All Species Day

With your GreenPolicy Siterunner in Santa Fe on All Species Day. Looking back and looking forward to the challenges of affirming and protecting diversity of life in the midst of the "Sixth Extinction"

Santa Fe - 'holy faith' in Spanish - was named in memory of the 'holy faith of St. Francis of Assisi', the patron saint of animals and ecology.

Remembering the drafting of the Green Party Platform -- https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Green_Platform

SJS / Siterunner: The challenge was to construct a successful model on which to build a growing, vital, U.S. Green Party. The model of party building came from an unlikely place: a small state in the hinterlands far from centers of power. In 1994 in Santa Fe, named after St. Francis of Assisi, the patron saint of the land and animals, I began drafting and eventually the process led to feeling that I was being inspired by larger, perhaps spiritual forces. Values were a foundation (with the Bear & Company book by Charlene Spretnak, "Spiritual Dimension of Green Politics" inspiring) and political and policy ideas flowed from many sources deeply felt as if handed to me and a diverse thread of green, visionary ideas were shared as I wrote. The first draft of a national platform for a new Green party in process was ready to lift a first Green presidential campaign in 1996.

A tip of the hat to the first Catholic pope to choose to name himself after St. Francis, and to his encompassing Laudato Si eco-encyclical in 2015 as the Catholic Church sets forth a vision of green values and action.

Integral Ecology

Rights of Nature EarthLaw

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http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/All_Species_Day

http://earthstonestation.com/2012/05/09/all-species-day/

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http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/PlanetCitizen

http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/EarthPOV

http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Climate_News

http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Anthropocene

http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/GreenPolicy360_Highlights

http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Look_at_how_thin_our_atmosphere_is

http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/New_Definitions_of_National_Security

http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Extinction

http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Tree_of_Life

http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Right_Now

http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Environmental_movement

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The early Greeks and Romans had a well established set of taxonomic names for species of animals and plants, based upon the macroscopically observable characteristics of organisms, with Aristotle being the chief architect of this codification; even earlier, the Egyptians and Cretans developed basic symbols and names for species important in farming and culture. It was not until the year 1686 when English naturalist John Ray introduced the concept that species were distinguished by inevitably producing the same species, though considerable morphological variation was observed within a species. Carl Linnaeus (1707–1778) formalized the taxonomic rank of species, and developed the two part naming system of binomial nomenclature that survives to current times, with genus and species names in Latin form.

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Estimation of species numbers

Since most of the planet's species are deemed to be undiscovered, it is exceedingly difficult even to estimate the total number of species on Earth. An 2011 innovative study estimated the total number of species to be about 8.7 million, with around 86 percent of which are presently undiscovered.[2] The following represents a rough approximation of the number of species by taxonomic group, with ranges given for varying estimates of the species total numbers:

Total species: 7,000,000 to 100,000,000 (the lower number reflecting described species and the higher based upon estimates of Earth's species):

Bacteria: 5,000,000 to 10,000,000[3]

Archaea: 20,000 (based upon only marine species) [4]

Eukarya: 1,660,000

Of the described eukarya species 1,600,000 based on described species, including:

297,326 plants, including:

15,000 mosses

12,000 ferns

1,025 fern allies

980 gymnosperms

258,650 angiosperms

199,350 dicotyledons

59,300 monocotyledons

9,671 red and green algae

2,849 brown algae

100,000 fungi (of an estimated total 1,500,000 other non-animals) including:

25,000 lichens,

16,000 mushrooms

30,000 red, brown and blue-green molds

17,000 conidial fungi

1,260,000 animals, including:

1,203,375 invertebrates:

950,000 insects

81,000 mollusks

50,000 crustaceans

2175 corals

130,200 others

59,811 vertebrates:

29,300 fish

6199 amphibians

8240 reptiles

9956 birds

5416 mammals

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Endangered

Endangered species...

http://www.eoearth.org/view/article/152414/

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Warming Oceans Phytoplankton & Photosynthesis

The 'tiny little ones' -- www.tinybluegreen.com

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"It's all connected..."

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