveal and intelligently respond to our pressing 21st Century challenges and George would be more than please if he were here to see the vision, goals and plans in full realization.

The Earth Information Center is one of the more recent reveals. It is an amazing online open-source database. Open it up. Surf around (as we used to say in Southern California). The vision of our world, our planet's living systems is a gift to know, share and use to protect and preserve life, and quality of life. As planet citizens our responsibility is to step up and do our best to make a positive difference during each of our lives.

Earth Science Research from Space is yours now.

• https://science.nasa.gov/science-red/s3fs-public/atoms/files/EIC_Factshoot_v06.pdf

More on George E. Brown:

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

• https://greenpolicy360.net/w/File:US_Public_Law_95-367.png

• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Planet_Citizen_Vision_of_Living_Earth

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