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GreenPolicy360 (eOS)

Greening Our Blue Planet

GreenPolicy360: 10 Million Views as of 2017

Hundreds of Thousands Shared 'Green Best Practice' Pages

Frontlines of Green Best Practices

● The US President & Nuclear Codes / August 23

Visit Green360 Stories of the Day

Trending 'Eco-Tags' & Links

On Being a Planet Citizen

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Visit GreenPolicy360's Arctic Changes News Site

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After Years in Development

Project Drawdown's Climate Book Is Published † https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/ProjectDrawdownCO2

https://twitter.com/ProjectDrawdown

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Climate Politics / August 2017

● Climate News / Climate Focus

President announces HIS US policy on the future of the environment: Consequences begin June 1, 2017

The International Climate Agreement Goes Forward without the US -- Nations Around the World Reject the US Decision

The US will be judged, this day will long be remembered in world history

● 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

● Brown: The Rest of the World Is Against Trump / Governor Brown Statement on White House Paris Climate Agreement Announcement

“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...”

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

● Earth and Space, Politics

GreenPolicy360 and our associate, Strategic Demands, continue advocacy of New Definitions of National Security

● New Definitions of National Security

● Climate Change Laws Around the World

● Trends in Climate Change Legislation

● "Fighting Back": 17 states file legal challenges

● "The law is clear ..."

● What's at Stake in Trump’s Proposed E.P.A. Cuts

● Trump's executive order to end/suspend/revise/rescind environmental protections and climate change regulations (PDF)

● White House budget director Mick Mulvaney rejects climate as a security issue:

“Regarding the question as to climate change, I think the president was fairly straightforward – we’re not spending money on that anymore. We consider that to be a waste of your money.”

● Science? Enough with science

http://thehill.com/policy/energy-environment/326380-house-votes-to-restrict-epas-use-of-science

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

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

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

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

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George Monbiot on Money-in-Politics: UK Version

George Monbiot on How 'Misinformation' Works (and Is Paid For)

Monbiot on the Question of Civilization and 'Human Concern'

Monbiot: Do We See Reasons for Green Optimism in New US Administration? No... It Will Be More Fossil Fuels

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GreenPolicy360 and its associated research group Strategic Demands are focusing on two 'big pictures' as 2017 opens:

1) The risks of nuclear weapons proliferation within a multi-national, fast-developing Cold War 2.0; and

2) The existential challenge of moving to renewable energy and new definitions of national security, even as the election of Donald Trump and appointment of Exxon chief Rex Tillerson to head of the US State Dept. portend fast-moving oil/gas/fossil fuel developments and 'pipeline geopolitics'.

On and off the record, US multinationals and the new US administration are negotiating with Russia over rights to the rapidly de-icing Arctic and the existing 'energy deals of the century' between Russia-China-Iran now loom large in an era of hostilities and entry onto the world stage of an unpredictable and temperamental US "Commander-in-Chief".

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The Arctic and the New Oil/Gas Rush

Drill down into Arctic oil/gas

● Trillions at Stake

● Hundreds of Billions in US/Russian investments set to go forward

A preliminary assessment by the US Geological Survey suggests the Arctic seabed may hold as much as 25 percent of the world's undiscovered oil and natural gas reserves.

By one USGS reported estimate, 400 billion barrels of oil might lie beneath the Arctic seabed.

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Rex Tillerson Is Confirmed as Secretary of State Amid Record Opposition

Push in the Arctic: Russia and US Prepare for Unprecedented Energy Exploration and Oil/Gas Production

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Trump Appointment to Head the Energy Dept Is a Man Who Campaigned to Abolish the Energy Dept

The US Energy Department is Responsible for Much of the Development & Oversight of the Nuclear Weapons Complex
A Trillion Dollar Modernization of the Nuclear Weapons Complex Is a Factor in Spawning a New Nuclear Arms Race

● A New Nuclear Arms Race: Cruise Missiles

● Nuclear Weapons

Press Releases from the Los Alamos Study Group

LASG has continued to deliver public interest research for over two decades on the US national labs, energy and nuclear policies

Visit their online website and new page of press releases to follow developments in the US nuclear weapons complex, and disarmament, and Energy Dept actions by the president-elect

Nuclear Weapons: A 'Cold War 2.0' or New Treaties to Reduce Nuclear Arsenals

● Nuclear Weapons: Nonproliferation or More 'Usable' Nuclear Weapons

● @StrategicDemands: "New Definitions of National Security Necessary"

Trump's offer to Russia: An End to Sanctions for Nuclear Arms Cut - London Times / January 17, 2017

"Let’s see if we can make some good deals with Russia," the Republican president-elect was quoted as saying.

"For one thing, I think nuclear weapons should be way down and reduced very substantially, that’s part of it. But Russia’s hurting very badly right now because of sanctions, but I think something can happen that a lot of people are gonna benefit."

'Mixed Cold War 2.0 Signals': Nuclear Arms Reduction --- or Nuclear Arms Race

"Nuclear-Policy-by-Tweet"

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Trump to Scrap NASA Climate Research in Crackdown on ‘Politicized Science’

Former NOAA Chief Scientist Warns of Threats to Science

● NOAA

NASA’s Earth Science division is set to be stripped of funding... Via The Guardian

● NASA

GreenPolicy360 addresses the upcoming Earth Science debate and decisions to be rendered in Congress. The consequences -- and legacy -- of this generation's actions and the votes of the US House Science committee and related Congressional representatives will be felt -- and judged -- for decades going forward.

● Andrew Revkin on target as he completes his many yrs at Dot Earth and the New York Times as a greatly respected, hard-working, in-depth environmental reporter... #EarthScience #Earth360

Under Trump, Will NASA’s Space Science Include Planet Earth? -- By Andrew C. Revkin / November 28, 2016

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Carbon Clock

400 PPM, Science Facts and Global Risks

April 2017 / Research Report: We are heading for the warmest climate in half a billion years. So what’s the big deal?

https://scripps.ucsd.edu/programs/keelingcurve/

Latest CO2 Data Reports from Mauna Loa

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Going Green 360°

Re:Publica 2016

Digital Rights @ GreenPolicy360

The Digital World, Free Software and Next Generation Internet

Empire & Internet Empowerment / Re:Publica, Last Kilometer, Last Chance

They're Watching You (You Have No Idea How Closely) / The WebTAP Tracking Study

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Republicans in US Congress Vote to Block National & Global Security

Attempt to Defund and Block Defense Dept. Studies and Work Related to Impacts of Climate Change

Trump v the World: Announces his Energy policy

Candidate Trump -- Cancel the Paris International climate agreement: More Fossil Fuels, Less Clean/Renewable Energy

In a speech laying out his energy agenda for the United States, Trump promised to undo essentially every major policy developed in last decade intended to slow human-caused global warming.

Trump declares he doesn't believe the science, believes climate change a hoax and 'BS'

Trump tweet: This very expensive GLOBAL WARMING bullshit has got to stop. 'Environmentalists are the problem', acc to the Republican candidate for president

Our planet is freezing, record low temps,and our GW scientists are stuck in ice

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In Canada, a political battle over energy & environment policy

○ http://strategicdemands.com/the-leap-manifesto/

○ http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Leap_Manifesto

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In the U.S., as attacks on climate science proliferate with deep pocket and dark money support, acting to undercut US & global security, strategies for continued and accelerating energy innovation emerge...

Energy Innovation: Batteries & the Grid / Tesla Electric Vehicles / At the ARPA-E Innovation Summit

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After a Year in Space, Scott Kelly Says 'I'm More of an Environmentalist'...

Welcome home Planet Citizen.... thanks for reminding us "how the atmosphere looks and how fragile it looks... It makes you more of an environmentalist... looking down at our planet from a great vantage point."

The 'Overview Effect': Experiencing Life Changing Realizations of the Home Planet and Us

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Green Issues Around the Globe, 360°, Online

Countries Worldwide/Climate Action INDC Plans

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Threat Environment

Next US Supreme Court Justice Will Be Crucial to Climate Policy

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'External Costs' Adding Up: Nature's 'Invisible Hand'

Oceans heating accelerates

2015: Hottest in modern times -- Not new news, it's hotter

More Green-Politics from DeSmog -- Desmog Blog

It's Hot: Is It Deniable? Ask the US Congress -- Climate News

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Reviewing the Paris Climate Summit & Politics

China and US To Sign Climate Summit Agreement on April 22, Earth Day

Planet Citizens: Action Plans, Country by Country, Region by Region"

GreenPolicy's Online Update of Country Climate Action Plans

December 2015: The Paris Agreement Approved

GreenPolicy's Report on the Climate Change Summit

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Pope Francis speaks of the Climate mtgs

"It would be sad, and dare I say even catastrophic, were special interests to prevail over the common good and lead to manipulating information in order to protect their own plans and interests."

"The Pope takes particular aim at those who reject the science behind global warming..."

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"What's up with sea level rise?"

NASA experts update current conditions & projections of sea level rise

@EarthVitalSigns ♦ #EarthRightNow ♦ Rising Seas

Warming Wonders of the World

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Endangered:

The 'Tiny Little Ones' &
Large 'Charismatic' Creatures

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Warming Oceans:

Phytoplankton & Photosynthesis

Plankton: The Ocean Food Chain & Atmospheric Oxygen

● TinyBlueGreen

Tiny Blue Green

More than Meets the Eye

"A single kind of blue-green algae in the ocean produces the oxygen in one of every five breaths we take"

~ from "The World Is Blue: How Our Fate and the Ocean’s Are One" by Sylvia Earle

Visit:

www.tinybluegreen.com @GreenPolicy360

Seventy percent of the Earth's surface is blue and the "tiny blue-green" are essential to preserving life on the planet

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The Unseen and the Seen

The "Tree of Life" 1.0

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Eco-nomics, a 21st Century paradigm in development @GreenPolicy360

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GreenPolicy360 Archive Highlights 2016

Highlights in 2016

GreenPolicy360 Archive Highlights 2015

Highlights in 2015

GreenPolicy360 Archive Highlights 2014

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GreenPolicy360 Archive Highlights 2013

GreenPolicy360 Highlights in 2013

Open Government / Digital Services

Digital Rights

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