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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>'''''Greening Our Blue Planet'''''</big></big>
::<big><big>[http://www.planetcitizens.org '''''To Be or Not to Be a Planet Citizen''''']</big></big>


::[[File:Thin Blue.jpg]]


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<big><big>'''''Rethinking Security in a Changing World'''''</big></big>  
::<big><big>'''''New Visions of Security in a Changing World'''''</big></big>  
::<big><big>[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/New_Definitions_of_National_Security '''''Environmental Security & National Security''''']</big></big>  
:::[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/New_Definitions_of_National_Security <big>'''''Environmental Security & National Security'''''</big>]


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[[File:Dark sky by Jack Fusco.jpg]]


:::<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>]
[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>]






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


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


[http://www.planetcitizens.org ''www.planetcitizens.org'']




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<big><big>'''''Visit Earth Imaging 'Dailies' [https://epic.gsfc.nasa.gov/ @DSCOVR-EPIC]'''''</big></big>


<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>


[[File:Earth Image Dailies from DSCOVR-EPIC.png | link=https://epic.gsfc.nasa.gov/]]


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


:::[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Day_2020 Memories Fifty Years On]


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<big><big>'''''2018'''''</big></big>
[[File:Common Ground Letter.png]]


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<big><big>'''''"Starlink"'''''</big></big>


'''''February 22, 2018, the beginning of a SpaceX planet-network'''''
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyEzsAy4qeU <small>'''''Earth, Live in Space'''''</small>]


:[https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2018/02/elon-musk-tweets-video-of-spacexs-first-broadband-satellites-in-space/ '''''Elon Musk announces launch of Tintin A & B''''']
[[File:Earth day 2016.jpg|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyEzsAy4qeU]]  


::''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''']''




:::'''''Tintin A & B ... “hello world”'''''
<small>○ ''"There is no wisdom that is not related to earth, or does not partake of its nature."''</small>
:<small>-- Marjory Stoneman Douglas''</small> 


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<big>'''''Meanwhile, Dancing with Destruction'''''</big>
<big>'''''Visit GreenPolicy360's associate, Strategic Demands'''''</big>


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


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


[[File:StratDem logo.png]]


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


* ''http://strategicdemands.com/nuclear-weapons-time/''
<big>'''On the Horizon / Strategic Demands'''</big>


* ''http://strategicdemands.com/two-minutes-midnight/''
* 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>'''''International Climate Conference Updates'''''</big>
::[[File:Aerial-storm-by-Santiago-Borja.jpg]]


[[File:Climate Change Conf Nov 6-17.png]]


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:http://unfccc.int/2860.php
::<big><big><big>'''''2020'''''</big></big></big> 


: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
[[File:We must flatten the curve, yes ... August 2020.jpg]]




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


* http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/syria-paris-agreement-us-climate-change-donald-trump-world-country-accord-a8041996.html
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* https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/nov/07/syria-signs-paris-climate-agreement-and-leaves-us-isolated


* http://e360.yale.edu/features/why-post-paris-climate-challenge-is-even-harder-than-we-thought
<big>'''In Memory of Planet Citizen Konrad Steffen'''</big>


* http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=57807#.Wdga_1tSy70
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/


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* https://www.cbsnews.com/news/konrad-steffen-koni-climate-scientist-dies-greenland-ice-sheet-crevasse/


* https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/13/climate/konrad-steffen-dead.html


<big>'''''Changes/Turnarounds at the US Energy Department'''''</big>
* https://www.dailycamera.com/2020/08/10/konrad-steffen-former-cires-director-dies-in-greenland-accident/


[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'']
* https://twitter.com/algore/status/1292979399005024256


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


''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.''
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emHW-GKBIfk




[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Renewable_Energy '''''Renewable Energy @ GreenPolicy''''']
Past the 'Point of No Return', the Tipping Point in Greenland


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


* https://amp.cnn.com/cnn/2020/08/20/weather/greenland-ice-sheet-melt-climate-intl-hnk/index.html


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<big>'''''National Geographic:'''''</big>
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[http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/03/how-trump-is-changing-science-environment/ <big>''''' Deconstructing Environmental Protections'''''</big>]
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:::::[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Earth_in_Human_Hands.jpg <big><big><big><big>'''Earth in Our Hands'''</big></big></big></big>]


<big>'''''Time to Act as US President Says No to the International Climate Agreement'''''</big>
::::* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Anthropocene


::::* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Science_Vital_Signs


:● [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_Right_Now


:● [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]]


::::[[File:Sagan - That's home.jpg]]




:::::::<big><big><big>'''''Planet Citizen Action'''''</big></big></big>


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


:::::::[[File:Earth Moonrise.jpg]]


<font color=green>○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○</font> <font color=blue>○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○</font>




<big><big>'''''Continuing Cutbacks at US Environmental Protection Agency'''''</big></big>
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:● [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Pruitt%27s_EPA.png '''''Citing the Bible, the EPA Just 'Blew Up' Its Science Advisory Boards''''']
:::::::<big><big><big>'''''Facing the Climate Crisis'''''</big></big></big> 




[[File:Pruitt's EPA.png]]
:::::[[File:Global Green New Deal.jpg|link=https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Green_New_Deal]]




<big><big>'''''Fire Scientists, Shut Down Advisory Panels, Remove 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''''']
[[File:Simple Concept.png]]


:::: [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''']


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[[File:About Baselines and Change.png]]
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<big><big><big>'''''Yes We Can (Leave the World a Better Place''''')</big></big></big>


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<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


:::::::[[File:Corita yes we can.jpg]]


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<big>'''''Meanwhile, the Physics of Climate Change/Global Warming Continue'''''</big>
:::::::[http://www.planetcitizen.org <big><big><big>'''''Planet Citizen Action'''''</big></big></big>]


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[[File:Floating floating over the ocean seas.jpg|link=https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Arctic]]
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[[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]]
:::::::<big><big><big><big>''Personal action... Direct action...''</big></big></big></big>


::::::::[http://www.planetcitizens.org <big>'''''Planet Citizens, Positive Change'''''</big>]


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


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


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


[[File:Global Temp Chart-sources-1880-2016.png]]
::::::* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Social_Justice


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<big><big>'''''You Can Run from the Facts, but the Facts Are What They Are'''''</big></big>
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:::::::<big><big><big><big>''Green Network, GreenLinks action''</big></big></big></big>


[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>]
::::::: [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Green_Networking '''''Going Green, #GreenNetworking''''']  


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


<big>'''''March for Science'''''</big>
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:: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_for_Science
::: https://satellites.marchforscience.com/
:::: https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:March_for_Science-2.png
::::: https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Bill_nye-march_for_science-earth_day.jpg


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<big><u>'''''[[Earth and Space, Politics]]'''''</u></big>
::::::[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/Methods_of_Nonviolent_Action.pdf <big><big><big>'''''Nonviolent Action in Practice'''''</big></big></big>]


<big><u>'''''[[New Definitions of National Security]]'''''</u></big>
::::::<big>'''198 Ways to Act, Count 'em '''</big>


::::::<big>''[[File:Methods of Nonviolent Action.pdf]]''</big>
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[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''''']
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[[File:NRDC re Trump bad stuff.png|link=https://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/NRDC_re_Trump_bad_stuff.png]]
<big><big> '''''Thinking Global'''''</big></big>


:''''Global Forever' Stamps




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


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


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


''Open geospatial data for positive global impact, and improved decision-making''
<big><big> '''''Stepping It Up'''''</big></big>




''Industry experts said over the past five years the number of operational satellites has jumped 40%, and nearly 1,400 now orbit the Earth.''
<big>'''''Climate Activists & Green Organizers: California Builds Bridges to Extend International Cooperation'''''</big>


''This number could more than double over the next five years as satellites become smaller, lighter and more affordable.''
:[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Global_Climate_Action_Summit.png <big>''Global Climate Action Summit''</big>]


'''''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.''
::[[File:Global Climate Action Summit.png]]


''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 [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Planet_Labs_Doves_Fly 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.''
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''"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.''
<big><big><big>'''''In Memory of a Florida "Planet Citizen"'''''</big></big></big>


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


''"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."''


[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'']


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


● https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Earth_Observations
''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...''


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


https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Earth_Science
* [https://youtu.be/oW8Yzj7AlQA ''Advice? "Get educated", a video interview with Nat'']


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


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


● https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/New_Definitions_of_National_Security
[[File:Stephen Hawking-Genius-2016.jpg]]




[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/index.php?title=Special%3ASearch&profile=default&search=stephen+hawking&fulltext=Search <big>'''Stephen Hawking / "Planet Citizen"'''</big>]


[[File:PlanetLabs homepage2016.png]]


''"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...''




[[File:Foley on March29,2017.png]]
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[[File:Politics and Science in the House un-Science Committee.png]]


<font color=green><big>'''A Last(ing) Editorial from Professor Hawking...'''</big></font>


<big><font color=green>○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○</font></big>
:''https://www.unlimited.world/ubs/stephen-hawking-in-memoriam''




'''''[http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/news/press_releases/2017/publc-records-03-23-2017.php Press Release] / March 23, 2017'''''
<big><big>'''''This is the most dangerous time for our planet'''''</big></big>


<big>'''''Actions to Protect Earth Science/Climate Data'''''</big>
''by Stephen Hawking''


'''''Records Requests Seek to Preserve Hundreds of Data Sets on Wildlife, Oil Industry, Climate Change, Sea-level Rise'''''
''Via [https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/dec/01/stephen-hawking-dangerous-time-planet-inequality The Guardian]''


''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.''
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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.”''
<big>''''' "My perceptions of the world shifted" '''''</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.''


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


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




* [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://www.facebook.com/NGM/videos/10156076557406005/ ''3D Video via Facebook'']


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


* [http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/news/press_releases/2017/publc-records-03-23-2017.php '''''Activists Rush to Save Government Science Data''''']




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


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


: [[File:Earth in Human Hands.jpg]]


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


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




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


:[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'']
Floating high, [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:2001_pic3.jpeg Starchild]...




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




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


[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Bill_Mollison_courtesy_of_Permaculture_magazine.jpg '''''In Memory of Bill''''']
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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.'''''


<big>'''Memories of George, Planet Citizen Who Envisioned an Environmental Renaissance'''</big>
'''''Discover how by watching [https://twitter.com/NASA/status/993643757986775042 this video]'''''


[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://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/George_E._Brown_Jr Rep. George E. Brown, Calif]
:* [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Micro-satellites Micro-Satellites] / [http://www.planet.com Planet Doves]


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
:* [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]


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'''Astronauts Sam Cristoforetti and Ron Garan, the 'Overview Effect' few citizens have ever experienced'''


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[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:DSWT-Daphne_hugging_elephant_adoptee.png <big>'''''Orphans No More, Sheldrick Wildlife Trust'''''</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].
'''''Conservation Policies vs. Hunting 'Trophies', Poaching, and Destruction of Species'''''




[[File:Apollo Earth 350x350.jpg]]
[[File:Elephant trophies.png]]




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.
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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:


''"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."''
[[File:Starlink-nasa image.jpg]]




[[File:Blue Marble photo - Apollo 17.jpg]]
:''February 22, 2018, the beginning of a SpaceX planet-network''


::''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]''


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


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."''
::* [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''']


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


''"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"'''  
::::<big><u>'''''[[HelloEarth]]'''''</u></big> ○ <big>'''''Earth 'Dailies' [https://epic.gsfc.nasa.gov/ via DSCOVR-EPIC]'''''</big>
: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jdaxehd0cF0 Speaking @ the Bioneers conference, 2014]




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


'''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.greenpolicy360.net/w/Strategic_Policy-Internet_Online_Rights '''''An Internet Bill of Rights''''']


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


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


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


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




[[File:Rebecca Google Outreach.jpg]]


<h3 id="story-heading" class="story-heading">'''GreenPolicy360 highlights Rebecca Moore'''</h3>
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'''Rebecca envisioned setting up [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:G_Earth_Outreach.jpg Google Outreach] -- and she did.'''


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


:::'''''Tintin A & B ... “hello world”'''''


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'''Pope Francis, the first Catholic pontiff to name himself after the patron saint of the environment'''
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[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Pope_Francis_on_the_Environment Catholic pontiff speaks of the environment]




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


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




[[File:Winona laduke.jpg]]
* ''http://strategicdemands.com/us-nuclear-posture-review-released/''


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


'''Winona LaDuke, [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Indigenous_Peoples Native-American environmentalist], economist, [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Ecofeminism ecofeminist] and writer.
* ''http://strategicdemands.com/two-minutes-midnight/''


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.




<big><big>'''''"Surviving Victory":'''''</big></big>


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




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


[[File:REBECCA-SOLNIT.jpg]]
:* https://www.strategicdemands.com/costsofwar/


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


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


: ''"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?"''  
'''''"Strategic Demands, a 21st Century Vision"'''''


:[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


:<big>'''''January 2017'''''</big>
:* http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Surviving_Victory.png




<big>'''''Our New Feature, Stories of the Day, Visit Us, Be a [http://www.planetcitizen.org Planet Citizen], Join with [http://www.planetcitizens.org Planet Citizens]'''''</big>
[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:New_Definitions_of_National_Security.png New Definitions of National Security]


:* [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Environmental_Security Environmental Security pages @GreenPolicy360]


[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Green_Stories_of_the_Day <big>'''''GreenPolicy360 Stories of the Day'''''</big>]
:* [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Global_Security Global Security pages @GreenPolicy360]






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[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Arctic <big>'''''The Arctic Thaws</big>]
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<big>'''The US and Russia Prepare for Historic Gas/Oil Development in the North'''</big>  
[[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/


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


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


[[File:Climate Change Conf Nov 6-17.png]]


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


:http://unfccc.int/2860.php


<big>'''''Hear ye, Hear ye'''''</big>
:https://cop23.unfccc.int/


:'''''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]'''''
: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




<big>'''''All Hands on Deck'''''</big>
<big>''United States only country to refuse climate change agreement''</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''''']
* http://e360.yale.edu/features/why-post-paris-climate-challenge-is-even-harder-than-we-thought


:''America’s science community is getting organised as never before to hold the new administration and Congress to account''
* http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=57807#.Wdga_1tSy70




<big>'''''To Andrew Revkin, 'Planet Citizen Reporter' as he signs out at Dot Earth & moves on to ProPublica'''''</big>
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[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'']
<big>'''''Changes/Turnarounds at the US Energy Department'''''</big>


[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'']


<big>'''''November 2016'''''</big>
''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).''


::[[File:Earth Right Now.png|link=https://plus.google.com/104105656721944993244/posts/Lq7PpMSjhJF]]
''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.''


[[File:Climate Change Agr Nov 4, 2016.png]]


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


[[File:PlanetCitizen banner 800x163.jpg|link=http://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/PlanetCitizen_banner.jpg]]
: [http://www.netzeropolicy.com '''''www.netzeropolicy.com''''']


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


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<big>'''''National Geographic:'''''</big>


'''''Elon's a planet citizen with energy powering up the vision'''''
[http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/03/how-trump-is-changing-science-environment/ <big>''''' Deconstructing Environmental Protections'''''</big>]


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


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


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


:*[https://www.carbonbrief.org/mapped-climate-change-laws-around-world <big><u>'''''Climate Change Laws Around the World'''''</u></big>]


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


''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.''
[[File:CAIT Map 1.png|link=http://cait.wri.org/indc/#/map]]


''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.'''


''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]




'''''Report: [http://www.ips-dc.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/CvsC-Report-1.pdf Combat Vs. Climate''''']
[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/INDCs <big><big>'''''The Challenge Going Forward'''''</big></big>]
:''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]]


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




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




'''"Planet Citizen" & "Bioneer" Leo DiCaprio'''
[[File:Scott pruitt epa.jpg]]


:http://inhabitat.com/elon-musk-and-leonardo-dicaprio-discuss-climate-issues-in-before-the-flood-documentary/


:https://www.facebook.com/LeonardoDiCaprio/videos/10153830716807116/
<big><big>'''Scott Pruitt, Administrator of the US EPA, Resigns'''</big></big>


:http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/before-flood-927190
[[File:Pruitt serves letter.jpg]]


:http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Leo's_Oscar_Speech_2016.png


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


:[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Bioneers_Lyons,_Kucinich,_DiCaprio_247x225_Sept2014NYC.jpg Bioneers Lyons, Kucinich, DiCaprio]


:http://www.bioneers.org
[[File:Pruitt's EPA.png]]




:Fellow Planet Citizen-Bioneer and Leo's close friend, Oren Lyons, Chief of the Onondaga Iroquois
<big><big>'''''Fire Scientists, Shut Down Advisory Panels, Remove Data'''''</big></big>


:http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Seventh_Generation
: [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''''']


:: [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''''']


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


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


[[File:About Baselines and Change.png]]


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


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<big>'''''September 2016'''''</big>
<big>'''''The Physics of Climate Change/Global Warming'''''</big>




[[File:ECO-NOMICS.jpg|link=http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Eco-nomics]]
[[File:Floating floating over the ocean seas.jpg|link=https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Arctic]]




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


[[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>'''Stephen Hawking on ITV (and [https://twitter.com/hashtag/HawkingGeniusPBS?src=hash PBS])'''</big>


:'''"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]'''


<big><big>'''''You Can Run from the Facts, but the Facts Are What They Are'''''</big></big>


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




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


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'''''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/




:<big>'''''August 2016'''''</big>
'''''The 'Pale Blue Dot' '''''
: https://www.loc.gov/item/cosmos000110/ (Recording)


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


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


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


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:: 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




:<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>]
<big><u>'''''[[Earth and Space, Politics]]'''''</u></big>


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


[[File:NASA MODIS One week in April 2016.jpg]]




[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''''']




<big>'''''Climate Change Denial in Motion'''''</big>
[[File:NRDC re Trump bad stuff.png|link=https://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/NRDC_re_Trump_bad_stuff.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...''


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


<big>'''''US House Science Committee Acts to Defend ExxonMobile Against Attorneys General'''''</big>
''http://radiant.earth/''


[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/ExxonMobil_and_US_House_Science_Committee_v_US_Attorneys_General_and_Environmental_Groups '''''ExxonMobile Faces Multi-state AG Investigation''''']
''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.''


<big>'''''Politics: US Democratic Party Platcom Meetings'''''</big>
'''''Satellites collecting data and monitoring the Earth'''''  


[http://grist.org/election-2016/sanders-final-win-climate-action-in-the-democratic-platform/ '''''Democratic Party environmental positions voted into platform''''']
''Applications are far reaching - from tracking plant health through chlorophyll to gauging the impact of natural disasters and the surveillance of illegal logging.''


:[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''''']
''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 [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Planet_Labs_Doves_Fly Planet], a San Francisco-based private satellite operator founded by former NASA scientists.''


[https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/aug/03/climate-crisis-media-relegates-greatest-challenge-hurtle-us-collapse-planet '''''Via George Monbiot''''']
''The constellation of small satellites will, once settled into orbit in six months' time, will photograph the entire Earth every day.''


''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...''  
''"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.''


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


''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.''
''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.''


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


''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.''  
''"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


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


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


[[File:Living Earth.png]]
* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Earth_Science


* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Imaging-New_Space


<big>'''''Warning Signs: The Great Barrier Reef'''''</big>
* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Micro-satellites </small>


[[File:Great Barrier Reef May 2016 m.png]]


[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>'''''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:PlanetLabs homepage2016.png]]
::[http://touch.latimes.com/#section/2426/article/p2p-86754843/ '''''175 Nations Sign on Earth Day''''']




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[[File:Ocn logo.png | link=http://www.wri.org/our-work/project/open-climate-network]]
[[File:Foley on March29,2017.png]]


[[File:Politics and Science in the House un-Science Committee.png]]


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[[File:INDC signings 175 countries on Earth Day 2016.png | link=http://cait.wri.org/indc/#/ratification]]


'''''[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'''''</big>


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


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


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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.”''


<big>'''''Solar Energy / EVs / ZEVs / NextGen Trans'''''</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.''


''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.''


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




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


[[File:Elon.jpg]]
* [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.biologicaldiversity.org/news/press_releases/2017/publc-records-03-23-2017.php '''''Activists Rush to Save Government Science Data''''']


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


:[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:Tesla Model 3 Introduced.jpg]]


: [[File:Earth in Human Hands.jpg]]


[[File:Renewable Potential US-Utility Scale PV.png]]


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


[[File:Earthrise2015 m.png]]


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




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


''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'''''] ==


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


[[File:PlanetCitizen banner 2.jpg|link=http://www.thinbluelayer.com]]
[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Bill_Mollison_courtesy_of_Permaculture_magazine.jpg '''''In Memory of Bill''''']




<big>'''''Polls: Planet citizens & global citizenship'''''</big>
[[File:Bill Mollison courtesy of Permaculture magazine.jpg]]


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


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


<big>'''''After a Year in Space, Scott Kelly Says: I'm an Environmentalist'''''</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.


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


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


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




<big>'''''Back in the USA: Climate Politics'''''</big>
:[[File:Astro Sam w new espresso machine's first cuppa java May2015.png]]


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


:[http://e360.yale.edu/feature/the_courts_irresponsible_action_threatens_vital_climate_policies/2962/ '''''Supreme Court’s Action Threatens Vital Climate Policies''''']
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].


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


[[File:Apollo Earth 350x350.jpg]] 


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We welcomed a perspective that no human had ever had.


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


:[[File:Prochlorococcus blue-green.tiny ones.png|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ty5puoADMU]]
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:


''"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."''


:'''''"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''
[[File:Blue Marble photo - Apollo 17.jpg]]


:[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''''']
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.


::~ [http://www.tinybluegreen.com '''''www.tinybluegreen.com''''']
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.  


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."''


::[[File:Planktonbluegreen tinyones.jpg]]
''"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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::''Remembering an Astronaut who was one of the first to look back at Planet Earth and our [http://www.thinbluelayer.com thin, fragile atmosphere]''
'''Planet citizen Naomi Klein, "This Changes Everything"'''  
::''Astronaut Mitchell telling us how profoundly beautiful -- and in danger -- our world was from his [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Overview_Effect 'Planet Overview']'' 
: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jdaxehd0cF0 Speaking @ the Bioneers conference, 2014]




::<big>'''''February 4, 2016 ... In memory of Edgar Mitchell'''''</big>
[[File:Naomi Klein speaking at the Bioneers conf.png|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jdaxehd0cF0]]


::[[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>
'''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.


'''''"2016 and Beyond"'''''
<small>https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Bill_McKibben,_planet_citizen</small>




<big>'''''Renewable Energy Investment Growth'''''</big>
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[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/INDCs '''''"Toward a Renewable Energy Future:" Implementing the 'INDCs'''''']  
[[File:Rebecca Google Outreach.jpg]]


[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:INDC '''''GreenPolicy's list of Countries & Climate Action INDC Plans''''']
<h3 id="story-heading" class="story-heading">'''GreenPolicy360 highlights Rebecca Moore'''</h3>


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




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


<big>'''''In Paris for the Climate Summit'''''</big>
[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Pope_Francis_on_the_Environment Catholic pontiff speaks of the environment]


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


[[File:Pope, protecting nature is a moral issue April 2015.jpg]]


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


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


[[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/]]
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.


[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]]
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'''''November '''''


<big>'''''Road to Paris'''''</big>
[[File:REBECCA-SOLNIT.jpg]]


[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''
'''Rebecca Solnit'''


[https://www.avaaz.org/en/event/globalclimatemarch/?slideshow ''Events/Locations''] [https://twitter.com/350 ''350.org''] [https://twitter.com/hashtag/ClimateMarch?src=hash ''#ClimateMarch'']
: ''"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://newsroom.unfccc.int/cop21parisinformationhub/ '''''Paris Climate Summit, Opening Nov 30 - Information Hub''''']


[http://unfccc.int/2860.php '''''Agenda -- Meetings -- Schedule''''']
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[http://www.carbonbrief.org/explainer-the-legal-form-of-the-paris-climate-agreement '''''Important: Legal forms for Paris climate agreement''''']


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


[[File:BreathingEarth.gif|link=https://youtu.be/r2yLSLmnsY4]]


<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>'''''Join In, Act, Follow, Be Out in Front'''''</big>


[https://youtu.be/r2yLSLmnsY4 <big>'''''It's Your Breathing Planet'''''</big>]
[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Green_Stories_of_the_Day <big>'''''GreenPolicy360 Stories of the Day'''''</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 Earth Observatory NASA satellite'']  
[[File:Another year, another record.png]]


[[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'''''
[[File:Arctic1 by Timo Lieber 800x480.jpg]]
:''Visit EarthPOV for Latest News''


[http://www.earthpov.com '''''EarthPOV.com''''']


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


[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Arctic <big>'''''Watching the Arctic Thaw</big>]


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


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


[[File:DSCOVR-EPIC ImagingofPlanetEarth 2.png]]
'''Consequences and Costs Only Beginning to Be Estimated'''




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




<big>'''''"Northern Lights over Alaska"'''''</big> ''
:--- ''2015, photo by Astronaut Scott Kelly from the International Space Station''


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




<big><big>'''''Environmental Security: a Planet Citizen Vision'''''</big></big>
<big>'''''Hear ye, Hear ye'''''</big>


<big>'''''Climate Summit / Road to Paris'''''</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]'''''


[http://unfccc.int/resource/docs/2015/cop21/eng/07.pdf ''UN / Climate Plans "Synthesis Report"] -- Oct 30''


''Christiana Figueres'' [https://twitter.com/CFigueres ''@CFigueres'']
:''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'''''  
<big>'''''All Hands on Deck'''''</big>
:''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!''
[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''''']
:[https://twitter.com/CFigueres/status/656024169868611584/photo/1 ''pic.twitter.com/A63Cyfds2N'']


''http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Intended_Nationally_Determined_Contributions''
:''America’s science community is getting organised as never before to hold the new administration and Congress to account''


''http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/UN_Framework_Convention_on_Climate_Change-2015''


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


[[File:Trending Green News link-image.jpeg|link=https://twitter.com/Momentum_UNFCCC]]
[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'']


''Follow'' [https://twitter.com/UNFCCC ''@UNFCCC'']


:''#COP21 #INDCs #climatechange #climateaction''  
<big>'''''November 2016'''''</big>


::[[File:Earth Right Now.png|link=https://plus.google.com/104105656721944993244/posts/Lq7PpMSjhJF]]


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<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]]
[[File:PlanetCitizen banner 800x163.jpg|link=http://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/PlanetCitizen_banner.jpg]]


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


''- Gavin Schmidt, NASA Goddard climate science director''




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


'''''ClimateCentral (@ClimateCentral)'''''
[[File:Elon Musk Tesla-Solar City-Solar Roofs.png]]
:''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?''''']


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


[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Sustainable_Development_Goals_-_UN_Conference_2015 ♦ '''''Sustainable Development Goals''''']


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


[https://twitter.com/hashtag/PKSummit?src=hash ♦ '''''Peace Keeping Summit'''''] ''[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:UN_Peacekeeping_Summit_NYC_2015.png]''
''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.''


[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/UN_Framework_Convention_on_Climate_Change-2015 ♦ '''''Conference of Parties 21, UN Climate Change Conference''''']
''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.'''


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


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


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* [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]


<big><big>'''''Historic from the DSCOVR Mission'''''</big></big>


'''''December 2015'''''
'''''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/''


<big>'''''NASA Updates Its Home Page Image'''''</big>
[[File:Combat Vs Climate FOC-Oct2016 IPS.png|link=http://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/Combat_vs_Climate-Report-1.pdf]]




[http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=86353 '''''A first image 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.'''''
[[File:Before the Flood Oct 3, 2016-White House film premiere.png|link=https://www.facebook.com/LeonardoDiCaprio/videos/10153830716807116/]]


'''''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.''
::::<big><big>'''Planet Citizens in Action: Update: 2018, Leonardo DiCaprio'''</big></big>


''"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''
:::::[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Reefscape.png '''Reefscape''']


* ''http://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/DSCOVR/''  
:::::[https://www.leonardodicaprio.org/reefscape-a-global-reef-survey-to-build-better-satellites-for-coral-conservation/ '''Satellite Doves to Aid Coral Conservation''']


* ''http://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/DSCOVR/press.html''  
:::::[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Planet_API '''Planet API''']


* ''http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=86257''


:::::''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.''


; <big><big>''#Earth360 Updates''</big></big>
:::::''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.''


<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'''''
[[File:Reefscape.png]]


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


[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...
:[http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/review/before-flood-927190 ''Hollywood Reporter Review'']


:[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Leo's_Oscar_Speech_2016.png Leonardo DiCaprio Oscar Speech'']


'''''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").]
<big><big>'''''Planet Citizens & [http://www.bioneers.org Bioneers]'''''</big></big>


:[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Bioneers_Lyons,_Kucinich,_DiCaprio_247x225_Sept2014NYC.jpg Bioneers Lyons, Kucinich, DiCaprio]


'''''"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."'''''
:Fellow Planet Citizens-Bioneers / Leo's close friend, Oren Lyons, Chief of the Onondaga Iroquois 


'''''"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."'''''
: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]


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


''"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.''
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'''''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.'''''


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


''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.
[[File:Rachel Carson ecology - ecosystem.png|link=http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Rachel_Carson_ecology_-_ecosystem.png]]


''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>'''''September 2016'''''</big>




; <big><big>''New Ways to See and Experience Planet Earth''</big></big>
[[File:ECO-NOMICS.jpg|link=http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Eco-nomics]]




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


*''A Necessary Challenge to Neoliberal Economics''


[[File:Immersive Earth experience.jpg | link=http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Overview_Effect]]
*''A Shift from Short-term Profits to Resilient, Sustainable Economies''




[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>'''Stephen Hawking on ITV (and [https://twitter.com/hashtag/HawkingGeniusPBS?src=hash PBS])'''</big>


:'''"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]'''


<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]]
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].




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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>
:<big>'''''August 2016'''''</big>  


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


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'''''June/July 2015'''''
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<big><big>'''''Visit Google Earth's 10th anniversary new feature, Voyager +'''''</big></big>


<big>[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Google_Earth '''''Introducing Voyager'''''] ''&'' [https://earthview.withgoogle.com/ '''''Earth View''''']</big>  
:<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>]




[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Planetary.org '''''Going Planetary.org''''']
[[File:NASA MODIS One week in April 2016.jpg]]


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




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<big>'''''Climate Change Denial in Motion'''''</big>


; <big><big>''Planet Labs 'Doves' fly from the ISS''</big></big>
:'''''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''''']


[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Micro-satellites '''''Planet Labs & NanoRacks''''']
''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://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Planet_Labs_Doves_Fly '''''Doves''''']


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


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[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/ExxonMobil_and_US_House_Science_Committee_v_US_Attorneys_General_and_Environmental_Groups '''''ExxonMobile Faces Multi-state AG Investigation''''']




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


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


[[File:Blue Marble photo - Apollo 17.jpg]]
:[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''''']




[https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/aug/03/climate-crisis-media-relegates-greatest-challenge-hurtle-us-collapse-planet '''''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”.''


[[File:Earth (03-02-15) 432x768.jpg]]
''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”.''


; <big><big>''Overview and Perspective''</big></big>
''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.''


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


[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Overview_Effect '''''The Overview Effect''''']
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[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Orbital_Perspective '''''Orbital Perspective''''']


[[File:Living Earth.png]]


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


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


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* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Overview_Effect Overview Effect]
[[File:Great Barrier Reef May 2016 m.png]]
* [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>'''''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''''']


::[http://touch.latimes.com/#section/2426/article/p2p-86754843/ '''''175 Nations Sign on Earth Day''''']




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<big>'''''Solar Energy / EVs / ZEVs / NextGen Trans'''''</big>




; <big><big>''#Earth360: The Overview''</big></big>
<big>'''Going Green'''</big> [[File:Best Practices check sm.png | link=http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Going_Green]]




[[File:'Thin Blue Layer' of Earth's Atmosphere m.jpg]]
''''''Planet Citizen' Elon introduces the [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Tesla,_electric_cars Model 3]'''''


[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]'''''
[[File:Elon.jpg]]


[http://vimeo.com/55073825 '''''Overview''''']


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




<big><big>'''''From Above, beauty and awe...'''''</big></big>
[[File:Tesla Model 3 Introduced.jpg]]


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[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FG0fTKAqZ5g&list=UUIcA_1j7WQ8VXyygM6qI-fw '''''All Alone in the Night''''']  
[[File:Renewable Potential US-Utility Scale PV.png]]


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


[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GOAEIMx39-w '''''The View Outside My Window''''']  
''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/File:The_Home_Planet.jpg '''''Astronaut Alex Gerst: A 'Planet Citizen's' view of Earth'''''...]  
== [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Climate_News '''''Planet Citizen/Climate Citizen News'''''] ==


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


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




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


; <big><big>''"Game changer"''</big></big>
[http://www.bbc.com/news/world-36139904 '''''BBC: 'Global citizenship' on Upward Trend''''']


[http://climate.nasa.gov/blog/1105/ '''''OCO-2 begins to measure atmospheric CO2 levels with unprecedented science''''']


'''''Historic Orbiting Carbon Observatory Satellite Sends Back Most Detailed CO2 View Ever / Dec 18, 2014'''''
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[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>'''''After a Year in Space, Scott Kelly Says: I'm an Environmentalist'''''</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'']
''"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.''


[http://oco.jpl.nasa.gov/science/ocodatacenter/ '''''Sample Data'''''] -- [https://co2.jpl.nasa.gov/ '''''OCO-2 Data Portal''''']
''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."


[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Blue_Marble_Collection '''''For #PlanetCitizen gazing, visit the "Blue Marble" Collection''''']
''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.''  


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


[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!''''']
''"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"''  


[[File:You are here 1.jpg]]  
:* [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''''']


[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''''']
:* [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''''']


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


: [https://twitter.com/EarthVitalSigns '''''@EarthVitalSigns''''']
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: [https://twitter.com/hashtag/earthrightnow ''#EarthRightNow'']


[http://www.tinybluegreen.com <big><big>'''''Tiny Blue Green'''''</big></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]
:[[File:Prochlorococcus blue-green.tiny ones.png|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ty5puoADMU]]


* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Pictures_from_ISS '''''Where are you? Find Astropix of your place on #PlanetEarth''''']


* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Look_at_how_thin_our_atmosphere_is '''''"Thin Blue", www.thinbluelayer.com''''']
:'''''"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''


* [http://www.pinterest.com/stratdem/environmental-security/ '''''A "thin" layer of atmosphere...''''']
::''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''''']


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




<big>'''''#PlanetCitizen''''' '''''#EarthPOV'''''</big>
::[[File:Planktonbluegreen tinyones.jpg]]


''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.''


''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'''.''
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''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''.
[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']'' 


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


::<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'''''] ===
&nbsp;
[[File:Planet cit s.jpg]]


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


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


* '''''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.'''''
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.


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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.


== '''''An API for the Planet''''' ==
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."''']




[http://www.planet.com/ ''www.Planet.com'']


[https://www.planet.com/pulse/ ''Planet Labs Pulse'']  
[[File:Olive-branch.png]]


[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''''']
'''''Here's to our future and future of [http://strategicdemands.com/environmental-security/ #Environmental Security]'''''




[[File:API connect.jpg]]
&nbsp;


== <big>'''''The Big Picture: Earth from Space''''' </big>==


[http://nyti.ms/1BzljLJ '''''Planet Labs/NYT''''']
&nbsp;


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


[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/Dove_minisat_launch_from_ISS_m.png '''''Doves fly''''']
&nbsp;
[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''''']
'''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.


''"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."''
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.


=== [http://strategicdemands.com/environmental-security/ '''''Environmental Security @Strategic Demands'''''] ===
'''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...


[[File:Planet cit s.jpg]]
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.


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


A realization that "'''Security is indivisible'''" is on the horizon and security definitions are changing as a result of the dynamics of interactive networks.
'''It's time, your time to Go Green!'''
&nbsp;


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.  
[http://www.planetaryawareness.org www.planetaryawareness.org]


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. 
; <big><big>[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Isn%27t_it_time.jpg ''Earth Right Now''</big></big>]


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.
[[File:EarthNow our planet is changing.jpg]]


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]]
[[File:One Year as the Earth Rolls.jpg]]






'''''Here's to our future and future of [http://strategicdemands.com/environmental-security/ #Environmental Security]'''''


'''''Citizens of Planet Earth''''' 


[http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2011/09aug_perseids2011/ '''''Arise, Look Up, Around, Outward and Inward]


== <big>'''''The Big Picture: Earth from Space''''' </big>==




[[File:Earth Day Flag.png]].
[[File:2001 pic3.jpeg]]




[http://www.planetcitizen.org '''''Planet Citizen, Forward-looking Vision''''']


The world of space is a world 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 start ups that are designing, building and launching small, mini- and micro-satellites.
[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Planet_Citizen_Vision_of_Living_Earth '''''A Vision of Dynamic Change''''']  


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 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 as it is being pushed and pulled 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.
[http://www.earthpov.com '''''EarthPOV''''']


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].
[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/HelloEarth '''''Hello Earth''''']
 
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. We are '''citizens of our common home, planet Earth'''.
 
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.
 
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. Use our [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/GreenLinks'''GreenLinks'''], if you want 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 get going!
 
 
; <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]]
 
 
 
 
'''''Citizens of Planet Earth''''' 
 
[http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2011/09aug_perseids2011/ '''''Arise, Look Up, Around, Outward and Inward]
 
 
 
[[File:2001 pic3.jpeg]]
 
 
[http://www.planetcitizen.org '''''Planet Citizen, Forward-looking Vision''''']
 
[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Planet_Citizen_Vision_of_Living_Earth '''''A Vision of Dynamic Change''''']
 
 
[http://www.earthpov.com '''''EarthPOV''''']
 
[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/HelloEarth '''''Hello Earth''''']


[http://www.tinybluegreen.com '''''Tiny Blue Green''''']
[http://www.tinybluegreen.com '''''Tiny Blue Green''''']
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[http://www.planetcitizen.org <big>'''''To Be, or Not to Be a Planet Citizen'''''</big>]
 


<big>'''''[http://www.planetcitizens.org www.planetcitizens.org]'''''</big>


<big><big>'''''[http://www.planetcitizens.org www.planetcitizen.org]'''''</big></big>
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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
File:Methods of Nonviolent Action.pdf

 


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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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Planet Citizens, Digital Rights @GreenPolicy360



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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
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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

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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



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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

Thin Blue Layer

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

www.planetcitizen.org


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On the Road
GreenPolicy360 Siterunner Comments


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