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Online educational courses are multiplying worldwide.


[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Ecology_Studies '''Ecology Studies'''] are fast increasing in importance.
<big><big><big>''''' 2024'''''</big></big></big>
 
 
<big><big>'''A New Challenger Rolls Out -- Artificial Intelligence's ChatGPT'''</big></big>
 
'''ChatGPT Confronts 'Climate Denialism''''
 
 
[[File:ChatGPT talks of fighting climate denialism.png]]
 
 
 
[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Science_Research_from_Space 1968 - 2022, 50+ Years Studying Planet Earth]
 
<big><big>'''The Earth Science / Earth Observing System'''</big></big>
 
 
The Original NASA Mission Statement
 
GreenPolicy360 Siterunner: I can see back to the beginning of an Earth Observation "Inventory" he envisioned when he was proposing and shepherding a new [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Landsat_data_users_handbook '''Landsat program'''] into existence. I remember meeting, then years of learning, sharing and work alongside a congressman who set in motion and for decades advanced U.S. earth science research programs. George E. Brown was a special person who brought a physics and engineering background to Congress. George saw what others didn't really understand. Your GreenPolicy360 siterunner began to realize the future to come when our East LA Representative showed me the Mission Statement of NASA. -- '''''“To understand and protect our home planet..."'''''
 
 
[[File:NASA's continuing vision and mission - as of 2005.png]]
 
 
[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Earth_Observing_System_-_fleet_of_satellites.png '''The Earth Observing Fleet of Satellites''']
 
50+ Years of Studying Planet Earth
 
 
[[File:Earth Observing System - fleet of satellites.png]]
 
 
 
Steve Schmidt / GreenPolicy360: '''The first National Climate Act in 1978 called for earth science and action. The mobilization was led for years by our friend in the US Congress, George E. Brown. A tip of our GreenPolicy360 hat toRep George E. Brown, a main mover at the beginning who drafted the 1978 climate legislation and went on to  advance decades of earth science, research, and action. '''
 
* https://greenpolicy360.net/w/File:US_Public_Law_95-367.png
 
 
'My friend George', Congressman from East Los Angeles
 
: 30+ years out in front of 'Big Science' and Environmental Protection
 
:* https://greenpolicy360.net/w/George_E._Brown_Jr
 
 
 
 
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[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Planet_Citizen_Action <big><big><big><big>'''Planet Citizen Action'''</big></big></big></big>]
 
[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Act_now_for_a_livable_future.png <big><big>'''Act Now for a Liveable Future''']</big></big>
 
: [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Human_Condition "Vita contemplativa to Vita activa"]
 
 
 
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<big><big>'''Looking Back at Five+ Decades of Atmospheric/Earth Science</big></big>
 
<big>Environmental/Climate Politics and Activism'''</big>
 
<small>A Whole Earth Point of View -- http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Whole_Earth</small>
 
 
:[[File:Christina Korp Earth Day and Apollo 8.jpg]]
 
: <big>'''Steven Schmidt, GreenPolicy360 Siterunner....'''</big>
 
:: DYK? Yes, we know, we remember the beginnings !
 
 
 
[https://greenpolicy360.net/images/1969_beginnings_of_the_modern_environmental_movement.pdf <big>'''Beginnings of the Modern Environmental Movement'''</big>]
 
*  https://greenpolicy360.net/images/1969_beginnings_of_the_modern_environmental_movement.pdf
 
 
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<big>'''"George E. Brown, Mr. 'Big Science'"</big>
 
:Stepping up, a physics-trained, engineer who became a Congressperson
 
::One of the first modern environmental activists goes to work on Earth Science
 
 
:'''[[George E. Brown Jr]]'''
 
::* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/George_E._Brown_Jr
 
 
[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/User:Siterunner '''By Steven Schmidt / GreenPolicy360 Siterunner''']
 
As a high school student, I met George Brown in the mid-1960s and we began to work, purposefully and closely, to make [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Environmental_protection '''environmental protection'''] a political reality. He changed the direction of my life and was integral to the founding of [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Day_Memories_on_the_50th_Anniversary '''Earth Day in 1971'''] as he helped to set in motion my lifetime of environmental activism. George was looking forward to the 21st century, and especially to the challenges of [https://strategicdemands.com/earth-system-observatory/ '''environmental and earth science programs'''] that he led in Congress for decades, until suddenly he passed away in 1999. George was an amazing man, a visionary who was a mover in the U.S. Congress for four decades, beginning in the 1960s when we began our friendship and work together on a political journey. Let me dedicate this [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/George_E._Brown_Jr '''GreenPolicy360 page'''] to George E. Brown as both a biography and memorial. George will always be an influencer for me and his work and legacy is key to understanding my generation...
 
:<small>• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Day_Memories_on_the_50th_Anniversary</small>
 
:<small>• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Earth_Day</small>
 
:<small>• https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Environmental_movement</small>
 
 
'''Update: 2022'''
 
:: [[File:US Senate passes 430 billion climate bill.png]]
 
 
<small>* https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-senate-democrats-fend-off-amendments-430-bln-climate-drug-bill-2022-08-07/</small>
 
 
<big><big>'''''Five Decades in the Making: Why It Took Congress So Long to Act on Climate'''''</big></big>
 
* https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/07/climate/senate-climate-law.html
 
 
<big>'''Bookmark Climate Policy @GreenPolicy360'''</big>
 
* http://bit.ly/GreenPolicy360Climate
 
 
'''The 2022 'Earth and Politics' U.S. Legislation Carries Forward a Large Vision and Agenda'''
 
(Via Axios)
 
''The bill invests roughly $370 billion into initiatives to promote clean energy and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, likely becoming the most important climate bill in U.S. history.''
 
''It gives tax credits to clean energy technologies, like existing nuclear power plants and advanced nuclear technologies, clean hydrogen, carbon capture and storage as well as wind and solar power.''
 
''It gives buyers who purchase North American-built electric vehicles a up to $7,500 in federal tax credits to encourage the adoption of electric vehicles while jump-starting America's electric vehicle industry.''
 
''It creates a methane fee program to fine corporations that emit the powerful greenhouse gas above federal limits.''
 
''Democrats have said the bill's climate provisions put the U.S. on a path to reduce its carbon emissions by up to 40% based on 2005 levels by 2030.''
 
 
 
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[[File:CO2 photo.JPG]]
 
 
:::* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Fossil_Fuels
 
 
 
<big><big>'''Atmospheric/Earth Science: Research from Space'''</big></big>
 
 
'''[[Earth Science Research from Space]]'''
 
'''[[Look at how thin our atmosphere is]]'''
 
'''[[Earth Science Vital Signs]]'''
 
'''[[Earth Imaging-New Space]]'''
 
'''[[Planet API]]'''
 
 
 
'''Via the European Space Agency, ESA Climate Office'''
 
May 2022
 
 
'''Climate Change: The Evidence from Space'''
 
* https://climate.esa.int/en/evidence/
 
 
'''Role of Earth Observation Satellites in Understanding Climate Change'''
 
* https://climate.esa.int/en/evidence/role-eo-understanding-climate-change/
 
 
'''Climate Change from Space Brochure / Climate Kit (from ESA)'''
 
* https://climate.esa.int/en/evidence/climate-change-from-space-brochure/
 
 
[[File:ESA Living Planet Symposium - May 2022.png]]
 
 
[[File:ESA Living Planet Symposium - Announcement.png]]
 
 
 
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[[File:Earth mapped.png|link=https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Intended_Nationally_Determined_Contributions]]
 
<small>* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Intended_Nationally_Determined_Contributions</small>
 
 
 
<big><big><big>'''National Climate Pledges Must Be Enforced'''</big></big></big>
 
: '''How to turn each nation's climate pledges into 'effective climate action' '''
 
::'''Promises & pledges of international climate summits in Paris (2015) & Glasgow (2021) now require & demand 'climate plans enforcement' '''
 
:::'''Measuring & monitoring greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions with satellite missions can become a cooperative climate tool 'working nation-by-nation' '''
 
:::* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Climate_Plans_Enforcement_-_Resources
 
::::* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Science_Research_from_Space
 
 
 
[[File:Methods to enforce climate pledges-NDCs - Dec 2021.png]]
 
 
[[File:EDF satellite - methane tracking.png]]
 
 
 
 
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::::[[File:Green-online-education.jpg]]
 
 
 
::::<big>'''Climate Matters in the Newsroom'''</big>
 
 
 
<big><big><big><big>'''Climate Desk'''</big></big></big></big>
 
Environmental Journalism @ClimateDesk
 
* https://twitter.com/ClimateDesk
 
 
''Climate Desk is a multi-media journalistic collaboration dedicated to exploring the impact—human, environmental, economic, political—of a changing climate. The partners are: The Atlantic, Atlas Obscura, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, CityLab, Grist, The Guardian,  High Country News, HuffPost, Medium, Mother Jones, National Observer, Newsweek, Reveal, Slate, The Weather Channel, Undark, Wired and Yale Environment 360.''
 
 
<big>'''* https://www.climatedesk.org/about-us/'''</big>
 
<big>'''* https://www.theatlantic.com/'''</big>
 
<big>'''* https://www.atlasobscura.com/'''</big>
 
<big>'''* https://thebulletin.org/'''</big>
 
<big>'''* https://www.bloomberg.com/citylab'''</big>
 
<big>'''* https://grist.org/'''</big>
 
<big>'''* https://www.theguardian.com/us'''</big>
 
<big>'''* https://www.hcn.org/'''</big>
 
<big>'''* https://www.huffpost.com/'''</big>
 
<big>'''* https://medium.com/'''</big>
 
<big>'''* https://www.motherjones.com/'''</big>
 
<big>'''* https://www.nationalobserver.com/'''</big>
 
<big>'''* https://www.newsweek.com/topic/climate-change'''</big>
 
<big>'''* https://revealnews.org/'''</big>
 
<big>'''* https://slate.com/'''</big>
 
<big>'''* https://weloveweather.tv/'''</big>
 
<big>'''* https://undark.org/'''</big>
 
<big>'''* https://www.wired.com/'''</big>
 
<big>'''* https://e360.yale.edu/'''</big>
 
 
 
🌎
 
 
 
<big><big>[[Planet Citizens]]</big></big>
 
<big><big>[[Planet Citizens, Planet Scientists]]</big></big>
 
 
Get going, get the word out -- be on top of the science and the story of our era, #ClimateCrisis
 
* https://t.co/TmK3BkA7YG
 
* https://climatereportingmasterclass.com/
 
 
<big><big>[[Climate Change - Global Warming Keyword-Terms]]</big></big>
 
: <big><big>[[Climate Problems, Climate Solutions]]</big></big>
 
 
 
🌎
 
 
 
<big><big><big>'''The Critical Importance of Science & Facts'''</big></big></big>
 
STEM areas of study - Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math, including Computer Science
 
* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Good_science_needs_good_data_.png
 
* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Stats_-_Green_Research_%26_Science
 
 
 
🌎
 
 
 
<big>'''Climate Solutions 101'''</big>
 
Presented by Project Drawdown
 
Videos & graphics you can use... conversations with leading experts... solutions to climate change
 
* videos & graphics you can use) and conversations with leading experts, and gets right to the *solutions* to climate change
 
* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/ProjectDrawdownCO2
 
 
[[File:Drawdown Solution Chart.png]]
 
 
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Follow the Climate Scientists (on TW)
 
* https://twitter.com/i/lists/1053067173961326594
 
 
March 2021
 
List Via Dr. Robert Rohde @RARohde @BerkeleyEarth
 
:@KHayhoe
:@MichaelEMann
:@picazomario (mostly in Spanish)
:@JacquelynGill
:@PeterGleick
:@hood_naturalist
:@ClimateHuman
:@KavehMadani (often in Farsi)
:@ayanaeliza
:@rahmstorf (often in German)
 
 
:@ClimateOfGavin
:@DrKateMarvel
:@coralsncaves
:@JacquelynGill
:@ed_hawkins
:@PeterGleick
:@GlobalEcoGuy
:@KenCaldeira
:@ClimateHuman
:@NaomiOreskes
:@hausfath
:@rahmstorf
:@richardabetts
:@leahstokes
:@flimsin
:@DrShepherd2013
:@ayanaeliza
:@Tessa_M_Hill
:@HeidiCullen
:@Weather_West
:@Peters_Glen
:@SarahEMyhre
:@RARohde
:@KevinClimate
:@AndrewDessler
:@GreatLakesPeck
:@ZLabe
:@maxboykoff
:@dougmcneall
:@DustyBowl
:@valmasdel
:@simondonner
:@theresphysics
 
 
Green/environmental climate-related organizations
 
:@IPCC_CH
:@UNEP
 
:@NatureClimate
:@ClimateCentral
:@CarbonBrief
:@UNFCCC
:@YaleClimateComm
:@NatureNews (44), @theAGU
 
:@NASAClimate
:@NASAEarth
:@NOAA
:@NOAAClimate
 
:@guardianeco
:@ScienceMagazine
:@ClimateReality
:@nytclimate
:@nature
:@skepticscience
:@AcademicsSay
:@ClimateFdbk
:@sciam
 
 
e-Journalists
 
:@EricHolthaus
:@revkin
:@chriscmooney
:@dana1981
:@MWClimateSci
:@LeoHickman
:@blkahn
:@afreedma
:@edyong209
:@emorwee
 
More to follow
 
:@climate_ice
:@DrKWilkinson
:@YaleE360
:@KathieDello
:@JustinHGillis
:@UCSUSA
:@insideclimate
:@Knutti_ETH
:@hydrobeth
:@350
:@ruth_mottram
:@piersforster
:@ClimateOpp
:@rpancost
:@LFFriedman
:@AstroKatie
:@drvolts
 
:@NatureGeosci
:@WYeates
:@JPvanYpersele
:@NatGeo
:@NaomiAKlein
:@SISeneviratne
:@NYTScience
:@queenofpeat
:@IceSheetMike
:@ClimateLabBook
 
:@grist
:@bradplumer
:@DrSimEvans
:@_nadineunger
:@past_is_future
:@leafwax
:@ericsteig
 
 
Women Earth Scientists
 
: @500womensci
 
 
Green Voices of Color
 
: https://twitter.com/i/lists/1087490564977819648
 
 
 
🌎
 
 
 
[[File:CO2 photo.JPG]] 
 
 
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<big><big><big><font color=green>'''''Planet Citizens'''''</font></big></big></big>
: <big>''Time for [[Planet Citizen Action]]''</big>
 
 
[[File:Earth in Our Hands.png]]   
 
 
[[File:Earths two lungs.png]]   
 
 
[[File:Earth Breathing.jpg]]
 
 
 
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<big>'''Visit Ecology Studies at GreenPolicy360'''</big>
 
Online green educational courses are a fast growing and vital global field of growth... [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Ecology_Studies <big>'''Ecology Studies'''</big>]
 


GreenPolicy360 surveys Internet offerings in the fields of:
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:::::::::<small>Click on <u>[https://search.ecointernet.org <font color=green> EcoSearch</font>]</u> for Daily Eco-News</small>
[[File:Biosphere EcoSearch.jpg|link=https://search.ecointernet.org]]
 
 
 
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<big><big>'''Online Education'''</big></big>
<big><big>'''Online Education'''</big></big>
<big>[[Planet Citizens, Planet Scientists]]</big>
<big>[[Citizen Science]]</big>




<big>'''Academic Earth'''</big>
<big>'''Academic Earth'''</big>


•http://academicearth.org/
• http://academicearth.org/


•https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_Earth
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_Earth




<big>'''Coursera'''</big>
<big>'''Coursera'''</big>


•https://www.coursera.org/
• https://www.coursera.org/


•https://www.coursera.org/courses?query=environmental%20studies&categories=energy
• https://www.coursera.org/courses?query=environmental%20studies&categories=energy




:'''Sustainable Development / Columbia'''
:'''Sustainable Development / Columbia'''


:•https://www.coursera.org/learn/sustainable-development --- https://www.coursera.org/instructor/jeffreysachs
:• https://www.coursera.org/learn/sustainable-development --- https://www.coursera.org/instructor/jeffreysachs




:'''Pathways to climate change adaptation: the case of Small Island Developing States / Université de Genève  
:'''Pathways to climate change adaptation: the case of Small Island Developing States / Université de Genève  


:•https://www.coursera.org/unige'''
:• https://www.coursera.org/unige'''


:•https://www.coursera.org/course/sids
:• https://www.coursera.org/course/sids




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<big>'''EdX'''</big>
<big>'''EdX'''</big>


•https://www.edx.org/
• https://www.edx.org/


•https://www.edx.org/course?search_query=environmental+studies
• https://www.edx.org/course?search_query=environmental+studies




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<big>'''Khan Academy'''</big>
<big>'''Khan Academy'''</big>


•https://www.khanacademy.org/
• https://www.khanacademy.org/


:Natural Science - https://www.khanacademy.org/partner-content/mit-k12/mit-k12-biology
:Natural Science - https://www.khanacademy.org/partner-content/mit-k12/mit-k12-biology


:California Academy of Sciences, Biodiversity - https://www.khanacademy.org/partner-content/CAS-biodiversity -- https://www.khanacademy.org/partner-content/CAS-biodiversity/biodiversity-protection/science-education
:California Academy of Sciences, Biodiversity
 
:• https://www.khanacademy.org/partner-content/CAS-biodiversity  
 
:• https://www.khanacademy.org/partner-content/CAS-biodiversity/biodiversity-protection/science-education


:Environmental science / articles -- https://www.khanacademy.org/search?page_search_query=environmental+science&sort=rank&kind=Article
:Environmental science / articles --  
 
:[https://www.khanacademy.org/search?page_search_query=environmental+science&sort=rank&kind=Article Search-Discover Environmental Science @Khan Academy]




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<big>'''Lynda'''</big>
<big>'''Lynda'''</big>


•http://www.lynda.com/
• http://www.lynda.com/


•http://www.lynda.com/press/pressrelease -- http://www.lynda.com/press/pressrelease?id=4563
• http://www.lynda.com/press/pressrelease -- http://www.lynda.com/press/pressrelease?id=4563




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<big>'''MIT OpenCourseWare'''</big>
<big>'''MIT OpenCourseWare'''</big>


•http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm
• http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm


•http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/environment-courses/
• http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/environment-courses/




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<big>'''Open Education Database'''</big>
<big>'''Open Education Database'''</big>


•http://oedb.org/open/
• http://oedb.org/open/




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<big>'''Open Learning Initiative / Carnegie Mellon'''</big>
<big>'''Open Learning Initiative / Carnegie Mellon'''</big>


•http://oli.cmu.edu/ -- http://oli.cmu.edu/learn-with-oli/see-our-free-open-courses/
• http://oli.cmu.edu/ -- http://oli.cmu.edu/learn-with-oli/see-our-free-open-courses/




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<big>'''Skillshare'''</big>
<big>'''Skillshare'''</big>


•https://www.skillshare.com/
• https://www.skillshare.com/


"Dismantling traditional barriers to learning so that anyone, anywhere in the world, can learn whatever they set their minds to..."
 
<small>''"Dismantling traditional barriers to learning so that anyone, anywhere in the world, can learn whatever they set their minds to..."''</small>




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<big>'''Udemy'''</big>
<big>'''Udemy'''</big>


•https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Udemy
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Udemy
 
 
 
 
<big>'''UK Open University'''</big>
 
 
SJS / Surrounded by ideas and knowledge, a virtual feast of plenty. A Tip of the GreenPolicy360 hat to the OU on the 50th anniversary of the Open University / March 2019
 
 
:• https://50.open.ac.uk/
 
:• https://youtu.be/TrKIImWQejI
 
:• https://twitter.com/BBC/status/1106888124796469248
 
 
''Where you start in life shouldn't limit where you go''
 
''We are a movement... We are disruptors, occasional troublemakers, game changers''
 
''We are the fuel of imagination''
 
:• http://www.open.ac.uk/
 
 
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[[File:WGU owl logo.jpg]]
 
 
 
<big><big>'''Western Governors University'''</big></big>
 
[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Environmental_Studies_Online '''Environmental Studies Online ---- Higher Education / Continuing Education / Distance Learning''']
 
 
 
[[File:WGU-we are wise.jpg]]
 
 
 
 
<big>'''WGU'''</big>
 
'''Education without boundaries™'''
 
:• https://www.wgu.edu/
 
'''Four online colleges. 60+ flexible degree programs.'''
 
The first university where all bachelor’s and master’s degrees are competency-based, with online courses designed in partnership with leading employers. We’re nonprofit, driven entirely by a mission to serve students—in fact, it’s right there in our name. We’re called Western Governors University because we were created by a group of U.S. governors, an innovative solution to their states’ demand for high-quality, outcomes-oriented higher education.
 
 
SJS / GreenPolicy360 siterunner: I was asked by the Governor of New Mexico in 1996 to represent our state in the creation of the "Virtual University". In the 1990s, as a member of New Mexico's State Board of Education, I could see future opportunities more clearly in my roles on the state's technology council and with educational technology. At the time I was responsible for oversight of bringing the Internet into some 900 schools and I welcomed the role to create a new educational vision -- an online, accredited university. In my travels in 1969/70 I had become impressed by the new UK "Open University" and realized in the 1990s that online networks could provide new media access to top-level professors and educators and be made available to every student geographically. The idea of bringing 'remote learning/distance learning' to all students in our state and states around the country and world was immensely appealing. My goal, also, was to make higher education affordable and in New Mexico I worked to propose a full-tuition college scholarship, which was funded with a state lottery scholarship program. The combination of access and funding came to be. Each of the original Virtual University founding states appointed a member to serve on the work group and we set in motion what was formally announced in 1997 -- the new '''Western Governor's University.'''
 
The WGU and NM lottery scholarship are well into their second decade of success now in 2019. Education is the key to opening doors for every student and lifelong learning is an opportunity all of us deserve. It is a torch we are all passing forward, eye opening education and all that education brings with it.
 
Salud to the WGU and OU !
 
• https://www.wgu.edu/about/our-story.html
 
• http://www.wgu.edu/about_WGU/WGU_story
 
 
[http://www.wgu.edu/online_it_degrees/information_technology_degree '''Go Digital: Information Technology Degree''']
 


(WGU Via Wikipedia)


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''The Western Governors University is a private, nonprofit, online university based in Salt Lake City, Utah. The university was founded by 19 U.S. governors in 1997 after the idea was formulated at a 1995 meeting of the Western Governors Association.''


''In January 1997, 13 governors were on hand to sign the articles of incorporation formally beginning the new university.''


<big>'''Western Governors University'''</big>
''In 2001, the United States Department of Education awarded $10 million to found the Teachers College, and the first programs were offered in Information Technology.''


Siterunner: In the mid 1990's I was asked to join the working group that was charged with the task of establishing a 'virtual university' throughout the western United States. The governors of these states joined together, as the new internet spread and 'distance learning' became a possibility. Especially in rural counties with great distance between towns, and newly wired schools, the concept of learning programs delivered via computer became highly attractive.
''US Department of Education ... "the innovative student-first model used by this school and others like it has garnered bipartisan support over the last decade." In January 2019, the U.S. Department of Education's Federal Student Aid (FSA) office issued their final audit determining that WGU was indeed eligible to participate in federal student aid... The news editor for Inside Higher Ed, said the "much anticipated high-stakes audit" had begun more than four years earlier and the findings were "not a surprise to most observers", due to their reliance on a 1992 law that defines aid eligibility for distance education programs.''


Our working group responded expeditiously and established the "Western Governors University". As the representative of the state of New Mexico, I look back with a sense of accomplishment (and cartons of start-up memories and material!)
:• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Governors_University


Our online U has become, over the years, very successful and one of the largest of distance learning institutions. The WGU is now in every state and providing education skill sets for the 21st century.


-- SJS
(WGU Via Social Media)


:• https://twitter.com/wgu


•http://www.wgu.edu/
:• https://www.linkedin.com/school/western-governors-university/


•http://www.wgu.edu/about_WGU/WGU_story
:• https://www.facebook.com/wgu.edu/


•http://www.wgu.edu/online_it_degrees/information_technology_degree
:• https://www.wgu.edu/newsroom.html




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<big>'''Wikiversity'''</big>
<big>'''Wikiversity'''</big>


•https://www.wikiversity.org/
• https://www.wikiversity.org/
 
 
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<big><big>'''Science & the Environment'''</big></big>
 
<big>Pathways to New Definitions of Security</big>
 
[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Good_science_needs_good_data_.png "Good science is essential these days."] -- SJS / GreenPolicy360 Siterunner
 
 
'''National Center for Science Education'''


* https://ncse.ngo/


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* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Center_for_Science_Education
 
 
<font color=green>○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○</font>
 
 
<big><big>@GreenPolicy360</big></big>
 
 
<big>[[Earth Science Research from Space]]</big>
 
<big>[[Planet API]]</big>
 
<big>[[Virtual Earth]]</big>
 
<big>[[New Definitions of National Security]]</big>
 
 
 
[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Atmospheric_Science '''Atmospheric Science''']
 
[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Earth_Science '''Earth Science''']
 
[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Earth_Science_from_Space '''Earth Science from Space''']
 
[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Ocean_Science '''Ocean Science''']
 
 
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<big>'''Environmental Conservation & Medicine'''</big> -- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservation_medicine
 
 
''Conservation medicine is an emerging, interdisciplinary field that studies the relationship between human and animal health, and environmental conditions. Also known as ecological medicine, environmental medicine, or medical geology''
 
''Conservation medicine teams may involve physicians and veterinarians working alongside researchers and clinicians from diverse disciplines, including microbiologists, pathologists, landscape analysts, marine biologists, toxicologists, epidemiologists, climate biologists, anthropologists, economists, and political scientists.''




"Science is good, scientific thinking is essential these days." -- SJS
[https://www.pnas.org/content/110/47/18753 Conservation Medicine / Human Health Impact of Ecosysytem Alteration / National Academy of Sciences of the U.S.]




'''Dot Earth''' - '''knowosphere'''
'''Dot Earth''' - '''Knowosphere'''  


[http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/11/24/an-exercise-to-sift-for-sources-amid-a-blitz-of-fake-news/ '''An Exercise to Sift for Sources Amid a Blitz of Fake News''']
[http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/11/24/an-exercise-to-sift-for-sources-amid-a-blitz-of-fake-news/ '''An Exercise to Sift for Sources Amid a Blitz of Fake News''']
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<big>'''References / Online Education'''</big>
 
 
<big>'''References / Reading'''</big>
 
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massive_open_online_course
 
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_educational_resources
 
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Educational_websites
 
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Online_education
 
• http://www.powersofplace.com/new/pdfs/POLITICS-POLICIES.pdf
 
 
 
 
<big>'''Idealist:'''</big> Working to Make a Better World''' / [http://www.idealist.org/search/v2/?qs=QlpoOTFBWSZTWeoMICYAAGKfgAMAMAIDAAAAv-f_oDAAjISphCnlPUekaaaep6nqFAAAAABKmKnqbZI0npMRp6hhuwt2WZGPrGmaRIrvDdJbfSqOqQfGf2JkQOOUMeJgItJ9cG2VgENsDSs9q6aXEsBD5ygcprMXqjk6lcKqAyiHwjiMhrijGd-w0CPLUrINnoZJTTzcyQRNDWcpRRl6deS0_fjXD3SxUt_F3JFOFCQ6gwgJgA== '''Environmental Job Opportunities''']
 
 
 
 
'''Society of Environmental Journalists - http://www.sej.org/headlines/list'''
: "We tell the world's most important stories"
: https://www.guidestar.org/profile/52-0194031
: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society_of_Environmental_Journalists
 
 
 
 
PEN America
: https://pen.org/
: https://pen.org/about-us/
: https://pen.org/shielding-users-from-online-abuse/
 
PEN International
: https://pen-international.org/
: https://pen-international.org/news
 
 
 
 
'''Fact-Checking Sites'''
 
:[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Fact_Checking Fact Checking @GreenPolicy360]
:[https://reporterslab.org/update-237-fact-checkers-in-nearly-80-countries-and-counting/ 80 Countries-237 Fact-Checking Sites (2020)]
:[https://reporterslab.org/number-of-fact-checking-outlets-surges-to-188-in-more-than-60-countries/ 60 Countries-188 Fact-Checking Sites (2019)]
:[http://reporterslab.org/global-fact-checking-up-50-percent/ 37 Countries-96 Fact-Checking Sites (2016)]
:[https://www.poynter.org/mediawise/ MediaWise for Teens]
:[http://www.politifact.com/ PolitiFact via Poynter]
:[https://www.poynter.org/ifcn/ Poynter Int'l Fact Checking Network]
:[http://www.poynter.org/category/fact-checking/ Poynter Int'l List]
:[https://reporterslab.org/fact-checking/ Reporters Lab Fact-Checking News]


•https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massive_open_online_course


•https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_educational_resources
'''Climate Denial / Misinformation -- Fact-finding & Response'''


•https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Educational_websites
:[https://climatefeedback.org ClimateFeedback.org]
:[https://climatecrocks.com/ Climate -- Crocks, Denial, Facts & Vids]
:[http://www.desmogblog.com/ Desmog Blog]
:[http://www.desmogblog.com/about Desmog & Climate Change]
:[http://www.desmogblog.com/global-warming-denier-database Denier Database]
:[http://www.desmogblog.com/slamming-the-climate-skeptic-scam Desmog Perspective]
:[https://www.beforetheflood.com/explore/the-deniers/top-10-climate-deniers/ Denier Favorites]
:[https://www.drillednews.com/post/fake-science-is-a-real-danger Drilled - Corp Sponsored]
:[https://grist.org/series/skeptics/ Grist on Skeptics]
:[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:PEN_America-Earth_Institute-Columbia_U..._How_to_defend_yourself_online.jpg PEN America, Envir Writing, How to Defend Yourself and Your Work Online]
:[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Planet_of_the_Humans,_a_documentary_film Re: Misinfo of 'Planet of the Humans' Documentary]
:[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Climate_Change_Denier_Talking_Points_--_and_Rebuttals Rebutting Climate Denier Talking Pts]
:[https://skepticalscience.com/argument.php Skeptical Science Site]
:[https://skepticalscience.com/climate-models-intermediate.htm Skeptical - Attacks on Climate Models]
:[https://www.snopes.com/collections/climate-change-denial-debunked/ Snopes on Climate]
:[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Science_denial_graph.jpg Techniques of Science Denial (Graph)]
:[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:FLICC_techniques_of_science_denial.png Techniques of Science Denial (Video)]


•https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Online_education




<big>'''Reading List'''</big>


•http://www.powersofplace.com/new/pdfs/POLITICS-POLICIES.pdf
'''Higher Education in the Digital Age''' by William G. Bowen / Hardcover/Paperback/Kindle 
 
* http://www.amazon.com/Higher-Education-Digital-William-Bowen/dp/0691159300




~


'''Higher Education in the Digital Age''' by William G. Bowen / Hardcover/Paperback/Kindle – April 7, 2013


•http://www.amazon.com/Higher-Education-Digital-William-Bowen/dp/0691159300
<big><big><big>'''[[Digital Rights]]'''</big></big></big>


: <big>Explore a Digital World at GreenPolicy360</big>


~
: * https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Digital_Rights


[[File:Digital Rights Tag Cloud from GreenPolicy360.net.png | link=https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/GreenPolicy360-eOS#Digital_Rights_Movement]]


<big>'''Sustainable Management'''</big> - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_management
 
 
<big>'''Science, Technology, Engineering & Math (STEM)'''</big>
 
Building students' skills, content knowledge, and fluency in STEM fields
 
* https://www.ed.gov/Stem
 
 
'''FutureLearn / Science, Technology, Engineering & Math (STEM)'''
 
* https://www.futurelearn.com/subjects/science-engineering-and-maths-courses
 
 
 
 
<big><big>'''International Climate Summits, National Climate Plans'''</big></big>
 
Glasgow (2021) & Paris (2015): Pledges & Promises (INDCs-NDCs)
 
* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Methods_to_enforce_climate_pledges-NDCs_-_Dec_2021.png
 
* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Climate_Plans_Enforcement_-_Resources
 
* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:INDC
 
* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Environmental_Laws
 
* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Glasgow_Climate_Summit_-_Pledges,_Promises,_Declarations_-_What%27s_Next_Up
 
 
: [[File:Environmental Justice and Environmental Law.jpg]]
 
 
 
 
[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Green_Business <big><big><big>'''Green Business'''</big></big></big>]
 
:<big><big>'''[[Green Marketing]]'''</big></big>
 
 
<big>'''Sustainability'''</big>
 
* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Sustainability_Policies
 
 
<big><big>'''[[Seventh Generation]]'''</big></big>
 
 
<big>'''Green Sustainable Management'''</big> - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_management


: Arizona State https://schoolofsustainability.asu.edu/
: Arizona State https://schoolofsustainability.asu.edu/
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<big>'''Renewable energy commercialization'''</big> 
 
[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renewable_energy_commercialization Explore the Renewable Energy Job Field]
 
 
''Renewable energy continued its rapid growth ... new records are being set for installed wind and photovoltaic capacity and global renewables investment. A key benefit that this investment growth brings is a growth in jobs ....''


''"Green Gold" -- https://www.nature.com/articles/nenergy201611''


<big>'''Conservation Medicine'''</big> -- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservation_medicine




''Conservation medicine is an emerging, interdisciplinary field that studies the relationship between human and animal health, and environmental conditions. Also known as ecological medicine, environmental medicine, or medical geology''


''Conservation medicine teams may involve physicians and veterinarians working alongside researchers and clinicians from diverse disciplines, including microbiologists, pathologists, landscape analysts, marine biologists, toxicologists, epidemiologists, climate biologists, anthropologists, economists, and political scientists.''
<big>'''GreenPolicy360: We're Into Science, Everyday'''</big>
 
Data, Intelligence, Science @GreenPolicy360
* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Good_science_needs_good_data_.png
* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Stats_-_Green_Research_%26_Science
* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Climate_Change_-_Global_Warming_Keyword-Terms
 
* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Merchants_of_Doubt
* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Science_denial_graph.jpg
* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:FLICC_techniques_of_science_denial.png
 
 
[[File:GP360 tagcloud2.png|link=https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/GreenPolicy360_(eOS)]]
 


<big>[[GreenPolicy360 (eOS)]]</big>


~


A central goal of [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/GreenPolicy360_(eOS) GreenPolicy360] is to provide news of environmental and related political and economic initiatives, science and data.


<big>'''Renewable energy commercialization'''</big> -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Renewable_energy_commercialization
As an eco-resource reporting developments within a wide range of environmental fields, GreenPolicy360 looks to facts and 'good' science.


Our site attempts to be an e-resource that features reporting that is factual and verifiable. We approach eco-questions and -challenges with a problem-solving perspective.


''Renewable energy continued its rapid growth ... new records are being set for installed wind and photovoltaic capacity and global renewables investment. A key benefit that this investment growth brings is a growth in jobs ....''


''"Green Gold" -- https://www.nature.com/articles/nenergy201611''
[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:You_can_manage_only_what_you_can_measure_Dr_David_Crisp,_OCO-2,_June_2014_m.jpg NASA's message: Our Green Policy Message -- Good science, sound decision-making based on science, needs good data]


[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Stats_-_Green_Research_%26_Science GreenPolicy360: Our Position on the Use of Science]


~


[[File:You can manage only what you can measure Dr David Crisp, OCO-2, June 2014 m.jpg]]


'''Idealist''' / [http://www.idealist.org/search/v2/?qs=QlpoOTFBWSZTWeoMICYAAGKfgAMAMAIDAAAAv-f_oDAAjISphCnlPUekaaaep6nqFAAAAABKmKnqbZI0npMRp6hhuwt2WZGPrGmaRIrvDdJbfSqOqQfGf2JkQOOUMeJgItJ9cG2VgENsDSs9q6aXEsBD5ygcprMXqjk6lcKqAyiHwjiMhrijGd-w0CPLUrINnoZJTTzcyQRNDWcpRRl6deS0_fjXD3SxUt_F3JFOFCQ6gwgJgA== '''Environmental Job Opportunities''']
::<small>NASA | Earth Science</small>




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2024


A New Challenger Rolls Out -- Artificial Intelligence's ChatGPT

ChatGPT Confronts 'Climate Denialism'


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1968 - 2022, 50+ Years Studying Planet Earth

The Earth Science / Earth Observing System


The Original NASA Mission Statement

GreenPolicy360 Siterunner: I can see back to the beginning of an Earth Observation "Inventory" he envisioned when he was proposing and shepherding a new Landsat program into existence. I remember meeting, then years of learning, sharing and work alongside a congressman who set in motion and for decades advanced U.S. earth science research programs. George E. Brown was a special person who brought a physics and engineering background to Congress. George saw what others didn't really understand. Your GreenPolicy360 siterunner began to realize the future to come when our East LA Representative showed me the Mission Statement of NASA. -- “To understand and protect our home planet..."


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The Earth Observing Fleet of Satellites

50+ Years of Studying Planet Earth


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Steve Schmidt / GreenPolicy360: The first National Climate Act in 1978 called for earth science and action. The mobilization was led for years by our friend in the US Congress, George E. Brown. A tip of our GreenPolicy360 hat toRep George E. Brown, a main mover at the beginning who drafted the 1978 climate legislation and went on to advance decades of earth science, research, and action.


'My friend George', Congressman from East Los Angeles

30+ years out in front of 'Big Science' and Environmental Protection



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Planet Citizen Action

Act Now for a Liveable Future

"Vita contemplativa to Vita activa"


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Looking Back at Five+ Decades of Atmospheric/Earth Science

Environmental/Climate Politics and Activism

A Whole Earth Point of View -- http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Whole_Earth


Christina Korp Earth Day and Apollo 8.jpg
Steven Schmidt, GreenPolicy360 Siterunner....
DYK? Yes, we know, we remember the beginnings !


Beginnings of the Modern Environmental Movement


 

"George E. Brown, Mr. 'Big Science'"

Stepping up, a physics-trained, engineer who became a Congressperson
One of the first modern environmental activists goes to work on Earth Science


George E. Brown Jr


By Steven Schmidt / GreenPolicy360 Siterunner

As a high school student, I met George Brown in the mid-1960s and we began to work, purposefully and closely, to make environmental protection a political reality. He changed the direction of my life and was integral to the founding of Earth Day in 1971 as he helped to set in motion my lifetime of environmental activism. George was looking forward to the 21st century, and especially to the challenges of environmental and earth science programs that he led in Congress for decades, until suddenly he passed away in 1999. George was an amazing man, a visionary who was a mover in the U.S. Congress for four decades, beginning in the 1960s when we began our friendship and work together on a political journey. Let me dedicate this GreenPolicy360 page to George E. Brown as both a biography and memorial. George will always be an influencer for me and his work and legacy is key to understanding my generation...

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Day_Memories_on_the_50th_Anniversary
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Earth_Day
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Environmental_movement


Update: 2022

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* https://www.reuters.com/world/us/us-senate-democrats-fend-off-amendments-430-bln-climate-drug-bill-2022-08-07/


Five Decades in the Making: Why It Took Congress So Long to Act on Climate


Bookmark Climate Policy @GreenPolicy360


The 2022 'Earth and Politics' U.S. Legislation Carries Forward a Large Vision and Agenda

(Via Axios)

The bill invests roughly $370 billion into initiatives to promote clean energy and reduce greenhouse gas emissions, likely becoming the most important climate bill in U.S. history.

It gives tax credits to clean energy technologies, like existing nuclear power plants and advanced nuclear technologies, clean hydrogen, carbon capture and storage as well as wind and solar power.

It gives buyers who purchase North American-built electric vehicles a up to $7,500 in federal tax credits to encourage the adoption of electric vehicles while jump-starting America's electric vehicle industry.

It creates a methane fee program to fine corporations that emit the powerful greenhouse gas above federal limits.

Democrats have said the bill's climate provisions put the U.S. on a path to reduce its carbon emissions by up to 40% based on 2005 levels by 2030.


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Atmospheric/Earth Science: Research from Space


Earth Science Research from Space

Look at how thin our atmosphere is

Earth Science Vital Signs

Earth Imaging-New Space

Planet API


Via the European Space Agency, ESA Climate Office

May 2022


Climate Change: The Evidence from Space


Role of Earth Observation Satellites in Understanding Climate Change


Climate Change from Space Brochure / Climate Kit (from ESA)


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


National Climate Pledges Must Be Enforced

How to turn each nation's climate pledges into 'effective climate action'
Promises & pledges of international climate summits in Paris (2015) & Glasgow (2021) now require & demand 'climate plans enforcement'
Measuring & monitoring greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions with satellite missions can become a cooperative climate tool 'working nation-by-nation'


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Climate Matters in the Newsroom


Climate Desk

Environmental Journalism @ClimateDesk


Climate Desk is a multi-media journalistic collaboration dedicated to exploring the impact—human, environmental, economic, political—of a changing climate. The partners are: The Atlantic, Atlas Obscura, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, CityLab, Grist, The Guardian, High Country News, HuffPost, Medium, Mother Jones, National Observer, Newsweek, Reveal, Slate, The Weather Channel, Undark, Wired and Yale Environment 360.


* https://www.climatedesk.org/about-us/

* https://www.theatlantic.com/

* https://www.atlasobscura.com/

* https://thebulletin.org/

* https://www.bloomberg.com/citylab

* https://grist.org/

* https://www.theguardian.com/us

* https://www.hcn.org/

* https://www.huffpost.com/

* https://medium.com/

* https://www.motherjones.com/

* https://www.nationalobserver.com/

* https://www.newsweek.com/topic/climate-change

* https://revealnews.org/

* https://slate.com/

* https://weloveweather.tv/

* https://undark.org/

* https://www.wired.com/

* https://e360.yale.edu/


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Planet Citizens

Planet Citizens, Planet Scientists


Get going, get the word out -- be on top of the science and the story of our era, #ClimateCrisis


Climate Change - Global Warming Keyword-Terms

Climate Problems, Climate Solutions


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The Critical Importance of Science & Facts

STEM areas of study - Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math, including Computer Science


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Climate Solutions 101

Presented by Project Drawdown

Videos & graphics you can use... conversations with leading experts... solutions to climate change

  • videos & graphics you can use) and conversations with leading experts, and gets right to the *solutions* to climate change


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Follow the Climate Scientists (on TW)


March 2021

List Via Dr. Robert Rohde @RARohde @BerkeleyEarth

@KHayhoe
@MichaelEMann
@picazomario (mostly in Spanish)
@JacquelynGill
@PeterGleick
@hood_naturalist
@ClimateHuman
@KavehMadani (often in Farsi)
@ayanaeliza
@rahmstorf (often in German)


@ClimateOfGavin
@DrKateMarvel
@coralsncaves
@JacquelynGill
@ed_hawkins
@PeterGleick
@GlobalEcoGuy
@KenCaldeira
@ClimateHuman
@NaomiOreskes
@hausfath
@rahmstorf
@richardabetts
@leahstokes
@flimsin
@DrShepherd2013
@ayanaeliza
@Tessa_M_Hill
@HeidiCullen
@Weather_West
@Peters_Glen
@SarahEMyhre
@RARohde
@KevinClimate
@AndrewDessler
@GreatLakesPeck
@ZLabe
@maxboykoff
@dougmcneall
@DustyBowl
@valmasdel
@simondonner
@theresphysics


Green/environmental climate-related organizations

@IPCC_CH
@UNEP
@NatureClimate
@ClimateCentral
@CarbonBrief
@UNFCCC
@YaleClimateComm
@NatureNews (44), @theAGU
@NASAClimate
@NASAEarth
@NOAA
@NOAAClimate
@guardianeco
@ScienceMagazine
@ClimateReality
@nytclimate
@nature
@skepticscience
@AcademicsSay
@ClimateFdbk
@sciam


e-Journalists

@EricHolthaus
@revkin
@chriscmooney
@dana1981
@MWClimateSci
@LeoHickman
@blkahn
@afreedma
@edyong209
@emorwee


More to follow

@climate_ice
@DrKWilkinson
@YaleE360
@KathieDello
@JustinHGillis
@UCSUSA
@insideclimate
@Knutti_ETH
@hydrobeth
@350
@ruth_mottram
@piersforster
@ClimateOpp
@rpancost
@LFFriedman
@AstroKatie
@drvolts
@NatureGeosci
@WYeates
@JPvanYpersele
@NatGeo
@NaomiAKlein
@SISeneviratne
@NYTScience
@queenofpeat
@IceSheetMike
@ClimateLabBook
@grist
@bradplumer
@DrSimEvans
@_nadineunger
@past_is_future
@leafwax
@ericsteig


Women Earth Scientists

@500womensci


Green Voices of Color

https://twitter.com/i/lists/1087490564977819648


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Planet Citizens

Time for Planet Citizen Action


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Visit Ecology Studies at GreenPolicy360

Online green educational courses are a fast growing and vital global field of growth... Ecology Studies


GreenPolicy360 surveys Internet offerings in the fields of:

• environmental/ecology studies
• bio-sciences
• earth sciences
• economics
• energy
• engineering
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Online Education


Planet Citizens, Planet Scientists

Citizen Science


Academic Earth

http://academicearth.org/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_Earth


Coursera

https://www.coursera.org/

https://www.coursera.org/courses?query=environmental%20studies&categories=energy


Sustainable Development / Columbia
https://www.coursera.org/learn/sustainable-development --- https://www.coursera.org/instructor/jeffreysachs


Pathways to climate change adaptation: the case of Small Island Developing States / Université de Genève
https://www.coursera.org/unige
https://www.coursera.org/course/sids



EdX

https://www.edx.org/

https://www.edx.org/course?search_query=environmental+studies



Khan Academy

https://www.khanacademy.org/

Natural Science - https://www.khanacademy.org/partner-content/mit-k12/mit-k12-biology
California Academy of Sciences, Biodiversity
https://www.khanacademy.org/partner-content/CAS-biodiversity
https://www.khanacademy.org/partner-content/CAS-biodiversity/biodiversity-protection/science-education
Environmental science / articles --
Search-Discover Environmental Science @Khan Academy



Lynda

http://www.lynda.com/

http://www.lynda.com/press/pressrelease -- http://www.lynda.com/press/pressrelease?id=4563



MIT OpenCourseWare

http://ocw.mit.edu/index.htm

http://ocw.mit.edu/courses/environment-courses/



Open Culture

Free Online University Courses - http://www.openculture.com/freeonlinecourses

... "from recognized universities, incl Stanford, Yale, MIT, Harvard, Berkeley, Oxford and more"

"Download audio & video courses (often from iTunes, YouTube, or university web sites). Over 30,000 hours of free audio & video lectures..."



Open Education Database

http://oedb.org/open/



Open Learning Initiative / Carnegie Mellon

http://oli.cmu.edu/ -- http://oli.cmu.edu/learn-with-oli/see-our-free-open-courses/



Skillshare

https://www.skillshare.com/


"Dismantling traditional barriers to learning so that anyone, anywhere in the world, can learn whatever they set their minds to..."



Udemy

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Udemy



UK Open University


SJS / Surrounded by ideas and knowledge, a virtual feast of plenty. A Tip of the GreenPolicy360 hat to the OU on the 50th anniversary of the Open University / March 2019


https://50.open.ac.uk/
https://youtu.be/TrKIImWQejI
https://twitter.com/BBC/status/1106888124796469248


Where you start in life shouldn't limit where you go

We are a movement... We are disruptors, occasional troublemakers, game changers

We are the fuel of imagination

http://www.open.ac.uk/


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Western Governors University

Environmental Studies Online ---- Higher Education / Continuing Education / Distance Learning


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WGU

Education without boundaries™

https://www.wgu.edu/

Four online colleges. 60+ flexible degree programs.

The first university where all bachelor’s and master’s degrees are competency-based, with online courses designed in partnership with leading employers. We’re nonprofit, driven entirely by a mission to serve students—in fact, it’s right there in our name. We’re called Western Governors University because we were created by a group of U.S. governors, an innovative solution to their states’ demand for high-quality, outcomes-oriented higher education.


SJS / GreenPolicy360 siterunner: I was asked by the Governor of New Mexico in 1996 to represent our state in the creation of the "Virtual University". In the 1990s, as a member of New Mexico's State Board of Education, I could see future opportunities more clearly in my roles on the state's technology council and with educational technology. At the time I was responsible for oversight of bringing the Internet into some 900 schools and I welcomed the role to create a new educational vision -- an online, accredited university. In my travels in 1969/70 I had become impressed by the new UK "Open University" and realized in the 1990s that online networks could provide new media access to top-level professors and educators and be made available to every student geographically. The idea of bringing 'remote learning/distance learning' to all students in our state and states around the country and world was immensely appealing. My goal, also, was to make higher education affordable and in New Mexico I worked to propose a full-tuition college scholarship, which was funded with a state lottery scholarship program. The combination of access and funding came to be. Each of the original Virtual University founding states appointed a member to serve on the work group and we set in motion what was formally announced in 1997 -- the new Western Governor's University.

The WGU and NM lottery scholarship are well into their second decade of success now in 2019. Education is the key to opening doors for every student and lifelong learning is an opportunity all of us deserve. It is a torch we are all passing forward, eye opening education and all that education brings with it.

Salud to the WGU and OU !

https://www.wgu.edu/about/our-story.html

http://www.wgu.edu/about_WGU/WGU_story


Go Digital: Information Technology Degree


(WGU Via Wikipedia)

The Western Governors University is a private, nonprofit, online university based in Salt Lake City, Utah. The university was founded by 19 U.S. governors in 1997 after the idea was formulated at a 1995 meeting of the Western Governors Association.

In January 1997, 13 governors were on hand to sign the articles of incorporation formally beginning the new university.

In 2001, the United States Department of Education awarded $10 million to found the Teachers College, and the first programs were offered in Information Technology.

US Department of Education ... "the innovative student-first model used by this school and others like it has garnered bipartisan support over the last decade." In January 2019, the U.S. Department of Education's Federal Student Aid (FSA) office issued their final audit determining that WGU was indeed eligible to participate in federal student aid... The news editor for Inside Higher Ed, said the "much anticipated high-stakes audit" had begun more than four years earlier and the findings were "not a surprise to most observers", due to their reliance on a 1992 law that defines aid eligibility for distance education programs.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Governors_University


(WGU Via Social Media)

https://twitter.com/wgu
https://www.linkedin.com/school/western-governors-university/
https://www.facebook.com/wgu.edu/
https://www.wgu.edu/newsroom.html


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Wikiversity

https://www.wikiversity.org/


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Science & the Environment

Pathways to New Definitions of Security

"Good science is essential these days." -- SJS / GreenPolicy360 Siterunner


National Center for Science Education


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@GreenPolicy360


Earth Science Research from Space

Planet API

Virtual Earth

New Definitions of National Security


Atmospheric Science

Earth Science

Earth Science from Space

Ocean Science


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Environmental Conservation & Medicine -- https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conservation_medicine


Conservation medicine is an emerging, interdisciplinary field that studies the relationship between human and animal health, and environmental conditions. Also known as ecological medicine, environmental medicine, or medical geology

Conservation medicine teams may involve physicians and veterinarians working alongside researchers and clinicians from diverse disciplines, including microbiologists, pathologists, landscape analysts, marine biologists, toxicologists, epidemiologists, climate biologists, anthropologists, economists, and political scientists.


Conservation Medicine / Human Health Impact of Ecosysytem Alteration / National Academy of Sciences of the U.S.


Dot Earth - Knowosphere

An Exercise to Sift for Sources Amid a Blitz of Fake News

Tracking the Facts - Backtrack Journals

By Andrew C. Revkin / November 24, 2016


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References / Reading

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massive_open_online_course

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_educational_resources

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Educational_websites

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Online_education

http://www.powersofplace.com/new/pdfs/POLITICS-POLICIES.pdf



Idealist: Working to Make a Better World / Environmental Job Opportunities



Society of Environmental Journalists - http://www.sej.org/headlines/list

"We tell the world's most important stories"
https://www.guidestar.org/profile/52-0194031
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society_of_Environmental_Journalists



PEN America

https://pen.org/
https://pen.org/about-us/
https://pen.org/shielding-users-from-online-abuse/

PEN International

https://pen-international.org/
https://pen-international.org/news



Fact-Checking Sites

Fact Checking @GreenPolicy360
80 Countries-237 Fact-Checking Sites (2020)
60 Countries-188 Fact-Checking Sites (2019)
37 Countries-96 Fact-Checking Sites (2016)
MediaWise for Teens
PolitiFact via Poynter
Poynter Int'l Fact Checking Network
Poynter Int'l List
Reporters Lab Fact-Checking News


Climate Denial / Misinformation -- Fact-finding & Response

ClimateFeedback.org
Climate -- Crocks, Denial, Facts & Vids
Desmog Blog
Desmog & Climate Change
Denier Database
Desmog Perspective
Denier Favorites
Drilled - Corp Sponsored
Grist on Skeptics
PEN America, Envir Writing, How to Defend Yourself and Your Work Online
Re: Misinfo of 'Planet of the Humans' Documentary
Rebutting Climate Denier Talking Pts
Skeptical Science Site
Skeptical - Attacks on Climate Models
Snopes on Climate
Techniques of Science Denial (Graph)
Techniques of Science Denial (Video)



Higher Education in the Digital Age by William G. Bowen / Hardcover/Paperback/Kindle



Digital Rights

Explore a Digital World at GreenPolicy360
* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Digital_Rights

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Science, Technology, Engineering & Math (STEM)

Building students' skills, content knowledge, and fluency in STEM fields


FutureLearn / Science, Technology, Engineering & Math (STEM)



International Climate Summits, National Climate Plans

Glasgow (2021) & Paris (2015): Pledges & Promises (INDCs-NDCs)


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Green Business

Green Marketing


Sustainability


Seventh Generation


Green Sustainable Management - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sustainable_management

Arizona State https://schoolofsustainability.asu.edu/
ASU Online https://asuonline.asu.edu/online-degree-programs/undergraduate/bachelor-arts-sustainability
Columbia http://ce.columbia.edu/sustainability-management
Harvard https://www.extension.harvard.edu/academics/professional-graduate-certificates/sustainability-certificate
St Petersburg College, Florida http://www.spcollege.edu/sustainabilityBAS/
University of Colorado https://sustainable.colorado.edu/
University of Wisconsin http://sustain.wisconsin.edu/degrees-and-certificates/masters/



Renewable energy commercialization

Explore the Renewable Energy Job Field


Renewable energy continued its rapid growth ... new records are being set for installed wind and photovoltaic capacity and global renewables investment. A key benefit that this investment growth brings is a growth in jobs ....

"Green Gold" -- https://www.nature.com/articles/nenergy201611



GreenPolicy360: We're Into Science, Everyday

Data, Intelligence, Science @GreenPolicy360


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GreenPolicy360 (eOS)


A central goal of GreenPolicy360 is to provide news of environmental and related political and economic initiatives, science and data.

As an eco-resource reporting developments within a wide range of environmental fields, GreenPolicy360 looks to facts and 'good' science.

Our site attempts to be an e-resource that features reporting that is factual and verifiable. We approach eco-questions and -challenges with a problem-solving perspective.


NASA's message: Our Green Policy Message -- Good science, sound decision-making based on science, needs good data

GreenPolicy360: Our Position on the Use of Science


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NASA | Earth Science



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