GreenPolicy360 Archive Highlights 2015

Laudato Si'

Vatican announcement of a first "Eco-encyclical"

Catholic Pontiff Speaks of an 'Integral Ecology'

From the first Catholic pope to name himself after St. Francis of Assisi, patron saint of the environment and wildlife

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"Racing Extinction" - The Movie

“We’re not making a movie, we’re starting a movement. This film is one component of a movement that will go on and on...

to live in people’s hearts and minds and change behavior. We are the only generation that can save species for millions of years going forward.”

There is No Plan(et) B

• http://racingextinction.com/

• http://racingextinction.com/the-film/#press-kitA

• http://racingextinction.com/resources/#video-galleryA

Racing Extinction

Racing Extinction ○ #RacingExtinction @RacingXtinction

“I told the crew, 'We’re not making a movie – we’re starting a movement'. This film is one component of a movement that will go on and on...

and hopefully live in people’s hearts and minds and change behavior. We are the only generation that can save species for millions of years going forward...”

Large (charismatic) vs. Small Species

In the Smallest Creatures

Updates

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Planet Labs / New Space

Planet Labs Platform Beta to Advance Sustainable Development Goals

Open California -- California imaging from Planet Labs fleet, a "full historical archive" now available under a CC BY-SA license

Planet Labs / Updates

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

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Micro-satellites

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

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

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California out in front modeling and sharing green best practices

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

Here come the 'EV Corridors' and Solar-Charging Stations -- New Motto, More Sun, Less Exxon

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Climate Publishers Network

May 2015, New International Media Network to share climate change news

“Climate change is the biggest challenge humanity is currently facing and requires new ways of collaborating across geographic as well as political boundaries.”

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Astronaut Gerst --- 'Planet Citizen' Video

• OCO-2 reports most detailed CO2 measurements
• Take a look at the UN Climate Change Newsroom
• The World Bank's point of view re climate change

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Watching the Planet Breathe

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Monitoring Earth's Essential Systems

Earth Right Now: Briefing @NASA

• Highlighting Results from New Earth Missions (as of 2015)

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http://www.nasa.gov/earthrightnow/

http://climate.nasa.gov/

http://climate.nasa.gov/blog/1105/

https://nex.nasa.gov/nex/

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http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/NASA_EarthSciences,_Challenges_Public_to_Join_In

[[File:Vital Signs, Taking the Pulse of the Planet Sept2014.

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