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Hubble Sees as Far as We Have Ever Seen
Newfound star is the most distant ever observed


https://cdn.spacetelescope.org/archives/images/screen/heic1505b.jpg


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Methane, We're Watching

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Copernicus_EU
Detecting methane from space
There has been quite a buzz around this unique advancement in space, and the valuable data it will provide on methane, a powerful greenhouse gas that accounts for a quarter of the warming our planet is experiencing today. Curbing anthropogenic methane emissions is one of the most efficient and economical options available to slow the rate of warming over the next few decades, while efforts continue to reduce CO2 emissions worldwide.


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Daphne with an Orphan


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Orphans No More

https://www.sheldrickwildlifetrust.org/
https://www.sheldrickwildlifetrust.org/about_us.asp


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The Oil/Gas Deal in the Arctic


"It was bigger than sending a man to the moon", re: US / Russia to drill in the Arctic


It's a big story, a 'follow the money' story, the story of oil/gas profits and global environmental costs...

Looking at Rosneft/Exxon's $500 billion Arctic deal, Rex Tillerson's appt as US Secretary of State, US/Russia oil/gas interests...

The political-economic reality in a warming North offers a rich bounty -- and pressing challenge to global security.


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"Starlink"



February 22, 2018, the beginning of a SpaceX planetary network...
Micro-satellites to deliver low-cost Internet access around the globe...
SpaceX's ultimate goal is to provide gigabit broadband services worldwide...


GreenPolicy360: Digital Citizens, Digital Rights


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Blue-Green Connection to Life on Earth

"The World Is Blue: How Our Fate and the Ocean’s Are One"


Blue Planet II
"A single kind of blue-green algae in the ocean ('Prochlorococcus') produces the oxygen in one of every five breaths we take"
~ The Fate of Small Species and the Oceans -- Sylvia Earle


https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/TinyBlueGreen
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Planet_Citizens,_Planet_Scientists
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Global_Fishing_Watch
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Oceans


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Planet Citizen, Bioneer and environmental activist Leonardo DiCaprio joins w/ Planet to launch an amazing ocean imaging, earth science project


Reefscape
Reefscape
Satellite Doves to Aid Coral Conservation
Planet API


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US Nuclear Posture Review Released

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US Slaps Tariff on Solar Energy Panels


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World Bank to end financial support for oil and gas extraction

Bank announces in Paris it ‘will no longer finance upstream oil and gas’ after 2019 in response to threat posed by climate change


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European Union unveils plan to make all plastic packaging recyclable by 2030

The EU wants to make all plastic packaging recyclable, reduce single-use plastic and restrict microplastics. The plan would "lay the foundations for a new plastic economy."


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Green Networking, Going Global


GreenPolicy360: Greening Our Blue Planet



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Rein In Trump's Ability to Launch Nuclear First Strike


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Pope Francis on the Environment


VATICAN CITY, January 8, 2018 (Reuters) - Pope Francis called on Monday for all nations to support dialog to ease tensions on the Korean peninsula and to work for a legally binding ban on nuclear weapons.

“Nuclear weapons must be banned,” Francis said, quoting a document issued by Pope John XXIII at the height of the Cold War and adding that there is “no denying that the conflagration could be started by some chance and unforeseen circumstance.”

He noted that the Holy See was among 122 states that last year agreed to a United Nations treaty to ban nuclear weapons. The United States, Britain, France and others boycotted the talks that led to the treaty, instead pledging commitment to a decades-old Non-Proliferation Treaty.

“It is of paramount importance to support every effort at dialog on the Korean peninsula, in order to find new ways of overcoming the current disputes, increasing mutual trust and ensuring a peaceful future for the Korean people and the entire world,” Francis said, addressing the nuclear crisis beween North Korea and the United States.


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Declining oxygen in the global ocean and coastal waters


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Getting Down to Earth

Regenerative Green Best Practices
https://kisstheground.com/
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Regenerative_Agriculture


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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(Note: 2017 Green Stories of the Day edited/re-published Feb 2018)


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New Definitions of National & Global Security


Environmental Security Organizations
Environmental Security
Environmental Security, National Security


Rethinking Nuclear Risks

At GreenPolicy's associate, Strategic Demands / StratDem


When Carl Sagan Warned the World About Nuclear Winter

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/when-carl-sagan-warned-world-about-nuclear-winter-180967198/


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#OnePlanet


News from the Int'l One Planet Summit

December 2017, Paris, France


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Climate commitments at the 'One Planet Summit' in Paris

World Bank Group pledges to stop investing in oil and gas exploration

China/Xinhua -- France hosts climate change summit

World is losing the battle against climate change


Euronews "One Planet" Global Summit Meet Up Video

Macron Holds a Climate Summit, and Trump Casts a Shadow

More than 50 US mayors just signed a charter to meet the Paris agreement goals

Investors aim to clean up corporate emissions in line with Paris 2015 international climate agreement

With fossil fuel subsidies, humanity investing in 'own doom': UN chief


France wants America’s best climate scientists because our government won’t want them


France launches Make Our Planet Great Again grants


EU announces €9bn in funding for climate action

EU funds will be focused on clean energy, and sustainable cities and agriculture


John Kerry: US 'will come back' to Paris climate accord


UK: World’s space agencies to set up climate observatory

The heads of several of the world’s space agencies have agreed to set up a climate observatory to pool data and share it with scientists across the world. The UK Space Agency has joined other organisations to commit to working together on activities such as increasing observations of key climate variables and validating the data.
They aim to improve long term sustainability and accessibility of climate data captured by satellites.
Graham Turnock, Chief Executive of the UK Space Agency, who signed the agreement in Paris said: “The UK is working with international organisations to encourage the use of space data and technology to tackling climate change. It’s important we come together and agree to work towards improving the quality and sustainability of climate data from space and ensuring it is made freely available to researchers around the world.”


In September 2018, a follow on Global Climate Action Summit will be held in San Francisco.

Co-chaired by Jerry Brown, the governor of California said of the next Summit:
If we all work together, humanity can rise to the existential threat of climate change.


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News from the Int'l Climate Conference in Germany


  • UN Climate Change@UNFCCC
@JerryBrownGov joins Facebook UN event at #COP23 in Bonn:

"The #ParisAgreement was a miracle - we must build on this miracle. We are on the road to hell without full Paris Agreement implementation"

  • Andy Revkin@Revkin
  • FutureEarth
International research for global sustainability - https://mobile.twitter.com/FutureEarth
  • GreenPolicy360
Climate News - https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Climate_News
Resilience - https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:GreenPolicy360_-_Resilience.png


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Carbon Dioxide and the "Thin Blue" Atmosphere

NASA OCO-2, critical measurements, critical mission - https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/12478
Carbon dioxide (CO2) is the most important greenhouse gas released to the atmosphere through human activities...
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/OCO-2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syU1rRCp7E8
The OCO-2 mission represents an important advance in the ability to observe atmospheric carbon dioxide. OCO-2 collects high-precision, total column measurements of carbon dioxide (from the sensor to Earth’s surface) during daylight conditions.
Scientists can also use model results to understand and predict where carbon dioxide is being emitted and removed from the atmosphere and how much is from natural processes and human activities.
Carbon dioxide variations are largely controlled by fossil fuel emissions and seasonal fluxes of carbon between the atmosphere and land biosphere.
OCO-2's unprecedented science is "a step toward answering critical questions about carbon dioxide and Earth's climate future."


Cities Mapping CO2


CO2 Molecule


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https://science2017.globalchange.gov/


US Climate Science Special Report



International Cooperation, Framework Convention on Climate Change
http://unfccc.int/2860.php
https://cop23.unfccc.int/
https://cop23.unfccc.int/news/cop23-kicks-off-with-strong-calls-to-hold-to-paris-agreement-path
https://cop23.unfccc.int/news/un-climate-change-conference-2017-aims-for-further-faster-ambition-together


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Only One Country Refuses to Support the Int'l Climate Agreement

November 7, 2017


California Gov. Jerry Brown delivers a blunt climate change message in Germany

Brown has been hailed in German media as the “anti-Trump” for his efforts to keep the United States engaged in the 2015 Paris agreement’s commitments to cut greenhouse emissions...

“It’s hard to get your mind around something so extensive,” said Brown, who was appointed by Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama, the U.N. conference president, to serve as a special advisor for states and regions...

“Let’s lead the whole world to realize this is not your normal political challenge,” he added. “This is much bigger. This is life itself. It requires courage and imagination.”



Record Surge in CO2
https://mobile.twitter.com/guardianeco/status/924960833729265669
https://www.businessgreen.com/bg/news/3020046/wmo-greenhouse-gas-concentrations-reach-highest-level-in-800-000-years


Planet Citizens with an Earth Point of View
www.earthpov.com
www.thinbluelayer.com


Dawning Thin Blue Perspective
New Definitions of National And Global Security
National Interests, Environmental Protection, Global & Indivisible


Dawn from Space
Fragile edge of our planet
Thin blue line
Mysterious rhythm
Our next breath
Heart struck with wonder
Mind dizzy with awe
-- Astronaut Douglas Wheelock‏ @Astro_Wheels


"Climathon"
To highlight the global collaboration happening across the world -- http://www.climate-kic.org/
https://eit.europa.eu/newsroom/climate-kic-malm%C3%B6-encourages-children-in-climathon
The EU’s main climate innovation initiative -- http://www.climate-kic.org/


War on the Rocks
Look deeply at the threat -- https://warontherocks.com/2017/10/trumps-threat-to-nuclear-order/
NYT / Mr. Trump can unilaterally order a nuclear strike at any time
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/10/26/opinion/trump-nuclear-arsenal.html
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Nuclear_Proliferation


Ikigai
https://www.treehugger.com/culture/ikigai-japanese-art-finding-ones-purpose-life.html


Endangered Species
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Destroying_the_Environment_Is_a_Sin
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Tree_of_Life -- https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Endangered_species


Greenbuild
'Greenbuild: Beginning November 8th
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Smart_home-energy-3d.png
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Building_Standards
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:SmartHomeOntology.jpg
http://www.mcdonough.com/ / "Cradle-to-Grave"


Nowhere Is a Place
Today's 'Sunday Services' visits Patagonia, with a special thanks to Danny Moses, long-time, now retired, Editor-in-Chief of Sierra Club Books
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/07/t-magazine/bruce-chatwin.html


I climbed a path and from the top looked up-stream towards Chile. I could see the river, glinting and sliding through the bone-white cliffs with strips of emerald cultivation either side. Away from the cliffs was the desert. There was no sound but the wind, whirring through thorns and whistling through dead grass, and no other sign of life but a hawk, and a black beetle easing over white stones. ― Bruce Chatwin, In Patagonia
There were no voices here. There was this, what I saw; and though beyond it were mountains and glaciers and albatrosses and Indians; there was nothing to speak of, nothing to delay me further. Only the Patagonian paradox: tiny blossoms in vast space; to be here, it helped to be a miniaturist, or else interested in enormous empty spaces. There was no intermediate zone to study. Either the enormity of the desert or the sight of a tiny flower. In Patagonia you had to choose between the tiny and the vast. ― Paul Theroux
There is a saying in Patagonia -- que asegura a la persona que come el fruto del calafate, su regreso a estas tierras -- those who taste the fruit of the calafate will return to this land. I have tasted the calafate berry. ― Jeff Gnass


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Bugs Be Gone / October 21
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/oct/20/insectageddon-farming-catastrophe-climate-breakdown-insect-populations
http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Microbiomes_at_Risk
http://www.tinybluegreen.com


Pollute Me, Not / October 20
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Pollution -- https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Air_Pollution -- https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Water_Pollution -- https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Externalities
There are essential reasons why environmental protection regulations exist around the world -- https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Environmental_protection
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Environmental_Protection -- https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Environmental_Laws


National & Global Security / October 19
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:New_Definitions_of_National_Security.png


Deconstructing the Environmental Protection Agency / October 18
https://futurism.com/the-epa-just-removed-climate-change-from-their-climate-change-website/
http://blog.ucsusa.org/science-blogger/how-pruitt-listens-removing-clean-power-plan-web-resources-undermines-public-engagement
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:UCS-EPA-Oct16,2017.png


A Frontline Public Broadcasting Investigation


Green Quotes / October 17
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earthviews_from_Astronauts
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Overview_Effect


Prevent Nuclear First Use / October 16
From our associate #StratDem -- http://strategicdemands.com/
http://strategicdemands.com/prevent-nuclear-first-use/


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'Sunday Services' - @Earth360 / October 15
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Look_at_how_thin_our_atmosphere_is


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Mars Journey & Radiation / October 14
Pre-publication excerpt from Scott Kelly's "Endurance" / Via the Brisbane Times
Planet Earth's "thin blue layer", strategic necessity


Living Earth / October 13


Algae release -nikon-small-world-competition-2017-winners.jpg


https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Algae_release_-nikon-small-world-competition-2017-winners.jpg
http://www.nikonsmallworld.com/subjects/main/algae
http://www.tinybluegreen.com

 


"War on the EPA" / October 12
Frontline / Public Broadcasting / WGBH


Revisiting environmental national & global security


Planet Earth Flag Proposal / October 11
http://www.flagofplanetearth.com/ -- http://www.flagofplanetearth.com/press/
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Planet_Earth_Flag_(2017_proposal).jpg


Google Earth Goes Social / October 10
https://thenextweb.com/google/2017/07/13/google-earth-will-soon-let-anyone-share-stories-and-photos-on-virtual-globe/
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-google-brazil/google-earth-to-let-users-post-stories-photos-in-coming-years-idUSKBN19X01P
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Virtual_Earth


Green Business Investing / October 9
Investing with Green Values -- Green Money Journal
http://greenmoney.com/ -- http://greenmoneyjournal.com/
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Green_Business -- https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Sustainability_Policies


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'Sunday Services' - Threats of Nukes / October 8


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'Dirt' and the Climate / October 7
https://www.inquisitr.com/4543144/carbon-emissions-from-soil-could-lead-to-unstoppable-global-warming/
Who cares about soil, dirt, whatever you call it -- https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Soil


"Ban the Bomb": Nobel Prize Goes to ICAN / October 6
Is the Nobel Committee Finally Abiding by Nobel’s Will?
Nobel Peace Prize goes to the "International Campaign to Abolish Nuclear Weapons" -- ICAN -- http://www.bbc.com/news/world-41528743
http://www.lasg.org/press/2017/press_release_06Oct2017a.html
Landmark Treaty to Prohibit Nuclear Weapons Bans Research, Possession, Use, Nuclear Deterrence
http://strategicdemands.com/nuclear-weapons-treaty-adopted-historic-moment/
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Nuclear_Nonproliferation


How Much Carbon Are We Emitting into Our Atmosphere? / October 5
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/life-unbounded/the-crazy-scale-of-human-carbon-emission/
"How thin is our atmosphere?"
Observing Carbon Levels from the OCO-2 Satellite


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Earth is a Very Special Place / October 4
Union of Concerned Scientists Speaks Out
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_and_Space,_Politics
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Planet_Citizens,_Planet_Scientists

 

Carbon Storage, Soil-Based / October 3
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Carbon_Sequestration -- https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Carbon_Sequestration
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Soil_Loss -- https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Soil-vs-dirt-infographic.jpg
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/California_out_in_front_in_a_Green_future -- https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Regenerative_Agriculture


Solar On Water, China on Top / October 2
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Renewable_Energy
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Solar_Energy


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'Sunday Services' - Looking Out / October 1
http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Earth_Observations
http://www.earthpov.com -- https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/HelloEarth
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Above.png -- https://www.pinterest.com/stratdem/environmental-security/
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/Earth's_atmosphere_3840x2160.jpg -- https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:ThinBlue.png


NASA Earth Science in Danger / September 30
http://www.earthpov.com -- http://www.planetcitizen.org
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_and_Space,_Politics
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Science_Research_from_Space
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Science_Vital_Signs
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Right_Now
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Climate_News


Forests: Sinks or Sources / September 29
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Forests
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Rainforest


Four Times the Size of Manhattan / September 28
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Antarctica


Global Threats to Food Supply / September 27
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Food_Pages:_On_Earth_Food_Politics
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Alternative_Agriculture
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Seed_Saving


A Chinese Professor says 'Prepare' / September 26
Time to Prepare for the Worst in Korea


Threat Horizon
http://strategicdemands.com/us-president-talks-un/
http://strategicdemands.com/a-nuclear-meme/
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Nuclear_Proliferation
http://strategicdemands.com/oversight-us-nuclear-arsenal/
http://strategicdemands.com/no-one-should-have-singular-nuclear-launch-authority/
http://strategicdemands.com/nuclear-hair-trigger/


Before the Deluge / September 25
From yesterday's stormy seas to today's performance by Jackson Browne and his band


Some of them were angry
At the way the earth was abused
By the men who learned how to forge her beauty into power
And they struggled to protect her from them
Only to be confused
By the magnitude of her fury in the final hour
And when the sand was gone and the time arrived
In the naked dawn only a few survived
And in attempts to understand a thing so simple and so huge
Believed that they were meant to live after the deluge


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'Sunday Services' - Stormy Weather/ September 24
Rough waves, rough times


China's Solar Future / September 23
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Solar_Energy


Warning from StratDem / September 22
http://strategicdemands.com/a-nuclear-meme/


Green360 Trending News / September 21
https://twitter.com/UNFCCC/status/910376712030052357
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/GTN_GreenLinks_Trending_News
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Climate_News


After the US President's Speech / September 20
After Trump threatens at the UN to "totally destroy" North Korea, the UN continues with vote to totally ban nuclear weapons...
http://www.lasg.org/press/2017/press_release_20Sep2017.html
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Nuclear_Nonproliferation


The Speech Before the US President's / September 19
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Nuclear_Threat_Sept_19,_2017.png
US president's speech at the UN -- Transcript
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/President_Trump_speech_at_the_UN_Sept19%2C2017.pdf
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2017/09/19/trumps-menacing-united-nations-speech-annotated/
http://www.latimes.com/world/la-fg-trump-united-nations-address-transcript-20170919-htmlstory.html
GreenPolicy360 / Strategic Demands speak of a New Security Vision
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/New_Definitions_of_National_Security
http://www.strategicdemands.com/new-definitions-of-security/


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Remember the Nuclear War 'Close Calls' / September 18
Stanislav Petrov: Russia remembers - https://www.rt.com/news/403625-nuclear-soviet-officer-died/
US remembers - http://paleofuture.gizmodo.com/man-who-saved-the-world-from-nuclear-armageddon-in-1983-1818501062
UK remembers - http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/stanislav-petrov-dead-soviet-officer-nuclear-war-1983-saved-world-dies-died-77-robert-de-niro-a7952361.html
and then there's Vasily Arkhipov http://strategicdemands.com/remembering-a-day-in-1962/


https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Nuclear_Weapons
http://strategicdemands.com/nuclear-issues-cold-war-2-0/
http://strategicdemands.com/?s=HairTrigger


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'Sunday Services' / Against the Tide
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Sea-Level_Rise


100% Renewable? Doable? Yes. Going Green / September 16
GreenPolicy360 launches Net Zero Energy Policy (take that Irma) www.netzeropolicy.com
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Going_Green


With synchronicity @work, a "1000 Cities Initiative" is announced -- https://www.treehugger.com/climate-change/patti-smith-rising-above-and-fighting-climate-change-art.html
"Patti Smith's daughter explains, "that if 1000 cities come together and commit to becoming 100% renewable and transition off fossil fuels by 2040, we can turn the Paris Agreement into action."


Patti Smith remembers an inspiration: “When I worked with Ralph Nader, one of the things that he taught us was that nothing productive comes from negativity or pessimism. So it’s important not to be drawn into a state of pessimism or paralysis, one has to take a breath and rise above it. I’m not saying that as rhetoric, I’m saying it as an action, as what I have to do myself. I feel the same way that you feel, that everyone else feels, but I refuse to be trampled by it, I refuse to be demoralized; I just keep on doing my work, our work.”


Nothing to Worry About (Until It Comes for You) / September 15
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Merchants_of_Doubt


We're Back in Clearwater / September 14
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2017/09/14/trump-weighs-in-on-climate-change-hey-there-have-been-big-hurricanes-before/
http://blogs.edf.org/climate411/2017/09/12/fighting-back-against-scott-pruitts-relentless-distortions-of-climate-science-and-law/
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/politics/ct-florida-governor-climate-change-20170908-story.html


From Clearwater, Evacuating / September 8
Time to evacuate. Will be back online next week. Stay safe all!


Extreme Weather from Above / September 7


View from above-another severe weather event.jpg


Strategic Demands / #StratDem

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

http://strategicdemands.com/environmental-security/

 


Quote: "Extreme Weather Events" / September 6


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A Losing Choice for NASA / September 5
https://thinkprogress.org/trump-names-climate-science-denier-to-run-nasa-c9a46a6f4a52/
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:NASA -- https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Planet_Citizens
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2017/09/05/trump-nominates-oklahoma-politician-and-climate-skeptic-to-run-nasa/
https://www.wsj.com/articles/white-house-set-to-unveil-high-level-council-for-coordinating-space-policy-1498848039


NextGen Batteries / September 4
Vanadium Flow Batteries - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vanadium_redox_battery / https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flow_battery / https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NanoFlowcell
Fuel Cell Batteries & News - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_cell / https://energy.gov/eere/fuelcells/fuel-cells / https://www.sciencedaily.com/news/matter_energy/fuel_cells/
National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL) - https://www.nrel.gov/ - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Renewable_Energy_Laboratory
Renewable Energy World - http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/index.html / http://www.renewableenergyworld.com/energy-storage/top-news.html
The Green Goal: A Clean Energy Economy - https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Renewable_Energy


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'Sunday Services' / Religious Leaders Speak Out
World Day of Prayer for the Care of Creation
http://catholicclimatemovement.global/world-day-of-prayer/
http://www.usccb.org/prayer-and-worship/prayers-and-devotions/prayers/prayers-to-care-for-creation.cfm
http://en.radiovaticana.va/news/2017/09/01/the_day_of_prayer_for_the_care_of_creation_joint_message/1333983
http://w2.vatican.va/content/francesco/en/letters/2015/documents/papa-francesco_20150806_lettera-giornata-cura-creato.html


“The annual World Day of prayer for the Care of Creation offers to individual believers and to the community a precious opportunity to renew our personal participation in this vocation as custodians of creation, raising to God our thanks for the marvelous works that He has entrusted to our care...”


Not Just Another Climate Speech / September 2
By Dr. Joseph Romm, creator of climateprogress.org -- http://www.climateprogress.org
Joe Romm -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_J._Romm -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hell_and_High_Water_(book)
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Climate_News -- https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Sea-Level_Rise -- https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_and_Space,_Politics
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/New_Definitions_of_National_Security -- https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/PlanetCitizen


Going Solar, Going Green / September 1
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Going_Green


"Not welcomed" / August 31
Risks of Harveys
Extreme Hurricane Harvey


Boomtown Houston, Flooding Times / August 30
H/t to ProPublica's investigative series on Houston in danger. Note the series beginning publication date, December 2016...


Now Comes 'Hell and High Water' Harvey...
August 28, 2017
Harvey marks the most extreme rain event in U.S. history


Houston, In Danger.png


Over Texas / August 29
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Harvey_Houston.png


https://assets.rbl.ms/10607706/980x.jpg


Facts Count - PolitiFact / August 28
Global Fact-Checking Projects in Countries -- PolitiFact is a networking model...
"There are 96 fact-checking projects in 37 countries", beginning with the original PolitiFact project from Poynter Institute in St. Petersburg, Florida
http://www.poynter.org/2016/there-are-96-fact-checking-projects-in-37-countries-new-census-finds/396256/
http://reporterslab.org/fact-checking/
http://reporterslab.org/category/fact-checking/#article-1384
http://reporterslab.org/global-fact-checking-up-50-percent/


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'Sunday Services' / Eco-Schism in the Christian Faith
Now there are some who believe in a 'global warming hoax', evangelism, prophecy, end times -- and there are those more 'on earth', who believe in 'our common home' and in a moral imperative to 'care for our common home'. Take a look at a profound schism growing within the Christian church, a 'split' in beliefs that will act to shape our future life, our future common life on earth, however we look at faith and religion. The actual number of Christians in the world is estimated in the range of 2 - 3 billion, with over 1.2 billion Catholics ...
Here is US Senator Jim Inhofe, perhaps the most powerful man on environmental policy in the US Senate, his philosophy of a scientific 'hoax' and why he believes as he does, and why he wields his power to fit his religious beliefs...
Senator Jim Inhofe's Hoax
And here's Pope Francis, the first pontiff to name himself after the Catholic Church's patron saint of the environment, St. Francis. The Jesuit pope is promulgator of a first Catholic eco-encyclical and doctrine ... Laudato Si'
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Pope_Francis_on_the_Environment
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Laudato_Si
http://www.tulsaworld.com/news/religion/sen-jim-inhofe-issues-statement-on-pope-s-global-warming/article_1575fd35-e52e-5140-8f89-2d116c6bef45.html
Senator Inhofe (R-Oklahoma): "I disagree with the pope's philosophy on global warming. I am concerned that his encyclical will be used by global warming alarmists..."
"My point is, God’s still up there. The arrogance of people to think that we, human beings, would be able to change what He is doing in the climate is to me outrageous."


New Views from Above / August 26
https://www.outsideonline.com/2103761/birds-eye-tour-our-national-parks#slide-1
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:A_window_view.jpg
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Above.png
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Overview_Effect
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earthviews


 

The US President, Nuclear Codes & 'First Use' / August 25

Continuing On Topic / World-US News in Depth:
Nukes, Clapper, Trump
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/no-one-should-have-sole-authority-to-launch-a-nuclear-attack/


The US President & 'First Use' / August 24

Update: GreenPolicy360 and the Strategic Demands team are reviewing a proposed bill that goes further than the Lieu/Markey 'first-use' proposal. Stay tuned. We'll be back...
https://livableworld.org/senator-markey-rep-lieu-introduce-restricting-first-use-nuclear-weapons-act-2017/


The US President & Nuclear Codes / August 23

James R. Clapper Jr., former director of US national intelligence, questioned president Trump’s fitness for office following the president's speech in Phoenix on Tuesday, August 22.
“I really question his ability to be — his fitness to be — in this office... I also am beginning to wonder about his motivation for it — maybe he is looking for a way out.”
Clapper continued in an interview after he watched Trump’s speech, saying that he is very worried about the president’s access to nuclear codes...
“In a fit of pique he decides to do something about Kim Jong Un, there’s actually very little to stop him,” Clapper said, referencing the president and the North Korean leader.
“The whole system is built to ensure rapid response if necessary. So there’s very little in the way of controls over exercising a nuclear option, which is pretty damn scary.”


https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/08/23/james-clapper-questions-trumps-fitness-worries-about-his-access-to-nuclear-codes/


http://strategicdemands.com/nuclear-issues-cold-war-2-0/
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Nuclear_Proliferation


#HairTrigger
http://strategicdemands.com/nuclear-hair-trigger/


Trump looking-down.jpg

 


“U.S. national security policy rests on the assertion that 'forward presence' contributes directly to global peace and security. In this powerful book, Base Nation, David Vine examines, dismantles, and disproves that claim. He demonstrates that America's sprawling network of overseas bases imposes costs — not only financial but also political, environmental, and moral — that far exceed what the Pentagon is prepared to acknowledge. Base Nation offers a devastating critique, and no doubt Washington will try to ignore it. Citizens should refuse to let that happen.” — Andrew J. Bacevich
Strategic Demands of the 21st Century by Roger Morris & Steven Schmidt
http://strategicdemands.com/costsofwar/
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Surviving_Victory.png


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Green Thoughts on an August Eve / August 21
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Green_Quotes


Visiting Strategic Demands / August 19 & 20
GreenPolicy360's associate ... www.strategicdemands.com


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Monitoring the Global Climate Accord / August 18
Follow the Climate Plans & Progress of Nations
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:INDC


Trump's Climate Rejection / August 17
https://twitter.com/KHayhoe/status/895987382909943808
https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-has-broad-power-to-block-climate-change-report
@GreenPolicy, Trump's Rejection of the US Climate Report


"Ignorance" / An Understatement / August 16
The "Donald Trump Forest" project has been started by campaigners upset at what they call the US president's "ignorance" on climate science.
Trump Forest allows people either to plant trees locally or pay for trees to be planted.
Currently the campaign to compensate for the impact of President Trump's climate policies has 120,000 pledges...
http://www.bonnchallenge.org/content/challenge -- http://www.bonnchallenge.org/content/get-involved
"Billion Tree Tsunami"
Pakistani province plants one billion trees
One billion trees and more on the way...
Fifty million reforestation
Sixty-six million trees in 12 hours
Two billion trees along the highways


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'Sunday Services' - Shinrin-Yoku


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Overcoming Nuclear Crisis / August 12
GrnPolicy Siterunner: Thinking of nuclear this morning when I woke and after checking Google News to see if nuclear war had broken out w/ N Korea ... and w/ China (China 'official' news yesterday: “If the U.S. and South Korea carry out strikes and try to overthrow the North Korean regime and change the political pattern of the Korean Peninsula, China will prevent them from doing so”) and knowing the US and Chinese pres spoke by phone late yesterday, I began thinking of recent expert opinions I've read (w/ a h/t to Tom Nichols).
Thinking about a Falk and Krieger piece who talked of a nuclear 'flamenco' a couple months ago, I began thinking about the current US Pacific Fleet admiral, Scott Swift, who last wk said he'd shoot off atomic weapons toward China if ordered by the president. The admiral's statement in Australia was then explained by a US Navy spokesman named Charlie Brown (not kidding). Here's the May 30th Hill op-ed, still timely:
Averting the Ticking Nuclear Time Bomb
Singular Authority to Launch Nuclear Weapons
With an "On the Beach" reminder of an aftermath


Sympatheia: Reflective Life & Walk with Beauty / August 11
It's All Connected -- https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Relational_Reality.jpg


Visiting GreenPolicy Associate, StratDem / August 10
As nuclear war talk heats up...
http://strategicdemands.com/stewards-of-the-apocalypse/
http://strategicdemands.com/nuclear-issues-cold-war-2-0/
http://strategicdemands.com/costsofwar/
http://strategicdemands.com/new-definitions-of-security/


The Nuclear Brink / August 9
#HairTrigger http://strategicdemands.com/?s=nuclear+hair+trigger
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:My_First_Order.png


What Climate Change Report? / August 8
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/07/climate/climate-change-drastic-warming-trump.html
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/08/07/climate/document-Draft-of-the-Climate-Science-Special-Report.html
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Climate_News
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_and_Space,_Politics


On 'First Use' and Banning Nukes / August 7
Preemptive, Preventive, and/or First-Use Strikes: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/no-one-should-have-sole-authority-to-launch-a-nuclear-attack/
http://strategicdemands.com/?s=hair+trigger -- http://strategicdemands.com/?s=nuclear+weapons+treaty
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Nuclear_Nonproliferation


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'Sunday Services' - Jacques Cousteau's Grandson Speaking at the Bioneers Conference
This past week GreenPolicy looked more closely at the Earth's seas and oceans
Now, reflecting, we listen to a presentation by an environmental ocean exploring family
http://conference.bioneers.org/ -- https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Bioneers


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Atlantic 'Meridional' / August 5
Ocean Circulation / What? "Nothing to See Here", Keep Paddling
https://news.yale.edu/2017/07/31/loss-arctic-sea-ice-impacting-atlantic-ocean-water-circulation-system
http://www.nature.com/nclimate/journal/v7/n8/full/nclimate3353.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/08/02/this-strange-spot-over-the-atlantic-isnt-getting-warmer-scientists-think-they-may-know-why/
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Arctic
https://scripps.ucsd.edu/news/climate-model-suggests-collapse-atlantic-circulation-possible
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atlantic_meridional_overturning_circulation


Kelp 'n Ocean Agriculture / August 4
http://www.oceanapproved.com/sustainability
Kelp, "forests of the sea", habitat for biodiversity, producer of oxygen, food, 'aquaforestry' about to become a tradeword
http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2012/10/12/162728509/kelp-for-farmers-seaweed-becomes-a-new-crop-in-america
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aquaculture_of_giant_kelp


Sustainable Fisheries / August 3
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Global_Fishing_Watch
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:GlobalFishingWatch.jpg
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:G_Earth_Outreach.jpg
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Fisheries -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fisheries_management


Earth Protection, Asteroids, Aliens etc... / August 2
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Asteroid_Watch_JPL.jpg -- https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Planet_Citizens,_Planet_Scientists
https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/253476-nasa-new-six-figure-job-opening-protect-earth-aliens-us
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Extinction


Wild Florida / August 1
http://www.pbs.org/video/2365987527/
http://floridawildlifecorridor.org/
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Sea-Level_Rise


"To see Wild Florida you've got to get down into the mud & back into the trees & up into the rivers & into the backwaters & dig around"

Clearwater, Florida, GreenPolicy360's terrestrial home base, geo-located on a limestone/karst peninsula that is still wild here & there...


EO Snapshot 6-29-2016 10-44-49 AM.png


 


Best Practices check sm.png Save a Butterfly, Save a Species / July 31

http://www.boredpanda.com/rare-blue-swallowtail-pipevine-butterfly-repopulation-tim-wong/
https://www.treehugger.com/conservation/pipevine-swallowtail-butterfly-conservation-san-francisco-tim-wong.html
http://www.sfchronicle.com/thetake/article/S-F-biologist-s-passion-for-butterflies-soars-9138329.php#photo-10742592
https://m.facebook.com/CaliforniaPipevineSwallowtail/?hc_ref=ARSW45o6LUperxuN2SrJMOD1SySTFKd-yU4NStZkJ-Xk0NhvAopTgdJUMKXGpcpKqwo&fref=nf
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Environmental_protection -- https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Whole_Earth_One_Connected_System_Astro-Gerst_2014.png
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Biodiversity -- https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Extinction


California Pipevine Swallowtail Project butterflies.png


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'Sunday Services' - Plastic in the Sand & Water
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Plastic_Pollution


Food Is Med, Eat Healthy, Be Healthy / July 29
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Food -- https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Slow_Food_(Alternative_to_Fast_Food)
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Food_as_medicine.jpg -- https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Via_Dr_Stacey_Robinson.JPG
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Farm-to-Table -- https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Food_Pages:_On_Earth_Food_Politics
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Index#Agriculture -- https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Broccoli_;-.jpg


Save Food. Don't Waste It / July 28
https://businessconnectworld.com/2017/07/12/5-ways-wasting-food-hurts-the-environment-and-5-ways-you-can-fix-it/
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Food_Saving -- https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Food_wasted-lost.png
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Stop_Wasting_Food.jpg -- (Video) The Big Waste: Why Do We Throw Away So Much Food?
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:FOOD_politics-health.jpg


Safe Water? See Your City / July 27
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Clean_Water
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Water_Pollution
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Environmental_Laws

 


Another Day of Lamar / July 26

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Lamar Goes to Greenland, Comes Back with a Message / July 25
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_and_Space,_Politics
https://www.buzzfeed.com/zahrahirji/lamar-smith-tours-the-arctic
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Arctic -- https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Greenland


WASHINGTON — Rep. Lamar Smith (R-Texas) — who has spent his career cozying up to fossil fuel interests, dismissing the threat of climate change and harassing federal climate scientists — is now arguing that pumping the atmosphere full of carbon dioxide is “beneficial” to global trade, crop production and the lushness of the planet.
Rather than buying into “hysteria,” Americans should be celebrating the plus sides of a changing climate, Smith argues in an op-ed published July 24th in The Daily Signal, a news website published by the conservative Heritage Foundation.
Smith — who has used his power as chairman of the House Committee on Science, Space and Technology to push his anti-science views — kicks off his op-ed by claiming Americans’ perception of the phenomenon is “too often determined by their hearing just one side of the story.”
“The benefits of a changing climate are often ignored and under-researched,” Smith said. “Our climate is too complex and the consequences of misguided policies too harsh to discount the positive effects of carbon enrichment.”
Increased carbon dioxide, Smith writes, promotes photosynthesis, resulting in a “greater volume of food production and better quality food” and “lush vegetation” that “assists in controlling water runoff, provides more habitats for many animal species, and even aids in climate stabilization, as more vegetation absorbs more carbon dioxide.” Warmer temperatures, he notes, results in longer growing seasons.
Smith goes as far as to make a case for why a rapidly melting Arctic, which scientists warn could cost tens of trillions of dollars by the end of this century, is a positive thing.
“Also, as the Earth warms, we are seeing beneficial changes to the earth’s geography,” he writes. “For instance, Arctic sea ice is decreasing. This development will create new commercial shipping lanes that provide faster, more convenient, and less costly routes between ports in Asia, Europe, and eastern North America. This will increase international trade and strengthen the world economy.”


Other Blue-Green Planets? / July 24
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Pale_blue_dot
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Hubble -- https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:1.2-million-galaxies-map-slice.jpg
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:The_James_Webb_telescope_modeled_at_SXSW_2015.jpg
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Webb_Telescope_construction_completed-Nov2016.jpg


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Sunday 'Earth Services' - Melted Nuclear Waste
Decommissioning the Fukushima reactors will cost 8 trillion yen ($72 billion), according to an estimate in December from the Japan Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry.
Removing nuclear fuel waste from destroyed reactors may take as long as 40 years.
Seven years after the Fukushima nuclear disaster, Japanese town rebounds from zero
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/07/21/national/fukushima-robot-finds-potential-fuel-debris-hanging-like-icicles-reactor-3/
https://phys.org/news/2017-07-robot-fuel-fukushima-reactor.html -- https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Fukushima-Tokyo_was_on_brink_of_nuclear_catastrophe


A Photo App to ID Nature / July 22
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/All_Species_Day
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Global_Biodiversity_Information-Data.png


Global Biodiversity Information-Data.png

 


Welcome to Outer Space / July 21
https://www.google.com/streetview/#international-space-station/cupola-observational-module
Thomas Pesquet, ESA astronaut: “Looking at Earth from above made me think about my own world a little differently, and I hope that the ISS on Street View changes your view of the world too.”
http://www.thinbluelayer.com
http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Orbital_Perspective
http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Overview_Effect
http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Earth_Observations


Bioneers, Looking Back, Looking Forward / July 20
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Bioneers
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Book_Reviews_@GreenPolicy


Law & Environmental Protection / July 19
http://blogs.law.columbia.edu/climatechange/2017/07/18/local-governments-in-california-file-common-law-claims-against-largest-fossil-fuel-companies/
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Climate_Change_Summit_Paris -- https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Climate_News
https://www.nrdc.org/about/litigation -- https://www.nrdc.org/sites/default/files/litigation-at-nrdc.pdf
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Environmental_Laws -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_environmental_lawsuits


Brits/World Look at Calif & Climate News / July 18
http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-ca-california-climate-change-vote-republicans-20170717-story.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/17/climate/california-cap-and-trade-approved-jerry-brown.html
http://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-alert/article161905518.html
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Governor_Jerry_Brown
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Jerry_Brown_AGU-Dec14,2016.png
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/California_out_in_front_in_a_Green_future
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/PlanetCitizen


Act2Be & Become a Planet Citizen / July 17
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/PlanetCitizen
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Right_Now



On This Day 72 Years Ago, the Nuclear Weapons Era Is Born / July 16
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Trinity_monument_m.jpg
http://strategicdemands.com/nuclear-weapons-treaty-adopted-historic-moment
http://www.nuclearfiles.org/menu/library/correspondence/oppenheimer-robert/corr_oppenheimer_1945-08-17.htm


Watch J. Robert Oppenheimer
"I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds."


Trinitytest.jpg


 

Lamar Goes to Greenland on a Denial Quest / July 15
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Greenland
https://www.facebook.com/NASAGoddard/videos/10153892374900898


Revealing the thinking of the House Science Committee chairman
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Lamar_Smith_Denial_Offensive.png
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Lamar-smith-press_2015.jpg
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_and_Space,_Politics
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Climate_News


Bugs on Earth and in Space / July 14
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7W194GQ6fHI
http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150313-the-toughest-animals-on-earth


Tardi1.jpg

 

 

Green Crowdpowered Air-Q Mapping / July 13
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Green_Networking -- https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Citizen_Science
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:You_can_manage_only_what_you_can_measure_Dr_David_Crisp,_OCO-2,_June_2014_m.jpg
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Mapping_Our_Air.png -- https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Tzoa-air_quality_monitoring.jpg
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Sharing_Economy -- https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Virtual_Earth


US Is More than DC on Climate Action / July 12
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Climate_Change_Summit_Paris
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Intended_Nationally_Determined_Contributions
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:G-20_19%2B1.png


Climate Action-Bloomberg-Brown July2017.png


Doom 'n Gloom or What? / July 11
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Extinction
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Extinction
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Anthropocene
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Anthropocene


Mapping the Air Quality / July 10
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Going_Green
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Virtual_Earth


Mapping Our Air.png



Green Ideas on a Sunday in July
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Planet_Citizens,_Planet_Scientists
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Environmental_full-cost_accounting
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/The_Commons


G-20_19+1 / July 8
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Climate_News


G-20 19+1.png



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Banned: Treaty Prohibiting Nuclear Weapons Adopted

Diplomatie.gouv.fr
http://www.lasg.org/press/2017/press_release_7Jul2017.html

Nuclear Ban Treaty 7-7-2017 12-33-35 PM.png


July/August / Special Issue of the Bulletin of Atomic Scientists

http://thebulletin.org/press-release/after-midnight-julyaugust-issue-available10924


2017 Doomsday Clock Statement

It is two and a half minutes to midnight


Draft Treaty Prohibiting Nuclear Weapons

Nuclear Treaty / @ United Nations / July 5
http://www.undocs.org/en/a/conf.229/2017/L.3/Rev.1
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Trinity_monument_m.jpg
http://www.lasg.org/press/2017/press_release_5July2017.html
https://www.apnews.com/6732780e340f4fc785c9c4ab846b2f65/First-treaty-banning-nuclear-weapons-expected-to-be-adopted
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Nuclear_Nonproliferation


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Moving To Renewable Energy and Away from Oil/Gas Strategic Conflicts


Volvo Goes Full EV / July 6
http://www.futuretimeline.net/blog/2017/07/6.htm -- http://www.nbcnews.com/business/autos/volvo-going-all-electric-first-automaker-ditch-combustion-engine-n779791
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2017/jul/05/volvo-cars-electric-hybrid-2019 -- http://www.cbsnews.com/news/volvo-electric-cars-combustion-engines-fate/
https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2017-07-05/tesla-is-starting-to-face-serious-competition -- https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Tesla,_electric_cars


Moving Toward Electoral Choice and Away from Global Conflict


Your Vote, Your Voice
http://www.kansascity.com/news/politics-government/article159113369.html
https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/05/11/presidential-executive-order-establishment-presidential-advisory
https://www.aclu.org/news/aclu-takes-legal-action-over-trump-election-commission-executive-order -- http://www.politico.com/story/2017/07/01/trump-election-panel-fraud-tweets-240165
https://www.thenation.com/article/the-trump-administration-is-planning-an-unprecedented-attack-on-voting-rights/ -- https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/06/30/how-trumps-nationwide-voter-data-request-could-lead-to-voter-suppression -- http://www.wsls.com/top-stories/demand-for-voter-rolls-shows-ugly-truth-about-trumps-voter-fraud-commission -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Voter_suppression


 


Strategic Demands: New Definitions of Security, National & Global

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


New Definitions of National Security.png


New Arms Race Qua Old Arms Race / June 29

http://www.politico.com/story/2017/06/24/nuclear-arms-treaty-russia-trump-239923
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Nuclear_Proliferation
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Extinction


Winless War, Endless War / June 28

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Surviving_Victory_Conf_contributors.jpg
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Strategic_Demands_of_the_21st_Century_A_New_Vision_for_a_New_World.jpg
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Surviving-Victory-conference-Washington-DC-2006.pdf

Blissfully-Unaware.png

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Thirty-seconds-closer-to-midnight.png

 

 

Putin, Trump, Nuclear Risks / June 27

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Nuclear_Weapons
http://strategicdemands.com/nuclear-hair-trigger/
http://strategicdemands.com/status-nuclear-ban-negotiations/
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Nuclear_Nonproliferation


At the UN: Abolish Nuclear Weapons

https://www.un.org/disarmament/ptnw/president.html
http://www.lasg.org/BAN/LASG_comments_draft_ban2.pdf


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Sunday 'Earth Services' / ThinBlueLayer.com


Thin Blue.jpg



Space 'Macroscope', Earth Science / June 24
Ecologists “are going to have this epiphany.” A University of California scientist describes the rapidly improving satellite view from outer space as a “macroscope.”
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Science_Research_from_Space
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Earth_Observations -- https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Micro-satellites
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Planet_API -- https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Planet_Labs_Doves_Fly
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Planet_API_PlanetLabs_2.png -- https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Planet_Lab_Flock_1c_CubeSats.jpg


Environmental Data & Blockchain / June 23
https://www.weforum.org/agenda/2017/06/3-ways-blockchain-can-accelerate-financial-inclusion/
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/GreenPolicy360-eOS#World_Wide_Web_.26_Digital_Rights_Movement
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/EOS_eco_Operating_System


Green Driving / June 22
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Going_Green#Venture_On_with_Best_Green_Ideas
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:EVs.png


Saving Species in Kauai, Jurassic Land / June 21
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Extinction
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Biodiversity


Kauai-jurassic locations.jpg


"New Space", Democratizing Earth Observations / June 20
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Democratization_of_Space -- https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Planet_API
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:New_Space -- https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Micro-satellites
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Planet_Labs_Doves_Fly -- https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Landsat_data_users_handbook
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Earth_Imaging -- https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Imaging-New_Space


SCOTUS to Decide on Gerrymandering / June 19
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Redistricting_-_Opposing_Gerrymandering
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Redistricting
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Your_vote.png


To Fathers & Mothers & Stardust / June 18
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Hubble
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Hubble_NGC-1376-22811500-2560-1705.jpg
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:We_are_made_of_star_stuff_--_carl_sagan.jpg


Oppo Science @Work in Schools / June 17
http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/article/devos-is-questioned-about-campaign-to-influence-climate-change-education/
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Money_in_Politics


At the UN: Abolish Nuclear Weapons / June 16
https://www.un.org/disarmament/ptnw/president.html
http://www.lasg.org/BAN/LASG_comments_draft_ban2.pdf
https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/06/13/no-more-con-games-abolish-nuclear-weapons-now/
https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/06/14/no-more-con-games-abolish-nuclear-weapons-now-part-two/
https://www.counterpunch.org/2017/06/15/no-more-con-games-abolish-nuclear-weapons-now-part-three/


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US G7 Climate 'Footnote' / June 14

June 12 / Reuters -- The U.S. said it would not sign up to a pledge by Italy, Canada, Japan, France, Britain and Germany which called the 2015 Paris agreement on climate change "irreversible" and key for the "security and prosperity of our planet."

As a consequence, Washington formally refused to back multilateral development banks — bodies designed to finance poorer nations and help them reduce their pollution emissions.

"The U.S. is now left as a footnote to climate action and that's very sad," said Canadian Environment Minister Catherine McKenna. "Everyone expressed their deep disappointment with the U.S. decision," she said.


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Sustainable Soil / June 13
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Soil
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Soil_Loss


Global/Local Smog / June 12
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Quid_graphs_Smog_2017.png
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Air_Pollution


Quid graphs Smog 2017.png


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Sunday 'Earth Services' - Protecting 'The Commons'

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Earth_Observations
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Look_at_how_thin_our_atmosphere_is
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:GreenLinks_as_of_December2015_via_GreenPolicy360.net.pdf


'Thin Blue Layer' of Earth's Atmosphere m.jpg


 


Over the Edge / June 10
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:DJT_-_US_message_to_world.jpg

DJT - US message to world.jpg


Opening Up the Arctic to Oil/Gas? / June 9
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Arctic
https://www.usatoday.com/story/opinion/2017/06/08/trump-new-fbi-director-chris-wray-russian-ties-rosneft-gazprom-column/102603214/
http://www.businessinsider.com/trump-rex-tillerson-vladimir-putin-russia-exxon-2016-12/#putin-shakes-hands-with-toasts-with-tillerson-after-their-meeting-in-the-novo-ogaryovo-residence-outside-moscow-monday-april-16-2012-3


Pacific Coast Acts (http://pacificcoastcollaborative.org/) / June 8
http://pacificcoastcollaborative.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/UN_Ocean_Conf_media_availability.pdf


More on China and Calif Gov Brown / June 7
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Governor_Jerry_Brown
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/jun/07/china-and-california-sign-deal-to-work-on-climate-change-without-trump
"It's not a time for inertia, it's a time for radical change" -- https://www.gov.ca.gov/news.php?id=19834


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"Simple" / June 6
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/06/world/asia/xi-jinping-china-jerry-brown-california-climate.html
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/California_out_in_front_in_a_Green_future


New Space, #EarthScience / June 5
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:New_Space
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Planet_API
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Planet_Labs_Doves_Fly
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Democratization_of_Space


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Sunday 'Earth Services' - Global Security / June 4
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:New_Definitions_of_National_Security.png


Wonder Why Russia? / June 3
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Arctic
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Earth_gets_hotter_May2016.jpg


Yesterday Was a Bad Day



The Consequences Start Now / June 1
The US will be judged, this day will be long remembered.
National Security & Global Security are interrelated. He doesn't know this. There's so much he doesn't know & so much he doesn't know that he doesn't know.
Trump just betrayed the world. Now the world will fight back




“This current departure from reality in Washington will be very short-lived, that I promise you,” Brown told POLITICO in an interview. “I’ve spoken with Republicans here in the Legislature, and they’re beginning to get very serious about climate action, so the momentum is all the other way. And I think Trump, paradoxically, is giving climate denial such a bad name that he’s actually building the very movement that he is [purporting] to undermine...”



China Responds


Premier Li Keqiang of China said on Thursday that his country remained committed to the fight against climate change and to participating in international efforts for a greener world.
“China will continue to uphold its commitments to the Paris climate agreement,” Mr. Li said, confirming a position his country agreed to alongside the United States in 2014, in what proved to be a watershed moment for the ultimate passage of the landmark accord the following year.
“Step by step, and very arduously, together with other countries, we will work toward the goals set” by global leaders in 2015, Mr. Li said, standing beside Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany in Berlin.
Ms. Merkel, who welcomed the Chinese commitment as “encouraging,” has been a leader in the global push for climate action since 1992, when she played a crucial international role in passage of the world’s first climate treaty, the Kyoto Protocol.


US business leaders point at downside -- http://www.nbcnews.com/business/business-news/big-business-urges-trump-stick-paris-climate-accord-n766641 -- http://lowcarbonusa.org/business


“If you have to go to a board of directors and say, ‘I have to make a multibillion-dollar investment that is multi-year,’ are you going to base it on two or four years in the political cycle or … on long-term economic, technological, and consumer trends?” -- Melissa Lavinson / The Atlantic
The GOP must own the consequences.


Future of Humanity at Risk / May 31

Forward or back? -- https://www.axios.com/scoop-trump-is-pulling-u-s-out-of-paris-climate-deal-2427773025.html
Backwards looking -- "The 22" -- https://www.axios.com/scoop-top-republican-senators-urge-trump-to-exit-paris-climate-deal-2421530161.html


A policy direction from the US president that will live up to the challenges or deliver economic, environmental disasters.
“I’ve always made more money in bad markets than in good markets.” -- DJ Trump, Quoted 05/23/16 - MSNBC


Reflecting on Next Steps:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/05/31/trump-nearing-a-decision-on-whether-to-pull-u-s-from-paris-climate-deal-breaking-ranks-with-more-than-190-countries/
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/editorials/la-ed-trump-paris-climate-change-20170531-story.html


The Trump administration: A bump on the road?
Remember that a future president can rejoin the Paris global climate agreement with a 'flick of a pen'.


I've done all I can.png


https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2017/05/31/the-planet-loses-but-u-s-is-bigger-loser-if-it-withdraws-from-paris-climate-agreement/


"The noose tightens," Princeton University climate scientist Michael Oppenheimer, co-editor of the peer-reviewed journal Climatic Change, told The Independent. The US withdrawing from the Paris Agreement would only aggravate the climate change problem and make it much more difficult to prevent the crossing of a global temperature to a dangerous threshold. Three billion tonnes of additional carbon dioxide could be released into the air every year...


Disbelief.png


New Mexico Land Commissioner speaks up.png


Little Big Politics / May 30
http://billmoyers.com/topics/democracy-government/
"America’s Little Big Man -- http://billmoyers.com/story/little-big-man/
Trump is teaching us how deeply disturbed our American world actually is"


Memorial Day, Peace Day / May 29
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Dove_of_peace.jpg


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Sunday 'Earth Services' / Be Kind / May 28


Be kind-2.jpg


G7 Split w/ US on Climate / May 27
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Climate_News
As the Dean of Tech Writing Moves On / May 26
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/GreenPolicy360-eOS#Digital_Rights_Movement

Digital Rights Tag Cloud from GreenPolicy360.net.png


Axe Earth Science Missions / May 25
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_and_Space,_Politics
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Climate_News
Pope & a President Meet / May 24
http://www.americamagazine.org/faith/2017/05/24/i-wont-forget-what-you-said-trump-tells-pope-after-meeting-vatican
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Laudato_Si -- https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Pope_Francis_on_the_Environment
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Pope_Francis_and_Donald_Trump-May24,2017.jpg
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Laudato_Si_On_Care_for_Our_Common_Home.png


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California Fights Washington / May 23
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/California_out_in_front_in_a_Green_future


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Sunday 'Earth Services' - Be Kind
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Eco-Spirituality
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Eco-Theology
Costs of War, Calculated / May 20
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Strategic_Demands
http://strategicdemands.com/costsofwar/ -- http://strategicdemands.com/new-definitions-of-security/
Freaky Friday, Nukes 'n Space Weather / May 19
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Nuclear_Nonproliferation
http://strategicdemands.com/nuclear-issues-cold-war-2-0/
China & Energy, Not What You Think / May 18
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/China
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Air_Pollution
Nuclear Power Blues / May 17
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Energy
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Radioactive_Pollution
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Fukushima-Tokyo_was_on_brink_of_nuclear_catastrophe
Earth, Sagan & DSCOVR / May 16
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/EarthPOV -- https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Pale_blue_dot
http://astrobiology.com/2017/05/glint-from-ice-particles-in-earths-atmosphere-could-be-used-to-study-exoplanets.html


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Future Energy Trends
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Renewable_Energy


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Sunday 'Earth Services' - Over the Horizon
Origins of Mother's Days Around the World


Moon over the Horizon.JPG


Better Climate Observation Needed / May 13
http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Right_Now -- http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Science_Research_from_Space
http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Democratization_of_Space -- http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Micro-satellites
http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Arctic -- http://www.tinybluegreen.com
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Virtual_Earth -- https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earthviews


100 Climate Solutions / May 12
http://www.drawdown.org/solutions/ -- https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/ProjectDrawdownCO2


Project Drawdown Bioneers.png


Pope, No Nuclear Weapons / May 11
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Laudato_Si
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Pope_Francis_on_the_Environment


Money, Politics & Climate / May 10
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Money_in_Politics
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Money_in_Politics


Global Climate Politics / May 8
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Climate_News
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_and_Space,_Politics
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Look_at_how_thin_our_atmosphere_is
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Science_Research_from_Space


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Sunday 'Earth Services' / May 7 / "Road Map to Health"
Food & Health -- Farm-to-Table -- Market Gardening -- Farmers Markets
'Slow Food' Alternative to 'Fast Food' -- Community Supported Agriculture


Stop Treating Soil Like 'Dirt' / May 6
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Agriculture
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Soil_Loss
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Soil
http://civileats.com/2017/05/05/the-leopold-center-for-sustainable-agriculture-faces-a-shut-down/


Northern Route thru the Arctic / May 5
http://www.wibbitz.com/watch/?id=b31daa04078844d7f96142701c5f80a6e
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/Arctic-swipa-spm.pdf
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Arctic


Where Goes Miami?
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Sea-Level_Rise


Miami region sea level rise.gif


Climate Plans, International (as of May 2017)
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:INDC


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Mustard greens bloom - Carrizo-San Luis Obispo-March2017.jpg


Sunday 'Earth Services' - Mustard Greens / April 30
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Mustard_greens_bloom_-_Carrizo-San_Luis_Obispo-March2017.jpg


https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/42/Brassica_juncea_-_K%C3%B6hler%E2%80%93s_Medizinal-Pflanzen-168.jpg


#ClimateMarch 2017

Resist, Build, Rise 2.png


April 29


Snapshot Goodbye to the EPA Climate Change Website
EPA removes climate science website from public view after two decades in operation -- Here's the Pruitt #EPA "kicks" explanation -- https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/epa-kicks-website-updates
An Archived EPA Climate Change Website (of http://epa.gov/climatechange/) can now be found at the Wayback Machine -- https://web.archive.org/web/20170427220644/https://www.epa.gov/climatechange


Seagrass and Ocean Forests: Your Oxygen


Kelp NOAA credit Robert Schwemmer.jpg


Get Involved in Climate Action
https://peoplesclimate.org/
Sea-Level Projection / April 26
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Sea-Level_Rise_%26_Mitigation
Blockchain for Peer Solar / April 25
Renewables & Blockchain
Facts Matter today, yesterday & tomorrow / April 24
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_for_Science
https://satellites.marchforscience.com/
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:March_for_Science-2.png
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Bill_nye-march_for_science-earth_day.jpg


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Sunday 'Earth Services' - Pale Blue Dot / April 23
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Pale_blue_dot


Pale Blue Dot from Cassini July 19,2013.jpg


 

April 22nd -- Earth Day


GreenPolicy360.net -- Greening our Blue Planet


Earthrise, the way Anders saw it.jpg


GTN Climate / April 20
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/GTN_GreenLinks_Trending_News
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/mar/27/climate-change-human-fingerprint-found-on-global-extreme-weather
https://www.theguardian.com/membership/2017/apr/18/climate-change-surely-the-most-important-news-story-of-our-age
NASA Image Archive / April 19
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:NASA


Virtual Earth Maps / April 17
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Google_Earth_invite-just_in_time_for_Earth_Day.jpg
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Virtual_Earth
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Virtual_Reality
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Maps


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Sunday 'Earth Services' - Virtual Reality Overview / Week 15
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Overview_Effect
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Astronaut-chris-hadfield-earth-photo.jpg


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https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Climate_News
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/04/new-solar-powered-device-can-pull-water-straight-desert-air
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Water_Saving
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Citizen_Science
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/04/donald-trump-kathleen-hartnett-white-climate-skeptic-job-237172
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Environmental_full-cost_accounting
https://climatesecurity101.org/on-the-record/
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/New_Definitions_of_National_Security


https://www.PlanetCitizen.org
https://www.PlanetCitizens.org


https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/apr/09/trump-smog-offshore-drilling-rules-climate
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/states-challenge-trump-over-clean-power-plan/
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/apr/05/climate-change-legal-challenge-donald-trump


California at the forefront of US environmental policies.png


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Sunday 'Earth Services' - Under the Stars / Week 14


Rolling-under-the-stars.jpg


April 8th
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Environmental_Security,_National_Security


April 7th
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Strategic_Demands
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/04/so-you-want-to-start-another-middle-eastern-war/522201/
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Trump-Putin-NuclearWeapons_Dec22,2016_trending_news.png


April 6th
http://www.powells.com/book/drawdown-the-most-comprehensive-plan-ever-proposed-to-roll-back-global-warming-9780143130444/62-0
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Project_Drawdown_Bioneers.png
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/ProjectDrawdownCO2
Paul Hawken - Project Drawdown | Bioneers (Video)
Visit the Bioneers, Make a Difference


April 5th
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Air_Pollution
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Air_Quality
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/03/trumps-epa-cuts-budget/521223/


April 4th
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/frigate-birds-fly-nonstop-months


April 3rd
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Overview_Effect


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April 1st
"Physics... a framework for thinking" https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Tesla,_electric_cars


Physics ... ie withyouorwithoutyou.jpg


Climate Politics / March 30th

http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/326380-house-votes-to-restrict-epas-use-of-science
https://thinkprogress.org/house-honest-act-limit-epa-science-244a132bdee


Foley on March29,2017.png


https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Politics_and_Science_in_the_House_un-Science_Committee.png

Politics and Science in the House un-Science Committee.png


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http://www.theverge.com/2017/3/27/15073162/fcc-broadband-internet-privacy-rules-congress-vote
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2017/03/congress-debates-reversing-course-decades-consumer-privacy-protections
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/mar/28/internet-service-providers-sell-browsing-history-house-vote -- https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/republicans-in-congress-will-not-protect-your-internet-privacy-so-protect-it-yourself
https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20170328/09565737026/consumer-broadband-privacy-protections-are-dead.shtml -- "Results of the Privacy Protection Vote" / http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2017/roll202.xml
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/GreenPolicy360-eOS#Digital_Rights_Movement


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https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Virtual_Earth
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Block_Island_Wind_Farm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guns_versus_butter_model
http://strategicdemands.com/costsofwar/
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_and_Space,_Politics
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Atmospheric_Science
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/EarthPOV


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March 17th
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Climate_Change -- https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/New_Definitions_of_National_Security
http://www.thinbluelayer.com -- https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Environmental_Security,_National_Security
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_and_Space,_Politics -- https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Climate_News
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Science_Research_from_Space
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Earth_Observations
March 16th
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/mar/15/car-pollution-carbon-emissions-obama-trump-epa
https://electrek.co/2017/03/15/trump-epa-fuel-rules/
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/trump-set-challenge-obama-era-fuel-standards-detroit/
http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Air_Quality -- http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Fossil_Fuels
http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Environmental_Full-cost_Accounting -- https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Gas-Powered_Transportation
http://cait.wri.org/indc/#/map -- Worldwide Climate Policy Plans (PDF Graphic) including the US and its status upholding or retreating from commitments


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March 14th
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Anthropocene
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/PlanetCitizen
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_and_Space,_Politics


March 13
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Beginning_of_WWW_89_TimBerners-Lee_CERN.jpg - Web Foundation
Open Letter from WWW founder Tim Berners-Lee
Digital Rights Movement


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March 11th | #Fukushima
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Gary_prepping_pump_for_flight_to_Japan.jpg
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Fukushima-Tokyo_was_on_brink_of_nuclear_catastrophe


March 10th | #Pruitt #EPA
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Pruitt_talks_EPA_-_CO2.png


March 9th | #ClimateChange #ClimatePolicy #US #California
https://www.wired.com/2017/03/want-gut-emission-rules-prepare-war-california/
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/California_out_in_front_in_a_Green_future
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Governor_Jerry_Brown
(Re: New actions threaten the US 'Clean Power Plan')
http://www.eenews.net/stories/1060051196


March 8 | #DeepState #SecurityState
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Digital_Rights


March 7 | #Pollution
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Air_Pollution


March 6 | #Expertise #Science
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_and_Space,_Politics
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Right_Now


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Sunday 'Earth Services' - Above / Week 9
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Above.png


Above.png


March 3
http://www.strategicdemands.com


March 2
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Book_Reviews_@GreenPolicy


March 1
Facts & Science, the basis of knowledge
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Stats_-_Green_Research_&_Science


February 27
US National Parks Maps


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Sunday 'Earth Services' - "Thin Blue" / Week 8
"Fragile edge of our planet" / www.ThinBlueLayer.com
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:ThinBlue.png


February 24
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Planetary_Science
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:The_James_Webb_telescope_modeled_at_SXSW_2015.jpg
February 23
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Webb_Telescope_construction_completed-Nov2016.jpg
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Hubble
February 22
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:NASA_Climate_Feb16,2017.png
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Arctic1_by_Timo_Lieber_800x480.jpg


NASA Climate Feb16,2017.png


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Sunday 'Earth Services' / Week 7
Go Under to Watch the Forests of the Seas & Listen to Philip Glass
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Planet_Citizens,_Planet_Scientists
http://www.tinybluegreen.com


Floating Forests-Kelp -- Oceanlight.jpg


February 16
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Stats_-_Green_Research_&_Science


February 15
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Landsat_data_users_handbook


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Sunday 'Earth Services' / Week 6
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Trumbull_vfx_master.jpg
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:2001_pic3.jpeg


2001 pic3.jpeg


February 11
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Air_Pollution


February 10
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Arctic


February 9
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_and_Space,_Politics


February 8
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Tree_of_Life


February 7
A View of Our Home Planet (w/ VFX 2001 thanks to our friend Doug Trumbull)


February 6
Planet, Alphabet-Google, Terra Bella -- Democratization of Space
Earth Observations, Earth Data for Generations to Come


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Sunday 'Earth Services' / Week 5
'Bridges to Babylon', recorded in Los Angeles @ Ocean Wave Studio w/ Billy Preston on Hammond. 'Saint of Me' - Live in Rio


Statue-of-Jesus-Christ-The-Redeemer-Rio-de-Janeiro-Brazil.jpg


February 3
Japan has more car charging stations than gas stations


February 2
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Earth_Science_from_Space


February 1
GPS satellites, distributed over 6 orbital planes, provide important context for ongoing and historical science missions, and enable new types of #EarthScience research not previously possible
The data are publicly available, hosted by NOAA’s National Centers for Environmental Information and can be found by searching the data.gov portal or at https://www.ngdc.noaa.gov/stp/space-weather/satellite-data/satellite-systems/gps/


January 31
"Earth in Human Hands"


January 30
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Tillerson-Putin_mtg.jpg


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Sunday 'Earth Services' - GOES / Week 4
GOES "First Light": http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=89506&src=eoa-iotd
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/GOES-16


GOESRWavelengths.jpg


January 28
National Resources Defense Council launches "onEarth-Trump V. Earth" to track environmental policy moves of the US president


January 27
Nuclear Issues / Cold War 2.0 -- Strategic Demands, GreenPolicy's associated site, investigates escalating #nuclear #proliferation
http://strategicdemands.com/nuclear-issues-cold-war-2-0/


January 26
Climate Mirror: https://climate.daknob.net/
The Climate Mirror Project is working to mirror and safely archive U.S. Govt. websites/datasets related to climate, climate change, and global warming


January 25
Powerpak: 80 MWh Powerpack station from TESLA & Southern California Edison, biggest energy storage project in the world using lithium-ion batteries
Coming online soon -- http://www.utilitydive.com/news/inside-construction-of-the-worlds-largest-lithium-ion-battery-storage-faci/431765/
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/California_out_in_front_in_a_Green_future


January 24
The REINS (Regulations from the Executive in Need of Scrutiny) Act of 2017
The 'Most Dangerous Bill You've Never Heard Of Just Passed the House of Representatives'


January 23
Bill McKibben, former GreenPolicy360 advisor, speaks to challenges with Trump as the US president


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Sunday 'Earth Services' - Arctic Warming Eye / Week 3
● "THAW" in the Arctic: "It’s almost as if global warming is looking right back at you"
http://mchannelonline.com/2017/01/21/2017-dawns-thaw-arctic/
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Arctic


Arctic1 by Timo Lieber 800x480.jpg


January 21
"Divisive Times" and the "Overview Effect"
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Overview_Effect


January 20
"Earth Right Now": Far Beyond an Inauguration Day
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Earth_Right_Now_science.jpg


January 19
Environmental Protection Agency confirmation hearings: Does Scott Pruitt believe in the mission of the EPA?


January 18, 2017
US House Science Committee continues down the path of science denial
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_and_Space,_Politics


January 16, 2017
  • "Science on trial". Scott Pruitt comes to the Senate for confirmation hearings to head up the Environmental Protection Agency


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Sunday 'Earth Services' - EO / Week 2


Dunedin-Clearwater.jpg

About Us in Clearwater, Florida


January 14, 2017
"Being clever". Cities/states/countries confronting the risks of climate change by being out in front with clean energy action
Tags: #EarthScience #PlanetCitizen #Green360 #ClimatePolicy #EnvironmentalProtection #NewDefinitionsofSecurity


January 13, 2017
Skyscrapers in China in 2016 going up, up and up. Count 'em beginning with Shenzhen


January 12, 2017
Alliances at risk, national/global security at risk: President-elect promises to dismiss the international climate agreement


January 11, 2017
Pulling into the local supermarket parking lot, what do I see? An EV i3


January 10, 2017
Smoking killing millions a year, trillions in costs


January 9, 2017
First ongoing study of the Earth's upper atmosphere #EnvironmentalSecurity #Earth360


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Sunday 'Earth Services' - Oahu / Week 1


January 7, 2017
William Perry, 'prophet of doom', warns of nextgen nuclear weapons, proliferation and a new Cold War turning hot
  • Visit GreenPolicy's associated site, Strategic Demands


January 6, 2017
NASA Climate Resource Center (and vital national/global security programs the Trump administration is threatening)


January 5, 2017
Offshore Wind Energy starts up on the East Coast of the US (illustrated with vivid images)


January 4, 2017
From the Obama administration's top science advisor, John Holdren, words of caution


January 3, 2017
Cornelia Dean, writer of "Against the Tide" #RisingSeas #ClimateChange


January 2, 2017
Katharine Hayhoe, climate scientist at Texas Tech #PlanetCitizen



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www.planetcitizen.org
www.planetcitizens.org


https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Citizen_Science
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Planet_Citizens,_Planet_Scientists
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Planet_Citizen_Vision_of_Living_Earth


https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Planet_Citizen
https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Planet_Citizens,_Planet_Scientists


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Frontlines of Green Best Practices


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https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/GP360_NewPages
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https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Special:MostLinkedCategories


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