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::<big><big><big><big>'''Your Moment on Earth, Planet Citizen'''</big></big></big></big>  🌎


:::<small>[http://www.planetcitizen.org ''www.planetcitizen.org''] ○ [http://www.planetcitizens.org ''www.planetcitizens.org'']</small>




<big><big>[http://www.planetcitizens.org '''''To Be or Not to Be a Planet Citizen''''']</big></big>
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::<big><big>'''''New Visions of Security in a Changing World'''''</big></big>
:::[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/New_Definitions_of_National_Security <big>'''''Environmental Security & National Security'''''</big>]


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<big><big>'''''Rethinking Security in a Changing World:'''''</big></big>
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::<big><big>'''''Environmental Security & National Security'''''</big></big>




[https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=10218013642705404&id=1016057367 <small>''At Home on Spaceship Earth ... See How We Fly Through the Universe''</small>]


:::<big><big><u>'''''[[GTN GreenLinks Trending News]]'''''</u></big></big>


:::[https://www.climaterealityproject.org/blog/ten-ways-get-involved-people-climate-movement <big><big><font color=green><u>'''''Get Involved in Climate Action'''''</u></font></big></big>]


<big><u>'''''[[Green Stories of the Day]]'''''</u></big>


[http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/03/how-trump-is-changing-science-environment/ <big>'''''National Geographic / A Running List of How Trump Is Changing the Environment'''''</big>]
<big><u>'''''[[GTN GreenLinks Trending News]]'''''</u></big>


'''''The Trump administration has promised vast changes to U.S. science and environmental policy — and National Geographic is tracking them as they happen'''''




:[[File:Climate Action-Bloomberg-Brown July2017.png]]
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<big><u>'''''[[Environmental movement]]'''''</u></big> | <big><u>'''''[[Earth Science Vital Signs]]'''''</u></big> | <big><u>'''''[[Environmental protection]]'''''</u></big> | <big><u>'''''[[The Commons]]'''''</u></big>


<big>'''''Time to Act as US President Says No to the Global Community and No to Int'l Climate Agreement'''''</big>


::<big><big>[[Earth Day 2020]]</big></big>


:[https://www.carbonbrief.org/mapped-climate-change-laws-around-world <big><u>'''''Climate Change Laws Around the World'''''</u></big>]
:::[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Day_2020 Memories Fifty Years On]


:● [http://www.lse.ac.uk/GranthamInstitute/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Global-trends-in-climate-change-legislation-and-litigation-WEB.pdf <big><u>'''''Trends in Climate Change Legislation'''''</u></big>]
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[[File:CAIT Map 1.png|link=http://cait.wri.org/indc/#/map]]
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[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyEzsAy4qeU <small>'''''Earth, Live in Space'''''</small>]


[[File:Earth day 2016.jpg|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyEzsAy4qeU]]


[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/INDCs <big><big>'''''The Challenge Going Forward'''''</big></big>]




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<small>○ ''"There is no wisdom that is not related to earth, or does not partake of its nature."''</small>  
:<small>-- Marjory Stoneman Douglas''</small>




<big><big>''''' 'Cut those Web Pages, Fire the Scientists, Shut Down the Advisory Panels, Hide the Data' '''''</big></big>


:● [https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/14/donald-trump-climate-change-mentions-government-websites '''''Slice and Dice, Hack and Chop, Delete and Disappear the Climate Language''''']
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::● [https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/under-trump-inconvenient-data-is-being-sidelined/2017/05/14/3ae22c28-3106-11e7-8674-437ddb6e813e_story.html '''''Trump admin has hidden or taken offline 40,000 data sets that used to be public''''']


:::● [https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/05/07/epa-dismisses-half-of-its-scientific-advisers-on-key-board-citing-clean-break-with-obama-administration/ '''''EPA dismisses half of key board’s scientific advisers; Interior suspends more than 200 advisory panels''''']


::::● [http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/donald-trump-epa-website-turn-off-environmental-protection-agency-government-administration-a7698736.html '''''Government Failure: Order to shut down access to data services''']
<big>'''''Visit GreenPolicy360's associate, Strategic Demands'''''</big>


[http://www.strategicdemands.com <big>''www.strategicdemands.com''</big>]


<big>'''''On or Off? The EPA Open Data Website Going or Staying, or Staying but 'Data-Edited'?</big>
:https://opendata.epa.gov/home.xhtml?view
::https://opendata.epa.gov/home.xhtml
:::https://catalog.data.gov/dataset?q=environment
::::https://twitter.com/hashtag/EPAdata


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<big>'''''Oh, BTW, Re: the "Coming Ice Age"'''''</big>
:https://www.mediamatters.org/blog/2017/05/19/House-Science-Committee-Dems-tell-Trump-Stop-falling-for-fake-news/216570


<big>'''On the Horizon / Strategic Demands'''</big>


[[File:Floating floating over the ocean seas.jpg|link=https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Arctic]]
* https://www.strategicdemands.com/


* https://www.strategicdemands.com/nuclear-issues-cold-war-2-0/


* https://www.strategicdemands.com/new-definitions-of-security/


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::<big><big><big>'''''2020'''''</big></big></big> 




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● [https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/apr/24/why-we-joined-the-march-for-science <big><big><font color=green><u>''''' Facts Matter today, yesterday & tomorrow '''''</u></font></big></big>]
::https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_for_Science
:::https://satellites.marchforscience.com/
::::https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:March_for_Science-2.png
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● <big>'''''#PlanetCitizen'''''</big>


<big><u>'''''[[Earth and Space, Politics]]'''''</u></big>
<big>'''In Memory of Planet Citizen Konrad Steffen'''</big>


● <big><u>'''''[[New Definitions of National Security]]'''''</u></big>
Renowned climate scientist dies in Greenland ice sheet accident


* https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2020/08/13/konrad-steffen-death-climate-change-scientist-dies-greenland/3362486001/


● [https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/10/climate/trump-nasa-satellites-global-warming-data.html '''''Scientists Fear Climate Data Gap as Trump Aims at Satellites''''']
* https://www.cbsnews.com/news/konrad-steffen-koni-climate-scientist-dies-greenland-ice-sheet-crevasse/


● [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_and_Space,_Politics '''''How to Damage Local, National, and Global Security: A Trump Case Study in Practice''''']
* https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/13/climate/konrad-steffen-dead.html


* https://www.dailycamera.com/2020/08/10/konrad-steffen-former-cires-director-dies-in-greenland-accident/


[[File:NRDC re Trump bad stuff.png|link=https://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/NRDC_re_Trump_bad_stuff.png]]
* https://twitter.com/algore/status/1292979399005024256




In 2017, Konrad Steffen talks about the Polar Research Station, climate change and the Greenland landscape


<big><big>'''''Radiant Earth Project'''''</big></big>
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emHW-GKBIfk


''http://radiant.earth/''


''Open geospatial data for positive global impact, and improved decision-making''
Past the 'Point of No Return', the Tipping Point in Greenland


* https://www.sciencealert.com/greenland-s-melting-ice-sheet-has-passed-the-point-of-no-return-scientists-say/


''Industry experts said over the past five years the number of operational satellites has jumped 40%, and nearly 1,400 now orbit the Earth.''
* https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/08/20/weather/greenland-ice-sheet-melt-climate-intl-hnk/index.html


''This number could more than double over the next five years as satellites become smaller, lighter and more affordable.''


'''''Satellites collecting data and monitoring the Earth'''''


''Applications are far reaching - from tracking plant health through chlorophyll to gauging the impact of natural disasters and the surveillance of illegal logging.''
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''India recently participated in the launch of 104 satellites — 101 of them for foreign companies and agencies - in a single mission as part of its strategic bid for a bigger share of the $300 billion global space industry.
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''Experts at the Seattle summit said the multiple launch, described as a world record by its space agency, was also significant because 88 were shoebox-sized Dove satellites launched by [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Planet_Labs_Doves_Fly Planet], a San Francisco-based private satellite operator founded by former NASA scientists.''
:::::[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Earth_in_Human_Hands.jpg <big><big><big><big>'''Earth in Our Hands'''</big></big></big></big>]


''The constellation of small satellites will, once settled into orbit in six months' time, will photograph the entire Earth every day.''
::::* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Anthropocene


''"Satellite imagery might be one of the most powerful and unbiased tools to tell people what is going on with the planet", explains Albert Lin, Research Scientist at the University of California, San Diego.''
::::* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Science_Vital_Signs


''The key, he said, lay in finding ways to translate enormous amounts of information into something that can be understood by everyone.''
::::* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Right_Now


''This means finding ways of sorting and interlinking the trillions of bits of data sent to Earth and re-construct them into readable, digital and sometimes 3D models.''
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''In some cases, data can be analyzed with the help of communities of "citizen scientists sitting alone at their computers all over the world."''
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''"This is a wake-up call that satellite imagery is not just about questions and insights but also about engaging the entire planet in observing the planet, together."''


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● https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:New_Space


● https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Earth_Observations
:::::::<big><big><big>'''''Planet Citizen Action'''''</big></big></big>


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


● https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Earth_Science
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● https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Imaging-New_Space


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


● https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Look_at_how_thin_our_atmosphere_is
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● https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/New_Definitions_of_National_Security
:::::::<big><big><big>'''''Facing the Climate Crisis'''''</big></big></big> 




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<big><big><big>'''''Yes We Can (Leave the World a Better Place''''')</big></big></big>


'''''[http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/news/press_releases/2017/publc-records-03-23-2017.php Press Release] / March 23, 2017'''''
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<big>'''''Actions to Protect Earth Science/Climate Data From Trump Orders to 'Delete/Suspend/Revise/Rescind' '''''</big>


'''''Records Requests Seek to Preserve Hundreds of Data Sets on Wildlife, Oil Industry, Climate Change, Sea-level Rise'''''
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''WASHINGTON — The Center for Biological Diversity, along with noted conservation biologist Stuart Pimm and the Center for Media and Democracy, launched an effort today to prevent hundreds of environmental data sets on government websites from being removed by the Trump administration.''
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''To preserve or resurrect what has already been removed by the administration, the centers and Dr. Pimm submitted three separate Freedom of Information Act requests for data sets to eight federal agencies: the Army Corps of Engineers, the Council on Environmental Quality, the Environmental Protection Agency, NASA and the departments of agriculture, commerce, energy and interior.''
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''Under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), when federal agencies receive requests for the same records three or more times, they must make the records freely available to the public on their websites, a rule known as “the Beetlejuice provision.”''


''“By removing or hiding hundreds of data sets [http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/campaigns/open_government/pdfs/2017_03_23_Center_PIMM_DMD_Compiled_Datasets_FOIA.pdf [PDF]] containing critical information about the climate, wildlife and the health of our oceans, Trump and his cronies are blatantly trying to conceal the truth from the American people,” said Amy Atwood, a senior attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity. “Thankfully our scientists have the Freedom of Information Act to keep this vital information in the light of day.”''
:::::::[http://www.planetcitizen.org <big><big><big>'''''Planet Citizen Action'''''</big></big></big>]


''Today’s legal requests seek hundreds of data sets on energy usage, renewables, oil and gas projections, coal reserves, climate data, sea-level rise, human population, environmental justice and the status of scores of endangered and threatened species and other wildlife. More specifically, they seek information relating to conservation of aquatic systems, residential energy consumption and Endangered Species Act “Section 7” consultations, a step taken by federal agencies to avoid jeopardizing listed species.''
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''Media outlets have reported on the loss and vulnerability of federal data relating to some of today’s most pressing environmental issues, pointing out the disappearance of data sets from agency websites under the Trump administration and documenting scientists’ efforts to save them.''
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''“The U.S. government produces and maintains some of the most important information that scientists use in their research,” said Dr. Stuart Pimm, a Duke University professor and research scientist — and a founder of conservation biology — and the second requester of data. “Along with the Herculean efforts of volunteer scientists around the country, I’m doing what I can to protect this information because it’s critical these data remain available to academic institutions for scientists and future generations.”''
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● [https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/mar/28/arctic-researcher-donald-trump-deleting-my-citations '''''How destruction of climate science documents/data sets/online info proceeds even as legal actions move to block the administration's attempt to purge facts and scientific evidence''''']
:::::::<big><big><big><big>''Personal action... Direct action...''</big></big></big></big>


[https://qz.com/928236/the-word-science-has-disappeared-from-the-mission-statement-of-the-epas-office-of-science-and-technology/ '''''Disappearing “Science” from the Core Mission Statement of the EPA Office of Science and Technology''''']
::::::::[http://www.planetcitizens.org <big>'''''Planet Citizens, Positive Change'''''</big>]


● [http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/news/press_releases/2017/publc-records-03-23-2017.php '''''Activists Rush to Save Government Science Data''''']
::::::* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Climate_Policy


::::::* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Economic_Justice


<big>'''''Challenges: Of Course and We're Taking Them On'''''</big>
::::::* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Human_Rights


:[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Planet_Citizen <big>'''''To Be — or Not to Be a Planet Citizen'''''</big>]
::::::* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Social_Justice
::[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Challenge_of_Acting_for_the_Commons.png <big>'''''Acting on Behalf of the Common Good'''''</big>]


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='''As the New Year Dawns, We Share a Moment with Planet Citizens'''=


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<big>'''''To Andrew Revkin, a True 'Planet Citizen' as Dot Earth Signs Off and Andrew Moves on to ProPublica'''''</big>
:::::::<big><big><big><big>''Green Network, GreenLinks action''</big></big></big></big>


[https://www.propublica.org/about/andrew-revkin-to-join-propublica-as-senior-reporter-on-climate-change ''Andrew Revkin to Join ProPublica as Senior Reporter on Climate Change'']
::::::: [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Green_Networking '''''Going Green, #GreenNetworking''''']  


:::::::: [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/GreenLinks '''''GreenLinks @ GreenPolicy360''''']


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'''Planet citizen Bill Mollison, who presented a gift of Permaculture globally'''
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[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Bill_Mollison_courtesy_of_Permaculture_magazine.jpg '''''In Memory of Bill''''']
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::::::[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/Methods_of_Nonviolent_Action.pdf <big><big><big>'''''Nonviolent Action in Practice'''''</big></big></big>]


[[File:Bill Mollison courtesy of Permaculture magazine.jpg]]
::::::<big>'''198 Ways to Act, Count 'em '''</big>


::::::<big>''[[File:Methods of Nonviolent Action.pdf]]''</big>
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<big>'''Memories of George, Planet Citizen Who Envisioned an Environmental Renaissance'''</big>
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[https://plus.google.com/104105656721944993244/posts/34gu9y59nh2 Remembering the 'start-up' of the environmental movement] and the first US environmental laws... founding legal precedents many of which came from forward-looking green visionaries like your GreenPolicy siterunner's friend and mentor, George, who passed away suddenly in 1999.
<big><big> '''''Thinking Global'''''</big></big>


[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/George_E._Brown_Jr Rep. George E. Brown, Calif]
:''''Global Forever' Stamps


George's decades of work in Congress in air quality/clean air, water and the founding of the EPA highlighted the era's achievement... George was out in front in "big science" -- his profound accomplishments are esp missed now as [http://inhabitat.com/house-passes-bill-that-prohibits-expert-scientific-advice-to-the-epa/ anti-science positions] threaten in the current US Congress


::[[File:Global Forever stamps USPS.jpg]]


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'''Astronauts Sam Cristoforetti and Ron Garan, the 'Overview Effect' few citizens have ever experienced'''
<big><big> '''''Stepping It Up'''''</big></big>




:[[File:Astro Sam w new espresso machine's first cuppa java May2015.png]]
<big>'''''Climate Activists & Green Organizers: California Builds Bridges to Extend International Cooperation'''''</big>


:[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Global_Climate_Action_Summit.png <big>''Global Climate Action Summit''</big>]


Yes, to Italian "Astro Sam" and her [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/HelloEarth #HelloEarth views and messages] to us here on the home Planet.


And we greatly appreciate the newest from Astronaut Ron Garan as his interactive project [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Orbital_Perspective '''"Orbital Perspective"'''] is published this week. Some 45 years ago, near the end of December 1968 and beginning of an auspicious 1969, we began seeing the Apollo 8 mission's first-ever images of our "whole earth". It's not overstating to say - these images from above changed everything. These pictures from space looking back at Earth, taken as Apollo circled around the moon, carried realizations with the images -- that together we are [http://www.planetcitizen.org planet citizens].
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We welcomed a perspective that no human had ever had.


January 1969 was an eye-opener as the images of Earth were broadcast. We celebrated the images and our place in the cosmos even as we, the planet and our populations, were in the midst of violent war and troubled times.
<big><big><big>'''''In Memory of a Florida "Planet Citizen"'''''</big></big></big>


Today, the famous [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/Earthrise_EL-2001-00365h_NASA_Apollo_8_1968.jpg '''Earthrise'''] photo rekindles our memory, and the serendipity of how the Apollo 8 crew was lucky that day as, looking out their window, the Earth suddenly came into view. There was no "mission plan" to take Earth photos and the astronauts scrambled to get to a camera, put in film and shoot a few frames. They were in awe, they said, and fortune was in play that day. There we were, us, Earth. In the Earthrise images our space traveling planet citizens captured  a realization of our wholeness, connectedness, and our shared future as together we spin thru space.


Later, the Apollo 17 mission, as the program was coming to its end, brought home the "Blue Marble" photograph, the [http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/04/the-blue-marble-shot-our-first-complete-photograph-of-earth/237167/ '''first complete 360° image of our planet'''], a [http://grin.hq.nasa.gov/IMAGES/LARGE/GPN-2000-001138.jpg '''high-res Earth'''] described as the [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Blue_Marble_photo_-_Apollo_17.jpg '''most reproduced photo in history''']. It is the first photograph taken of the whole round Earth and still is only one of the whole earth ever snapped by a human being. Of the two living astronauts, Cernan and Schmitt, who believe they were the photographer who took the photo, here is how one describes his view.... Whichever astronaut of the three aboard Apollo 17 who snapped the picture, what is most memorable is Earth360:
'''''Nathaniel Reed, environmental advocate and co-author of the Endangered Species Act, dies at 84'''''  


''"You have to literally just pinch yourself and ask yourself the question, silently: Do you know where you are at this point in time and space, and in reality and in existence, when you can look out the window and you're looking at the most beautiful star in the heavens -- the most beautiful because it's the one we understand and we know, it's home, it's people, family, love, life -- and besides that it is beautiful. You can see from pole to pole and across oceans and continents and you can watch it turn and there's no strings holding it up, and it's moving in a blackness that is almost beyond conception."''


[https://www.tampabay.com/news/environment/Nathaniel-Reed-Florida-environmental-advocate-and-co-author-of-the-Endangered-Species-Act-dies-at-84_169924582 ''Via the Tampa Bay Times / Craig Pittman'']


[[File:Blue Marble photo - Apollo 17.jpg]]
''Nathaniel "Nat" Reed, 84, a Hobe Sound resident whose childhood ardor for Florida’s natural wonders led to him becoming a tireless crusader for the environment, died in a Quebec hospital Wednesday, according to his family.''


''In a long career spent both in and out of government service, Mr. Reed co-wrote the Endangered Species Act, helped stop the construction of the world’s largest airport in the Big Cypress Swamp, and later founded the group 1,000 Friends of Florida...''


The sense of awe, an Earth point of view, has continued to be communicated by astronauts since and has continued to be shared, more recently with high tech ways to see and experience our Earth as planetary citizens as we see from [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/From_AstroTerry_January2015.png '''the International Space Station''']. The term [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Overview_Effect '''"Overview Effect"'''] begins to share the experience.


We celebrate our Planet Citizens who bring home messages how we can collaborate to make a difference, to make the world a better place.
* [https://youtu.be/oW8Yzj7AlQA ''Advice? "Get educated", a video interview with Nat'']


Ron Garan: ''"You don’t need to be an astronaut to have the orbital perspective"...''


''"When we look down at the earth from space, we see this amazing, indescribably beautiful planet. It looks like a living, breathing organism. But it also, at the same time, looks extremely fragile... Anybody else who's ever gone to space says the same thing because it really is striking and it's really sobering to see this paper-thin layer and to realize that that little paper-thin layer is all that protects every living thing on Earth from death, basically. From the harshness of space."''
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''"The Goal is to bring people along on our space missions not as spectators but as fellow crew mates." -- http://www.rongaran.com/gallery/''


''"It is truly moving to look at Earth from space. And when we do – we also have the privilege of sharing this orbital perspective with people back on our planet. We are all riding through the universe together on this spaceship we call Earth, we are all interconnected, we are all in this together. We are all family."''
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[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&profile=default&search=stephen+hawking&fulltext=Search <big>'''Stephen Hawking / "Planet Citizen"'''</big>]




'''Planet citizen Naomi Klein, "This Changes Everything"'''
''"Here lies what was mortal of Stephen Hawking 1942 - 2018"''
: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jdaxehd0cF0 Speaking @ the Bioneers conference, 2014]


''June 15, 2018 / More than 1,000 people gathered today for a memorial service in London for theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking whose ashes were buried between graves of Darwin and Newton at Westminster Abbey...''


[[File:Naomi Klein speaking at the Bioneers conf.png|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jdaxehd0cF0]]


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'''Bill McKibben''', founder of [http://www.350.org '''www.350.org'''], [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Bill_McKibben,_planet_citizen '''planet citizen'''], and former advisor to our GreenPolicy new venture.
:''https://www.unlimited.world/ubs/stephen-hawking-in-memoriam''




<big><u>'''[[350.org]]'''</u></big>
<big><big>'''''This is the most dangerous time for our planet'''''</big></big>


''by Stephen Hawking''


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''Via [https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/dec/01/stephen-hawking-dangerous-time-planet-inequality The Guardian]''




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'''Rebecca envisioned setting up [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:G_Earth_Outreach.jpg Google Outreach] -- and she did.'''
<big>''''' "My perceptions of the world shifted" '''''</big>




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'''''Aboard the International Space Station. Ride along with Planet Citizen astronauts.'''''


'''''Experience [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Whole_Earth the Whole Earth] and see our home planet through their eyes...'''''


'''Pope Francis, the first Catholic pontiff to name himself after the patron saint of the environment'''


[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Pope_Francis_on_the_Environment Catholic pontiff speaks of the environment]
:*[https://www.facebook.com/NGM/videos/10156076557406005/ ''3D Video via Facebook'']


:*[https://youtu.be/dwHBpykTloY ''3D Video via YouTube'']


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'''John Rensenbrink, Maine Green and US Green Party co-founder'''
: '''Editor''', [http://www.green-horizon.org/ '''Green Horizon Magazine''']


[[File:Astro POV - Mike Massimino - PlanetCitizen.png]]


[[File:GH1 sm.jpg|link=http://www.green-horizon.org/about-us/]]


<big>'''Planet Citizen on a Spacewalk'''</big>


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'''Mike Massimino'''




[[File:REBECCA-SOLNIT.jpg]]
"This is what heaven must look like... I felt like I was looking into a paradise" ... He sounds dramatic, religious, maybe Italian like his name.  


Or maybe a green evangelical ''environista'''.


'''Rebecca Solnit'''
Floating high, [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:2001_pic3.jpeg Starchild]...
: "There are really only two questions for activists: what do you want to achieve? And who do you want to be? And those two questions are deeply entwined. Every minute of every hour of every day you are making the world, just as you are making yourself, and you might as well do it with generosity and kindness and style. That is the small ongoing victory on which great victories can be built, and you do want victories, don't you?"




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[https://twitter.com/hashtag/PlanetCitizen #PlanetCitizen]




:<big>'''''January 2017'''''</big>


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[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Green_Stories_of_the_Day '''''Stories of the Day''''']




[[File:Another year, another record.png]]
:[[File:Away fly the Doves March4,2015.png]]




[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Arctic '''''The Arctic Thaws -- US and Russia Prepare for Historic Gas/Oil Development in the North''''']
'''''NASA / In the beginning, big ideas required big rockets. Now, we can launch satellites that fit in the palm of our hand.'''''  


'''''Discover how by watching [https://twitter.com/NASA/status/993643757986775042 this video]'''''


[[File:Arctic1 by Timo Lieber 800x480.jpg]]


:* [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Micro-satellites Micro-Satellites] / [http://www.planet.com Planet Doves]


<big>'''''December 2016'''''</big>
:* [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Democratization_of_Space Democratization of Space]


:* [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_and_Space,_Politics US Politics & Earth Science from Space]


<big>'''''Hear ye, Hear ye'''''</big>
:* [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Earth_Observations Earth Observation]


:'''''A 'Planet Citizen', California Governor Jerry Brown steps up [http://blogs.agu.org/geoedtrek/2016/12/14/jerry-brown/ at the AGU] to deliver [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Jerry_Brown_AGU-Dec14,2016.png a speech for the times]'''''




<big>'''''All Hands on Deck'''''</big>
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[https://www.theguardian.com/science/political-science/2016/dec/01/nobel-laureates-have-spoken-out-the-battle-to-defend-science-under-trump-has-begun '''''Eyes open, stay sharp, on alert''''']


:''America’s science community is getting organised as never before to hold the new administration and Congress to account''
[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:DSWT-Daphne_hugging_elephant_adoptee.png <big>'''''Orphans No More, Sheldrick Wildlife Trust'''''</big>]




<big>'''''To Andrew Revkin, 'Planet Citizen Reporter' as he signs out at Dot Earth & moves on to ProPublica'''''</big>
'''''Conservation Policies vs. Hunting 'Trophies', Poaching, and Destruction of Species'''''


[https://www.propublica.org/about/andrew-revkin-to-join-propublica-as-senior-reporter-on-climate-change ''Andrew Revkin to Join ProPublica as Senior Reporter on Climate Change'']


[http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/12/05/after-nine-years-and-2810-posts-a-dot-earth-farewell/ ''A Dot Earth Farewell'']
[[File:Elephant trophies.png]]




<big>'''''November 2016'''''</big>


::[[File:Earth Right Now.png|link=https://plus.google.com/104105656721944993244/posts/Lq7PpMSjhJF]]
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[[File:Climate Change Agr Nov 4, 2016.png]]
[[File:Starlink-nasa image.jpg]]




[[File:PlanetCitizen banner 800x163.jpg|link=http://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/PlanetCitizen_banner.jpg]]
:''February 22, 2018, the beginning of a SpaceX planet-network''


:[http://www.thinbluelayer.com ''www.thinbluelayer.com'']
::''SpaceX's ultimate goal is to provide [https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/02/spacexs-satellite-broadband-nears-fcc-approval-and-first-test-launch/ gigabit broadband worldwide]''




::<big><big>'''''"Starlink, Planet Internet"'''''</big></big>




'''''Elon's a planet citizen with energy powering up the vision'''''
::* [https://www.pocket-lint.com/gadgets/news/143663-starlink-satellites-will-blanket-earth-with-superfast-internet-by-2025 ''Starlink will 'blanket the earth with superfast internet by 2025''']


[[File:Elon Musk Tesla-Solar City-Solar Roofs.png]]
::* [https://techcrunch.com/2018/03/29/fcc-approves-spacex-plan-for-4425-satellite-broadband-network/ ''FCC approves SpaceX plan for 4,425-satellite broadband network'']




<big>'''''October 2016'''''</big>


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<big>'''''The Military and Climate Security Budgets Compared'''''</big>


''The U.S. military’s latest National Security Strategy says that climate change is “an urgent and growing threat to our national security, contributing to increased natural disasters, refugee flows, and conflicts over basic resources like food and water.''
::::<big><u>'''''[[HelloEarth]]'''''</u></big> ○ <big>'''''Earth 'Dailies' [https://epic.gsfc.nasa.gov/ via DSCOVR-EPIC]'''''</big>


''What they don’t say is that the overall balance of U.S. security spending should be adjusted to fit that assessment. And we know less about how much we are spending on this urgent threat than we used to, since the federal government hasn’t produced a climate security budget since 2013.''


''In this new report, [http://www.ips-dc.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/CvsC-Report-1.pdf Combat vs. Climate], the Institute for Policy Studies steps in to provide the most accurate climate change security budget currently available, drawing data from multiple agencies. And it looks at how these expenditures stack up within the overall 'security budget.'''
[[File:Earth Image Dailies from DSCOVR-EPIC.png | link=https://epic.gsfc.nasa.gov/]]


''Tags:'' [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Environmental_Security Environmental Security]; [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Environmental_Security,_National_Security Environmental Security, National Security]; [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Global_Security Global Security]; [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/New_Definitions_of_National_Security New Definitions of National Security]
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'''''Report: [http://www.ips-dc.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/CvsC-Report-1.pdf Combat Vs. Climate''''']
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:''http://www.ips-dc.org/report-combat-vs-climate/''


[[File:Combat Vs Climate FOC-Oct2016 IPS.png|link=http://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/Combat_vs_Climate-Report-1.pdf]]


<big><big>'''''Planet Citizens, Digital Rights @GreenPolicy360'''''</big></big>




:* [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Strategic_Policy-Internet_Online_Rights '''''An Internet Bill of Rights''''']


:* [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Digital_Citizen '''''Digital Citizen''''']


:* [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Digital_Rights '''''Digital Rights''''']


[[File:Change.jpg]]
:* [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Networking '''''Networking''''']


:* [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Online_Privacy '''''Online Privacy''''']






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[[File:Before the Flood Oct 3, 2016-White House film premiere.png|link=https://www.facebook.com/LeonardoDiCaprio/videos/10153830716807116/]]


:::[https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/02/elon-musk-tweets-video-of-spacexs-first-broadband-satellites-in-space/ '''''Global Broadband Satellite Network Launches''''']


"Planet Citizen" & "Bioneer" Leo
:::'''''Tintin A & B ... “hello world”'''''


:http://inhabitat.com/elon-musk-and-leonardo-dicaprio-discuss-climate-issues-in-before-the-flood-documentary/
[[File:Tintin-hello world.png]]


:https://www.facebook.com/LeonardoDiCaprio/videos/10153830716807116/


:http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/before-flood-927190


:http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Leo's_Oscar_Speech_2016.png
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:http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Bioneers_Lyons,_Kucinich,_DiCaprio_247x225_Sept2014NYC.jpg


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:and fellow Planet Citizen-Bioneer and Leo's close friend, Oren Lyons, Chief of the Onondaga Iroquois
:[[File:My-Journey-at-the-Nuclear-Brink Perry-235x300.png]]


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


:[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:My-Journey-at-the-Nuclear-Brink_Perry-235x300.png <big>'''''On the Eve of Destruction'''''</big>]


:Oren Lyons - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSwmqZ272As "We Are Part of the Earth"] (Video / 7:38)


[https://nyti.ms/2GJgxTA '''''U.S. Signals Nuclear Arms Are Back (Again!) in a Big Way''''']


:[[File:Oren-lyons.jpg|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSwmqZ272As]]


* ''http://strategicdemands.com/us-nuclear-posture-review-released/''


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* ''http://strategicdemands.com/nuclear-weapons-time/''


* ''http://strategicdemands.com/two-minutes-midnight/''


<big>'''''Remembering Rachel, Planet Citizen'''''</big>




[[File:Rachel Carson ecology - ecosystem.png|link=http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Rachel_Carson_ecology_-_ecosystem.png]]
<big><big>'''''"Surviving Victory":'''''</big></big>


'''''Moving Away from "Perpetual War"'''''


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'''''Shifting from Fossil Fuel Causes of Conflict to Renewable Energy Alternatives'''''


<big>'''''September 2016'''''</big>
:* https://www.strategicdemands.com/costsofwar/


:* https://www.strategicdemands.com/new-definitions-of-security/


[[File:ECO-NOMICS.jpg|link=http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Eco-nomics]]
:* https://www.strategicdemands.com/nuclear-issues-cold-war-2-0/




[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Eco-nomics  <big>'''"Eco-nomics"'''] '''for the 21st Century'''</big>
'''''"Strategic Demands, a 21st Century Vision"'''''
*''A Necessary Challenge to Neoliberal Economics''
*''A Shift from Short-term Profits to Resilient, Sustainable Economies''  


:[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Surviving_Victory:_Security_Priorities '''Survival Strategies, Security Priorities''']


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:* http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Surviving-Victory-conference-Washington-DC-2006.pdf


[[File:Stephen Hawking Genius on PBS 1.jpg]]
:* http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Surviving_Victory.png




<big>'''Stephen Hawking on ITV (and [https://twitter.com/hashtag/HawkingGeniusPBS?src=hash PBS])'''</big>
[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:New_Definitions_of_National_Security.png New Definitions of National Security]


'''"Runaway climate change... A rise in ocean temperature would melt the ice-caps... with catastrophic effects." [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Climate_News #AGW #CAGW]'''
:* [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Environmental_Security Environmental Security pages @GreenPolicy360]


Often referred to as an Einstein of our current era, Stephen Hawking points to ''"runaway climate change"'' as a profound threat to global security. In the same (labored) breath, he communicates a profound warning re: the other existential threat he sees -- [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/max-tegmark/hawking-says-dont-bank-on_b_9606926.html '''nuclear weapons''']. At '''Strategic Demands''' the escalating threat of [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Nuclear_Weapons nuclear weapons] is revealed and tracked -- [http://strategicdemands.com/nuclear-issues-cold-war-2-0/ as Cold War 2.0].
:* [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Global_Security Global Security pages @GreenPolicy360]


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:<big>'''''August 2016'''''</big>


:[http://touch.latimes.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-88015513/ <big>'''''Elon Musk & Co'''''</big>]
[[File:Over the Pacific.png]]


:'''''Renewable Energy: Beyond Tesla with #PlanetCitizen''''' 


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:<big>'''''July 2016'''''</big>


:[https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2016/jul/11/we-just-broke-the-record-for-hottest-year-9-straight-times <big>'''''Another Record for the Hottest Year'''</big>]
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[[File:NASA MODIS One week in April 2016.jpg]]
[[File:Best Practices check sm.png]] [https://www.climaterealityproject.org/blog/ten-ways-get-involved-people-climate-movement <big><big><font color=green><u>'''''Get Going with Climate Action'''''</u></font></big></big>]


* https://www.strategicdemands.com/environmental-security/




<big>'''''International Climate Conference Updates'''''</big>


<big>'''''Climate Change Denial in Motion'''''</big>
[[File:Climate Change Conf Nov 6-17.png]]
:'''''Defenders of Fossil Fuel Business-as-Usual Push Defense'''''


[https://insideclimatenews.org/news/31082016/lamar-smith-calls-science-committee-hearings-discuss-exxon-subpoenas-maura-healey-eric-schneiderman '''''Via Inside Climate News''''']


''August 31, 2016 - The chairman of the House Science Committee has announced a hearing next month into the refusal by two state attorneys general to comply with subpoenas seeking information on their investigations into ExxonMobil...''
:http://unfccc.int/2860.php


:https://cop23.unfccc.int/


<big>'''''US House Science Committee Acts to Defend ExxonMobile Against Attorneys General'''''</big>
:https://cop23.unfccc.int/news/cop23-kicks-off-with-strong-calls-to-hold-to-paris-agreement-path


[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/ExxonMobil_and_US_House_Science_Committee_v_US_Attorneys_General_and_Environmental_Groups '''''ExxonMobile Faces Multi-state AG Investigation''''']
:https://cop23.unfccc.int/news/un-climate-change-conference-2017-aims-for-further-faster-ambition-together




<big>''United States only country to refuse climate change agreement''</big>


* http://e360.yale.edu/features/why-post-paris-climate-challenge-is-even-harder-than-we-thought


<big>'''''Politics: US Democratic Party Platcom Meetings'''''</big>
* http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=57807#.Wdga_1tSy70


[http://grist.org/election-2016/sanders-final-win-climate-action-in-the-democratic-platform/ '''''Democratic Party environmental positions voted into platform''''']


:[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Democratic_Party_Platform_Committee,_2016_-_Green_Issues_Transcript_from_Real_News '''''Update from the Democratic Party Platform Hearing on Environmental/Climate Issues''''']
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[https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/aug/03/climate-crisis-media-relegates-greatest-challenge-hurtle-us-collapse-planet '''''Via George Monbiot''''']
<big>'''''Changes/Turnarounds at the US Energy Department'''''</big>


''August 3, 2016 -- This (year), on current trends, will be the hottest year ever measured. The previous record was set in 2015; the one before in 2014. Fifteen of the 16 warmest years have occurred in the 21st century. Each of the past 14 months has beaten the global monthly temperature record. But you can still hear people repeating the old claim, first proposed by fossil fuel lobbyists, that global warming stopped in 1998. Arctic sea ice covered a smaller area last winter than in any winter since records began...''  
[http://thehill.com/blogs/pundits-blog/energy-environment/348716-energy-dept-whistleblowers-can-resist-trump-perry-from ''Via 'The Hill' / Resisting the Trump-Perry Agenda'']


''If you blinked you would have missed the reports, but perhaps the most striking aspect of the Democratic platform (the party’s manifesto) approved in Philadelphia last week was its position on climate change. Hillary Clinton’s campaign now promises a national and global mobilisation “on a scale not seen since World War II”. She will seek to renegotiate trade deals to protect the living world, to stop oil drilling in the Arctic and Atlantic, and to ensure the US is “running entirely on clean energy by mid-century”.''
''Technological change and market forces are making clean energy competitive with dirty fossil and nuclear energy, helped along by small tax credits (which are nonetheless dwarfed by much larger fossil fuel and nuclear subsidies).''


''There are some crashing contradictions in the platform. To judge by one bizarre paragraph, the Democrats believe they can solve climate change by expanding roads and airports. It boasts about record sales in the car industry and promises to cut “red tape”, which is the term used by corporate lobbyists for the public protections they hate. But where it is good it is very good, reflecting the influence of Bernie Sanders and the nominees he proposed to the drafting committee.''
''Coal-fired power generation capacity has decreased, nuclear capacity has stagnated, and even natural gas capacity has barely ticked upward — while solar and wind capacity have grown by double digits. Plus, according to Perry's own department, wind and solar now employ hundreds of thousands more Americans than older industries like coal.''


''Donald Trump, on the other hand – well, what did you expect? Climate change is a “con-job” and a “hoax” that was “created by and for the Chinese in order to make US manufacturing non-competitive”. His manifesto reads like a love letter to the coal industry. Coal, it says, “is an abundant, clean, affordable, reliable domestic energy resource”. He will defend the industry by rejecting the Paris agreement, stopping funds for the UN’s climate change work, ditching President Obama’s clean power plan and forbidding the Environmental Protection Agency from regulating carbon dioxide.''
''Together with impressive advances in energy storage and smart grid technology, those trends are reducing the need for a large baseload capacity by making it possible to store renewable energy and distribute it wherever it's needed.''


''What’s most alarming about the platform is that Trump didn’t write it: the deranged and contradictory bluster of the Republican party leadership is a collective effort.''


[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Renewable_Energy '''''Renewable Energy @ GreenPolicy''''']


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: [http://www.netzeropolicy.com '''''www.netzeropolicy.com''''']




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<big>'''''Warning Signs: The Great Barrier Reef'''''</big>
<big>'''''National Geographic:'''''</big>


[[File:Great Barrier Reef May 2016 m.png]]
[http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/03/how-trump-is-changing-science-environment/ <big>''''' Deconstructing Environmental Protections'''''</big>]




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<big>'''''Time to Act as US President Says No to the International Climate Agreement'''''</big>




<big>'''''Earth Day / Countries Signing Climate Action Plans'''''</big>
:*[https://www.carbonbrief.org/mapped-climate-change-laws-around-world <big><u>'''''Climate Change Laws Around the World'''''</u></big>]
::[http://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/blog/2016/04/parisagreementsingatures '''''Paris Agreement Signatures Today at the UN in New York''''']


'''''Via Mother Jones''''' - [http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2016/04/paris-agreement-signing-earth-day '''''Something Genuinely Good for the Earth Is Happening on Earth Day''''']
:[http://www.lse.ac.uk/GranthamInstitute/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/Global-trends-in-climate-change-legislation-and-litigation-WEB.pdf <big><u>'''''Trends in Climate Change Legislation'''''</u></big>]
::[http://touch.latimes.com/#section/2426/article/p2p-86754843/ '''''175 Nations Sign on Earth Day''''']




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[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/INDCs <big><big>'''''The Challenge Going Forward'''''</big></big>]




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<big><big>'''''Continuing Cutbacks at US Environmental Protection Agency'''''</big></big>




[[File:Earth day 2016.jpg]]
'''''Update'''''




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<big>'''''Solar Energy / EVs / ZEVs / NextGen Trans'''''</big>
<big><big>'''Scott Pruitt, Administrator of the US EPA, Resigns'''</big></big>


[[File:Pruitt serves letter.jpg]]


<font color=green><big><big>'''Going Green'''</big></big></font> [[File:Best Practices check sm.png | link=http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Going_Green]]


[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Pruitt%27s_EPA.png '''''Citing the Bible, the EPA Just 'Blew Up' Its Science Advisory Boards''''']


''''''Planet Citizen' Elon introduces the [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Tesla,_electric_cars Model 3]'''''


[[File:Elon.jpg]]
[[File:Pruitt's EPA.png]]




''Elon Musk: The car represents the culmination of a long-held dream to bring affordable, zero-pollution vehicles [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/EV_Corridors_Electric_Vehicles_Zero_Emission_Vehicles to the world's highways]...''
<big><big>'''''Fire Scientists, Shut Down Advisory Panels, Remove Data'''''</big></big>


''With [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Global_CO2_Emissions_1900-2010.png CO2 levels] and [https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2016/04/19/in-march-earths-temperature-deviated-more-from-normal-than-any-previous-month/ global temperatures at record highs], the Model 3 will help bring engineering solutions to the climate change problem.''  
: [https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/may/14/donald-trump-climate-change-mentions-government-websites '''''Slice and Dice, Hack and Chop, Delete and Disappear the Climate Language''''']


[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/EV_Corridors_Electric_Vehicles_Zero_Emission_Vehicles '''''EV - Electric- and Zero-Emission Vehicles Corridors'''''] -- ''As of April 20, 2016 - 20,823 Alternative fuel stations mapped in the United States''
:: [https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/under-trump-inconvenient-data-is-being-sidelined/2017/05/14/3ae22c28-3106-11e7-8674-437ddb6e813e_story.html '''''Trump admin has hidden or taken offline 40,000 data sets that used to be public''''']


::: [https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/05/07/epa-dismisses-half-of-its-scientific-advisers-on-key-board-citing-clean-break-with-obama-administration/ '''''EPA dismisses half of key board’s scientific advisers; Interior suspends more than 200 advisory panels''''']


[[File:Tesla Model 3 Introduced.jpg]]
:::: [http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/donald-trump-epa-website-turn-off-environmental-protection-agency-government-administration-a7698736.html '''''Government Failure: Order to shut down access to data services''']




[[File:Renewable Potential US-Utility Scale PV.png]]
[[File:About Baselines and Change.png]]




[[File:Earthrise2015 m.png]]


<big>'''''Environmental Protection Agency Open Being 'Data-Edited'?</big>


: https://opendata.epa.gov/home.xhtml?view
:: https://opendata.epa.gov/home.xhtml
::: https://catalog.data.gov/dataset?q=environment
:::: https://twitter.com/hashtag/EPAdata


<big><big>'''''A Question of Questions'''''</big></big>


''A multi-language [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Thank-you-thank-you_s.jpg ''''Thank You''''] to Planet Citizens:'' [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:The_World_Is_Blue.jpg '''''~ Sylvia Earle'''''], [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Bill_McKibben,_planet_citizen '''''~ Bill McKibben'''''] ''and'' [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Elon-musk_and_tesla_alternative_to_fossil_energy.jpg '''''~ Elon Musk''''']


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== [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Climate_News '''''Planet Citizen/Climate Citizen News'''''] ==


<big>'''''The Physics of Climate Change/Global Warming'''''</big>


[[File:PlanetCitizen banner 2.jpg|link=http://www.thinbluelayer.com]]


[[File:Floating floating over the ocean seas.jpg|link=https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Arctic]]


<big>'''''Polls: Planet citizens & global citizenship'''''</big>


[http://www.bbc.com/news/world-36139904 '''''BBC: 'Global citizenship' on Upward Trend''''']


[[File:Anti science, anti open data - EPA April 2017.png|link=http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/donald-trump-epa-website-turn-off-environmental-protection-agency-government-administration-a7698736.html]]


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<big>'''''After a Year in Space, Scott Kelly Says: I'm an Environmentalist'''''</big>
[[File:Global Temp Chart-sources-1880-2016.png]]


''"The Earth is a beautiful planet. It's practically everything to us. It's very important to our survival, and the Space Station is a great vantage point to observe it, and to share our planet in pictures," Kelly said during a press conference on his return from the International Space Station.''


''His photos earned him a wide social media following as he gazed down on everything from smog-choked cities to spiraling hurricanes and typhoons.''


''"You notice how the atmosphere looks and how fragile it looks," Kelly said. "It makes you more of an environmentalist after spending so much time looking down at our planet."


''Kelly now holds the NASA record for the most days in space as an American astronaut and is currently undergoing a battery of medical tests along with his twin brother, former astronaut Mark Kelly in order to help NASA learn more about how the human body changes throughout long-duration stays in space.''  
<big><big>'''''You Can Run from the Facts, but the Facts Are What They Are'''''</big></big>


[https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/apr/24/why-we-joined-the-march-for-science <big>''''' March to Support Science: Facts Matter'''''</big>]


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<big><u>'''''[[Stats - Green Research & Science]]'''''</u></big>


<big>'''''Back in the USA: Climate Politics'''''</big>


''"US Supreme Court's order blocking President Obama’s plan to cut emissions from coal-burning power plants is unprecedented step and one of the most environmentally harmful decisions ever made by the nation’s highest court"''  
'''''Carl Sagan, Planet Citizen, Lecture Notes for Astronomy 490 Class at the Smithsonian Museum'''''
: https://cdn.loc.gov/service/mss/mss85590/033/033.pdf
: https://www.loc.gov/item/cosmos000035/


:[http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/17/business/economy/next-supreme-court-justice-will-be-crucial-to-climate-change.html '''''Next US Supreme Court Justice Will Be Crucial to US Climate Policy''''']


:[http://e360.yale.edu/feature/the_courts_irresponsible_action_threatens_vital_climate_policies/2962/ '''''Supreme Court’s Action Threatens Vital Climate Policies''''']
'''''The 'Pale Blue Dot' '''''
: https://www.loc.gov/item/cosmos000110/ (Recording)


:[http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-35605916 '''''Consequences if the US Quits Climate Agreement''''']




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<big>'''''March for Science'''''</big>


:: 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


[http://www.tinybluegreen.com <big><big>'''''Tiny Blue Green'''''</big></big>]




:[[File:Prochlorococcus blue-green.tiny ones.png|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ty5puoADMU]]
<big><u>'''''[[Earth and Space, Politics]]'''''</u></big>


<big><u>'''''[[New Definitions of National Security]]'''''</u></big>


:'''''"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 GreenPolicy360's new site, proposed and co-designed by 14 yr old Olivia Schmidt''


:[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Phytoplankton.jpg '''''Oh Phyto!!'''''] -- the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zooplankton '''''Zooplankton'''''] ''Keep On Hanging On & Drifting Along with You!!''
[https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/10/climate/trump-nasa-satellites-global-warming-data.html '''''Scientists Fear Climate Data Gap as Trump Aims at Satellites''''']


:[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Planet_Citizens,_Planet_Scientists '''''Planet Citizens, Planet Scientists''''']


::~ [http://www.tinybluegreen.com '''''www.tinybluegreen.com''''']
[[File:NRDC re Trump bad stuff.png|link=https://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/NRDC_re_Trump_bad_stuff.png]]






::[[File:Planktonbluegreen tinyones.jpg]]


<big><big>'''''Radiant Earth Project'''''</big></big>


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''http://radiant.earth/''


''Open geospatial data for positive global impact, and improved decision-making''


[http://www.thinbluelayer.com <big><big>'''''Thin Blue Layer'''''</big></big>]


::''Remembering an Astronaut who was one of the first to look back at Planet Earth and our [http://www.thinbluelayer.com thin, fragile atmosphere]''
''Industry experts said over the past five years the number of operational satellites has jumped 40%, and nearly 1,400 now orbit the Earth.''
::''Astronaut Mitchell telling us how profoundly beautiful -- and in danger -- our world was from his [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Overview_Effect 'Planet Overview']''


''This number could more than double over the next five years as satellites become smaller, lighter and more affordable.''


::<big>'''''February 4, 2016 ... In memory of Edgar Mitchell'''''</big>
'''''Satellites collecting data and monitoring the Earth'''''  


::[[File:Edgar Mitchell 1930-2016.png|link=https://vimeo.com/154398850]]
''Applications are far reaching - from tracking plant health through chlorophyll to gauging the impact of natural disasters and the surveillance of illegal logging.''


::''One of Mitchell's last interviews -- "In the big picture... we are stardust, this was a wow experience...''
''India recently participated in the launch of 104 satellites — 101 of them for foreign companies and agencies - in a single mission as part of its strategic bid for a bigger share of the $300 billion global space industry.
::''as we were coming home... where you see things in their natural state... a feeling of oneness"''


''Experts at the Seattle summit said the multiple launch, described as a world record by its space agency, was also significant because 88 were shoebox-sized Dove satellites launched by [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Planet_Labs_Doves_Fly Planet], a San Francisco-based private satellite operator founded by former NASA scientists.''


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''The constellation of small satellites will, once settled into orbit in six months' time, will photograph the entire Earth every day.''


''"Satellite imagery might be one of the most powerful and unbiased tools to tell people what is going on with the planet", explains Albert Lin, Research Scientist at the University of California, San Diego.''


<big><big>'''''Climate Agreement In Paris'''''</big></big>
''The key, he said, lay in finding ways to translate enormous amounts of information into something that can be understood by everyone.''


'''''"2016 and Beyond"'''''
''This means finding ways of sorting and interlinking the trillions of bits of data sent to Earth and re-construct them into readable, digital and sometimes 3D models.''


''In some cases, data can be analyzed with the help of communities of "citizen scientists sitting alone at their computers all over the world."''


<big>'''''Renewable Energy Investment Growth'''''</big>
''"This is a wake-up call that satellite imagery is not just about questions and insights but also about engaging the entire planet in observing the planet, together."''  


[[File:Renewable Energy investment growth chart 2004-2014.jpg]]
<small>
* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:New_Space


* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Earth_Observations


[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/INDCs '''''"Toward a Renewable Energy Future:" Implementing the 'INDCs'''''']
* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Science_Research_from_Space


[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:INDC '''''GreenPolicy's list of Countries & Climate Action INDC Plans''''']
* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Earth_Science


'''''Moving Beyond the Goals in [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Intended_Nationally_Determined_Contributions Each Nation's INDC-Climate Plan''''']
* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Imaging-New_Space


* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Micro-satellites </small>


[[File:Paris 1.5 s.jpg|link=https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/2646001/Final-COP21-draft.pdf]]


[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/New_Definitions_of_National_Security "New Definitions of National Security"]


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[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Look_at_how_thin_our_atmosphere_is "Look at how thin our atmosphere is"]


<big>'''''A Generation's Challenge'''''</big>


[https://www.iea.org/topics/renewables/ '''''Renewables ----'''''] [https://100.org/100-goes-global-maps/ ''''''Decarbonizing' ---- Transitioning to Clean Energy Globally]


<big>'''''In Paris for the Climate Summit'''''</big>
[[File:PlanetLabs homepage2016.png]]


[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Climate_Change_Summit_Paris '''''Paris Climate Agreement: Moments''''']


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''Former adviser to Green Institute, Bill McKibben, speaks out about the Paris Climate Summit''


[http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/14/opinion/falling-short-on-climate-in-paris.html '''''Falling Short on Climate in Paris''''']  
[[File:Foley on March29,2017.png]]


[http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-mckibben-paris-un-climate-conference-20151129-story.html '''''What the Paris conference on climate change can do for planet Earth''''']
[[File:Politics and Science in the House un-Science Committee.png]]


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[https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2015/12/12/proposed-historic-climate-pact-nears-final-vote/ '''''Chris Mooney/Washington Post after the Paris Agreement''''']


[https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2015/12/12/countries-just-adopted-a-historic-climate-change-accord-heres-what-happens-next/ '''''What happens next?''''']
'''''[http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/news/press_releases/2017/publc-records-03-23-2017.php Press Release] / March 23, 2017'''''


[[File:Work to do to get to renewable goals.jpg]]
<big>'''''Actions to Protect Earth Science/Climate Data'''''</big>


'''''November'''''
'''''Records Requests Seek to Preserve Hundreds of Data Sets on Wildlife, Oil Industry, Climate Change, Sea-level Rise'''''


<big>'''''Road to Paris'''''</big>
''WASHINGTON — The Center for Biological Diversity, along with noted conservation biologist Stuart Pimm and the Center for Media and Democracy, launched an effort today to prevent hundreds of environmental data sets on government websites from being removed by the Trump administration.''


[http://350.org/global-climate-march/ '''''Global Climate March - News/Actions''''']
''To preserve or resurrect what has already been removed by the administration, the centers and Dr. Pimm submitted three separate Freedom of Information Act requests for data sets to eight federal agencies: the Army Corps of Engineers, the Council on Environmental Quality, the Environmental Protection Agency, NASA and the departments of agriculture, commerce, energy and interior.''  


''Paris marches rescheduled -- 2,000+ worldwide climate change events ready-to-go ... 175+ Countries''
''Under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), when federal agencies receive requests for the same records three or more times, they must make the records freely available to the public on their websites, a rule known as “the Beetlejuice provision.''


[https://www.avaaz.org/en/event/globalclimatemarch/?slideshow ''Events/Locations''] [https://twitter.com/350 ''350.org''] [https://twitter.com/hashtag/ClimateMarch?src=hash ''#ClimateMarch'']
''“By removing or hiding hundreds of data sets [http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/campaigns/open_government/pdfs/2017_03_23_Center_PIMM_DMD_Compiled_Datasets_FOIA.pdf [PDF]] containing critical information about the climate, wildlife and the health of our oceans, Trump and his cronies are blatantly trying to conceal the truth from the American people,” said Amy Atwood, a senior attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity. “Thankfully our scientists have the Freedom of Information Act to keep this vital information in the light of day.''


[http://newsroom.unfccc.int/cop21parisinformationhub/ '''''Paris Climate Summit, Opening Nov 30 - Information Hub''''']
''Today’s legal requests seek hundreds of data sets on energy usage, renewables, oil and gas projections, coal reserves, climate data, sea-level rise, human population, environmental justice and the status of scores of endangered and threatened species and other wildlife. More specifically, they seek information relating to conservation of aquatic systems, residential energy consumption and Endangered Species Act “Section 7” consultations, a step taken by federal agencies to avoid jeopardizing listed species.''


[http://unfccc.int/2860.php '''''Agenda -- Meetings -- Schedule''''']
''Media outlets have reported on the loss and vulnerability of federal data relating to some of today’s most pressing environmental issues, pointing out the disappearance of data sets from agency websites under the Trump administration and documenting scientists’ efforts to save them.''  


[http://www.carbonbrief.org/explainer-the-legal-form-of-the-paris-climate-agreement '''''Important: Legal forms for Paris climate agreement''''']
''“The U.S. government produces and maintains some of the most important information that scientists use in their research,” said Dr. Stuart Pimm, a Duke University professor and research scientist — and a founder of conservation biology — and the second requester of data. “Along with the Herculean efforts of volunteer scientists around the country, I’m doing what I can to protect this information because it’s critical these data remain available to academic institutions for scientists and future generations.”''  




[[File:BreathingEarth.gif|link=https://youtu.be/r2yLSLmnsY4]]
* [https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/mar/28/arctic-researcher-donald-trump-deleting-my-citations '''''How destruction of climate science documents/data sets/online info proceeds even as legal actions move to block the administration's attempt to purge facts and scientific evidence''''']


* [https://qz.com/928236/the-word-science-has-disappeared-from-the-mission-statement-of-the-epas-office-of-science-and-technology/ '''''Disappearing “Science” from the Core Mission Statement of the EPA Office of Science and Technology''''']


<big>'''''Join In, Act, Follow, Be Out in Front'''''</big>
* [http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/news/press_releases/2017/publc-records-03-23-2017.php '''''Activists Rush to Save Government Science Data''''']


[https://youtu.be/r2yLSLmnsY4 <big>'''''It's Your Breathing Planet'''''</big>]


:[https://twitter.com/hashtag/ClimateAction?src=hash #climateaction]
:[https://twitter.com/hashtag/COP21?src=hash #COP21]
:[https://twitter.com/hashtag/INDCs?src=hash #INDCs]
:[https://twitter.com/hashtag/ClimateChange?src=hash #climatechange]


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<big>'''''Challenges: Of Course and We're Taking Them On'''''</big>


[http://www.monbiot.com/2015/10/30/nothing-to-see-here/ ''Eco-disaster viewed from Earth Observatory NASA satellite'']  
:[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Planet_Citizen <big>'''''To Be — or Not to Be a Planet Citizen'''''</big>]
::[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Challenge_of_Acting_for_the_Commons.png <big>'''''Acting on Behalf of the Common Good'''''</big>]


[[File:IndonesiaFire Oct NASA Earth Observatory.jpg|link=http://www.monbiot.com/2015/10/30/nothing-to-see-here/]]


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'''''DSCOVR/EPIC New Site Goes Live'''''
:''Visit EarthPOV for Latest News''


[http://www.earthpov.com '''''EarthPOV.com''''']
=='''As the New Year Dawns, We Share a Moment with Planet Citizens'''==


[http://epic.gsfc.nasa.gov/ '''''A million mile view''''']


<big>'''''To Andrew Revkin, a True 'Planet Citizen' as Dot Earth Signs Off and Andrew Moves on to ProPublica'''''</big>


[[File:DSCOVR-EPIC ImagingofPlanetEarth.png]]


:[https://www.propublica.org/about/andrew-revkin-to-join-propublica-as-senior-reporter-on-climate-change ''Andrew Revkin to Join ProPublica as Senior Reporter on Climate Change'']


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'''Planet citizen Bill Mollison, who presented a gift of Permaculture globally'''


<big>'''''"Northern Lights over Alaska"'''''</big> ''
[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Bill_Mollison_courtesy_of_Permaculture_magazine.jpg '''''In Memory of Bill''''']
:--- ''2015, photo by Astronaut Scott Kelly from the International Space Station''




[[File:Northern Lights over Alaska from Astro Scott, Oct2015.jpg]]
[[File:Bill Mollison courtesy of Permaculture magazine.jpg]]




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<big><big>'''''Environmental Security: a Planet Citizen Vision'''''</big></big>
<big>'''Memories of George Brown, a Planet Citizen Who Envisioned an Environmental Renaissance'''</big>  


<big>'''''Climate Summit / Road to Paris'''''</big>
[https://plus.google.com/104105656721944993244/posts/34gu9y59nh2 Remembering the 'start-up' of the environmental movement] and the first US environmental laws... founding legal precedents many of which came from forward-looking green visionaries like your GreenPolicy siterunner's friend and mentor, George, who passed away suddenly in 1999.


[http://unfccc.int/resource/docs/2015/cop21/eng/07.pdf ''UN / Climate Plans "Synthesis Report"] -- Oct 30''
[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/George_E._Brown_Jr Rep. George E. Brown, Calif]


''Christiana Figueres'' [https://twitter.com/CFigueres ''@CFigueres'']
George's decades of work in Congress in air quality/clean air, water and the founding of the EPA highlighted the era's achievement... George was out in front in "big science" -- his profound accomplishments are esp missed now as [http://inhabitat.com/house-passes-bill-that-prohibits-expert-scientific-advice-to-the-epa/ anti-science positions] threaten in the current US Congress
:''Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change''
:[https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/3qkkzw/i_am_christiana_figueres_the_top_un_climate/ ''Figueres - REDDIT AMA -- Oct 28'']


'''''UN Climate Action @UNFCCC'''''
:''Oct 19''
:''Opening plenary of the latest @UN climate negotiations''
:''http://bit.ly/1OObz76''
:[https://twitter.com/hashtag/ADP2?src=hash ''#ADP2'']


:''#ADP2 session... steps toward Paris... Focus!''
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''http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Intended_Nationally_Determined_Contributions''


''http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/UN_Framework_Convention_on_Climate_Change-2015''
:'''Astronauts Sam Cristoforetti, Ron Garan, and "Overview Effect"'''




[[File:Trending Green News link-image.jpeg|link=https://twitter.com/Momentum_UNFCCC]]
:[[File:Astro Sam w new espresso machine's first cuppa java May2015.png]]




''Follow'' [https://twitter.com/UNFCCC ''@UNFCCC'']  
Yes, to Italian "Astro Sam" and her [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/HelloEarth #HelloEarth views and messages] to us here on the home Planet.


:''#COP21 #INDCs #climatechange #climateaction''  
And we greatly appreciate the newest from Astronaut Ron Garan as his interactive project [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Orbital_Perspective '''"Orbital Perspective"'''] is published this week. Some 45 years ago, near the end of December 1968 and beginning of an auspicious 1969, we began seeing the Apollo 8 mission's first-ever images of our "whole earth". It's not overstating to say - these images from above changed everything. These pictures from space looking back at Earth, taken as Apollo circled around the moon, carried realizations with the images -- that together we are [http://www.planetcitizen.org planet citizens].




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<big><big>'''''UN Conferences / Eyes on the Future'''''</big></big>
We welcomed a perspective that no human had ever had.


[[File:Sustainable Development Goals.jpg|link=http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Sustainable_Development_Goals_-_UN_Conference_2015]]
January 1969 was an eye-opener as the images of Earth were broadcast. We celebrated the images and our place in the cosmos even as we, the planet and our populations, were in the midst of violent war and troubled times.


[http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/28/world/limited-progress-seen-even-as-more-nations-step-up-on-climate.html?_r=0 '''''"We can commit to do more."''''']
Today, the famous [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/Earthrise_EL-2001-00365h_NASA_Apollo_8_1968.jpg '''Earthrise'''] photo rekindles our memory, and the serendipity of how the Apollo 8 crew was lucky that day as, looking out their window, the Earth suddenly came into view. There was no "mission plan" to take Earth photos and the astronauts scrambled to get to a camera, put in film and shoot a few frames. They were in awe, they said, and fortune was in play that day. There we were, us, Earth. In the Earthrise images our space traveling planet citizens captured  a realization of our wholeness, connectedness, and our shared future as together we spin thru space.  


''- Gavin Schmidt, NASA Goddard climate science director''
Later, the Apollo 17 mission, as the program was coming to its end, brought home the "Blue Marble" photograph, the [http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2011/04/the-blue-marble-shot-our-first-complete-photograph-of-earth/237167/ '''first complete 360° image of our planet'''], a [http://grin.hq.nasa.gov/IMAGES/LARGE/GPN-2000-001138.jpg '''high-res Earth'''] described as the [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Blue_Marble_photo_-_Apollo_17.jpg '''most reproduced photo in history''']. It is the first photograph taken of the whole round Earth and still is only one of the whole earth ever snapped by a human being. Of the two living astronauts, Cernan and Schmitt, who believe they were the photographer who took the photo, here is how one describes his view.... Whichever astronaut of the three aboard Apollo 17 who snapped the picture, what is most memorable is Earth360:


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''"You have to literally just pinch yourself and ask yourself the question, silently: Do you know where you are at this point in time and space, and in reality and in existence, when you can look out the window and you're looking at the most beautiful star in the heavens -- the most beautiful because it's the one we understand and we know, it's home, it's people, family, love, life -- and besides that it is beautiful. You can see from pole to pole and across oceans and continents and you can watch it turn and there's no strings holding it up, and it's moving in a blackness that is almost beyond conception."''


'''''ClimateCentral (@ClimateCentral)'''''
:''Oct 20, 2015''
:''150 countries representing around 90% of the world’s carbon emissions have now [http://www.climatecentral.org/news/150-countries-pledge-to-curb-emissions-19560 '''filed pledges''']''


[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Intended_Nationally_Determined_Contributions ♦ '''''Climate Action National Plans/INDCs Arriving'''''] / [http://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2015/oct/16/which-countries-are-doing-the-most-to-stop-dangerous-global-warming '''''Which Countries Are Doing the Most?''''']
[[File:Blue Marble photo - Apollo 17.jpg]]




[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Sustainable_Development_Goals_-_UN_Conference_2015 ♦ '''''Sustainable Development Goals''''']  
The sense of awe, an Earth point of view, has continued to be communicated by astronauts since and has continued to be shared, more recently with high tech ways to see and experience our Earth as planetary citizens as we see from [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/From_AstroTerry_January2015.png '''the International Space Station''']. The term [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Overview_Effect '''"Overview Effect"'''] begins to share the experience.


We celebrate our [http://www.planetcitizens.org Planet Citizens] who bring home messages how we can collaborate to make a difference, to make the world a better place.


[https://twitter.com/hashtag/PKSummit?src=hash ♦ '''''Peace Keeping Summit'''''] ''[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:UN_Peacekeeping_Summit_NYC_2015.png]''
Ron Garan: ''"You don’t need to be an astronaut to have the orbital perspective"...''


''"When we look down at the earth from space, we see this amazing, indescribably beautiful planet. It looks like a living, breathing organism. But it also, at the same time, looks extremely fragile... Anybody else who's ever gone to space says the same thing because it really is striking and it's really sobering to see this paper-thin layer and to realize that that little paper-thin layer is all that protects every living thing on Earth from death, basically. From the harshness of space."''


[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/UN_Framework_Convention_on_Climate_Change-2015 ♦ '''''Conference of Parties 21, UN Climate Change Conference''''']
''"The Goal is to bring people along on our space missions not as spectators but as fellow crew mates." -- http://www.rongaran.com/gallery/''


'''''Read More:''''' ♦ ''[http://www.cop21.gouv.fr/en]'' ♦ ''[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:United_Nations_Framework_Convention_on_Climate_Change ]'' ♦ ''[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Climate_Conference_-_Paris_2015]'' ♦ ''[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:We_Mean_Business_on_Climate_Change_2015.png]'' ♦ ''[http://climate-l.iisd.org/events/unfccc-cop-21/]''
''"It is truly moving to look at Earth from space. And when we do – we also have the privilege of sharing this orbital perspective with people back on our planet. We are all riding through the universe together on this spaceship we call Earth, we are all interconnected, we are all in this together. We are all family."''




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<big><big>'''''Historic from the DSCOVR Mission'''''</big></big>
'''Planet citizen Naomi Klein, "This Changes Everything"'''  
: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jdaxehd0cF0 Speaking @ the Bioneers conference, 2014]


'''''December 2015'''''


<big>'''''NASA Updates Its Home Page Image'''''</big>
[[File:Naomi Klein speaking at the Bioneers conf.png|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jdaxehd0cF0]]




[http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=86353 '''''A first image of Moon and Earth from DSCOVR-EPIC''''']


'''''July 2015'''''
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[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Planet_Citizens ''Planet Citizens, DSCOVR and the New Blue Marble'']


''[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/DSCOVR-EPIC_187_1003705_americas_dxm.png '''Planet Earth], the first whole Earth image since the original Blue Marble image taken by [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Apollo_17 Apollo 17] in 1972.'''''


'''''DSCOVR-EPIC images will begin to be made available by September.'''''  
'''Bill McKibben''', founder of [http://www.350.org '''www.350.org'''], [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Bill_McKibben,_planet_citizen '''planet citizen'''], and former advisor to our GreenPolicy new venture.


''GreenPolicy will assist in the release of these historic online views of Earth, made available in near real time, in coordination with Dr. Szabo and the NASA/NOAA DSCOVR project team.''
<small>https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Bill_McKibben,_planet_citizen</small>


''"The high quality of the EPIC images exceeded all of our expectations in resolution," said Adam Szabo, DSCOVR project scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. "The images clearly show desert sand structures, river systems and complex cloud patterns. There will be a huge wealth of new data for scientists to explore."''


''http://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-satellite-camera-provides-epic-view-of-earth''
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[[File:Rebecca Google Outreach.jpg]]


; <big><big>''#Earth360 Updates''</big></big>
<h3 id="story-heading" class="story-heading">'''GreenPolicy360 highlights Rebecca Moore'''</h3>


<big>'''''Planet Citizen will be assisting in delivering NASA/NOAA DSCOVR/EPIC data and imagery'''''</big>
Rebecca envisioned setting up [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:G_Earth_Outreach.jpg "Google Earth Outreach"], she envisioned it, presented the idea, and, as a citizen of the planet, she took a great idea into reality!'''


'''''The [http://www.planetcitizen.org Planet Citizen] site will be expanding to highlight the new DSCOVR products and EPIC whole earth images'''''


''In addition to a new [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:NASA '''NASA'''] [http://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/DSCOVR/ '''DSCOVR/EPIC] website in development''' and '''a selection of #‎Earth360‬ images planned to be made available online daily beginning in August''', there will be '''unprecedented accompanying data/imagery made avail for ‪#‎EarthScience‬ and climate/atmospheric monitoring.''


''The following is from a NASA Goddard communication, March 11th to us @PlanetCitizen, discussing additional calibrated data products to come from DSCOVR...''
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>''The individual 10 different wavelength EPIC data will be served from the Atmospheric Science Data Center (ASDC) at Langley ('''https://eosweb.larc.nasa.gov''') Once we will be active, on the left side of this page DSCOVR will appear as a project. Clicking on it will give you a list of available products...''


[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:DSCOVR_w_EPICcam,_PlasMag_%26_NISTAR.png '''The DSCOVR satellite with its EPIC cam, PlasMag & NISTAR instrument package''']... is on a million mile journey and in approx four months, DSCOVR will "light up", be tested, and begin delivering data to Earth. In its historic mission, DSCOVR and its EPIC imaging system will begin sending near real-time images of the whole Earth... it has been many years since whole Earth images have been readily available...


'''Pope Francis, the first Catholic pontiff to name himself after the patron saint of the environment'''


'''''It's been decades since December 7, 1972 when the only picture ever snapped by a human of the whole earth was captured -- [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Blue_Marble_photo_-_Apollo_17.jpg our iconic "Blue Marble" Planet Earth.] NASA engineers named the historic image -- '''AS17-148-22727'''
[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Pope_Francis_on_the_Environment Catholic pontiff speaks of the environment]


As we have been recalling the history, '''we haven't had returned to us a 'whole earth' image since 1972'''. Today, the Associated Press reports Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Florida, pointing out from Washington that there hasn't been a "full, sunlit picture of the Earth since [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Apollo_17 '''Apollo 17'''] in 1972 - NASA's last manned moon-landing mission". Subsequent images "have been stitched together", the Senator explained, for composite shots. The Florida Senator has an exceptional point of view re: this amazing fact, as he was an astronaut who flew on the Space Shuttle from Florida's "Space Coast". In January 1986, Nelson spent six days orbiting Earth as a payload specialist aboard space shuttle Columbia. His NASA bio adds "The experience gave him a new perspective on the Earth’s fragile environment and a greater appreciation of the importance of our nation’s space exploration program."


The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Space_Climate_Observatory DSCOVR satellite] launches into deep orbit with multiple missions -- to monitor space weather and, due to the satellite's orbital distance from Earth (1 mil miles), DSCOVR will be sending back daily images of the whole earth via its EPIC image-taking system and via its NISTAR system [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/You_can_manage_only_what_you_can_measure_Dr_David_Crisp%2C_OCO-2%2C_June_2014_m.jpg measuring earth's earth's temperature, our "radiation balance" ("albedo").]  
[[File:Pope, protecting nature is a moral issue April 2015.jpg]]




'''''"DSCOVR will be beaming back a steady stream of images of our home planet from space... with the images expected to be available online the next day."'''''


'''''"They'll be posted on a website for the public to see," said Steven Clarke, director of NASA's Joint Agency Satellite Division. "I think it will be an inspiration for people to see the sunlit disk of the Earth."'''''
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''"Most impressive from DSCOVR will be the images of us, Planet Earth 360°. To see ‪and to experience #‎Earth360‬ daily, it's going to be a spectacular re-reminder of our place in the cosmos..." - Steven Schmidt'' ‪


''Scientists will soon get a steady stream of data about how both the Earth and the Sun are doing, for years to come.''
[[File:Winona laduke.jpg]]


'''''The livestream of our planet will inform, immerse and inspire. Online the images from DSCOVR and EPIC will deliver majestic new visions of our home planet.'''''


'''Winona LaDuke, [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Indigenous_Peoples Native-American environmentalist], economist, [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Ecofeminism ecofeminist] and writer.


''For many Earth scientists, the centerpiece of the satellite is the National Institute of Standards Advanced Radiometer, or '''NISTAR''', named for the Maryland-based government laboratory that designed it. The apparatus was built to shed light on Earth’s “radiation balance”—the radiation we receive from our sun minus the radiation we reflect back into space. The difference is retained by our planet as heat, and is calculated by measuring Earth’s reflectivity, called the albedo. Data showing whether Earth’s albedo is decreasing, meaning the atmosphere is retaining more heat because of greenhouse gases or other reasons, could be a significant piece of the climate puzzle.
In 1996 and 2000, Winona ran for Vice President as the nominee of the Green Party of the United States, on a ticket headed by Ralph Nader.


''What is revolutionary isn’t the basic technology for tracking albedo — it is measuring it from the million-mile perspective out at L1. Most satellites circle the planet at about one-thousandth of that distance, so their readings encompass only a small slice of land, a view that shifts rapidly as they circle the planet every two hours or so. Different climate zones — ice caps, deserts, tropical forests—have different reflectivities, independent of the atmosphere, which needs to be factored in to the overall measurement; it’s virtually impossible to create a whole-Earth portrait from a deck of low-orbit snapshots. “By the time you stitch together all the separate bits of data, the margin of error is too large to be useful,” [http://www.nasa.gov/about/highlights/asrar_bio.html Dr. Asrar] at NASA says.''


''DSCOVR is "like having a thermometer for the whole planet.” It’s not a perfect gauge, NASA’s '''Dr. Adam Szabo''' cautions. “Earth is… a sphere that reflects light in all directions. So a measurement from any one point will not be the final word. But it will still be very important for the conversation about climate change.”''


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; <big><big>''New Ways to See and Experience Planet Earth''</big></big>
[[File:REBECCA-SOLNIT.jpg]]


[[File:Immersive Earth experience.jpg | link=http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Overview_Effect]]


'''Rebecca Solnit'''


<big>'''''How Beautiful Planet Earth Is'''''</big>
: ''"There are really only two questions for activists: what do you want to achieve? And who do you want to be? And those two questions are deeply entwined...''  


::''Every minute of every hour of every day you are making the world, just as you are making yourself, and you might as well do it with generosity and kindness and style. That is the small ongoing victory on which great victories can be built, and you do want victories, don't you?"''


[http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov//vis/a010000/a011800/a011858/Earth_from_Orbit_2014_prores.webm '''''EARTH FROM ORBIT / VIDEO IN HD''''']


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:<big>'''''January 2017'''''</big>


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<big>'''''Green Stories of the Day, Become a [http://www.planetcitizen.org Planet Citizen], Join with [http://www.planetcitizens.org Planet Citizens] Around the Globe'''''</big>


<big>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouv1Un1F36A&feature=youtu.be '''''On the ISS''''']</big>


[[File:ISS in HD 2015.png|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouv1Un1F36A&feature=youtu.be]]
[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Green_Stories_of_the_Day <big>'''''GreenPolicy360 Stories of the Day'''''</big>]




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<big><big>[https://www.urthecast.com/live '''''Planet Live via UrtheCast''''']</big></big>


[[File:Earth m 7-2-2015 6-31-52 AM.png|link=https://www.urthecast.com/live]]


<big><big>[http://www.ustream.tv/channel/iss-hdev-payload '''''Earth Viewing Live via UStream''''']</big></big>
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[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Arctic <big>'''''Watching the Arctic Thaw</big>]


'''''June/July 2015'''''


<big><big>'''''Visit Google Earth's 10th anniversary new feature, Voyager +'''''</big></big>
<big>'''The US and Russia, Exxon and Rosneft, Attempt Political Drive to Launch Historic Gas/Oil Drilling in the Arctic'''</big>  


<big>[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Google_Earth '''''Introducing Voyager'''''] ''&'' [https://earthview.withgoogle.com/ '''''Earth View''''']</big>
'''Consequences and Costs Only Beginning to Be Estimated'''




[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Planetary.org '''''Going Planetary.org''''']
[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Arctic '''''Visit GreenPolicy's Arctic Page for Updates''''']


[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earthviews_from_Astronauts '''''Earthviews from Above''''']


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; <big><big>''Planet Labs 'Doves' fly from the ISS''</big></big>
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<big>[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Micro-satellites '''''Planet Labs & NanoRacks'''''] / [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Planet_Labs_Doves_Fly '''''Doves''''']</big>


[[File:Doves fly from the ISS March03,2015.png | link=http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Micro-satellites#Micro-Satellites.2C_low-cost_earth_imaging]]


<big>'''''December 2016'''''</big>


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<big>'''''Hear ye, Hear ye'''''</big>


<big>'''''Planet Citizen: Elon'''''</big>
:'''''A 'Planet Citizen', California Governor Jerry Brown steps up [http://blogs.agu.org/geoedtrek/2016/12/14/jerry-brown/ at the AGU] to deliver [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Jerry_Brown_AGU-Dec14,2016.png a speech for the times]'''''


''Consider how years ago now, NASA put out a call about launching services for the DSCOVR mission -- Guess who was one of those who replied? A young visionary dreaming of what could be, even before his [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX '''SpaceX'''] was ready to go... [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk Elon Musk, becoming a planet citizen]. He spoke of how the iconic whole earth [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Blue_Marble_photo_-_Apollo_17.jpg "Blue Marble" photo] of Earth had inspired him to dream and to move his technology plans toward a space & earth connection.''




[[File:Blue Marble photo - Apollo 17.jpg]]
<big>'''''All Hands on Deck'''''</big>


[https://www.theguardian.com/science/political-science/2016/dec/01/nobel-laureates-have-spoken-out-the-battle-to-defend-science-under-trump-has-begun '''''Eyes open, stay sharp, on alert''''']


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:''America’s science community is getting organised as never before to hold the new administration and Congress to account''




[[File:Earth (03-02-15) 432x768.jpg]]
<big>'''''To Andrew Revkin, 'Planet Citizen Reporter' as he signs out at Dot Earth & moves on to ProPublica'''''</big>


[https://www.propublica.org/about/andrew-revkin-to-join-propublica-as-senior-reporter-on-climate-change ''Andrew Revkin to Join ProPublica as Senior Reporter on Climate Change'']


; <big><big>''Overview and Perspective''</big></big>
[http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/12/05/after-nine-years-and-2810-posts-a-dot-earth-farewell/ ''A Dot Earth Farewell'']


'''''See and experience the Earth in new ways'''''


[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Overview_Effect '''''The Overview Effect''''']
<big>'''''November 2016'''''</big>


[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Orbital_Perspective '''''Orbital Perspective''''']
::[[File:Earth Right Now.png|link=https://plus.google.com/104105656721944993244/posts/Lq7PpMSjhJF]]


'''''January 2015'''''


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* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Overview_Effect Overview Effect]
* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Orbital_Perspective Orbital Perspective]
* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Imaging-New_Space Earth Imaging-"New Space"]
* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Planet_API Planet API]
* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Right_Now "Earth Right Now, Vital Signs"]
* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Citizen_Science Citizen Science]
* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Planet_Citizens,_Planet_Scientists Planet Citizens, Planet Scientists]
* [http://www.green-horizon.org/eos-part-3/ EOS Eco Operating System - 3]
* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Virtual_Earth Virtual Earth Maps]


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:[http://www.thinbluelayer.com ''www.thinbluelayer.com'']








'''''Elon's a planet citizen with energy powering up the vision'''''


[[File:Elon Musk Tesla-Solar City-Solar Roofs.png]]




&nbsp;
<big>'''''October 2016'''''</big>




<big>'''''The Military and Climate Security Budgets Compared'''''</big>


''The U.S. military’s latest National Security Strategy says that climate change is “an urgent and growing threat to our national security, contributing to increased natural disasters, refugee flows, and conflicts over basic resources like food and water.”''


''What they don’t say is that the overall balance of U.S. security spending should be adjusted to fit that assessment. And we know less about how much we are spending on this urgent threat than we used to, since the federal government hasn’t produced a climate security budget since 2013.''


''In this new report, [http://www.ips-dc.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/CvsC-Report-1.pdf Combat vs. Climate], the Institute for Policy Studies steps in to provide the most accurate climate change security budget currently available, drawing data from multiple agencies. And it looks at how these expenditures stack up within the overall 'security budget.'''


* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Environmental_Security Environmental Security]


* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Environmental_Security,_National_Security Environmental Security, National Security]


* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Global_Security Global Security]


* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/New_Definitions_of_National_Security New Definitions of National Security]




'''''Report: [http://www.ips-dc.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/CvsC-Report-1.pdf Combat Vs. Climate''''']
:''http://www.ips-dc.org/report-combat-vs-climate/''


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; <big><big>''#Earth360: The Overview''</big></big>


[[File:'Thin Blue Layer' of Earth's Atmosphere m.jpg]]


[http://strategicdemands.com/earthoverview/ '''''As the New Year Dawns, Earth from Space''''']


'''''With appreciation ~ for the space experience and the wisdom of the [http://www.overviewthemovie.com/the-overview-effect-and-overview-2/ Overview Effect]'''''


[http://vimeo.com/55073825 '''''Overview''''']  
[[File:Before the Flood Oct 3, 2016-White House film premiere.png|link=https://www.facebook.com/LeonardoDiCaprio/videos/10153830716807116/]]


[http://vimeo.com/60234866 '''''Planetary'''''] --- [https://vimeo.com/ondemand/planetary/121840700 '''''Planetary, trailer, pre-release March 2015''''']


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<big><big>'''''From Above, beauty and awe...'''''</big></big>


[[File:Settings.png]] '''''Settings Suggestion: FULL Screen, 1080p, Room lights off, Music up, lean back and fly'''''
:::::[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Reefscape.png '''Reefscape''']


[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FG0fTKAqZ5g&list=UUIcA_1j7WQ8VXyygM6qI-fw '''''All Alone in the Night''''']  
:::::[https://www.leonardodicaprio.org/reefscape-a-global-reef-survey-to-build-better-satellites-for-coral-conservation/ '''Satellite Doves to Aid Coral Conservation''']


[[File:All Alone In the Night.png | link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FG0fTKAqZ5g&list=UUIcA_1j7WQ8VXyygM6qI-fw]]
:::::[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Planet_API '''Planet API''']




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[[File:Settings.png]] '''''Set FULL Screen 1080p, lights off, Audio up. Even better, adjust YouTube player setting for HighDef 4K, 2160p'''''
:::::''The Reefscape project aims to improve our understanding of the condition of coral reefs worldwide, while simultaneously developing spectral libraries needed to advance the development of a new satellite mission.''  


[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOAEIMx39-w '''''The View Outside My Window''''']
:::::''New satellites, such as those from [http://www.planet.com Planet (formerly Planet Labs)], are, as of 2017, able to capture near-daily imagery of coral reefs worldwide. Planet’s high-resolution imagery of reef locations provides new imaging, science and understanding of the composition and extent of shallow, horizontally oriented reefs.''


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[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:The_Home_Planet.jpg '''''Astronaut Alex Gerst: A 'Planet Citizen's' view of Earth'''''...]  
[[File:Reefscape.png]]


[[File:Settings.png]] '''''Settings FULL on HD 4K, 2160p'''''... '''''https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNwWOul4i9Y''''' --- '''''https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ifjaOHHO98'''''


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'''''December 2014'''''
:[http://inhabitat.com/elon-musk-and-leonardo-dicaprio-discuss-climate-issues-in-before-the-flood-documentary/ ''Before the Flood Documentary'']


; <big><big>''"Game changer"''</big></big>
:[http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/before-flood-927190 ''Hollywood Reporter Review'']


[http://climate.nasa.gov/blog/1105/ '''''OCO-2 begins to measure atmospheric CO2 levels with unprecedented science''''']  
:[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Leo's_Oscar_Speech_2016.png Leonardo DiCaprio Oscar Speech'']


'''''Historic Orbiting Carbon Observatory Satellite Sends Back Most Detailed CO2 View Ever / Dec 18, 2014'''''


[http://disc.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/OCO-2/data-holdings/oco-2 '''''The 'Initial Level 1 round'] of data was made available to the public on Dec 30, 2014.''''' 


'''''A full Level 2 set of CO2 data is scheduled to be available in March for scientists and the public "planet citizens" to download and explore.'''''
<big><big>'''''Planet Citizens & [http://www.bioneers.org Bioneers]'''''</big></big>


[http://phys.org/news/2014-08-oco-.html '''''Phys.org'''''] - [http://news.discovery.com/earth/global-warming/nasa-satellite-sends-back-most-detailed-co2-view-141218.htm ''Discovery''] - [http://www.weather.com/science/environment/news/nasa-satellite-details-co2 ''Weather''] - [http://www.nature.com/news/satellite-maps-global-carbon-dioxide-levels-1.16615 ''Nature'']
:[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Bioneers_Lyons,_Kucinich,_DiCaprio_247x225_Sept2014NYC.jpg Bioneers Lyons, Kucinich, DiCaprio]


[http://oco.jpl.nasa.gov/science/ocodatacenter/ '''''Sample Data'''''] -- [https://co2.jpl.nasa.gov/ '''''OCO-2 Data Portal''''']
:Fellow Planet Citizens-Bioneers / Leo's close friend, Oren Lyons, Chief of the Onondaga Iroquois 


:Oren Lyons - [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSwmqZ272As "We Are Part of the Earth"] (Video / 7:38)
:: Speaking to the [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Seventh_Generation Seventh Generation]


[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Blue_Marble_Collection '''''For #PlanetCitizen gazing, visit the "Blue Marble" Collection''''']
::[[File:Oren-lyons.jpg|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSwmqZ272As]]


[http://strategicdemands.com/security-design/ '''''Security by Design, new definitions of national security to be found in environmental security, planning for global trends''''']


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'''''November 2014'''''


[http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/you-are-here-around-world-92-minutes-chris-hadfields-photos-earth-space-1471014 '''''You Are Here'''''] [http://www.fastcocreate.com/3038304/lessons-in-combining-art-and-science-and-shooting-dope-photos-from-rockstar-astronaut-chris-#6 '''''And Here!''''']
<big>'''''Remembering Rachel, Planet Citizen'''''</big>


[[File:You are here 1.jpg]]  
[[File:Rachel Carson ecology - ecosystem.png|link=http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Rachel_Carson_ecology_-_ecosystem.png]]


[https://plus.google.com/u/0/104105656721944993244/posts/KWKPZequzoL '''''Up Here, #EarthPOV'''''] [http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/ '''''Earth's Observation's new website'''''] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8OBbY3Z_uY '''''Vid Watch'''''] [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5_GlAOCHyE '''''Look'''''] [http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Aurora_Australis.ogv '''''Greening''''']


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<big>'''''Earth: How are you?'''''</big>


[https://twitter.com/EarthVitalSigns ''@EarthVitalSigns''] [https://twitter.com/hashtag/earthrightnow ''#EarthRightNow'']
<big>'''''September 2016'''''</big>


[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/Hello2.jpg '''''Looking out at our Planet from the International Space Station'''''] [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Nov-8-2014_2-01-50_PM_EST.jpg]


[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Pictures_from_ISS '''''Where are you? Find Astropix of your place on #PlanetEarth''''']
[[File:ECO-NOMICS.jpg|link=http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Eco-nomics]]


[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Look_at_how_thin_our_atmosphere_is '''''Perspective, a real perspective of 'thin blue'...'''''] --- [http://www.pinterest.com/stratdem/environmental-security/ '''''A "thin" layer of atmosphere...''''']


[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Eco-nomics <big>'''"Eco-nomics" for the 21st Century'''</big>]


[[File:Reid Wiseman thinbluelayer m.jpg]]
*''A Necessary Challenge to Neoliberal Economics''


*''A Shift from Short-term Profits to Resilient, Sustainable Economies''


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=== [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/PlanetCitizen#About_PlanetCitizen '''''About Planet Citizen'''''] ===
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'''''#PlanetCitizen''''' '''''#EarthPOV'''''


''A coming era of '''#Earth360 exploration''', using the tools of the digital age and Internet connectivity, is making it possible to see and experience a [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/Nov-8-2014_2-01-50_PM_EST.jpg connected, Planet Earth 360] and to begin studying life-enabling systems (and life-threatening changes) with means never before possible.''
[[File:Stephen Hawking Genius on PBS 1.jpg]]


''Space- and earth-based observation platforms are delivering "intelligence reports" in effect, strategic insights that can broaden our knowledge and perceptions of who we are and how we respond to our '''global, common future'''.''


''In unprecedented ways, intelligence about our planet's systems can be shared and networked via the worldwide web and a larger Internet, linking us together wherever our community and whatever our nation.''  
<big>'''Stephen Hawking on ITV (and [https://twitter.com/hashtag/HawkingGeniusPBS?src=hash PBS])'''</big>


''We look out at a critical, developing field of [http://strategicdemands.com/environmental-security/ '''#EnvironmentalSecurity'''] as a generation of Planet Citizen voyagers''.
:'''"Runaway climate change... A rise in ocean temperature would melt the ice-caps... with catastrophic effects." [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Climate_News #AGW #CAGW]'''


* '''''Planet Citizen holds a simple value proposition:'''''


* '''''Cleaner air and water and food is a good thing. Reducing pollution is a necessary thing. Health of our environment is a vital thing.'''''
Often referred to as an Einstein of our current era, Stephen Hawking points to ''"runaway climate change"'' as a profound threat to global security. In the same (labored) breath, he communicates a profound warning re: the other existential threat he sees -- [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/max-tegmark/hawking-says-dont-bank-on_b_9606926.html '''nuclear weapons''']. At '''Strategic Demands''' the escalating threat of [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Nuclear_Weapons nuclear weapons] is revealed and tracked -- [http://strategicdemands.com/nuclear-issues-cold-war-2-0/ as Cold War 2.0].


* '''''Science is essential to [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/You_can_manage_only_what_you_can_measure_Dr_David_Crisp%2C_OCO-2%2C_June_2014_m.jpg 'measure and manage'] [http://www.earthpov.com #PlanetEarth] in sustainable, productive, life enhancing ways.'''''


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== '''''An API for the Planet''''' ==
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[http://t.co/dfsywixUg6 '''''#PlanetLabs @Open Source Conference''''']


[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Planet_API '''''With the Planet-Lab Platform, Connect to our Planet as Citizens of the Planet''''']


[http://vimeo.com/88602839 '''''Mission: Democratizing Access to Information About the Changing Planet''''']
:<big>'''''August 2016'''''</big>


[[File:API connect.jpg]]
:[http://touch.latimes.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-88015513/ <big>'''''Elon Musk & Co'''''</big>]


[http://nyti.ms/1BzljLJ ''Planet Labs/NYT''] ''Planet Labs, newly #ISS deployed Doves'' [http://aviationweek.com/space/smartphone-advances-drive-smallsats ''Smartphones in space!'']
:'''''Renewable Energy: Beyond Tesla with #PlanetCitizen'''''  


[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Planet_Labs_Doves_Fly '''''Launch of new Flock of Dove Satellites to Image Earth''''']


[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/Dove_minisat_launch_from_ISS_m.png '''''Doves fly''''']
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[http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/news/girl_scouts_orbital_2/ '''''Doves flock''''']


[http://www.planet.com/flock1/ '''''Planet Labs 'Dove' micro-satellites''''']


''"Rapid cadence imagery, [http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/03/17/qa-with-steve-jurvetson-space-investor-and-rocket-maker like Planet Labs is developing], helps us become better, more sustainable stewards of Earth."''  
:<big>'''''July 2016'''''</big>


[http://www.planet.com/ ''Planet Labs''] [https://www.planet.com/pulse/ ''Planet Labs Pulse''] [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/Doves_close-up-of-cubesats-leaving-nanoracks-deployer-2014-02-11_m.jpg] [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/Doves_launched_from_ISS_float_against_Earth_horizon_m.jpg] [http://gizmodo.com/meet-the-flockers-iss-launches-low-cost-earth-imaging-1517232660]
:[https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2016/jul/11/we-just-broke-the-record-for-hottest-year-9-straight-times <big>'''''Another Record for the Hottest Year'''</big>]


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=== [http://strategicdemands.com/environmental-security/ '''''Environmental Security @Strategic Demands'''''] ===
[[File:NASA MODIS One week in April 2016.jpg]]


[[File:Planet cit s.jpg]]


[http://strategicdemands.com/about/ '''21st Century definitions of national and international security'''] 


A realization that "'''Security is indivisible'''" is on the horizon and security definitions are changing as a result of the dynamics of interactive networks.


The sharing of information is creating a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linked:_The_New_Science_of_Networks '''new science of networking''']. Information is being looked at as never before and '''#earthscience''' data is now being collected by networked computers across an interconnected world. In historic ways, open data is being publicly distributed far beyond the restrictive policies of previous times and closed-loop systems.
<big>'''''Climate Change Denial in Motion'''''</big>


Today #earthsciences are at the cusp of a rich new world of information. As we share these new realizations, images, data, experiences and understandings, we can be certain of a new, growing awareness of our planet and our 'citizenship' together. 
:'''''Defenders of Fossil Fuel Business-as-Usual Push Defense'''''


Even now, we have inklings of what is coming. Let's look at one called [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/OCO-2 '''OCO-2''']. With the launch of OCO-2, a "game changer", in the summer of 2014, the data of #Earth360 will grow in unprecedented ways as this first orbiting observatory of global warming conditions takes to space and begins to report home - [https://twitter.com/IamOCO2 '''I am OCO-2''']
[https://insideclimatenews.org/news/31082016/lamar-smith-calls-science-committee-hearings-discuss-exxon-subpoenas-maura-healey-eric-schneiderman '''''Via Inside Climate News''''']


Although the '''Orbiting Carbon Observatory''' is just the beginning, the future of #earthscience from space is here as we see in new ways and observe our environment with new information never before accessible. Space-imaging is opening up amazing views, with 3D and big-screens and home theaters. Coming soon will be views beyond IMAX as companies like Virgin and SpaceX carry citizen travelers into orbit. Educational and scientific information about our communities is being shared, and linked to, and distributed around the Net. From space, the earth is borderless and with vision of the planet and common-good #biosphere and #ecosystem comes responsibility for our shared security.
''August 31, 2016 - The chairman of the House Science Committee has announced a hearing next month into the refusal by two state attorneys general to comply with subpoenas seeking information on their investigations into ExxonMobil...''


On to first steps... [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Nov-8-2014_2-01-50_PM_EST.jpg '''We are all connected'''] and wherever we are, geographically, nationally, we share common-ground and common-atmosphere. Let's look at our home and, with an "overview" from space, see the 'Big Picture' and let's look at the details, let's manage and sustain our earth resources and, as we go, look to our shared quality of life on the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozXVgQUUPNQ '''"only home we've ever known."''']


<big>'''''US House Science Committee Acts to Defend ExxonMobile Against Attorneys General'''''</big>


'''''Here's to our future and future of [http://strategicdemands.com/environmental-security/ #Environmental Security]'''''
[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/ExxonMobil_and_US_House_Science_Committee_v_US_Attorneys_General_and_Environmental_Groups '''''ExxonMobile Faces Multi-state AG Investigation''''']




[[File:Earth Day Flag.png]].




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<big>'''''Politics: US Democratic Party Platcom Meetings'''''</big>


== <big>'''''The Big Picture: Earth from Space''''' </big>==
[http://grist.org/election-2016/sanders-final-win-climate-action-in-the-democratic-platform/ '''''Democratic Party environmental positions voted into platform''''']


The world of space is a world in flux. The term '''"New Space"''' has come to represent a first generation of start ups that are designing, building and launching small, mini- and micro-satellites. New players are challenging the old system of governments that spend billions to explore, commercialize and militarize space. Barriers to entry are being broken and [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Micro-satellites start-up companies are launching flocks of satellite birds into space]. Earth monitoring is going planetary and nextgen companies are at the forefront, even as the "old" establishment is shifting to address threats to the environment.
:[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Democratic_Party_Platform_Committee,_2016_-_Green_Issues_Transcript_from_Real_News '''''Update from the Democratic Party Platform Hearing on Environmental/Climate Issues''''']


Let's go there to this new world, not a 'new world order' but a world that is being connected and is sharing, linking and seeing the bigger picture. The way we observe and 'feel' about our planet is changing in one generation.


Beginning with the first [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/Whole_Earth_1972_Apollo_17.jpg Whole Earth] pictures relayed from the Apollo voyages to the Moon, we have for the first time in history experienced a vision of our planet from afar -- [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/3D_Overview.jpg we are, we realize, a 'blue' oasis in space].
[https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/aug/03/climate-crisis-media-relegates-greatest-challenge-hurtle-us-collapse-planet '''''Via George Monbiot''''']


Now, '''thirty+ years after the Apollo''' images of #planetearth360 returned, we find everyday "'''citizens of the planet'''" planning to go into space and a new generation of New Space mini-sats sending full-spectrum imaging back with [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Imaging-New_Space an array of new views] of our planet. Apollo's [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/Apollo.jpg famous iconic images] are being enhanced with new ways of seeing and experiencing our planet -- and opening new possibilities to secure our environment for ages to come.
''August 3, 2016 -- This (year), on current trends, will be the hottest year ever measured. The previous record was set in 2015; the one before in 2014. Fifteen of the 16 warmest years have occurred in the 21st century. Each of the past 14 months has beaten the global monthly temperature record. But you can still hear people repeating the old claim, first proposed by fossil fuel lobbyists, that global warming stopped in 1998. Arctic sea ice covered a smaller area last winter than in any winter since records began...''


Let's start by looking at an astro-space establishment, the images of earth and data about earth being sent back from space by established multi-billion dollar companies/ government companies and [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Imaging-New_Space 'New Space' companies] that are now on radar and reporting back with multi-spectra #Earth360 data.
''If you blinked you would have missed the reports, but perhaps the most striking aspect of the Democratic platform (the party’s manifesto) approved in Philadelphia last week was its position on climate change. Hillary Clinton’s campaign now promises a national and global mobilisation “on a scale not seen since World War II”. She will seek to renegotiate trade deals to protect the living world, to stop oil drilling in the Arctic and Atlantic, and to ensure the US is “running entirely on clean energy by mid-century”.''


Start with NEX, NASA's version of ''crowdsourcing''... NASA's social media experiment. Ready? Are you interested in using your digital skills to help the government/NASA with environmental security? Perhaps you might start here - [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/NASA_EarthSciences,_Challenges_Public_to_Join_In '''The NEX Challenge''']
''There are some crashing contradictions in the platform. To judge by one bizarre paragraph, the Democrats believe they can solve climate change by expanding roads and airports. It boasts about record sales in the car industry and promises to cut “red tape”, which is the term used by corporate lobbyists for the public protections they hate. But where it is good it is very good, reflecting the influence of Bernie Sanders and the nominees he proposed to the drafting committee.''


Add your talent to the grand project of seeing with an [http://www.earthpov.com '''EarthPOV'''] -- so that we can make informed decisions and policy... [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/You_can_manage_only_what_you_can_measure_Dr_David_Crisp%2C_OCO-2%2C_June_2014_m.jpg]
''Donald Trump, on the other hand – well, what did you expect? Climate change is a “con-job” and a “hoax” that was “created by and for the Chinese in order to make US manufacturing non-competitive”.''


Observe, consider, act - [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Look_at_how_thin_our_atmosphere_is "The Big Picture"]
''His manifesto reads like a love letter to the coal industry. Coal, it says, “is an abundant, clean, affordable, reliable domestic energy resource”. He will defend the industry by rejecting the Paris agreement, stopping funds for the UN’s climate change work, ditching President Obama’s clean power plan and forbidding the Environmental Protection Agency from regulating carbon dioxide.''


NextGen #earthscience in an era of #climatechange and #globalsecurity threats...


Join up with '''GreenPolicy360''' and share our [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/GreenLinks'''GreenLinks'''] and [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Friends_of_GreenPolicy360#GreenPolicy360_Open_Data_Distributive_Web_Online_Resources '''GP360 Open Data''']. Time to get going -- planet citizens @work
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; <big><big>[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Isn%27t_it_time.jpg ''Earth Right Now''</big></big>]


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<big>'''''Warning Signs: The Great Barrier Reef'''''</big>


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'''''August 2014'''''


'''''Citizens of planet earth''' typically watch meteor showers by looking up. But this remarkable view, captured on 8/13/11 by astronaut Ron Garan, caught a Perseid meteor by looking down. From Garan's perspective onboard the ISS orbiting at an altitude of about 380 kilometers, the Perseid meteors streak below. The glowing comet dust grains are traveling at about 60 kilometers per second through the denser atmosphere around 100 kilometers above Earth's surface.''''' -- SETI Institute [http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2011/09aug_perseids2011/]
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<big>'''''Earth Day / Countries Signing Climate Action Plans'''''</big>


::[http://www.un.org/sustainabledevelopment/blog/2016/04/parisagreementsingatures '''''Paris Agreement Signatures Today at the UN in New York''''']


'''''Via Mother Jones''''' - [http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2016/04/paris-agreement-signing-earth-day '''''Something Genuinely Good for the Earth Is Happening on Earth Day''''']


[[File:Bruce Dern memorial garden.png]]
::[http://touch.latimes.com/#section/2426/article/p2p-86754843/ '''''175 Nations Sign on Earth Day''''']




[http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2001/ast09apr_1/ <big>'''''NASA studies a garden in space in preparation for journey to Mars'''''</big>]
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[[File:Ocn logo.png | link=http://www.wri.org/our-work/project/open-climate-network]]
 
 
 
[[File:INDC signings 175 countries on Earth Day 2016.png | link=http://cait.wri.org/indc/#/ratification]]
 
 
 
[[File:Earth day 2016.jpg]]
 
 
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<big>'''''Solar Energy / EVs / ZEVs / NextGen Trans'''''</big>
 
 
<big>'''Going Green'''</big> [[File:Best Practices check sm.png | link=http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Going_Green]]
 
 
''''''Planet Citizen' Elon introduces the [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Tesla,_electric_cars Model 3]'''''
 
 
[[File:Elon.jpg]]
 
 
''Elon Musk: The car represents the culmination of a long-held dream to bring affordable, zero-pollution vehicles [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/EV_Corridors_Electric_Vehicles_Zero_Emission_Vehicles to the world's highways]...''
 
''With [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Global_CO2_Emissions_1900-2010.png CO2 levels] and [https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2016/04/19/in-march-earths-temperature-deviated-more-from-normal-than-any-previous-month/ global temperatures at record highs], the Model 3 will help bring engineering solutions to the climate change problem.''
 
[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/EV_Corridors_Electric_Vehicles_Zero_Emission_Vehicles '''''EV - Electric- and Zero-Emission Vehicles Corridors'''''] -- ''As of April 20, 2016 - 20,823 Alternative fuel stations mapped in the United States''
 
 
[[File:Tesla Model 3 Introduced.jpg]]
 
 
[[File:Renewable Potential US-Utility Scale PV.png]]
 
 
[[File:Earthrise2015 m.png]]
 
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<big><big>'''''A Question of Questions'''''</big></big>
 
''A multi-language [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Thank-you-thank-you_s.jpg ''''Thank You''''] to Planet Citizens:'' [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:The_World_Is_Blue.jpg '''''~ Sylvia Earle'''''], [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Bill_McKibben,_planet_citizen '''''~ Bill McKibben'''''] ''and'' [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Elon-musk_and_tesla_alternative_to_fossil_energy.jpg '''''~ Elon Musk''''']
 
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== [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Climate_News '''''Planet Citizen/Climate Citizen News'''''] ==
 
 
[[File:PlanetCitizen banner 2.jpg|link=http://www.thinbluelayer.com]]
 
 
<big>'''''Polls: Planet citizens & global citizenship'''''</big>
 
[http://www.bbc.com/news/world-36139904 '''''BBC: 'Global citizenship' on Upward Trend''''']
 
 
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<big>'''''After a Year in Space, Scott Kelly Says: I'm an Environmentalist'''''</big>
 
''"The Earth is a beautiful planet. It's practically everything to us. It's very important to our survival, and the Space Station is a great vantage point to observe it, and to share our planet in pictures," Kelly said during a press conference on his return from the International Space Station.''
 
''His photos earned him a wide social media following as he gazed down on everything from smog-choked cities to spiraling hurricanes and typhoons.''
 
''"You notice how the atmosphere looks and how fragile it looks," Kelly said. "It makes you more of an environmentalist after spending so much time looking down at our planet."
 
''Kelly now holds the NASA record for the most days in space as an American astronaut and is currently undergoing a battery of medical tests along with his twin brother, former astronaut Mark Kelly in order to help NASA learn more about how the human body changes throughout long-duration stays in space.''
 
 
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<big>'''''Back in the USA: Climate Politics'''''</big>
 
''"US Supreme Court's order blocking President Obama’s plan to cut emissions from coal-burning power plants is unprecedented step and one of the most environmentally harmful decisions ever made by the nation’s highest court"''
 
:* [http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/17/business/economy/next-supreme-court-justice-will-be-crucial-to-climate-change.html '''''Next US Supreme Court Justice Will Be Crucial to US Climate Policy''''']
 
:* [http://e360.yale.edu/feature/the_courts_irresponsible_action_threatens_vital_climate_policies/2962/ '''''Supreme Court’s Action Threatens Vital Climate Policies''''']
 
:* [http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-35605916 '''''Consequences if the US Quits Climate Agreement''''']
 
 
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[http://www.tinybluegreen.com <big><big>'''''Tiny Blue Green'''''</big></big>]
 
 
:[[File:Prochlorococcus blue-green.tiny ones.png|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ty5puoADMU]]
 
 
:'''''"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 GreenPolicy360's new site, proposed and co-designed by 14 yr old Olivia Schmidt''
 
:[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Phytoplankton.jpg '''''Oh Phyto!!'''''] -- the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zooplankton '''''Zooplankton'''''] ''Keep On Hanging On & Drifting Along with You!!''
 
:[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Planet_Citizens,_Planet_Scientists '''''Planet Citizens, Planet Scientists''''']
 
::~ [http://www.tinybluegreen.com '''''www.tinybluegreen.com''''']
 
 
 
::[[File:Planktonbluegreen tinyones.jpg]]
 
 
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[http://www.thinbluelayer.com <big><big>'''''Thin Blue Layer'''''</big></big>]
 
::''Remembering an Astronaut who was one of the first to look back at Planet Earth and our [http://www.thinbluelayer.com thin, fragile atmosphere]''
::''Astronaut Mitchell telling us how profoundly beautiful -- and in danger -- our world was from his [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Overview_Effect 'Planet Overview']'' 
 
 
::<big>'''''February 4, 2016 ... In memory of Edgar Mitchell'''''</big>
 
::[[File:Edgar Mitchell 1930-2016.png|link=https://vimeo.com/154398850]]
 
::''One of Mitchell's last interviews -- "In the big picture... we are stardust, this was a wow experience...''
::''as we were coming home... where you see things in their natural state... a feeling of oneness"''
 
 
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<big><big>'''''Climate Agreement In Paris'''''</big></big>
 
<big>'''''Renewable Energy Investment Growth'''''</big>
 
 
[[File:Renewable Energy investment growth chart 2004-2014.jpg]]
 
 
[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/INDCs ''''' "Toward a Renewable Energy Future:" Implementing the 'INDCs' ''''']
 
[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:INDC '''''GreenPolicy's list of Countries & Climate Action INDC Plans''''']
 
'''''Moving Beyond the Goals in [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Intended_Nationally_Determined_Contributions Each Nation's INDC-Climate Plan''''']
 
 
[[File:Paris 1.5 s.jpg|link=https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/2646001/Final-COP21-draft.pdf]]
 
 
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<big>'''''A Generation's Challenge'''''</big>
 
[https://www.iea.org/topics/renewables/ '''''Renewables ----'''''] [https://100.org/100-goes-global-maps/ ''''''Decarbonizing' ---- Transitioning to Clean Energy Globally]
 
 
<big>'''''In Paris for the Climate Summit'''''</big>
 
[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Climate_Change_Summit_Paris '''''Paris Climate Agreement: Moments''''']
 
[http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/14/opinion/falling-short-on-climate-in-paris.html '''''Falling Short on Climate in Paris''''']
 
[http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-mckibben-paris-un-climate-conference-20151129-story.html '''''What the Paris conference on climate change can do for planet Earth''''']
 
 
[[File:Planet Citizen @ParisSummit Dec1.png|link=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2015/12/01/these-are-the-key-tricky-details-that-will-determine-whether-the-paris-climate-meeting-succeeds/]]
 
 
[https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2015/12/12/proposed-historic-climate-pact-nears-final-vote/ '''''Chris Mooney/Washington Post after the Paris Agreement''''']
 
[https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2015/12/12/countries-just-adopted-a-historic-climate-change-accord-heres-what-happens-next/ '''''What happens next?''''']
 
 
[[File:Work to do to get to renewable goals.jpg]]
 
 
'''''November '''''
 
<big>'''''Road to Paris'''''</big>
 
[http://350.org/global-climate-march/ '''''Global Climate March - News/Actions''''']
 
''Paris marches rescheduled -- 2,000+ worldwide climate change events ready-to-go ... 175+ Countries''
 
[https://www.avaaz.org/en/event/globalclimatemarch/?slideshow ''Events/Locations''] [https://twitter.com/350 ''350.org''] [https://twitter.com/hashtag/ClimateMarch?src=hash ''#ClimateMarch'']
 
[http://newsroom.unfccc.int/cop21parisinformationhub/ '''''Paris Climate Summit, Opening Nov 30 - Information Hub''''']
 
[http://unfccc.int/2860.php '''''Agenda -- Meetings -- Schedule''''']
 
[http://www.carbonbrief.org/explainer-the-legal-form-of-the-paris-climate-agreement '''''Important: Legal forms for Paris climate agreement''''']
 
 
[[File:BreathingEarth.gif|link=https://youtu.be/r2yLSLmnsY4]]
 
 
<big>'''''Join In, Act, Follow, Be Out in Front'''''</big>
 
[https://youtu.be/r2yLSLmnsY4 <big>'''''It's Your Breathing Planet'''''</big>]
 
: [https://twitter.com/hashtag/ClimateAction?src=hash #climateaction]
 
: [https://twitter.com/hashtag/COP21?src=hash #COP21]
 
: [https://twitter.com/hashtag/INDCs?src=hash #INDCs]
 
: [https://twitter.com/hashtag/ClimateChange?src=hash #climatechange]
 
 
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[http://www.monbiot.com/2015/10/30/nothing-to-see-here/ ''Eco-disaster viewed from satellite'']
 
 
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'''''DSCOVR/EPIC New Site Goes Live'''''
:''Visit EarthPOV for Latest News''
 
[http://www.earthpov.com '''''EarthPOV.com''''']
 
[http://epic.gsfc.nasa.gov/ '''''A million mile view''''']
 
 
[[File:DSCOVR-EPIC ImagingofPlanetEarth.png]]
 
 
[[File:DSCOVR-EPIC ImagingofPlanetEarth 2.png]]
 
 
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<big>'''''"Northern Lights over Alaska"'''''</big> ''
:--- ''2015, photo by Astronaut Scott Kelly from the International Space Station''
 
 
[[File:Northern Lights over Alaska from Astro Scott, Oct2015.jpg]]
 
 
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<big><big>'''''Environmental Security: a Planet Citizen Vision'''''</big></big>
 
<big>'''''Climate Summit / Road to Paris'''''</big>
 
[http://unfccc.int/resource/docs/2015/cop21/eng/07.pdf ''UN / Climate Plans "Synthesis Report"] -- Oct 30''
 
 
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<big>2020 Update: From Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac</big>
 
 
[[File:In the UK, US, time to choose the future.jpg]]
 
 
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<big>''Christiana Figueres'' [https://twitter.com/CFigueres ''@CFigueres'']</big>
 
:''Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change''
 
 
:[https://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/3qkkzw/i_am_christiana_figueres_the_top_un_climate/ ''Figueres - REDDIT AMA -- Oct 28'']
 
 
'''''UN Climate Action @UNFCCC'''''
 
* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Climate_Change_Summit_Paris
:''October 19, 2015''
 
:''Opening plenary of the latest @UN climate negotiations''
:* ''http://bit.ly/1OObz76''
 
:[https://twitter.com/hashtag/ADP2?src=hash ''#ADP2'']
 
:''#ADP2 session... steps toward Paris... Focus!''
 
:[https://twitter.com/CFigueres/status/656024169868611584/photo/1 ''pic.twitter.com/A63Cyfds2N'']
 
 
[[File:Trending Green News link-image.jpeg|link=https://twitter.com/Momentum_UNFCCC]]
 
 
''Follow'' [https://twitter.com/UNFCCC ''@UNFCCC'']
 
:''#COP21 #INDCs #climatechange #climateaction''
 
 
 
<big><big>'''''UN Conferences / Eyes on the Future'''''</big></big>
 
 
:[[File:Sustainable Development Goals.jpg|link=http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Sustainable_Development_Goals_-_UN_Conference_2015]]
 
 
[http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/28/world/limited-progress-seen-even-as-more-nations-step-up-on-climate.html?_r=0 '''''"We can commit to do more."''''']
 
:''- Gavin Schmidt, NASA Goddard climate science director''
 
 
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'''''ClimateCentral (@ClimateCentral)'''''
: ''Oct 20, 2015''
 
: ''150 countries representing approx 90% of world’s carbon emissions have [http://www.climatecentral.org/news/150-countries-pledge-to-curb-emissions-19560 filed pledges]''
 
 
[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Intended_Nationally_Determined_Contributions '''''@ GreenPolicy, Review Climate Action National Plans/INDCs''''']
[http://www.theguardian.com/environment/ng-interactive/2015/oct/16/which-countries-are-doing-the-most-to-stop-dangerous-global-warming '''''Which Countries Are Doing the Most?''''']
 
[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Sustainable_Development_Goals_-_UN_Conference_2015 '''''Sustainable Development Goals''''']
 
 
 
[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/UN_Framework_Convention_on_Climate_Change-2015 '''''@ GreenPolicy, 2015 UN Climate Change Conference''''']
 
[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:United_Nations_Framework_Convention_on_Climate_Change ''The International Climate Conference in Paris'']
 
* ''http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Climate_Conference_-_Paris_2015''
 
 
[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:We_Mean_Business_on_Climate_Change_2015.png ''We Mean Business on Climate Change''] 
 
 
 
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<big><big>'''''Historic Earth Images from the DSCOVR Mission'''''</big></big>
 
'''''GreenPolicy assists the NASA mission team'''''
 
'''''December 2015'''''
 
 
[http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=86353 '''''First images of Moon and Earth from DSCOVR-EPIC''''']
 
 
'''''July 2015'''''
 
[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Planet_Citizens ''Planet Citizens, DSCOVR and the New Blue Marble'']
 
''[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/DSCOVR-EPIC_187_1003705_americas_dxm.png '''Planet Earth], the first whole Earth image since the original Blue Marble image taken by [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Apollo_17 Apollo 17] in 1972.'''''
 
'''''DSCOVR-EPIC images will begin to be made available by September.'''''
 
''GreenPolicy will assist in the release of these historic online views of Earth, made available in near real time, in coordination with Dr. Szabo and the NASA/NOAA DSCOVR project team.''
 
''"The high quality of the EPIC images exceeded all of our expectations in resolution," said Adam Szabo, DSCOVR project scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. "The images clearly show desert sand structures, river systems and complex cloud patterns. There will be a huge wealth of new data for scientists to explore."''
 
''http://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-satellite-camera-provides-epic-view-of-earth''
 
* ''http://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/DSCOVR/''
 
* ''http://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/DSCOVR/press.html''
 
* ''http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=86257''
 
 
 
; <big><big>''#Earth360 Updates''</big></big>
 
<big>'''''Planet Citizen will be assisting in delivering NASA/NOAA DSCOVR/EPIC data and imagery'''''</big>
 
'''''The [http://www.planetcitizen.org Planet Citizen] site will be expanding to highlight the new DSCOVR products and EPIC whole earth images'''''
 
''In addition to a new [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:NASA '''NASA'''] [http://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/DSCOVR/ '''DSCOVR/EPIC] website in development''' and '''a selection of #‎Earth360‬ images planned to be made available online daily beginning in August''', there will be '''unprecedented accompanying data/imagery made avail for ‪#‎EarthScience‬ and climate/atmospheric monitoring.''
 
''The following is from a NASA Goddard communication, March 11th to us @PlanetCitizen, discussing additional calibrated data products to come from DSCOVR...''
 
>''The individual 10 different wavelength EPIC data will be served from the Atmospheric Science Data Center (ASDC) at Langley ('''https://eosweb.larc.nasa.gov''') Once we will be active, on the left side of this page DSCOVR will appear as a project. Clicking on it will give you a list of available products...''
 
[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:DSCOVR_w_EPICcam,_PlasMag_%26_NISTAR.png '''The DSCOVR satellite with its EPIC cam, PlasMag & NISTAR instrument package''']... is on a million mile journey and in approx four months, DSCOVR will "light up", be tested, and begin delivering data to Earth. In its historic mission, DSCOVR and its EPIC imaging system will begin sending near real-time images of the whole Earth... it has been many years since whole Earth images have been readily available...
 
 
 
'''''It's been decades since December 7, 1972 when the only picture ever snapped by a human of the whole earth was captured -- [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Blue_Marble_photo_-_Apollo_17.jpg our iconic "Blue Marble" Planet Earth.] NASA engineers named the historic image -- '''AS17-148-22727'''
 
As we have been recalling the history, '''we haven't had returned to us a 'whole earth' image since 1972'''. Today, the Associated Press reports Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Florida, pointing out from Washington that there hasn't been a "full, sunlit picture of the Earth since [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Apollo_17 '''Apollo 17'''] in 1972 - NASA's last manned moon-landing mission". Subsequent images "have been stitched together", the Senator explained, for composite shots. The Florida Senator has an exceptional point of view re: this amazing fact, as he was an astronaut who flew on the Space Shuttle from Florida's "Space Coast". In January 1986, Nelson spent six days orbiting Earth as a payload specialist aboard space shuttle Columbia. His NASA bio adds "The experience gave him a new perspective on the Earth’s fragile environment and a greater appreciation of the importance of our nation’s space exploration program."
 
The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Space_Climate_Observatory DSCOVR satellite] launches into deep orbit with multiple missions -- to monitor space weather and, due to the satellite's orbital distance from Earth (1 mil miles), DSCOVR will be sending back daily images of the whole earth via its EPIC image-taking system and via its NISTAR system [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/You_can_manage_only_what_you_can_measure_Dr_David_Crisp%2C_OCO-2%2C_June_2014_m.jpg measuring earth's earth's temperature, our "radiation balance" ("albedo").]
 
 
'''''"DSCOVR will be beaming back a steady stream of images of our home planet from space... with the images expected to be available online the next day."'''''
 
'''''"They'll be posted on a website for the public to see," said Steven Clarke, director of NASA's Joint Agency Satellite Division. "I think it will be an inspiration for people to see the sunlit disk of the Earth."'''''
 
 
 
''"Most impressive from DSCOVR will be the images of us, Planet Earth 360°. To see ‪and to experience #‎Earth360‬ daily, it's going to be a spectacular re-reminder of our place in the cosmos..." - Steven Schmidt'' ‪
 
''Scientists will soon get a steady stream of data about how both the Earth and the Sun are doing, for years to come.''
 
'''''The livestream of our planet will inform, immerse and inspire. Online the images from DSCOVR and EPIC will deliver majestic new visions of our home planet.'''''
 
 
 
''For many Earth scientists, the centerpiece of the satellite is the National Institute of Standards Advanced Radiometer, or '''NISTAR''', named for the Maryland-based government laboratory that designed it. The apparatus was built to shed light on Earth’s “radiation balance”—the radiation we receive from our sun minus the radiation we reflect back into space. The difference is retained by our planet as heat, and is calculated by measuring Earth’s reflectivity, called the albedo. Data showing whether Earth’s albedo is decreasing, meaning the atmosphere is retaining more heat because of greenhouse gases or other reasons, could be a significant piece of the climate puzzle.
 
''What is revolutionary isn’t the basic technology for tracking albedo — it is measuring it from the million-mile perspective out at L1. Most satellites circle the planet at about one-thousandth of that distance, so their readings encompass only a small slice of land, a view that shifts rapidly as they circle the planet every two hours or so. Different climate zones — ice caps, deserts, tropical forests—have different reflectivities, independent of the atmosphere, which needs to be factored in to the overall measurement; it’s virtually impossible to create a whole-Earth portrait from a deck of low-orbit snapshots. “By the time you stitch together all the separate bits of data, the margin of error is too large to be useful,” [http://www.nasa.gov/about/highlights/asrar_bio.html Dr. Asrar] at NASA says.''
 
''DSCOVR is "like having a thermometer for the whole planet.” It’s not a perfect gauge, NASA’s '''Dr. Adam Szabo''' cautions. “Earth is… a sphere that reflects light in all directions. So a measurement from any one point will not be the final word. But it will still be very important for the conversation about climate change.”''
 
 
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; <big><big>''New Ways to See and Experience Planet Earth''</big></big>
 
 
<big>'''''How Beautiful Planet Earth Is'''''</big>
 
 
[[File:Immersive Earth experience.jpg | link=http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Overview_Effect]]
 
 
[http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov//vis/a010000/a011800/a011858/Earth_from_Orbit_2014_prores.webm '''''EARTH FROM ORBIT / VIDEO IN HD''''']
 
 
[[File:From above m.png|link=http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov//vis/a010000/a011800/a011858/Earth_from_Orbit_2014_prores.webm]]
 
 
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'''View the [http://www.thinbluelayer.com 'Thin Blue'], Earth's Life-enabling Atmosphere'''
 
<big>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouv1Un1F36A&feature=youtu.be '''''Watching Earth Roll By: On the International Space Station''''']</big>
 
[[File:ISS in HD 2015.png|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouv1Un1F36A&feature=youtu.be]]
 
 
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<big><big>[https://www.urthecast.com/live '''''Planet Live via UrtheCast''''']</big></big>
 
 
 
<big><big>[http://www.ustream.tv/channel/iss-hdev-payload '''''Earth Viewing Live via UStream''''']</big></big>
 
 
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<big><big>'''''Visit Google Earth's 10th anniversary:</big></big>
 
<big>'''''Journey with Voyager +'''''</big>
 
<big>[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Google_Earth '''''Introducing Voyager'''''] ''&'' [https://earthview.withgoogle.com/ '''''Earth View''''']</big>
 
 
 
 
[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Planetary.org <big>'''''Going Planetary.org'''''</big>]
 
[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earthviews_from_Astronauts '''''Earthviews from Above''''']
 
[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Apollo.jpg '''''Remember "Earthrise" ''''']
 
[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Blue_Marble_Collection '''''Our "Blue Marble"''''']
 
[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Pale_blue_dot ''''' "The only home we've got..." ''''']
 
 
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; <big><big>''Planet Labs 'Doves' fly from the ISS''</big></big>
 
 
[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Micro-satellites '''''Planet Labs & NanoRacks''''']
 
[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Planet_Labs_Doves_Fly '''''Doves''''']
 
 
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<big>'''''Planet Citizen: Elon'''''</big>
 
''Consider how years ago now, NASA put out a call about launching services for the DSCOVR mission -- Guess who was one of those who replied? A young visionary dreaming of what could be, even before his [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SpaceX '''SpaceX'''] was ready to go... [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elon_Musk Elon Musk, becoming a planet citizen]. He spoke of how the iconic whole earth [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Blue_Marble_photo_-_Apollo_17.jpg "Blue Marble" photo] of Earth had inspired him to dream and to move his technology plans toward a space & earth connection.''
 
 
[[File:Blue Marble photo - Apollo 17.jpg]]
 
 
 
 
 
[[File:Earth (03-02-15) 432x768.jpg]]
 
 
; <big><big>''Overview and Perspective''</big></big>
 
'''''See and experience the Earth in new ways'''''
 
[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Overview_Effect '''''The Overview Effect''''']
 
[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Orbital_Perspective '''''Orbital Perspective''''']
 
 
'''''January 2015'''''
 
 
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* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Overview_Effect Overview Effect]
* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Orbital_Perspective Orbital Perspective]
* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Imaging-New_Space Earth Imaging-"New Space"]
* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Planet_API Planet API]
* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Right_Now "Earth Right Now, Vital Signs"]
* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Citizen_Science Citizen Science]
* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Planet_Citizens,_Planet_Scientists Planet Citizens, Planet Scientists]
* [http://www.green-horizon.org/eos-part-3/ EOS Eco Operating System - 3]
* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Virtual_Earth Virtual Earth Maps]
 
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; <big><big>''#Earth360: The Overview''</big></big>
 
 
[[File:'Thin Blue Layer' of Earth's Atmosphere m.jpg]]
 
[http://strategicdemands.com/earthoverview/ '''''As the New Year Dawns, Earth from Space''''']
 
'''''With appreciation ~ for the space experience and the wisdom of the [http://www.overviewthemovie.com/the-overview-effect-and-overview-2/ Overview Effect]'''''
 
[http://vimeo.com/55073825 '''''Overview''''']
 
[http://vimeo.com/60234866 '''''Planetary'''''] --- [https://vimeo.com/ondemand/planetary/121840700 '''''Planetary, trailer, pre-release March 2015''''']
 
 
 
 
<big><big>'''''From Above, beauty and awe...'''''</big></big>
 
 
[[File:Settings.png]]  '''''Settings: FULL Screen, 1080p, Room lights off, Music up, Lean back and fly'''''
 
 
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FG0fTKAqZ5g&list=UUIcA_1j7WQ8VXyygM6qI-fw '''''All Alone in the Night''''']
 
 
[[File:All Alone In the Night.png | link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FG0fTKAqZ5g&list=UUIcA_1j7WQ8VXyygM6qI-fw]]
 
 
 
[[File:Settings.png]]  '''''Set FULL Screen 1080p, lights off, Audio up. Adjust YouTube setting for HighDef 4K, 2160p'''''
 
 
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOAEIMx39-w '''''The View Outside My Window''''']
 
 
[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:The_Home_Planet.jpg '''''Astronaut Alex Gerst: A 'Planet Citizen's' view of Earth'''''...]
 
 
[[File:Settings.png]]  '''''Set FULL on HD 4K, 2160p'''''... '''''https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNwWOul4i9Y''''' --- '''''https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ifjaOHHO98'''''
 
 
 
 
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; <big><big>''"Game changer"''</big></big>
 
'''''Historic Orbiting Carbon Observatory Satellite Sends Back Most Detailed CO2 View Ever / Dec 18, 2014'''''
 
 
[http://climate.nasa.gov/blog/1105/ '''''OCO-2 begins to measure atmospheric CO2 levels with unprecedented science''''']
 
 
[http://disc.sci.gsfc.nasa.gov/OCO-2/data-holdings/oco-2 '''''The 'Initial Level 1 round'] of data was made available to the public on Dec 30, 2014.''''' 
 
 
'''''A full set of CO2 data is available in March for scientists and public "planet citizens" to download and explore'''''
 
 
: [http://phys.org/news/2014-08-oco-.html '''''First OCO Data via Phys.org''''']
 
: [http://news.discovery.com/earth/global-warming/nasa-satellite-sends-back-most-detailed-co2-view-141218.htm ''Discover OCO'']
 
: [http://www.nature.com/news/satellite-maps-global-carbon-dioxide-levels-1.16615 '' OCO @ Nature'']
 
 
: [http://oco.jpl.nasa.gov/science/ocodatacenter/ '''''Sample Data'''''] -- [https://co2.jpl.nasa.gov/ '''''OCO-2 Data Portal''''']
 
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[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Blue_Marble_Collection '''''For #PlanetCitizen gazing, visit the "Blue Marble" Collection''''']
 
[http://strategicdemands.com/security-design/ '''''Security by Design, new definitions of national security to be found in environmental security, planning for global trends''''']
 
 
 
'''''November 2014'''''
 
[http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/you-are-here-around-world-92-minutes-chris-hadfields-photos-earth-space-1471014 '''''You Are Here''''']
 
[http://www.fastcocreate.com/3038304/lessons-in-combining-art-and-science-and-shooting-dope-photos-from-rockstar-astronaut-chris-#6 '''''And Here!''''']
 
 
[[File:You are here 1.jpg]]
 
 
[https://plus.google.com/u/0/104105656721944993244/posts/KWKPZequzoL '''''Up Here, #EarthPOV''''']
 
[http://eol.jsc.nasa.gov/ '''''Earth's Observation's new website''''']
 
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v8OBbY3Z_uY '''''Vid Watch''''']
 
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5_GlAOCHyE '''''Look''''']
 
[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Aurora_Australis.ogv '''''Green Skies''''']
 
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<big>'''''Earth: How are you?'''''</big>
 
: [https://twitter.com/EarthVitalSigns '''''@EarthVitalSigns''''']
 
: [https://twitter.com/hashtag/earthrightnow ''#EarthRightNow'']
 
 
* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/Hello2.jpg '''''Looking out at our home planet from the International Space Station''''']
 
* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Nov-8-2014_2-01-50_PM_EST.jpg '''''Look mom, look''''']
 
* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Pictures_from_ISS '''''Where are you? Find your place on #PlanetEarth''''']
 
* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Look_at_how_thin_our_atmosphere_is '''''"Thin Blue" ... www.thinbluelayer.com''''']
 
* [http://www.pinterest.com/stratdem/environmental-security/ '''''Environmental Security...''''']
 
 
 
 
=== [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/PlanetCitizen#About_PlanetCitizen '''''About Planet Citizen'''''] ===
 
 
<big>'''''#PlanetCitizen''''' '''''#EarthPOV'''''</big>
 
 
SJS/GreenPolicy360 Siterunner:
 
In the 1960s in the US and globally a modern environmental movement was being created as first-ever visions of Planet Earth were sent from Apollo missions. The images of the Whole Earth in space changed perceptions in every nation. A realization of a common, shared home -- and responsibility to care for our home -- was born.
 
Soon political leaders stepped up, both looking backward and forward. A new field of science, earth science, began to spring up. In the US Congress, leaders like George Brown were saying no to war in Vietnam and Asia, and the Mideast, and no to nuclear weapons, while saying yes to a first generation of NASA earth science missions.
 
This was called 'Big Science' by some and 'its a critical mission' by others.
 
Rep. George E. Brown was out in front.
 
From the mid 1960s until his death in 1999, his work in Congress was instrumental in proposing, shaping, and protecting Big Science - Earth Science.
 
 
[[File:George Brown, Sci Com't.jpg]]
 
 
Our new era of '''#Earth360 exploration''', using the tools of the digital age and Internet connectivity, is making it possible to see and experience a [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/Nov-8-2014_2-01-50_PM_EST.jpg connected, Planet Earth 360] and to begin studying life-enabling systems (and life-threatening changes) with means never before possible.
 
Space- and earth-based observation platforms are delivering "intelligence reports" in effect, strategic insights that can broaden our knowledge and perceptions of who we are and how we respond to our '''global, common future'''.
In unprecedented ways, intelligence about our planet's systems can be shared and networked via the worldwide web and a larger Internet, linking us together wherever our community and whatever our nation.
 
We look out at a critical, developing field of [http://strategicdemands.com/environmental-security/ '''#EnvironmentalSecurity'''] as a generation of Planet Citizen voyagers.
 
 
* '''Planet Citizens and GreenPolicy hold a simple value proposition:'''
 
 
* '''''Cleaner air and water and food is a good thing. Reducing pollution is a necessary thing. Health of our environment is a vital thing.'''''
 
* '''Science is essential to [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/You_can_manage_only_what_you_can_measure_Dr_David_Crisp%2C_OCO-2%2C_June_2014_m.jpg 'measure and manage'] [http://www.earthpov.com #PlanetEarth] in sustainable, productive, life enhancing ways.'''
 
 
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== '''''An API for the Planet''''' ==
 
 
[http://www.planet.com/ ''www.Planet.com'']
 
[https://www.planet.com/pulse/ ''Planet Labs Pulse'']
 
[http://t.co/dfsywixUg6 '''''#PlanetLabs @Open Source Conference''''']
 
[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Planet_API '''''With the Planet-Lab Platform, Connect to our Planet as Citizens of the Planet''''']
 
[http://vimeo.com/88602839 '''''Mission: Democratizing Access to Information About the Changing Planet''''']
 
 
[[File:API connect.jpg]]
 
 
[http://nyti.ms/1BzljLJ '''''Planet Labs/NYT''''']
 
[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Planet_Labs_Doves_Fly '''''Launch of new Flock of Dove Satellites to Image Earth''''']
 
[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/Dove_minisat_launch_from_ISS_m.png '''''Doves fly''''']
[http://www.nasa.gov/mission_pages/station/research/news/girl_scouts_orbital_2/ '''''Doves flock''''']
 
[http://www.planet.com/flock1/ '''''Planet Labs 'Dove' micro-satellites''''']
 
 
''"Rapid cadence imagery, [http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2014/03/17/qa-with-steve-jurvetson-space-investor-and-rocket-maker like Planet Labs is developing], helps us become better, more sustainable stewards of Earth."''
 
 
 
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=== [http://strategicdemands.com/environmental-security/ '''''Environmental Security @Strategic Demands'''''] ===
 
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[[File:Planet cit s.jpg]]
 
 
:[http://strategicdemands.com/about/ '''21st Century definitions of national and international security'''] 
 
A realization that "'''Security is indivisible'''" is on the horizon and security definitions are changing as a result of the dynamics of interactive networks.
 
The sharing of information is creating a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linked:_The_New_Science_of_Networks '''new science of networking''']. Information is being looked at as never before and '''#earthscience''' data is now being collected by networked computers across an interconnected world. In historic ways, open data is being publicly distributed far beyond the restrictive policies of previous times and closed-loop systems.
 
Today #earthsciences are at the cusp of a rich new world of information. As we share these new realizations, images, data, experiences and understandings, we can be certain of a new, growing awareness of our planet and our 'citizenship' together. 
 
Even now, we have inklings of what is coming. Let's look at one called [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/OCO-2 '''OCO-2''']. With the launch of OCO-2, a "game changer", in the summer of 2014, the data of #Earth360 will grow in unprecedented ways as this first orbiting observatory of global warming conditions takes to space and begins to report home - [https://twitter.com/IamOCO2 '''I am OCO-2''']
 
Although the '''Orbiting Carbon Observatory''' is just the beginning, the future of #earthscience from space is here as we see in new ways and observe our environment with new information never before accessible. Space-imaging is opening up amazing views, with 3D and big-screens and home theaters. Coming soon will be views beyond IMAX as companies like Virgin and SpaceX carry citizen travelers into orbit. Educational and scientific information about our communities is being shared, and linked to, and distributed around the Net. From space, the earth is borderless and with vision of the planet and common-good #biosphere and #ecosystem comes responsibility for our shared security.
 
On to first steps... [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Nov-8-2014_2-01-50_PM_EST.jpg '''We are all connected'''] and wherever we are, geographically, nationally, we share common-ground and common-atmosphere. Let's look at our home and, with an "overview" from space, see the 'Big Picture' and let's look at the details, let's manage and sustain our earth resources and, as we go, look to our shared quality of life on the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozXVgQUUPNQ '''"only home we've ever known."''']
 
 
 
[[File:Olive-branch.png]]
 
 
 
'''''Here's to our future and future of [http://strategicdemands.com/environmental-security/ #Environmental Security]'''''
 
 
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== <big>'''''The Big Picture: Earth from Space''''' </big>==
 
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::[[File:Earth Day Flag.png]].
 
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'''Our world of is in flux.'''
 
The term [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/New_Space "New Space"] and [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Democratization_of_Space "Democratization of Space"] have come to represent a first generation of earth research and study from space by start up companies designing, building and launching small, mini- and micro-satellites.
 
New visions of Earth and new players are challenging the old system of governments that spend billions to explore, commercialize and militarize space.
 
Barriers to entry are being broken and [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Micro-satellites young companies are launching flocks of satellite birds into space]. Earth monitoring is going planetary and a next generation is at the forefront pushing to address threats to the environment.
 
Let's go there to this new world, not a "new world order" but a world that is being connected and is sharing, linking and seeing the bigger picture. The way we observe and 'feel' about our planet is changing in one generation.
 
Beginning with the first [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/Whole_Earth_1972_Apollo_17.jpg Whole Earth] pictures relayed from the Apollo voyages to the Moon, we have for the first time in history experienced a vision of our planet from afar -- [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/3D_Overview.jpg we are, we realize, a 'blue' oasis in space].
 
Now, nearly five decades after the original awe-inspiring [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Apollo.jpg Earthrise images from Apollo 8] were revealed, we find everyday citizens in every nation realizing our commonalities.
 
The [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/Apollo.jpg Apollo mission] helped us open our eyes and today we are seeing our planet and our place in the universe in new light, with new missions and and new possibilities to secure our environment for ages to come.
 
'''We are citizens of our common home, planet Earth'''.
 
Add your talent to the grand project of planet citizenship, of seeing with an [http://www.earthpov.com '''EarthPOV'''] so that we can make informed decisions and policy...
 
Observe, consider, act. NextGen #earthscience in an era of #climatechange and #globalsecurity  challenges and opportunities...
 
Make a difference, join with GreenPolicy360's global work. In every community there are green groups at work.
 
Visit and use our [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/GreenLinks'''GreenLinks'''] to see a multi-colored, deep and diverse range of resources and [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Friends_of_GreenPolicy360#GreenPolicy360_Open_Data_Distributive_Web_Online_Resources '''friends of GreenPolicy'''].
 
'''It's time, your time to Go Green!'''
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[http://www.planetaryawareness.org www.planetaryawareness.org]
 
; <big><big>[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Isn%27t_it_time.jpg ''Earth Right Now''</big></big>]
 
 
[[File:EarthNow our planet is changing.jpg]]
 
 
 
 
[[File:One Year as the Earth Rolls.jpg]]
 
 
 
 
'''''Citizens of Planet Earth''''' 
 
[http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2011/09aug_perseids2011/ '''''Arise, Look Up, Around, Outward and Inward]  


[http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2014/25apr_lettuce/ ''"We call it 'Veggie''']  ''"It's a plant growth chamber designed to make gardens thrive in weightlessness"...
:"Our first crop will be a variety of lettuce called 'Outredgeous,'" says Kennedy Space Center team leader Gioia Massa. "It is delicious."''
'''Thank you Gioia Massa !''' -- http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/aug/10/nasa-astronauts-lettuce-vegetables-grown-space
'''First space-grown 'veggie lettuce' eaten in space.'''
'''The astronauts used "extra virgin olive oil and balsamic vinegar" over their ([http://www.highmowingseeds.com/organic-non-gmo-seeds-outredgeous-lettuce.html non-GMO]) "Outredgeous" lettuce salad'''
-- http://www.territorialseed.com/product/Outredgeous_Lettuce_Seed/386
-- https://www.wildgardenseed.com/
:https://www.wildgardenseed.com/product_info.php?products_id=105&osCsid=b7c7bd2262b3a7452825aa52b7ac7e5a
-- http://www.space.com/30209-astronauts-eat-space-lettuce.html
-- http://www.vox.com/2015/8/10/9126949/nasa-food-space-station
http://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/Outredgeous_Lettuce_in_space_-_VEGGIE.jpg
[http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2014/25apr_lettuce/ '''Gardens in space? So where's Bruce Dern these days? He was growing lettuce in space wasn't he?''']
'''Douglas Trumbull's VFX vision in [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_Running Silent Running] & beyond continues in our memory banks'''
● [https://www.pinterest.com/SkipsSkyPins/douglas-trumbulls-silent-running-1972/?lp=true '''Silent Running movie images / Pinterest collection''']
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[http://douglastrumbull.com/ Douglas Trumbull Studios] [http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/05/movies/awardsseason/douglas-trumbull-honored-for-technology-hes-still-creating.html "Trumbull and...future of cinema / NY Times"]
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Your Moment on Earth, Planet Citizen 🌎
www.planetcitizen.orgwww.planetcitizens.org


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New Visions of Security in a Changing World
Environmental Security & National Security

 

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At Home on Spaceship Earth ... See How We Fly Through the Universe


Green Stories of the Day

GTN GreenLinks Trending News


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Environmental movement | Earth Science Vital Signs | Environmental protection | The Commons


Earth Day 2020
Memories Fifty Years On

 

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Earth, Live in Space

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"There is no wisdom that is not related to earth, or does not partake of its nature."

-- Marjory Stoneman Douglas


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Visit GreenPolicy360's associate, Strategic Demands

www.strategicdemands.com


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On the Horizon / Strategic Demands

 

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2020


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In Memory of Planet Citizen Konrad Steffen

Renowned climate scientist dies in Greenland ice sheet accident


In 2017, Konrad Steffen talks about the Polar Research Station, climate change and the Greenland landscape


Past the 'Point of No Return', the Tipping Point in Greenland


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Earth in Our Hands

 

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Planet Citizen Action


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Facing the Climate Crisis


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Yes We Can (Leave the World a Better Place)

 


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Planet Citizen Action

 

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Personal action... Direct action...
Planet Citizens, Positive Change

 

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Green Network, GreenLinks action
Going Green, #GreenNetworking
GreenLinks @ GreenPolicy360

 


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Nonviolent Action in Practice
198 Ways to Act, Count 'em
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Thinking Global

'Global Forever' Stamps


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Stepping It Up


Climate Activists & Green Organizers: California Builds Bridges to Extend International Cooperation

Global Climate Action Summit


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In Memory of a Florida "Planet Citizen"


Nathaniel Reed, environmental advocate and co-author of the Endangered Species Act, dies at 84


Via the Tampa Bay Times / Craig Pittman

Nathaniel "Nat" Reed, 84, a Hobe Sound resident whose childhood ardor for Florida’s natural wonders led to him becoming a tireless crusader for the environment, died in a Quebec hospital Wednesday, according to his family.

In a long career spent both in and out of government service, Mr. Reed co-wrote the Endangered Species Act, helped stop the construction of the world’s largest airport in the Big Cypress Swamp, and later founded the group 1,000 Friends of Florida...



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Stephen Hawking / "Planet Citizen"


"Here lies what was mortal of Stephen Hawking 1942 - 2018"

June 15, 2018 / More than 1,000 people gathered today for a memorial service in London for theoretical physicist Stephen Hawking whose ashes were buried between graves of Darwin and Newton at Westminster Abbey...


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A Last(ing) Editorial from Professor Hawking...

https://www.unlimited.world/ubs/stephen-hawking-in-memoriam


This is the most dangerous time for our planet

by Stephen Hawking

Via The Guardian


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"My perceptions of the world shifted"


Aboard the International Space Station. Ride along with Planet Citizen astronauts.

Experience the Whole Earth and see our home planet through their eyes...



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Planet Citizen on a Spacewalk

Mike Massimino


"This is what heaven must look like... I felt like I was looking into a paradise" ... He sounds dramatic, religious, maybe Italian like his name.

Or maybe a green evangelical environista'.

Floating high, Starchild...


#PlanetCitizen


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NASA / In the beginning, big ideas required big rockets. Now, we can launch satellites that fit in the palm of our hand.

Discover how by watching this video



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Orphans No More, Sheldrick Wildlife Trust


Conservation Policies vs. Hunting 'Trophies', Poaching, and Destruction of Species


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February 22, 2018, the beginning of a SpaceX planet-network
SpaceX's ultimate goal is to provide gigabit broadband worldwide


"Starlink, Planet Internet"



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HelloEarthEarth 'Dailies' via DSCOVR-EPIC


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Global Broadband Satellite Network Launches
Tintin A & B ... “hello world”

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On the Eve of Destruction


U.S. Signals Nuclear Arms Are Back (Again!) in a Big Way



"Surviving Victory":

Moving Away from "Perpetual War"


Shifting from Fossil Fuel Causes of Conflict to Renewable Energy Alternatives


"Strategic Demands, a 21st Century Vision"

Survival Strategies, Security Priorities



New Definitions of National Security


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International Climate Conference Updates

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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


United States only country to refuse climate change agreement


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Changes/Turnarounds at the US Energy Department

Via 'The Hill' / Resisting the Trump-Perry Agenda

Technological change and market forces are making clean energy competitive with dirty fossil and nuclear energy, helped along by small tax credits (which are nonetheless dwarfed by much larger fossil fuel and nuclear subsidies).

Coal-fired power generation capacity has decreased, nuclear capacity has stagnated, and even natural gas capacity has barely ticked upward — while solar and wind capacity have grown by double digits. Plus, according to Perry's own department, wind and solar now employ hundreds of thousands more Americans than older industries like coal.

Together with impressive advances in energy storage and smart grid technology, those trends are reducing the need for a large baseload capacity by making it possible to store renewable energy and distribute it wherever it's needed.


Renewable Energy @ GreenPolicy

www.netzeropolicy.com


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National Geographic:

Deconstructing Environmental Protections


Time to Act as US President Says No to the International Climate Agreement


Trends in Climate Change Legislation


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The Challenge Going Forward


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Continuing Cutbacks at US Environmental Protection Agency


Update


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Scott Pruitt, Administrator of the US EPA, Resigns

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Citing the Bible, the EPA Just 'Blew Up' Its Science Advisory Boards


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Fire Scientists, Shut Down Advisory Panels, Remove Data

Slice and Dice, Hack and Chop, Delete and Disappear the Climate Language
Trump admin has hidden or taken offline 40,000 data sets that used to be public
EPA dismisses half of key board’s scientific advisers; Interior suspends more than 200 advisory panels
Government Failure: Order to shut down access to data services


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Environmental Protection Agency Open Being 'Data-Edited'?

https://opendata.epa.gov/home.xhtml?view
https://opendata.epa.gov/home.xhtml
https://catalog.data.gov/dataset?q=environment
https://twitter.com/hashtag/EPAdata


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The Physics of Climate Change/Global Warming


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You Can Run from the Facts, but the Facts Are What They Are

March to Support Science: Facts Matter


Stats - Green Research & Science


Carl Sagan, Planet Citizen, Lecture Notes for Astronomy 490 Class at the Smithsonian Museum

https://cdn.loc.gov/service/mss/mss85590/033/033.pdf
https://www.loc.gov/item/cosmos000035/


The 'Pale Blue Dot'

https://www.loc.gov/item/cosmos000110/ (Recording)


March for Science

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_for_Science
https://satellites.marchforscience.com/
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Earth and Space, Politics

New Definitions of National Security


Scientists Fear Climate Data Gap as Trump Aims at Satellites


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Radiant Earth Project

http://radiant.earth/

Open geospatial data for positive global impact, and improved decision-making


Industry experts said over the past five years the number of operational satellites has jumped 40%, and nearly 1,400 now orbit the Earth.

This number could more than double over the next five years as satellites become smaller, lighter and more affordable.

Satellites collecting data and monitoring the Earth

Applications are far reaching - from tracking plant health through chlorophyll to gauging the impact of natural disasters and the surveillance of illegal logging.

India recently participated in the launch of 104 satellites — 101 of them for foreign companies and agencies - in a single mission as part of its strategic bid for a bigger share of the $300 billion global space industry.

Experts at the Seattle summit said the multiple launch, described as a world record by its space agency, was also significant because 88 were shoebox-sized Dove satellites launched by Planet, a San Francisco-based private satellite operator founded by former NASA scientists.

The constellation of small satellites will, once settled into orbit in six months' time, will photograph the entire Earth every day.

"Satellite imagery might be one of the most powerful and unbiased tools to tell people what is going on with the planet", explains Albert Lin, Research Scientist at the University of California, San Diego.

The key, he said, lay in finding ways to translate enormous amounts of information into something that can be understood by everyone.

This means finding ways of sorting and interlinking the trillions of bits of data sent to Earth and re-construct them into readable, digital and sometimes 3D models.

In some cases, data can be analyzed with the help of communities of "citizen scientists sitting alone at their computers all over the world."

"This is a wake-up call that satellite imagery is not just about questions and insights but also about engaging the entire planet in observing the planet, together."


"New Definitions of National Security"

"Look at how thin our atmosphere is"


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Press Release / March 23, 2017

Actions to Protect Earth Science/Climate Data

Records Requests Seek to Preserve Hundreds of Data Sets on Wildlife, Oil Industry, Climate Change, Sea-level Rise

WASHINGTON — The Center for Biological Diversity, along with noted conservation biologist Stuart Pimm and the Center for Media and Democracy, launched an effort today to prevent hundreds of environmental data sets on government websites from being removed by the Trump administration.

To preserve or resurrect what has already been removed by the administration, the centers and Dr. Pimm submitted three separate Freedom of Information Act requests for data sets to eight federal agencies: the Army Corps of Engineers, the Council on Environmental Quality, the Environmental Protection Agency, NASA and the departments of agriculture, commerce, energy and interior.

Under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA), when federal agencies receive requests for the same records three or more times, they must make the records freely available to the public on their websites, a rule known as “the Beetlejuice provision.”

“By removing or hiding hundreds of data sets [PDF] containing critical information about the climate, wildlife and the health of our oceans, Trump and his cronies are blatantly trying to conceal the truth from the American people,” said Amy Atwood, a senior attorney at the Center for Biological Diversity. “Thankfully our scientists have the Freedom of Information Act to keep this vital information in the light of day.”

Today’s legal requests seek hundreds of data sets on energy usage, renewables, oil and gas projections, coal reserves, climate data, sea-level rise, human population, environmental justice and the status of scores of endangered and threatened species and other wildlife. More specifically, they seek information relating to conservation of aquatic systems, residential energy consumption and Endangered Species Act “Section 7” consultations, a step taken by federal agencies to avoid jeopardizing listed species.

Media outlets have reported on the loss and vulnerability of federal data relating to some of today’s most pressing environmental issues, pointing out the disappearance of data sets from agency websites under the Trump administration and documenting scientists’ efforts to save them.

“The U.S. government produces and maintains some of the most important information that scientists use in their research,” said Dr. Stuart Pimm, a Duke University professor and research scientist — and a founder of conservation biology — and the second requester of data. “Along with the Herculean efforts of volunteer scientists around the country, I’m doing what I can to protect this information because it’s critical these data remain available to academic institutions for scientists and future generations.”



Challenges: Of Course and We're Taking Them On

To Be — or Not to Be a Planet Citizen
Acting on Behalf of the Common Good


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As the New Year Dawns, We Share a Moment with Planet Citizens

To Andrew Revkin, a True 'Planet Citizen' as Dot Earth Signs Off and Andrew Moves on to ProPublica


Andrew Revkin to Join ProPublica as Senior Reporter on Climate Change


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Planet citizen Bill Mollison, who presented a gift of Permaculture globally

In Memory of Bill


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Memories of George Brown, a Planet Citizen Who Envisioned an Environmental Renaissance

Remembering the 'start-up' of the environmental movement and the first US environmental laws... founding legal precedents many of which came from forward-looking green visionaries like your GreenPolicy siterunner's friend and mentor, George, who passed away suddenly in 1999.

Rep. George E. Brown, Calif

George's decades of work in Congress in air quality/clean air, water and the founding of the EPA highlighted the era's achievement... George was out in front in "big science" -- his profound accomplishments are esp missed now as anti-science positions threaten in the current US Congress


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Astronauts Sam Cristoforetti, Ron Garan, and "Overview Effect"


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Yes, to Italian "Astro Sam" and her #HelloEarth views and messages to us here on the home Planet.

And we greatly appreciate the newest from Astronaut Ron Garan as his interactive project "Orbital Perspective" is published this week. Some 45 years ago, near the end of December 1968 and beginning of an auspicious 1969, we began seeing the Apollo 8 mission's first-ever images of our "whole earth". It's not overstating to say - these images from above changed everything. These pictures from space looking back at Earth, taken as Apollo circled around the moon, carried realizations with the images -- that together we are planet citizens.


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We welcomed a perspective that no human had ever had.

January 1969 was an eye-opener as the images of Earth were broadcast. We celebrated the images and our place in the cosmos even as we, the planet and our populations, were in the midst of violent war and troubled times.

Today, the famous Earthrise photo rekindles our memory, and the serendipity of how the Apollo 8 crew was lucky that day as, looking out their window, the Earth suddenly came into view. There was no "mission plan" to take Earth photos and the astronauts scrambled to get to a camera, put in film and shoot a few frames. They were in awe, they said, and fortune was in play that day. There we were, us, Earth. In the Earthrise images our space traveling planet citizens captured a realization of our wholeness, connectedness, and our shared future as together we spin thru space.

Later, the Apollo 17 mission, as the program was coming to its end, brought home the "Blue Marble" photograph, the first complete 360° image of our planet, a high-res Earth described as the most reproduced photo in history. It is the first photograph taken of the whole round Earth and still is only one of the whole earth ever snapped by a human being. Of the two living astronauts, Cernan and Schmitt, who believe they were the photographer who took the photo, here is how one describes his view.... Whichever astronaut of the three aboard Apollo 17 who snapped the picture, what is most memorable is Earth360:

"You have to literally just pinch yourself and ask yourself the question, silently: Do you know where you are at this point in time and space, and in reality and in existence, when you can look out the window and you're looking at the most beautiful star in the heavens -- the most beautiful because it's the one we understand and we know, it's home, it's people, family, love, life -- and besides that it is beautiful. You can see from pole to pole and across oceans and continents and you can watch it turn and there's no strings holding it up, and it's moving in a blackness that is almost beyond conception."


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The sense of awe, an Earth point of view, has continued to be communicated by astronauts since and has continued to be shared, more recently with high tech ways to see and experience our Earth as planetary citizens as we see from the International Space Station. The term "Overview Effect" begins to share the experience.

We celebrate our Planet Citizens who bring home messages how we can collaborate to make a difference, to make the world a better place.

Ron Garan: "You don’t need to be an astronaut to have the orbital perspective"...

"When we look down at the earth from space, we see this amazing, indescribably beautiful planet. It looks like a living, breathing organism. But it also, at the same time, looks extremely fragile... Anybody else who's ever gone to space says the same thing because it really is striking and it's really sobering to see this paper-thin layer and to realize that that little paper-thin layer is all that protects every living thing on Earth from death, basically. From the harshness of space."

"The Goal is to bring people along on our space missions not as spectators but as fellow crew mates." -- http://www.rongaran.com/gallery/

"It is truly moving to look at Earth from space. And when we do – we also have the privilege of sharing this orbital perspective with people back on our planet. We are all riding through the universe together on this spaceship we call Earth, we are all interconnected, we are all in this together. We are all family."


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Planet citizen Naomi Klein, "This Changes Everything"

Speaking @ the Bioneers conference, 2014


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Bill McKibben, founder of www.350.org, planet citizen, and former advisor to our GreenPolicy new venture.

https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Bill_McKibben,_planet_citizen


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GreenPolicy360 highlights Rebecca Moore

Rebecca envisioned setting up "Google Earth Outreach", she envisioned it, presented the idea, and, as a citizen of the planet, she took a great idea into reality!


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Pope Francis, the first Catholic pontiff to name himself after the patron saint of the environment

Catholic pontiff speaks of the environment


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Winona LaDuke, Native-American environmentalist, economist, ecofeminist and writer.

In 1996 and 2000, Winona ran for Vice President as the nominee of the Green Party of the United States, on a ticket headed by Ralph Nader.


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Rebecca Solnit

"There are really only two questions for activists: what do you want to achieve? And who do you want to be? And those two questions are deeply entwined...
Every minute of every hour of every day you are making the world, just as you are making yourself, and you might as well do it with generosity and kindness and style. That is the small ongoing victory on which great victories can be built, and you do want victories, don't you?"


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January 2017


Green Stories of the Day, Become a Planet Citizen, Join with Planet Citizens Around the Globe


GreenPolicy360 Stories of the Day


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Watching the Arctic Thaw


The US and Russia, Exxon and Rosneft, Attempt Political Drive to Launch Historic Gas/Oil Drilling in the Arctic

Consequences and Costs Only Beginning to Be Estimated


Visit GreenPolicy's Arctic Page for Updates


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December 2016


Hear ye, Hear ye

A 'Planet Citizen', California Governor Jerry Brown steps up at the AGU to deliver a speech for the times


All Hands on Deck

Eyes open, stay sharp, on alert

America’s science community is getting organised as never before to hold the new administration and Congress to account


To Andrew Revkin, 'Planet Citizen Reporter' as he signs out at Dot Earth & moves on to ProPublica

Andrew Revkin to Join ProPublica as Senior Reporter on Climate Change

A Dot Earth Farewell


November 2016

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www.thinbluelayer.com



Elon's a planet citizen with energy powering up the vision

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October 2016


The Military and Climate Security Budgets Compared

The U.S. military’s latest National Security Strategy says that climate change is “an urgent and growing threat to our national security, contributing to increased natural disasters, refugee flows, and conflicts over basic resources like food and water.”

What they don’t say is that the overall balance of U.S. security spending should be adjusted to fit that assessment. And we know less about how much we are spending on this urgent threat than we used to, since the federal government hasn’t produced a climate security budget since 2013.

In this new report, Combat vs. Climate, the Institute for Policy Studies steps in to provide the most accurate climate change security budget currently available, drawing data from multiple agencies. And it looks at how these expenditures stack up within the overall 'security budget.'


Report: Combat Vs. Climate

http://www.ips-dc.org/report-combat-vs-climate/

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Planet Citizens in Action: Update: 2018, Leonardo DiCaprio


Reefscape
Satellite Doves to Aid Coral Conservation
Planet API


To gather a more comprehensive understanding of the condition of global reef ecosystems, we need a way to assess and monitor them on a large geographic scale.
The Reefscape project aims to improve our understanding of the condition of coral reefs worldwide, while simultaneously developing spectral libraries needed to advance the development of a new satellite mission.
New satellites, such as those from Planet (formerly Planet Labs), are, as of 2017, able to capture near-daily imagery of coral reefs worldwide. Planet’s high-resolution imagery of reef locations provides new imaging, science and understanding of the composition and extent of shallow, horizontally oriented reefs.


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Before the Flood Documentary
Hollywood Reporter Review
Leonardo DiCaprio Oscar Speech


Planet Citizens & Bioneers

Bioneers Lyons, Kucinich, DiCaprio
Fellow Planet Citizens-Bioneers / Leo's close friend, Oren Lyons, Chief of the Onondaga Iroquois
Oren Lyons - "We Are Part of the Earth" (Video / 7:38)
Speaking to the Seventh Generation
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Remembering Rachel, Planet Citizen

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September 2016


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"Eco-nomics" for the 21st Century

  • A Necessary Challenge to Neoliberal Economics
  • A Shift from Short-term Profits to Resilient, Sustainable Economies


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Stephen Hawking on ITV (and PBS)

"Runaway climate change... A rise in ocean temperature would melt the ice-caps... with catastrophic effects." #AGW #CAGW


Often referred to as an Einstein of our current era, Stephen Hawking points to "runaway climate change" as a profound threat to global security. In the same (labored) breath, he communicates a profound warning re: the other existential threat he sees -- nuclear weapons. At Strategic Demands the escalating threat of nuclear weapons is revealed and tracked -- as Cold War 2.0.


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August 2016
Elon Musk & Co
Renewable Energy: Beyond Tesla with #PlanetCitizen


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July 2016
Another Record for the Hottest Year


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Climate Change Denial in Motion

Defenders of Fossil Fuel Business-as-Usual Push Defense

Via Inside Climate News

August 31, 2016 - The chairman of the House Science Committee has announced a hearing next month into the refusal by two state attorneys general to comply with subpoenas seeking information on their investigations into ExxonMobil...


US House Science Committee Acts to Defend ExxonMobile Against Attorneys General

ExxonMobile Faces Multi-state AG Investigation



Politics: US Democratic Party Platcom Meetings

Democratic Party environmental positions voted into platform

Update from the Democratic Party Platform Hearing on Environmental/Climate Issues

Via George Monbiot

August 3, 2016 -- This (year), on current trends, will be the hottest year ever measured. The previous record was set in 2015; the one before in 2014. Fifteen of the 16 warmest years have occurred in the 21st century. Each of the past 14 months has beaten the global monthly temperature record. But you can still hear people repeating the old claim, first proposed by fossil fuel lobbyists, that global warming stopped in 1998. Arctic sea ice covered a smaller area last winter than in any winter since records began...

If you blinked you would have missed the reports, but perhaps the most striking aspect of the Democratic platform (the party’s manifesto) approved in Philadelphia last week was its position on climate change. Hillary Clinton’s campaign now promises a national and global mobilisation “on a scale not seen since World War II”. She will seek to renegotiate trade deals to protect the living world, to stop oil drilling in the Arctic and Atlantic, and to ensure the US is “running entirely on clean energy by mid-century”.

There are some crashing contradictions in the platform. To judge by one bizarre paragraph, the Democrats believe they can solve climate change by expanding roads and airports. It boasts about record sales in the car industry and promises to cut “red tape”, which is the term used by corporate lobbyists for the public protections they hate. But where it is good it is very good, reflecting the influence of Bernie Sanders and the nominees he proposed to the drafting committee.

Donald Trump, on the other hand – well, what did you expect? Climate change is a “con-job” and a “hoax” that was “created by and for the Chinese in order to make US manufacturing non-competitive”.

His manifesto reads like a love letter to the coal industry. Coal, it says, “is an abundant, clean, affordable, reliable domestic energy resource”. He will defend the industry by rejecting the Paris agreement, stopping funds for the UN’s climate change work, ditching President Obama’s clean power plan and forbidding the Environmental Protection Agency from regulating carbon dioxide.


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Warning Signs: The Great Barrier Reef


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Earth Day / Countries Signing Climate Action Plans

Paris Agreement Signatures Today at the UN in New York

Via Mother Jones - Something Genuinely Good for the Earth Is Happening on Earth Day

175 Nations Sign on Earth Day


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Solar Energy / EVs / ZEVs / NextGen Trans


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'Planet Citizen' Elon introduces the Model 3


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Elon Musk: The car represents the culmination of a long-held dream to bring affordable, zero-pollution vehicles to the world's highways...

With CO2 levels and global temperatures at record highs, the Model 3 will help bring engineering solutions to the climate change problem.

EV - Electric- and Zero-Emission Vehicles Corridors -- As of April 20, 2016 - 20,823 Alternative fuel stations mapped in the United States


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A Question of Questions

A multi-language 'Thank You' to Planet Citizens: ~ Sylvia Earle, ~ Bill McKibben and ~ Elon Musk

 

Planet Citizen/Climate Citizen News

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Polls: Planet citizens & global citizenship

BBC: 'Global citizenship' on Upward Trend


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After a Year in Space, Scott Kelly Says: I'm an Environmentalist

"The Earth is a beautiful planet. It's practically everything to us. It's very important to our survival, and the Space Station is a great vantage point to observe it, and to share our planet in pictures," Kelly said during a press conference on his return from the International Space Station.

His photos earned him a wide social media following as he gazed down on everything from smog-choked cities to spiraling hurricanes and typhoons.

"You notice how the atmosphere looks and how fragile it looks," Kelly said. "It makes you more of an environmentalist after spending so much time looking down at our planet."

Kelly now holds the NASA record for the most days in space as an American astronaut and is currently undergoing a battery of medical tests along with his twin brother, former astronaut Mark Kelly in order to help NASA learn more about how the human body changes throughout long-duration stays in space.


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Back in the USA: Climate Politics

"US Supreme Court's order blocking President Obama’s plan to cut emissions from coal-burning power plants is unprecedented step and one of the most environmentally harmful decisions ever made by the nation’s highest court"


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Tiny Blue Green


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"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 GreenPolicy360's new site, proposed and co-designed by 14 yr old Olivia Schmidt
Oh Phyto!! -- the Zooplankton Keep On Hanging On & Drifting Along with You!!
Planet Citizens, Planet Scientists
~ www.tinybluegreen.com


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Thin Blue Layer

Remembering an Astronaut who was one of the first to look back at Planet Earth and our thin, fragile atmosphere
Astronaut Mitchell telling us how profoundly beautiful -- and in danger -- our world was from his 'Planet Overview'


February 4, 2016 ... In memory of Edgar Mitchell
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One of Mitchell's last interviews -- "In the big picture... we are stardust, this was a wow experience...
as we were coming home... where you see things in their natural state... a feeling of oneness"


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Climate Agreement In Paris

Renewable Energy Investment Growth


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"Toward a Renewable Energy Future:" Implementing the 'INDCs'

GreenPolicy's list of Countries & Climate Action INDC Plans

Moving Beyond the Goals in Each Nation's INDC-Climate Plan


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A Generation's Challenge

Renewables ---- 'Decarbonizing' ---- Transitioning to Clean Energy Globally


In Paris for the Climate Summit

Paris Climate Agreement: Moments

Falling Short on Climate in Paris

What the Paris conference on climate change can do for planet Earth


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Chris Mooney/Washington Post after the Paris Agreement

What happens next?


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November

Road to Paris

Global Climate March - News/Actions

Paris marches rescheduled -- 2,000+ worldwide climate change events ready-to-go ... 175+ Countries

Events/Locations 350.org #ClimateMarch

Paris Climate Summit, Opening Nov 30 - Information Hub

Agenda -- Meetings -- Schedule

Important: Legal forms for Paris climate agreement


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Join In, Act, Follow, Be Out in Front

It's Your Breathing Planet

#climateaction
#COP21
#INDCs
#climatechange


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DSCOVR/EPIC New Site Goes Live

Visit EarthPOV for Latest News

EarthPOV.com

A million mile view


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"Northern Lights over Alaska"

--- 2015, photo by Astronaut Scott Kelly from the International Space Station


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Environmental Security: a Planet Citizen Vision

Climate Summit / Road to Paris

UN / Climate Plans "Synthesis Report" -- Oct 30


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2020 Update: From Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac


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Christiana Figueres @CFigueres

Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change


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UN Climate Action @UNFCCC

October 19, 2015
Opening plenary of the latest @UN climate negotiations
#ADP2
#ADP2 session... steps toward Paris... Focus!
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Follow @UNFCCC

#COP21 #INDCs #climatechange #climateaction


UN Conferences / Eyes on the Future


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"We can commit to do more."

- Gavin Schmidt, NASA Goddard climate science director


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ClimateCentral (@ClimateCentral)

Oct 20, 2015
150 countries representing approx 90% of world’s carbon emissions have filed pledges


@ GreenPolicy, Review Climate Action National Plans/INDCs

Which Countries Are Doing the Most?

Sustainable Development Goals


@ GreenPolicy, 2015 UN Climate Change Conference


The International Climate Conference in Paris


We Mean Business on Climate Change


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Historic Earth Images from the DSCOVR Mission

GreenPolicy assists the NASA mission team

December 2015


First images of Moon and Earth from DSCOVR-EPIC


July 2015

Planet Citizens, DSCOVR and the New Blue Marble

Planet Earth, the first whole Earth image since the original Blue Marble image taken by Apollo 17 in 1972.

DSCOVR-EPIC images will begin to be made available by September.

GreenPolicy will assist in the release of these historic online views of Earth, made available in near real time, in coordination with Dr. Szabo and the NASA/NOAA DSCOVR project team.

"The high quality of the EPIC images exceeded all of our expectations in resolution," said Adam Szabo, DSCOVR project scientist at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland. "The images clearly show desert sand structures, river systems and complex cloud patterns. There will be a huge wealth of new data for scientists to explore."

http://www.nasa.gov/press-release/nasa-satellite-camera-provides-epic-view-of-earth


#Earth360 Updates

Planet Citizen will be assisting in delivering NASA/NOAA DSCOVR/EPIC data and imagery

The Planet Citizen site will be expanding to highlight the new DSCOVR products and EPIC whole earth images

In addition to a new NASA DSCOVR/EPIC website in development and a selection of #‎Earth360‬ images planned to be made available online daily beginning in August, there will be unprecedented accompanying data/imagery made avail for ‪#‎EarthScience‬ and climate/atmospheric monitoring.

The following is from a NASA Goddard communication, March 11th to us @PlanetCitizen, discussing additional calibrated data products to come from DSCOVR...

>The individual 10 different wavelength EPIC data will be served from the Atmospheric Science Data Center (ASDC) at Langley (https://eosweb.larc.nasa.gov) Once we will be active, on the left side of this page DSCOVR will appear as a project. Clicking on it will give you a list of available products...

The DSCOVR satellite with its EPIC cam, PlasMag & NISTAR instrument package... is on a million mile journey and in approx four months, DSCOVR will "light up", be tested, and begin delivering data to Earth. In its historic mission, DSCOVR and its EPIC imaging system will begin sending near real-time images of the whole Earth... it has been many years since whole Earth images have been readily available...


It's been decades since December 7, 1972 when the only picture ever snapped by a human of the whole earth was captured -- our iconic "Blue Marble" Planet Earth. NASA engineers named the historic image -- AS17-148-22727'

As we have been recalling the history, we haven't had returned to us a 'whole earth' image since 1972. Today, the Associated Press reports Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Florida, pointing out from Washington that there hasn't been a "full, sunlit picture of the Earth since Apollo 17 in 1972 - NASA's last manned moon-landing mission". Subsequent images "have been stitched together", the Senator explained, for composite shots. The Florida Senator has an exceptional point of view re: this amazing fact, as he was an astronaut who flew on the Space Shuttle from Florida's "Space Coast". In January 1986, Nelson spent six days orbiting Earth as a payload specialist aboard space shuttle Columbia. His NASA bio adds "The experience gave him a new perspective on the Earth’s fragile environment and a greater appreciation of the importance of our nation’s space exploration program."

The DSCOVR satellite launches into deep orbit with multiple missions -- to monitor space weather and, due to the satellite's orbital distance from Earth (1 mil miles), DSCOVR will be sending back daily images of the whole earth via its EPIC image-taking system and via its NISTAR system measuring earth's earth's temperature, our "radiation balance" ("albedo").


"DSCOVR will be beaming back a steady stream of images of our home planet from space... with the images expected to be available online the next day."

"They'll be posted on a website for the public to see," said Steven Clarke, director of NASA's Joint Agency Satellite Division. "I think it will be an inspiration for people to see the sunlit disk of the Earth."


"Most impressive from DSCOVR will be the images of us, Planet Earth 360°. To see ‪and to experience #‎Earth360‬ daily, it's going to be a spectacular re-reminder of our place in the cosmos..." - Steven Schmidt

Scientists will soon get a steady stream of data about how both the Earth and the Sun are doing, for years to come.

The livestream of our planet will inform, immerse and inspire. Online the images from DSCOVR and EPIC will deliver majestic new visions of our home planet.


For many Earth scientists, the centerpiece of the satellite is the National Institute of Standards Advanced Radiometer, or NISTAR, named for the Maryland-based government laboratory that designed it. The apparatus was built to shed light on Earth’s “radiation balance”—the radiation we receive from our sun minus the radiation we reflect back into space. The difference is retained by our planet as heat, and is calculated by measuring Earth’s reflectivity, called the albedo. Data showing whether Earth’s albedo is decreasing, meaning the atmosphere is retaining more heat because of greenhouse gases or other reasons, could be a significant piece of the climate puzzle.

What is revolutionary isn’t the basic technology for tracking albedo — it is measuring it from the million-mile perspective out at L1. Most satellites circle the planet at about one-thousandth of that distance, so their readings encompass only a small slice of land, a view that shifts rapidly as they circle the planet every two hours or so. Different climate zones — ice caps, deserts, tropical forests—have different reflectivities, independent of the atmosphere, which needs to be factored in to the overall measurement; it’s virtually impossible to create a whole-Earth portrait from a deck of low-orbit snapshots. “By the time you stitch together all the separate bits of data, the margin of error is too large to be useful,” Dr. Asrar at NASA says.

DSCOVR is "like having a thermometer for the whole planet.” It’s not a perfect gauge, NASA’s Dr. Adam Szabo cautions. “Earth is… a sphere that reflects light in all directions. So a measurement from any one point will not be the final word. But it will still be very important for the conversation about climate change.”


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New Ways to See and Experience Planet Earth


How Beautiful Planet Earth Is


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EARTH FROM ORBIT / VIDEO IN HD


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View the 'Thin Blue', Earth's Life-enabling Atmosphere

Watching Earth Roll By: On the International Space Station

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Planet Live via UrtheCast


Earth Viewing Live via UStream


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Visit Google Earth's 10th anniversary:

Journey with Voyager +

Introducing Voyager & Earth View



Going Planetary.org

Earthviews from Above

Remember "Earthrise"

Our "Blue Marble"

"The only home we've got..."


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Planet Labs 'Doves' fly from the ISS


Planet Labs & NanoRacks

Doves


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Planet Citizen: Elon

Consider how years ago now, NASA put out a call about launching services for the DSCOVR mission -- Guess who was one of those who replied? A young visionary dreaming of what could be, even before his SpaceX was ready to go... Elon Musk, becoming a planet citizen. He spoke of how the iconic whole earth "Blue Marble" photo of Earth had inspired him to dream and to move his technology plans toward a space & earth connection.


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Overview and Perspective

See and experience the Earth in new ways

The Overview Effect

Orbital Perspective


January 2015


Recently Added Planet Citizen, Planet Scientist Pages





 





 


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#Earth360: The Overview


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As the New Year Dawns, Earth from Space

With appreciation ~ for the space experience and the wisdom of the Overview Effect

Overview

Planetary --- Planetary, trailer, pre-release March 2015



From Above, beauty and awe...


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All Alone in the Night


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The View Outside My Window


Astronaut Alex Gerst: A 'Planet Citizen's' view of Earth...


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"Game changer"

Historic Orbiting Carbon Observatory Satellite Sends Back Most Detailed CO2 View Ever / Dec 18, 2014


OCO-2 begins to measure atmospheric CO2 levels with unprecedented science


The 'Initial Level 1 round' of data was made available to the public on Dec 30, 2014.


A full set of CO2 data is available in March for scientists and public "planet citizens" to download and explore


First OCO Data via Phys.org
Discover OCO
OCO @ Nature


Sample Data -- OCO-2 Data Portal


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For #PlanetCitizen gazing, visit the "Blue Marble" Collection

Security by Design, new definitions of national security to be found in environmental security, planning for global trends


November 2014

You Are Here

And Here!


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Up Here, #EarthPOV

Earth's Observation's new website

Vid Watch

Look

Green Skies


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Earth: How are you?

@EarthVitalSigns
#EarthRightNow




About Planet Citizen

#PlanetCitizen #EarthPOV


SJS/GreenPolicy360 Siterunner:

In the 1960s in the US and globally a modern environmental movement was being created as first-ever visions of Planet Earth were sent from Apollo missions. The images of the Whole Earth in space changed perceptions in every nation. A realization of a common, shared home -- and responsibility to care for our home -- was born.

Soon political leaders stepped up, both looking backward and forward. A new field of science, earth science, began to spring up. In the US Congress, leaders like George Brown were saying no to war in Vietnam and Asia, and the Mideast, and no to nuclear weapons, while saying yes to a first generation of NASA earth science missions.

This was called 'Big Science' by some and 'its a critical mission' by others.

Rep. George E. Brown was out in front.

From the mid 1960s until his death in 1999, his work in Congress was instrumental in proposing, shaping, and protecting Big Science - Earth Science.


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Our new era of #Earth360 exploration, using the tools of the digital age and Internet connectivity, is making it possible to see and experience a connected, Planet Earth 360 and to begin studying life-enabling systems (and life-threatening changes) with means never before possible.

Space- and earth-based observation platforms are delivering "intelligence reports" in effect, strategic insights that can broaden our knowledge and perceptions of who we are and how we respond to our global, common future.

In unprecedented ways, intelligence about our planet's systems can be shared and networked via the worldwide web and a larger Internet, linking us together wherever our community and whatever our nation.

We look out at a critical, developing field of #EnvironmentalSecurity as a generation of Planet Citizen voyagers.


  • Planet Citizens and GreenPolicy hold a simple value proposition:


  • Cleaner air and water and food is a good thing. Reducing pollution is a necessary thing. Health of our environment is a vital thing.



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An API for the Planet

www.Planet.com

Planet Labs Pulse

#PlanetLabs @Open Source Conference

With the Planet-Lab Platform, Connect to our Planet as Citizens of the Planet

Mission: Democratizing Access to Information About the Changing Planet


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Planet Labs/NYT

Launch of new Flock of Dove Satellites to Image Earth

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Planet Labs 'Dove' micro-satellites


"Rapid cadence imagery, like Planet Labs is developing, helps us become better, more sustainable stewards of Earth."


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Environmental Security @Strategic Demands

 

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21st Century definitions of national and international security

A realization that "Security is indivisible" is on the horizon and security definitions are changing as a result of the dynamics of interactive networks.

The sharing of information is creating a new science of networking. Information is being looked at as never before and #earthscience data is now being collected by networked computers across an interconnected world. In historic ways, open data is being publicly distributed far beyond the restrictive policies of previous times and closed-loop systems.

Today #earthsciences are at the cusp of a rich new world of information. As we share these new realizations, images, data, experiences and understandings, we can be certain of a new, growing awareness of our planet and our 'citizenship' together.

Even now, we have inklings of what is coming. Let's look at one called OCO-2. With the launch of OCO-2, a "game changer", in the summer of 2014, the data of #Earth360 will grow in unprecedented ways as this first orbiting observatory of global warming conditions takes to space and begins to report home - I am OCO-2

Although the Orbiting Carbon Observatory is just the beginning, the future of #earthscience from space is here as we see in new ways and observe our environment with new information never before accessible. Space-imaging is opening up amazing views, with 3D and big-screens and home theaters. Coming soon will be views beyond IMAX as companies like Virgin and SpaceX carry citizen travelers into orbit. Educational and scientific information about our communities is being shared, and linked to, and distributed around the Net. From space, the earth is borderless and with vision of the planet and common-good #biosphere and #ecosystem comes responsibility for our shared security.

On to first steps... We are all connected and wherever we are, geographically, nationally, we share common-ground and common-atmosphere. Let's look at our home and, with an "overview" from space, see the 'Big Picture' and let's look at the details, let's manage and sustain our earth resources and, as we go, look to our shared quality of life on the "only home we've ever known."


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Here's to our future and future of #Environmental Security


 

The Big Picture: Earth from Space

 

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Our world of is in flux.

The term "New Space" and "Democratization of Space" have come to represent a first generation of earth research and study from space by start up companies designing, building and launching small, mini- and micro-satellites.

New visions of Earth and new players are challenging the old system of governments that spend billions to explore, commercialize and militarize space.

Barriers to entry are being broken and young companies are launching flocks of satellite birds into space. Earth monitoring is going planetary and a next generation is at the forefront pushing to address threats to the environment.

Let's go there to this new world, not a "new world order" but a world that is being connected and is sharing, linking and seeing the bigger picture. The way we observe and 'feel' about our planet is changing in one generation.

Beginning with the first Whole Earth pictures relayed from the Apollo voyages to the Moon, we have for the first time in history experienced a vision of our planet from afar -- we are, we realize, a 'blue' oasis in space.

Now, nearly five decades after the original awe-inspiring Earthrise images from Apollo 8 were revealed, we find everyday citizens in every nation realizing our commonalities.

The Apollo mission helped us open our eyes and today we are seeing our planet and our place in the universe in new light, with new missions and and new possibilities to secure our environment for ages to come.

We are citizens of our common home, planet Earth.

Add your talent to the grand project of planet citizenship, of seeing with an EarthPOV so that we can make informed decisions and policy...

Observe, consider, act. NextGen #earthscience in an era of #climatechange and #globalsecurity challenges and opportunities...

Make a difference, join with GreenPolicy360's global work. In every community there are green groups at work.

Visit and use our GreenLinks to see a multi-colored, deep and diverse range of resources and friends of GreenPolicy.

It's time, your time to Go Green!  

www.planetaryawareness.org


Earth Right Now


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Citizens of Planet Earth

Arise, Look Up, Around, Outward and Inward


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Planet Citizen, Forward-looking Vision

A Vision of Dynamic Change


EarthPOV

Hello Earth

Tiny Blue Green

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Overview Effect

Orbital Perspective


Citizen Science

Planet Scientist

Planet Citizens, Planet Scientists

Planet API


Earth Observations, Strategic Missions

Environmental Security - Global/National

New Definitions of National Security


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To Be, or Not to Be a Planet Citizen


www.planetcitizens.org

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GreenPolicy360 Siterunner Comments


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