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:<big><big><big>'''''To Be or Not to Be a Planet Citizen'''''</big></big></big>
::<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>
:::<small>[http://www.planetcitizen.org ''www.planetcitizen.org''] ○ [http://www.planetcitizens.org ''www.planetcitizens.org'']</small>  




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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>  
:::[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/New_Definitions_of_National_Security <big>'''''Environmental Security & National Security'''''</big>]  
:::[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/New_Definitions_of_National_Security <big>'''''Environmental Security & National Security'''''</big>]  


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


: <big><big><u>'''''[[GTN GreenLinks Trending News]]'''''</u></big></big>
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::<big><big>[[Earth Day 2020]]</big></big>


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


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[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyEzsAy4qeU <small>'''''Earth, Live in Space'''''</small>]


<big>'''''Shared by GreenPolicy360's associate, Strategic Demands'''''</big>
[[File:Earth day 2016.jpg|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyEzsAy4qeU]]


* https://www.strategicdemands.com/three-days-after-helsinki/
* https://www.strategicdemands.com/another-point-of-view-re-helsinki/
* https://www.strategicdemands.com/in-helsinki/




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




<big><big><big>'''''In Memory of a Florida "Planet Citizen"'''''</big></big></big>


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




[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'']
<big>'''''Visit GreenPolicy360's associate, Strategic Demands'''''</big>


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


''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...''


[[File:StratDem logo.png]]


* [https://youtu.be/oW8Yzj7AlQA ''Advice? "Get educated", a video interview with Nat'']


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


''In 1966, Mr. Reed campaigned for Republican gubernatorial candidate Claude Kirk, accompanying him on barnstorming flights around the state in a DC-3. To the surprise of the state’s Democratic establishment, Kirk won, becoming Florida’s first Republican governor since Reconstruction.''
* https://www.strategicdemands.com/


''Mr. Reed became Kirk’s dollar-a-year aide for environmental issues, a brand new position Kirk had created for reasons that were based more on personality than politics. Kirk told him: "If you want to change the things that you have been hollering about for the last 15 years in Florida, there’s a desk."''
* https://www.strategicdemands.com/nuclear-issues-cold-war-2-0/


''"He had no interest in conservation," Mr. Reed said of Kirk years later, "but he had an interest in whoever was lowest guy on the totem pole, and at that time conservation was the lowest thing in anybody’s mind in Florida. It was rape-and-run, avarice and greed. Make money now and do not worry about the future."''
* https://www.strategicdemands.com/new-definitions-of-security/


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''Kirk was a politician for whom the description "colorful" seems inadequate. Mr. Reed once got a late night call from his inebriated boss, who demanded he dispatch the National Guard with a howitzer to make sure a Panamanian tanker that was leaking oil couldn’t sneak out of its quarantine at the Port of Tampa.''
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''Together, though, they took on, and angered, dredge-and-fill contractors, business-as-usual developers, and mayors whose cities were dumping sewage straight into bays and estuaries.''


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''Their biggest success, though, was stopping the construction of the so-called "Everglades jetport," an event that kick-started the environmental movement in Florida.''  
::<big><big><big>'''''2020'''''</big></big></big> 




''President Nixon appointed him a deputy secretary of the Department of the Interior, a position he held into the Ford Administration...''


''While working for Interior, Mr. Reed preserved more than 80 million acres of Alaska, publicized the dangers of DDT, and imposed a ban on the use of a coyote-killing poison called 10-80 that killed other animals as well.''
[[File:We must flatten the curve, yes ... August 2020.jpg]]


''While there, he gathered together a group of like-minded administration officials at a Chinese restaurant, and, amid the egg rolls and moo goo gai pan, they jotted down the wording for what would become the Endangered Species Act, passed by Congress in 1973 and signed by Nixon.''


''Among the animals protected by the act were several from Florida, including the panther, the manatee, Key deer and the American alligator. The alligator is considered one of the act’s big success stories.''


''"We were in uncharted waters," Mr. Reed once said of their work for the new law. But he said they were all driven by a strong opposition to "ending a life that evolved on this earth, in some cases before we did, just to satisfy ourselves."''
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''Later, Mr. Reed would found the advocacy group 1,000 Friends of Florida to push for better management of Florida’s runaway growth and better planning to deal with its consequences. He was known for giving fiery speeches and writing equally fiery letters decrying the forces that he saw despoiling the state he loved so much.''
<big>'''In Memory of Planet Citizen Konrad Steffen'''</big>


''His son said the driving force of his life was trying to "see the Everglades got a square deal from the state of Florida," but he often despaired that the effort was a losing one thanks to "the forces of evil that own and control the state of Florida." Nevertheless, the greeting he always called out to family and friends was a simple bit of two-word optimism: "Boundless love!"''
Renowned climate scientist dies in Greenland ice sheet accident


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


* https://www.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


[[File:Stephen Hawking-Genius-2016.jpg]]
* https://www.dailycamera.com/2020/08/10/konrad-steffen-former-cires-director-dies-in-greenland-accident/


* https://twitter.com/algore/status/1292979399005024256


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


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


''"Here lies what was mortal of Stephen Hawking 1942 - 2018"''
* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=emHW-GKBIfk


''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...''


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


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* 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


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


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


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<big><big>'''''This is the most dangerous time for our planet'''''</big></big>
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''by Stephen Hawking''
:::::[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Earth_in_Human_Hands.jpg <big><big><big><big>'''Earth in Our Hands'''</big></big></big></big>]


''Via [https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/dec/01/stephen-hawking-dangerous-time-planet-inequality The Guardian]''
::::* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Anthropocene


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


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<big>''''' "My perceptions of the world shifted" '''''</big>
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'''''Aboard the International Space Station. Ride along with Planet Citizen astronauts.'''''
::::[[File:Sagan - That's home.jpg]]


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


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


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


:*[https://youtu.be/dwHBpykTloY ''3D Video via YouTube'']
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:::::::<big><big><big>'''''Facing the Climate Crisis'''''</big></big></big> 




[[File:Astro POV - Mike Massimino - PlanetCitizen.png]]
:::::[[File:Global Green New Deal.jpg|link=https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Green_New_Deal]]




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


'''Mike Massimino'''
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"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.  
[[File:Simple Concept.png]]


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


Floating high, [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:2001_pic3.jpeg Starchild]...
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[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/PlanetCitizen #PlanetCitizen]
<big><big><big>'''''Yes We Can (Leave the World a Better Place''''')</big></big></big>


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:::::::[http://www.planetcitizen.org <big><big><big>'''''Planet Citizen Action'''''</big></big></big>]


'''''NASA / In the beginning, big ideas required big rockets. Now, we can launch satellites that fit in the palm of our hand.'''''
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'''''Discover how by watching [https://twitter.com/NASA/status/993643757986775042?s=09 this video]'''''
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:* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Micro-satellites


:* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Democratization_of_Space
:::::::<big><big><big><big>''Personal action... Direct action...''</big></big></big></big>


:* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_and_Space,_Politics
::::::::[http://www.planetcitizens.org <big>'''''Planet Citizens, Positive Change'''''</big>]


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


:* http://www.planet.com
::::::* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Economic_Justice


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


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[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:DSWT-Daphne_hugging_elephant_adoptee.png <big>'''''Orphans No More, Sheldrick Wildlife Trust'''''</big>]


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'''''Conservation Policies vs. Hunting 'Trophies', Poaching, and Destruction of Species'''''
:::::::<big><big><big><big>''Green Network, GreenLinks action''</big></big></big></big>


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


[[File:Elephant trophies.png]]
:::::::: [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/GreenLinks '''''GreenLinks @ GreenPolicy360''''']


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::::::[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/Methods_of_Nonviolent_Action.pdf <big><big><big>'''''Nonviolent Action in Practice'''''</big></big></big>]


[[File:Starlink-nasa image.jpg]]
::::::<big>'''198 Ways to Act, Count 'em '''</big>


::::::<big>''[[File:Methods of Nonviolent Action.pdf]]''</big>
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:''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]''
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::<big><big>'''''"Starlink, Planet Internet"'''''</big></big>
<big><big> '''''Thinking Global'''''</big></big>


:''''Global Forever' Stamps


::* [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''']


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






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<big><big> '''''Stepping It Up'''''</big></big>




::::<big><u>'''''[[HelloEarth]]'''''</u></big> ○ <big>'''''Earth 'Dailies' [https://epic.gsfc.nasa.gov/ via DSCOVR-EPIC]'''''</big>
<big>'''''Climate Activists & Green Organizers: California Builds Bridges to Extend International Cooperation'''''</big>


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


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


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


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<big><big>'''''Planet Citizens, Digital Rights @GreenPolicy360'''''</big></big>
<big><big><big>'''''In Memory of a Florida "Planet Citizen"'''''</big></big></big>




:* [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Strategic_Policy-Internet_Online_Rights '''''An Internet Bill of Rights''''']
'''''Nathaniel Reed, environmental advocate and co-author of the Endangered Species Act, dies at 84'''''  


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


:* [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Digital_Rights '''''Digital Rights''''']
[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:Networking '''''Networking''''']
''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/Online_Privacy '''''Online Privacy''''']
''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://youtu.be/oW8Yzj7AlQA ''Advice? "Get educated", a video interview with Nat'']


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:::[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”'''''
[[File:Stephen Hawking-Genius-2016.jpg]]


[[File:Tintin-hello world.png]]


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




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''"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:My-Journey-at-the-Nuclear-Brink Perry-235x300.png]]


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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>]


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


[https://nyti.ms/2GJgxTA '''''U.S. Signals Nuclear Arms Are Back (Again!) in a Big Way''''']
:''https://www.unlimited.world/ubs/stephen-hawking-in-memoriam''




* ''http://strategicdemands.com/us-nuclear-posture-review-released/''
<big><big>'''''This is the most dangerous time for our planet'''''</big></big>


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


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




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


'''''Moving Away from "Perpetual War"'''''
<big>''''' "My perceptions of the world shifted" '''''</big>


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


:* https://www.strategicdemands.com/costsofwar/
'''''Aboard the International Space Station. Ride along with Planet Citizen astronauts.'''''
:* https://www.strategicdemands.com/new-definitions-of-security/
:* https://www.strategicdemands.com/nuclear-issues-cold-war-2-0/


'''''Strategic Demands, a 21st Century Vision'''''
'''''Experience [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Whole_Earth the Whole Earth] and see our home planet through their eyes...'''''


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


:* http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Surviving-Victory-conference-Washington-DC-2006.pdf
:*[https://www.facebook.com/NGM/videos/10156076557406005/ ''3D Video via Facebook'']
:* http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Surviving_Victory.png


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


[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
:* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Global_Security




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


'''Mike Massimino'''


[[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/
"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'''.


<big>'''''International Climate Conference Updates'''''</big>
Floating high, [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:2001_pic3.jpeg Starchild]...


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


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


: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
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:https://cop23.unfccc.int/news/un-climate-change-conference-2017-aims-for-further-faster-ambition-together




<big>''United States only country to refuse climate change agreement''</big>
:[[File:Away fly the Doves March4,2015.png]]


* http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/syria-paris-agreement-us-climate-change-donald-trump-world-country-accord-a8041996.html


* https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/nov/07/syria-signs-paris-climate-agreement-and-leaves-us-isolated
'''''NASA / In the beginning, big ideas required big rockets. Now, we can launch satellites that fit in the palm of our hand.'''''


* http://e360.yale.edu/features/why-post-paris-climate-challenge-is-even-harder-than-we-thought
'''''Discover how by watching [https://twitter.com/NASA/status/993643757986775042 this video]'''''


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


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


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:* [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Democratization_of_Space Democratization of Space]


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


<big>'''''Changes/Turnarounds at the US Energy Department'''''</big>
:* [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Earth_Observations Earth Observation]


[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'']


''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.''
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''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.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:DSWT-Daphne_hugging_elephant_adoptee.png <big>'''''Orphans No More, Sheldrick Wildlife Trust'''''</big>]


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


: [http://www.netzeropolicy.com '''''www.netzeropolicy.com''''']
'''''Conservation Policies vs. Hunting 'Trophies', Poaching, and Destruction of Species'''''




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[[File:Elephant trophies.png]]




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


[http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/03/how-trump-is-changing-science-environment/ <big>''''' Deconstructing Environmental Protections'''''</big>]
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<big>'''''Time to Act as US President Says No to the International Climate Agreement'''''</big>


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


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


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


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




::* [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''']


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




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


::::<big><u>'''''[[HelloEarth]]'''''</u></big> ○ <big>'''''Earth 'Dailies' [https://epic.gsfc.nasa.gov/ via DSCOVR-EPIC]'''''</big>


'''''Update'''''


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


[[File:Scott pruitt epa.jpg]]
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<big><big>'''Scott Pruitt, Administrator of the US EPA, Resigns'''</big></big>
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[[File:Pruitt serves letter.jpg]]


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


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


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


[[File:Pruitt's EPA.png]]
:* [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Digital_Citizen '''''Digital Citizen''''']


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


<big><big>'''''Fire Scientists, Shut Down Advisory Panels, Remove Data'''''</big></big>
:* [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Networking '''''Networking''''']


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


:: [https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/under-trump-inconvenient-data-is-being-sidelined/2017/05/14/3ae22c28-3106-11e7-8674-437ddb6e813e_story.html '''''Trump admin has hidden or taken offline 40,000 data sets that used to be public''''']


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


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


[[File:Tintin-hello world.png]]


<big>'''''Environmental Protection Agency Open Being 'Data-Edited'?</big>
: https://opendata.epa.gov/home.xhtml?view
:: https://opendata.epa.gov/home.xhtml
::: https://catalog.data.gov/dataset?q=environment
:::: https://twitter.com/hashtag/EPAdata




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<big>'''''The Physics of Climate Change/Global Warming'''''</big>
:[[File:My-Journey-at-the-Nuclear-Brink Perry-235x300.png]]




[[File:Floating floating over the ocean seas.jpg|link=https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Arctic]]
:[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:My-Journey-at-the-Nuclear-Brink_Perry-235x300.png <big>'''''On the Eve of Destruction'''''</big>]




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


[[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]]


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


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


[[File:Global Temp Chart-sources-1880-2016.png]]
* ''http://strategicdemands.com/two-minutes-midnight/''






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


<big><big>'''''You Can Run from the Facts, but the Facts Are What They Are'''''</big></big>
'''''Moving Away from "Perpetual War"'''''


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


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


<big><u>'''''[[Stats - Green Research & Science]]'''''</u></big>
:* https://www.strategicdemands.com/costsofwar/


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


'''''Carl Sagan, Planet Citizen, Lecture Notes for Astronomy 490 Class at the Smithsonian Museum'''''
:* https://www.strategicdemands.com/nuclear-issues-cold-war-2-0/
: https://cdn.loc.gov/service/mss/mss85590/033/033.pdf
: https://www.loc.gov/item/cosmos000035/




'''''The 'Pale Blue Dot' '''''
'''''"Strategic Demands, a 21st Century Vision"'''''
: https://www.loc.gov/item/cosmos000110/ (Recording)


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




<big>'''''March for Science'''''</big>
:* http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Surviving-Victory-conference-Washington-DC-2006.pdf


:: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_for_Science
:* http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Surviving_Victory.png
::: 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




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


<big><u>'''''[[Earth and Space, Politics]]'''''</u></big>
:* [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Environmental_Security Environmental Security pages @GreenPolicy360]


<big><u>'''''[[New Definitions of National Security]]'''''</u></big>
:* [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Global_Security Global Security pages @GreenPolicy360]






[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''''']
[[File:Over the Pacific.png]]




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




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


''http://radiant.earth/''
* https://www.strategicdemands.com/environmental-security/


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


<big>'''''International Climate Conference Updates'''''</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.''
[[File:Climate Change Conf Nov 6-17.png]]


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


''Applications are far reaching - from tracking plant health through chlorophyll to gauging the impact of natural disasters and the surveillance of illegal logging.''
:https://cop23.unfccc.int/


''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.
:https://cop23.unfccc.int/news/cop23-kicks-off-with-strong-calls-to-hold-to-paris-agreement-path


''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://cop23.unfccc.int/news/un-climate-change-conference-2017-aims-for-further-faster-ambition-together


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


''"Satellite imagery might be one of the most powerful and unbiased tools to tell people what is going on with the planet", explains Albert Lin, Research Scientist at the University of California, San Diego.''
<big>''United States only country to refuse climate change agreement''</big>


''The key, he said, lay in finding ways to translate enormous amounts of information into something that can be understood by everyone.''
* http://e360.yale.edu/features/why-post-paris-climate-challenge-is-even-harder-than-we-thought


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


''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."''
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https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:New_Space
<big>'''''Changes/Turnarounds at the US Energy Department'''''</big>


https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Earth_Observations
[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://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Science_Research_from_Space
''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).''


https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Earth_Science
''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.''


https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Imaging-New_Space
''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.greenpolicy360.net/w/Micro-satellites


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


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


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


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[[File:PlanetLabs homepage2016.png]]
<big>'''''National Geographic:'''''</big>


[http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/03/how-trump-is-changing-science-environment/ <big>''''' Deconstructing Environmental Protections'''''</big>]




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


[[File:Foley on March29,2017.png]]


[[File:Politics and Science in the House un-Science Committee.png]]
:*[https://www.carbonbrief.org/mapped-climate-change-laws-around-world <big><u>'''''Climate Change Laws Around the World'''''</u></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>]


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


'''''[http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/news/press_releases/2017/publc-records-03-23-2017.php Press Release] / March 23, 2017'''''


<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'''''


''WASHINGTON — The Center for Biological Diversity, along with noted conservation biologist Stuart Pimm and the Center for Media and Democracy, launched an effort today to prevent hundreds of environmental data sets on government websites from being removed by the Trump administration.''
[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/INDCs <big><big>'''''The Challenge Going Forward'''''</big></big>]


''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.”''
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''“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.”''


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


''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.”''  
'''''Update'''''




* [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:Scott pruitt epa.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''''']
<big><big>'''Scott Pruitt, Administrator of the US EPA, Resigns'''</big></big>


[[File:Pruitt serves letter.jpg]]




<big>'''''Challenges: Of Course and We're Taking Them On'''''</big>
[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/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:Pruitt's EPA.png]]


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


<big><big>'''''Fire Scientists, Shut Down Advisory Panels, Remove Data'''''</big></big>


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


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


:[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'']


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


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'''Planet citizen Bill Mollison, who presented a gift of Permaculture globally'''
<big>'''''Environmental Protection Agency Open Being 'Data-Edited'?</big>


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


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


<big>'''Memories of George Brown, a Planet Citizen Who Envisioned an Environmental Renaissance'''</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.
[[File:Floating floating over the ocean seas.jpg|link=https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Arctic]]


[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/George_E._Brown_Jr 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 [http://inhabitat.com/house-passes-bill-that-prohibits-expert-scientific-advice-to-the-epa/ anti-science positions] threaten in the current US Congress


[[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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:'''Astronauts Sam Cristoforetti, Ron Garan, and "Overview Effect"'''
[[File:Global Temp Chart-sources-1880-2016.png]]




:[[File:Astro Sam w new espresso machine's first cuppa java May2015.png]]




Yes, to Italian "Astro Sam" and her [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/HelloEarth #HelloEarth views and messages] to us here on the home Planet.
<big><big>'''''You Can Run from the Facts, but the Facts Are What They Are'''''</big></big>


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




[[File:Apollo Earth 350x350.jpg]]
<big><u>'''''[[Stats - Green Research & Science]]'''''</u></big>




We welcomed a perspective that no human had ever had.  
'''''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/


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.
'''''The 'Pale Blue Dot' '''''
: https://www.loc.gov/item/cosmos000110/ (Recording)


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."''


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


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




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


We celebrate our [http://www.planetcitizens.org Planet Citizens] who bring home messages how we can collaborate to make a difference, to make the world a better place.
<big><u>'''''[[Earth and Space, Politics]]'''''</u></big>


Ron Garan: ''"You don’t need to be an astronaut to have the orbital perspective"...''
<big><u>'''''[[New Definitions of National Security]]'''''</u></big>


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




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


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


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


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''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.''


'''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.
'''''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.''


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


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


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


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


[[File:Rebecca Google Outreach.jpg]]
''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.''


<h3 id="story-heading" class="story-heading">'''GreenPolicy360 highlights Rebecca Moore'''</h3>
''In some cases, data can be analyzed with the help of communities of "citizen scientists sitting alone at their computers all over the world."''


'''Rebecca envisioned setting up [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:G_Earth_Outreach.jpg Google Outreach] -- and she did.'''
''"This is a wake-up call that satellite imagery is not just about questions and insights but also about engaging the entire planet in observing the planet, together."''  


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


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


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


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


'''Pope Francis, the first Catholic pontiff to name himself after the patron saint of the environment'''
* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Micro-satellites </small>


[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Pope_Francis_on_the_Environment Catholic pontiff speaks of the environment]


[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"]






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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.
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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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'''''[http://www.biologicaldiversity.org/news/press_releases/2017/publc-records-03-23-2017.php Press Release] / March 23, 2017'''''


<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'''''


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


''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.''


'''Rebecca Solnit'''
''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.”''


: ''"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...''  
''“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.''


::''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?"''  
''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.''


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




:<big>'''''January 2017'''''</big>
* [https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/mar/28/arctic-researcher-donald-trump-deleting-my-citations '''''How destruction of climate science documents/data sets/online info proceeds even as legal actions move to block the administration's attempt to purge facts and scientific evidence''''']


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


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




[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Green_Stories_of_the_Day <big>'''''GreenPolicy360 Stories of the Day'''''</big>]


<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>]


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




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




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


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


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


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


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


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


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


:'''''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://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/George_E._Brown_Jr 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 [http://inhabitat.com/house-passes-bill-that-prohibits-expert-scientific-advice-to-the-epa/ anti-science positions] threaten in the current US Congress




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


:''America’s science community is getting organised as never before to hold the new administration and Congress to account''
:'''Astronauts Sam Cristoforetti, Ron Garan, and "Overview Effect"'''




<big>'''''To Andrew Revkin, 'Planet Citizen Reporter' as he signs out at Dot Earth & moves on to ProPublica'''''</big>
:[[File:Astro Sam w new espresso machine's first cuppa java May2015.png]]


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


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


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


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


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


:[http://www.thinbluelayer.com ''www.thinbluelayer.com'']
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:Blue Marble photo - Apollo 17.jpg]]


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


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


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


<big>'''''October 2016'''''</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."''


<big>'''''The Military and Climate Security Budgets Compared'''''</big>
''"The Goal is to bring people along on our space missions not as spectators but as fellow crew mates." -- http://www.rongaran.com/gallery/''


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


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


''In this new report, [http://www.ips-dc.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/CvsC-Report-1.pdf Combat vs. Climate], the Institute for Policy Studies steps in to provide the most accurate climate change security budget currently available, drawing data from multiple agencies. And it looks at how these expenditures stack up within the overall 'security budget.'''
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[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Environmental_Security Environmental Security];


[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Environmental_Security,_National_Security Environmental Security, National Security];
'''Planet citizen Naomi Klein, "This Changes Everything"'''
: [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jdaxehd0cF0 Speaking @ the Bioneers conference, 2014]


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


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


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'''Bill McKibben''', founder of [http://www.350.org '''www.350.org'''], [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Bill_McKibben,_planet_citizen '''planet citizen'''], and former advisor to our GreenPolicy new venture.


<small>https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Bill_McKibben,_planet_citizen</small>


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




:::::[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Reefscape.png '''Reefscape''']
[[File:Rebecca Google Outreach.jpg]]


:::::[https://www.leonardodicaprio.org/reefscape-a-global-reef-survey-to-build-better-satellites-for-coral-conservation/ '''Satellite Doves to Aid Coral Conservation''']
<h3 id="story-heading" class="story-heading">'''GreenPolicy360 highlights Rebecca Moore'''</h3>


:::::[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Planet_API '''Planet API''']
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!'''




:::::''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.''
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:::::''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.''




[[File:Reefscape.png]]
'''Pope Francis, the first Catholic pontiff to name himself after the patron saint of the environment'''


[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Pope_Francis_on_the_Environment Catholic pontiff speaks of the environment]




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




'''''2016'''''


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<big>'''''Before the Flood'''''</big>


'''"Planet Citizen", "Bioneer" Leo DiCaprio'''


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


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


:http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Leo's_Oscar_Speech_2016.png
'''Winona LaDuke, [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Indigenous_Peoples Native-American environmentalist], economist, [https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Ecofeminism 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.




<big><big>'''''Planet Citizens, Bioneers'''''</big></big>


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


:http://www.bioneers.org


[[File:REBECCA-SOLNIT.jpg]]


:Fellow Planet Citizen-Bioneer and Leo's close friend, Oren Lyons, Chief of the Onondaga Iroquois


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


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




:[[File:Oren-lyons.jpg|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSwmqZ272As]]
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:<big>'''''January 2017'''''</big>




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




[[File:Rachel Carson ecology - ecosystem.png|link=http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Rachel_Carson_ecology_-_ecosystem.png]]
[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Green_Stories_of_the_Day <big>'''''GreenPolicy360 Stories of the Day'''''</big>]




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[[File:Another year, another record.png]]


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




[[File:ECO-NOMICS.jpg|link=http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Eco-nomics]]
[[File:Arctic1 by Timo Lieber 800x480.jpg]]




[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''


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


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


[[File:Stephen Hawking Genius on PBS 1.jpg]]
'''Consequences and Costs Only Beginning to Be Estimated'''




<big>'''Stephen Hawking on ITV (and [https://twitter.com/hashtag/HawkingGeniusPBS?src=hash PBS])'''</big>
[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Arctic '''''Visit GreenPolicy's Arctic Page for Updates''''']


:'''"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]'''




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




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


:<big>'''''August 2016'''''</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://touch.latimes.com/#section/-1/article/p2p-88015513/ <big>'''''Elon Musk & Co'''''</big>]


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


<big>'''''All Hands on Deck'''''</big>


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


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


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


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


[[File:NASA MODIS One week in April 2016.jpg]]
[http://dotearth.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/12/05/after-nine-years-and-2810-posts-a-dot-earth-farewell/ ''A Dot Earth Farewell'']




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


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


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


:'''''Defenders of Fossil Fuel Business-as-Usual Push Defense'''''
[[File:Climate Change Agr Nov 4, 2016.png]]


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


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


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


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




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


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


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


:[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''''']


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


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


''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...''  
''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.''


''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”.''
''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.'''


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


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


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


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


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


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




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


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




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




<big>'''''Earth Day / Countries Signing Climate Action Plans'''''</big>
::::<big><big>'''Planet Citizens in Action: Update: 2018, Leonardo DiCaprio'''</big></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''''']


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


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


:::::[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Planet_API '''Planet API''']


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


:::::''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.''


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:::::''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 [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.''


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


[[File:Reefscape.png]]


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[[File:Earth day 2016.jpg]]
:[http://inhabitat.com/elon-musk-and-leonardo-dicaprio-discuss-climate-issues-in-before-the-flood-documentary/ ''Before the Flood Documentary'']


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


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




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


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


<font color=green><big><big>'''Going Green'''</big></big></font> [[File:Best Practices check sm.png | link=http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Going_Green]]
:[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Bioneers_Lyons,_Kucinich,_DiCaprio_247x225_Sept2014NYC.jpg Bioneers Lyons, Kucinich, DiCaprio]


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


''''''Planet Citizen' Elon introduces the [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Tesla,_electric_cars Model 3]'''''
: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:Elon.jpg]]
::[[File:Oren-lyons.jpg|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bSwmqZ272As]]




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


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


[[File:Tesla Model 3 Introduced.jpg]]


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


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


[[File:Earthrise2015 m.png]]


&nbsp;
[[File:ECO-NOMICS.jpg|link=http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Eco-nomics]]


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


''A multi-language [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Thank-you-thank-you_s.jpg ''''Thank You''''] to Planet Citizens:'' [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:The_World_Is_Blue.jpg '''''~ Sylvia Earle'''''], [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Bill_McKibben,_planet_citizen '''''~ Bill McKibben'''''] ''and'' [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Elon-musk_and_tesla_alternative_to_fossil_energy.jpg '''''~ Elon Musk''''']
[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Eco-nomics <big>'''"Eco-nomics" for the 21st Century'''</big>]


&nbsp;
*''A Necessary Challenge to Neoliberal Economics''


== [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Climate_News '''''Planet Citizen/Climate Citizen News'''''] ==
*''A Shift from Short-term Profits to Resilient, Sustainable Economies''  




[[File:PlanetCitizen banner 2.jpg|link=http://www.thinbluelayer.com]]
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<big>'''''Polls: Planet citizens & global citizenship'''''</big>
[[File:Stephen Hawking Genius on PBS 1.jpg]]


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


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


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


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




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:<big>'''''August 2016'''''</big>  


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


<big>'''''Back in the USA: Climate Politics'''''</big>
:'''''Renewable Energy: Beyond Tesla with #PlanetCitizen'''''  


''"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''''']
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:[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>'''''July 2016'''''</big>


:[https://www.theguardian.com/environment/climate-consensus-97-per-cent/2016/jul/11/we-just-broke-the-record-for-hottest-year-9-straight-times <big>'''''Another Record for the Hottest Year'''</big>]


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


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




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


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


:'''''"A single kind of blue-green algae in the ocean produces the oxygen in one of every five breaths we take"'''''  
:'''''Defenders of Fossil Fuel Business-as-Usual Push Defense'''''
:: ~ ''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''
[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/File:Phytoplankton.jpg '''''Oh Phyto!!'''''] -- the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zooplankton '''''Zooplankton'''''] ''Keep On Hanging On & Drifting Along with You!!''  
''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_Citizens,_Planet_Scientists '''''Planet Citizens, Planet Scientists''''']


::~ [http://www.tinybluegreen.com '''''www.tinybluegreen.com''''']
<big>'''''US House Science Committee Acts to Defend ExxonMobile Against Attorneys General'''''</big>


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




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<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''''']


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


::''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']'' 


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


::<big>'''''February 4, 2016 ... In memory of Edgar Mitchell'''''</big>
''August 3, 2016 -- This (year), on current trends, will be the hottest year ever measured. The previous record was set in 2015; the one before in 2014. Fifteen of the 16 warmest years have occurred in the 21st century. Each of the past 14 months has beaten the global monthly temperature record. But you can still hear people repeating the old claim, first proposed by fossil fuel lobbyists, that global warming stopped in 1998. Arctic sea ice covered a smaller area last winter than in any winter since records began...''  


::[[File:Edgar Mitchell 1930-2016.png|link=https://vimeo.com/154398850]]
''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”.''


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


''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”.''


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''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.''




<big><big>'''''Climate Agreement In Paris'''''</big></big>
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'''''"2016 and Beyond"'''''


[[File:Living Earth.png]]


<big>'''''Renewable Energy Investment Growth'''''</big>


[[File:Renewable Energy investment growth chart 2004-2014.jpg]]
<big>'''''Warning Signs: The Great Barrier Reef'''''</big>




[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/INDCs '''''"Toward a Renewable Energy Future:" Implementing the 'INDCs'''''']  
[[File:Great Barrier Reef May 2016 m.png]]


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


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'''''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''''']


<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]
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<big>'''''In Paris for the Climate Summit'''''</big>
[[File:Ocn logo.png | link=http://www.wri.org/our-work/project/open-climate-network]]


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




[[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/]]


[[File:Earth day 2016.jpg]]


[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?''''']
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[[File:Work to do to get to renewable goals.jpg]]
<big>'''''Solar Energy / EVs / ZEVs / NextGen Trans'''''</big>




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


<big>'''''Road to Paris'''''</big>


[http://350.org/global-climate-march/ '''''Global Climate March - News/Actions''''']
''''''Planet Citizen' Elon introduces the [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Tesla,_electric_cars Model 3]'''''


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


[http://newsroom.unfccc.int/cop21parisinformationhub/ '''''Paris Climate Summit, Opening Nov 30 - Information Hub''''']


[http://unfccc.int/2860.php '''''Agenda -- Meetings -- Schedule''''']
''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]...''


[http://www.carbonbrief.org/explainer-the-legal-form-of-the-paris-climate-agreement '''''Important: Legal forms for Paris climate agreement''''']
''With [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Global_CO2_Emissions_1900-2010.png CO2 levels] and [https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2016/04/19/in-march-earths-temperature-deviated-more-from-normal-than-any-previous-month/ global temperatures at record highs], the Model 3 will help bring engineering solutions to the climate change problem.''  


[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/EV_Corridors_Electric_Vehicles_Zero_Emission_Vehicles '''''EV - Electric- and Zero-Emission Vehicles Corridors'''''] -- ''As of April 20, 2016 - 20,823 Alternative fuel stations mapped in the United States''


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


[[File:Tesla Model 3 Introduced.jpg]]


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


[https://youtu.be/r2yLSLmnsY4 <big>'''''It's Your Breathing Planet'''''</big>]
[[File:Renewable Potential US-Utility Scale PV.png]]


: [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]


[[File:Earthrise2015 m.png]]


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


[http://www.monbiot.com/2015/10/30/nothing-to-see-here/ ''Eco-disaster viewed from Earth Observatory NASA satellite'']  
''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''''']


::[[File:IndonesiaFire Oct NASA Earth Observatory.jpg|link=http://www.monbiot.com/2015/10/30/nothing-to-see-here/]]
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== [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Climate_News '''''Planet Citizen/Climate Citizen News'''''] ==


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


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


[http://www.earthpov.com '''''EarthPOV.com''''']
<big>'''''Polls: Planet citizens & global citizenship'''''</big>


[http://epic.gsfc.nasa.gov/ '''''A million mile view''''']
[http://www.bbc.com/news/world-36139904 '''''BBC: 'Global citizenship' on Upward Trend''''']  




[[File:DSCOVR-EPIC ImagingofPlanetEarth.png]]
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[[File:DSCOVR-EPIC ImagingofPlanetEarth 2.png]]
<big>'''''After a Year in Space, Scott Kelly Says: I'm an Environmentalist'''''</big>


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


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''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."


<big>'''''"Northern Lights over Alaska"'''''</big> ''
''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.''  
:--- ''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>'''''Back in the USA: Climate Politics'''''</big>


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


<big><big>'''''Environmental Security: a Planet Citizen Vision'''''</big></big>
:* [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''''']


<big>'''''Climate Summit / Road to Paris'''''</big>
:* [http://e360.yale.edu/feature/the_courts_irresponsible_action_threatens_vital_climate_policies/2962/ '''''Supreme Court’s Action Threatens Vital Climate Policies''''']


[http://unfccc.int/resource/docs/2015/cop21/eng/07.pdf ''UN / Climate Plans "Synthesis Report"] -- Oct 30''
:* [http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-35605916 '''''Consequences if the US Quits Climate Agreement''''']


''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'''''
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:''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://twitter.com/CFigueres/status/656024169868611584/photo/1 ''pic.twitter.com/A63Cyfds2N'']


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


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


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


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


:''#COP21 #INDCs #climatechange #climateaction''  
:'''''"A single kind of blue-green algae in the ocean produces the oxygen in one of every five breaths we take"'''''
:: ~ ''from "The World Is Blue: How Our Fate and the Ocean’s Are One" by Sylvia Earle''


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


:[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Phytoplankton.jpg '''''Oh Phyto!!'''''] -- the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zooplankton '''''Zooplankton'''''] ''Keep On Hanging On & Drifting Along with You!!''


<big><big>'''''UN Conferences / Eyes on the Future'''''</big></big>
:[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Planet_Citizens,_Planet_Scientists '''''Planet Citizens, Planet Scientists''''']


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


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


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


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


'''''ClimateCentral (@ClimateCentral)'''''
::''Remembering an Astronaut who was one of the first to look back at Planet Earth and our [http://www.thinbluelayer.com thin, fragile atmosphere]''
: ''Oct 20, 2015''
::''Astronaut Mitchell telling us how profoundly beautiful -- and in danger -- our world was from his [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Overview_Effect 'Planet Overview']''


: ''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''''']
::<big>'''''February 4, 2016 ... In memory of Edgar Mitchell'''''</big>
[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''''']  
::[[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"''




[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/UN_Framework_Convention_on_Climate_Change-2015 '''''@ GreenPolicy, 2015 UN Climate Change Conference''''']
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'''''Read More:'''''  
<big><big>'''''Climate Agreement In Paris'''''</big></big>


[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:United_Nations_Framework_Convention_on_Climate_Change ''The International Climate Conference in Paris'']
<big>'''''Renewable Energy Investment Growth'''''</big>


''http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Climate_Conference_-_Paris_2015''


[[File:Renewable Energy investment growth chart 2004-2014.jpg]]


[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:We_Mean_Business_on_Climate_Change_2015.png ''We Mean Business on Climate Change''] 


[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''''']


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'''''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]]


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


'''''GreenPolicy assists the NASA mission team'''''
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'''''December 2015'''''


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


[http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/IOTD/view.php?id=86353 '''''First images of Moon and Earth from DSCOVR-EPIC''''']
[https://www.iea.org/topics/renewables/ '''''Renewables ----'''''] [https://100.org/100-goes-global-maps/ ''''''Decarbonizing' ---- Transitioning to Clean Energy Globally]


'''''July 2015'''''


[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Planet_Citizens ''Planet Citizens, DSCOVR and the New Blue Marble'']
<big>'''''In Paris for the Climate Summit'''''</big>


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


'''''DSCOVR-EPIC images will begin to be made available by September.'''''  
[http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/14/opinion/falling-short-on-climate-in-paris.html '''''Falling Short on Climate in Paris''''']


''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.''
[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''''']


''"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''
[[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/]]


* ''http://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/DSCOVR/''


* ''http://www.nesdis.noaa.gov/DSCOVR/press.html''  
[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''''']


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


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


<big>'''''Planet Citizen will be assisting in delivering NASA/NOAA DSCOVR/EPIC data and imagery'''''</big>
'''''November '''''


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


''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.''  
[http://350.org/global-climate-march/ '''''Global Climate March - News/Actions''''']


''The following is from a NASA Goddard communication, March 11th to us @PlanetCitizen, discussing additional calibrated data products to come from DSCOVR...''
''Paris marches rescheduled -- 2,000+ worldwide climate change events ready-to-go ... 175+ Countries''


>''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...''
[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://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://newsroom.unfccc.int/cop21parisinformationhub/ '''''Paris Climate Summit, Opening Nov 30 - Information Hub''''']  


[http://unfccc.int/2860.php '''''Agenda -- Meetings -- Schedule''''']


'''''It's been decades since December 7, 1972 when the only picture ever snapped by a human of the whole earth was captured -- [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Blue_Marble_photo_-_Apollo_17.jpg our iconic "Blue Marble" Planet Earth.] NASA engineers named the historic image -- '''AS17-148-22727'''
[http://www.carbonbrief.org/explainer-the-legal-form-of-the-paris-climate-agreement '''''Important: Legal forms for Paris climate agreement''''']


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


The [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deep_Space_Climate_Observatory DSCOVR satellite] launches into deep orbit with multiple missions -- to monitor space weather and, due to the satellite's orbital distance from Earth (1 mil miles), DSCOVR will be sending back daily images of the whole earth via its EPIC image-taking system and via its NISTAR system [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/You_can_manage_only_what_you_can_measure_Dr_David_Crisp%2C_OCO-2%2C_June_2014_m.jpg measuring earth's earth's temperature, our "radiation balance" ("albedo").]  
[[File:BreathingEarth.gif|link=https://youtu.be/r2yLSLmnsY4]]




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


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


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


''"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'' ‪
: [https://twitter.com/hashtag/COP21?src=hash #COP21]


''Scientists will soon get a steady stream of data about how both the Earth and the Sun are doing, for years to come.''
: [https://twitter.com/hashtag/INDCs?src=hash #INDCs]


'''''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.'''''
: [https://twitter.com/hashtag/ClimateChange?src=hash #climatechange]




''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.
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''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.”''
[http://www.monbiot.com/2015/10/30/nothing-to-see-here/ ''Eco-disaster viewed from satellite'']




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; <big><big>''New Ways to See and Experience Planet Earth''</big></big>
'''''DSCOVR/EPIC New Site Goes Live'''''
:''Visit EarthPOV for Latest News''


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


<big>'''''How Beautiful Planet Earth Is'''''</big>
[http://epic.gsfc.nasa.gov/ '''''A million mile view''''']




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




[http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov//vis/a010000/a011800/a011858/Earth_from_Orbit_2014_prores.webm '''''EARTH FROM ORBIT / VIDEO IN HD''''']  
[[File:DSCOVR-EPIC ImagingofPlanetEarth 2.png]]




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




<big>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouv1Un1F36A&feature=youtu.be '''''On the International Space Station''''']</big>
[[File:Northern Lights over Alaska from Astro Scott, Oct2015.jpg]]


[[File:ISS in HD 2015.png|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouv1Un1F36A&feature=youtu.be]]


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


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




<big><big>[http://www.ustream.tv/channel/iss-hdev-payload '''''Earth Viewing Live via UStream''''']</big></big>
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<big>2020 Update: From Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac</big>




<big><big>'''''Visit Google Earth's 10th anniversary:</big></big>
[[File:In the UK, US, time to choose the future.jpg]]


<big>'''''Journey with Voyager +'''''</big>


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


:''Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change''


[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.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/3qkkzw/i_am_christiana_figueres_the_top_un_climate/ ''Figueres - REDDIT AMA -- Oct 28'']


[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Apollo.jpg '''''Remember "Earthrise" ''''']


[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Blue_Marble_Collection '''''Our "Blue Marble"''''']
'''''UN Climate Action @UNFCCC'''''


[https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Pale_blue_dot ''''' "The only home we've got..." ''''']
* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Climate_Change_Summit_Paris
:''October 19, 2015''


:''Opening plenary of the latest @UN climate negotiations''
:* ''http://bit.ly/1OObz76''


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:[https://twitter.com/hashtag/ADP2?src=hash ''#ADP2'']


:''#ADP2 session... steps toward Paris... Focus!''


; <big><big>''Planet Labs 'Doves' fly from the ISS''</big></big>
:[https://twitter.com/CFigueres/status/656024169868611584/photo/1 ''pic.twitter.com/A63Cyfds2N'']




[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Micro-satellites '''''Planet Labs & NanoRacks''''']
[[File:Trending Green News link-image.jpeg|link=https://twitter.com/Momentum_UNFCCC]]


[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Planet_Labs_Doves_Fly '''''Doves''''']


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


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:''#COP21 #INDCs #climatechange #climateaction''




<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><big>'''''UN Conferences / Eyes on the Future'''''</big></big>




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


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




; <big><big>''Overview and Perspective''</big></big>
[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?''''']


'''''See and experience the Earth in new ways'''''
[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Sustainable_Development_Goals_-_UN_Conference_2015 '''''Sustainable Development Goals''''']


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


[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Orbital_Perspective '''''Orbital Perspective''''']


[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/UN_Framework_Convention_on_Climate_Change-2015 '''''@ GreenPolicy, 2015 UN Climate Change Conference''''']


'''''January 2015'''''
[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''


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* [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Overview_Effect Overview Effect]
[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:We_Mean_Business_on_Climate_Change_2015.png ''We Mean Business on Climate Change'']
* [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>'''''Historic Earth Images from the DSCOVR Mission'''''</big></big>


'''''GreenPolicy assists the NASA mission team'''''


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


&nbsp;


[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."''


&nbsp;
''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''


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




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


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


[[File:'Thin Blue Layer' of Earth's Atmosphere m.jpg]]
<big>'''''Planet Citizen will be assisting in delivering NASA/NOAA DSCOVR/EPIC data and imagery'''''</big>


[http://strategicdemands.com/earthoverview/ '''''As the New Year Dawns, Earth from Space''''']
'''''The [http://www.planetcitizen.org Planet Citizen] site will be expanding to highlight the new DSCOVR products and EPIC whole earth images'''''


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


[http://vimeo.com/55073825 '''''Overview''''']
''The following is from a NASA Goddard communication, March 11th to us @PlanetCitizen, discussing additional calibrated data products to come from DSCOVR...''


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






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


[[File:Settings.png]]  '''''Settings: FULL Screen, 1080p, Room lights off, Music up, Lean back and fly'''''
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").]




[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FG0fTKAqZ5g&list=UUIcA_1j7WQ8VXyygM6qI-fw '''''All Alone in the Night''''']
'''''"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."'''''


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




''"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'' ‪


[[File:Settings.png]]  '''''Set FULL Screen 1080p, lights off, Audio up. Adjust YouTube setting for HighDef 4K, 2160p'''''
''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.'''''


[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'''''...]
''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.''


[[File:Settings.png]]  '''''Set FULL on HD 4K, 2160p'''''... '''''https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNwWOul4i9Y''''' --- '''''https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ifjaOHHO98'''''  
''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><big>''"Game changer"''</big></big>
<big>'''''How Beautiful Planet Earth Is'''''</big>


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


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


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


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


[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.''''' 


[[File:From above m.png|link=http://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov//vis/a010000/a011800/a011858/Earth_from_Orbit_2014_prores.webm]]


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


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: [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'']
'''View the [http://www.thinbluelayer.com 'Thin Blue'], Earth's Life-enabling Atmosphere'''


: [http://www.weather.com/science/environment/news/nasa-satellite-details-co2 ''Weather'']  
<big>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouv1Un1F36A&feature=youtu.be '''''Watching Earth Roll By: On the International Space Station''''']</big>


: [http://www.nature.com/news/satellite-maps-global-carbon-dioxide-levels-1.16615 ''Nature'']
[[File:ISS in HD 2015.png|link=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ouv1Un1F36A&feature=youtu.be]]




: [http://oco.jpl.nasa.gov/science/ocodatacenter/ '''''Sample Data'''''] -- [https://co2.jpl.nasa.gov/ '''''OCO-2 Data Portal''''']
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<big><big>[https://www.urthecast.com/live '''''Planet Live via UrtheCast''''']</big></big>


[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''''']


<big><big>[http://www.ustream.tv/channel/iss-hdev-payload '''''Earth Viewing Live via UStream''''']</big></big>




'''''November 2014'''''
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[http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/you-are-here-around-world-92-minutes-chris-hadfields-photos-earth-space-1471014 '''''You Are Here''''']


[http://www.fastcocreate.com/3038304/lessons-in-combining-art-and-science-and-shooting-dope-photos-from-rockstar-astronaut-chris-#6 '''''And Here!''''']
<big><big>'''''Visit Google Earth's 10th anniversary:</big></big>


<big>'''''Journey with Voyager +'''''</big>


[[File:You are here 1.jpg]]  
<big>[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Google_Earth '''''Introducing Voyager'''''] ''&'' [https://earthview.withgoogle.com/ '''''Earth View''''']</big>




[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''''']  
[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''''']
 
 
○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ ○ 
 
 
<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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&nbsp;
 
 
 
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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''''']
 
············································
 
 
<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.'''
 
 
_________________________________________________________


[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P5_GlAOCHyE '''''Look''''']


[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Aurora_Australis.ogv '''''Green Skies''''']


== '''''An API for the Planet''''' ==
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<big>'''''Earth: How are you?'''''</big>
[http://www.planet.com/ ''www.Planet.com'']


: [https://twitter.com/EarthVitalSigns '''''@EarthVitalSigns''''']  
[https://www.planet.com/pulse/ ''Planet Labs Pulse'']  


: [https://twitter.com/hashtag/earthrightnow ''#EarthRightNow'']  
[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://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/Hello2.jpg '''''Looking out at our home planet from the International Space Station''''']  
[http://vimeo.com/88602839 '''''Mission: Democratizing Access to Information About the Changing Planet''''']  


* [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''''']
[[File:API connect.jpg]]


* [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://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''''']


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


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


<big>'''''#PlanetCitizen''''' '''''#EarthPOV'''''</big>


''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'''.''
_____________________________________________________


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


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


___________________________________________________________
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.  
 
 
 
_____________________________________________________
 
 
 
=== [http://strategicdemands.com/environmental-security/ '''''Environmental Security @Strategic Demands'''''] ===
 
&nbsp;
 
[[File:Planet cit s.jpg]]
 
 
:[http://strategicdemands.com/about/ '''21st Century definitions of national and international security'''] 
 
A realization that "'''Security is indivisible'''" is on the horizon and security definitions are changing as a result of the dynamics of interactive networks.
 
The sharing of information is creating a [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linked:_The_New_Science_of_Networks '''new science of networking''']. Information is being looked at as never before and '''#earthscience''' data is now being collected by networked computers across an interconnected world. In historic ways, open data is being publicly distributed far beyond the restrictive policies of previous times and closed-loop systems.
 
Today #earthsciences are at the cusp of a rich new world of information. As we share these new realizations, images, data, experiences and understandings, we can be certain of a new, growing awareness of our planet and our 'citizenship' together. 
 
Even now, we have inklings of what is coming. Let's look at one called [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/OCO-2 '''OCO-2''']. With the launch of OCO-2, a "game changer", in the summer of 2014, the data of #Earth360 will grow in unprecedented ways as this first orbiting observatory of global warming conditions takes to space and begins to report home - [https://twitter.com/IamOCO2 '''I am OCO-2''']
 
Although the '''Orbiting Carbon Observatory''' is just the beginning, the future of #earthscience from space is here as we see in new ways and observe our environment with new information never before accessible. Space-imaging is opening up amazing views, with 3D and big-screens and home theaters. Coming soon will be views beyond IMAX as companies like Virgin and SpaceX carry citizen travelers into orbit. Educational and scientific information about our communities is being shared, and linked to, and distributed around the Net. From space, the earth is borderless and with vision of the planet and common-good #biosphere and #ecosystem comes responsibility for our shared security.
 
On to first steps... [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Nov-8-2014_2-01-50_PM_EST.jpg '''We are all connected'''] and wherever we are, geographically, nationally, we share common-ground and common-atmosphere. Let's look at our home and, with an "overview" from space, see the 'Big Picture' and let's look at the details, let's manage and sustain our earth resources and, as we go, look to our shared quality of life on the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozXVgQUUPNQ '''"only home we've ever known."''']
 
 
 
[[File:Olive-branch.png]]
 
 
 
'''''Here's to our future and future of [http://strategicdemands.com/environmental-security/ #Environmental Security]'''''


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.  
== <big>'''''The Big Picture: Earth from Space''''' </big>==
 
 
[[File:Earth Day Flag.png]].
 
 
 
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.
 
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.  


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].
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. We are '''citizens of our common home, planet 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.  


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.
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Your Moment on Earth, Planet Citizen 🌎
www.planetcitizen.orgwww.planetcitizens.org


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

 

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


Green Stories of the Day

GTN GreenLinks Trending News


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


Earth Day 2020
Memories Fifty Years On

 

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Earth, Live in Space

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

-- Marjory Stoneman Douglas


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Visit GreenPolicy360's associate, Strategic Demands

www.strategicdemands.com


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On the Horizon / Strategic Demands

 

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2020


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In Memory of Planet Citizen Konrad Steffen

Renowned climate scientist dies in Greenland ice sheet accident


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


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


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Earth in Our Hands

 

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Planet Citizen Action


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Facing the Climate Crisis


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Yes We Can (Leave the World a Better Place)

 


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Planet Citizen Action

 

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

 

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

 


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

'Global Forever' Stamps


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Stepping It Up


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

Global Climate Action Summit


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In Memory of a Florida "Planet Citizen"


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


Via the Tampa Bay Times / Craig Pittman

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

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



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Stephen Hawking / "Planet Citizen"


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

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


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

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


This is the most dangerous time for our planet

by Stephen Hawking

Via The Guardian


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"My perceptions of the world shifted"


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

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



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Planet Citizen on a Spacewalk

Mike Massimino


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

Or maybe a green evangelical environista'.

Floating high, Starchild...


#PlanetCitizen


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

Discover how by watching this video



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Orphans No More, Sheldrick Wildlife Trust


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


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


"Starlink, Planet Internet"



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HelloEarthEarth 'Dailies' via DSCOVR-EPIC


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

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On the Eve of Destruction


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



"Surviving Victory":

Moving Away from "Perpetual War"


Shifting from Fossil Fuel Causes of Conflict to Renewable Energy Alternatives


"Strategic Demands, a 21st Century Vision"

Survival Strategies, Security Priorities



New Definitions of National Security


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International Climate Conference Updates

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


United States only country to refuse climate change agreement


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Changes/Turnarounds at the US Energy Department

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

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

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

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


Renewable Energy @ GreenPolicy

www.netzeropolicy.com


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National Geographic:

Deconstructing Environmental Protections


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


Trends in Climate Change Legislation


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The Challenge Going Forward


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Continuing Cutbacks at US Environmental Protection Agency


Update


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Scott Pruitt, Administrator of the US EPA, Resigns

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


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Fire Scientists, Shut Down Advisory Panels, Remove Data

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


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Environmental Protection Agency Open Being 'Data-Edited'?

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


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The Physics of Climate Change/Global Warming


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

March to Support Science: Facts Matter


Stats - Green Research & Science


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

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


The 'Pale Blue Dot'

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


March for Science

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_for_Science
https://satellites.marchforscience.com/
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https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Bill_nye-march_for_science-earth_day.jpg


Earth and Space, Politics

New Definitions of National Security


Scientists Fear Climate Data Gap as Trump Aims at Satellites


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Radiant Earth Project

http://radiant.earth/

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


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

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

Satellites collecting data and monitoring the Earth

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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


"New Definitions of National Security"

"Look at how thin our atmosphere is"


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Press Release / March 23, 2017

Actions to Protect Earth Science/Climate Data

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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



Challenges: Of Course and We're Taking Them On

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


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

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


Andrew Revkin to Join ProPublica as Senior Reporter on Climate Change


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

In Memory of Bill


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

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

Rep. George E. Brown, Calif

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


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


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

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


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We welcomed a perspective that no human had ever had.

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

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


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Planet citizen Naomi Klein, "This Changes Everything"

Speaking @ the Bioneers conference, 2014


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

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


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GreenPolicy360 highlights Rebecca Moore

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


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

Catholic pontiff speaks of the environment


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

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


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Rebecca Solnit

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


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January 2017


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


GreenPolicy360 Stories of the Day


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Watching the Arctic Thaw


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

Consequences and Costs Only Beginning to Be Estimated


Visit GreenPolicy's Arctic Page for Updates


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December 2016


Hear ye, Hear ye

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


All Hands on Deck

Eyes open, stay sharp, on alert

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


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

Andrew Revkin to Join ProPublica as Senior Reporter on Climate Change

A Dot Earth Farewell


November 2016

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www.thinbluelayer.com



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

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October 2016


The Military and Climate Security Budgets Compared

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

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

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


Report: Combat Vs. Climate

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

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Planet Citizens in Action: Update: 2018, Leonardo DiCaprio


Reefscape
Satellite Doves to Aid Coral Conservation
Planet API


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


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Before the Flood Documentary
Hollywood Reporter Review
Leonardo DiCaprio Oscar Speech


Planet Citizens & Bioneers

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

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September 2016


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"Eco-nomics" for the 21st Century

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


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Stephen Hawking on ITV (and PBS)

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


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


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


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July 2016
Another Record for the Hottest Year


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Climate Change Denial in Motion

Defenders of Fossil Fuel Business-as-Usual Push Defense

Via Inside Climate News

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


US House Science Committee Acts to Defend ExxonMobile Against Attorneys General

ExxonMobile Faces Multi-state AG Investigation



Politics: US Democratic Party Platcom Meetings

Democratic Party environmental positions voted into platform

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

Via George Monbiot

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

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

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

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

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


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Warning Signs: The Great Barrier Reef


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Earth Day / Countries Signing Climate Action Plans

Paris Agreement Signatures Today at the UN in New York

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

175 Nations Sign on Earth Day


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Solar Energy / EVs / ZEVs / NextGen Trans


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'Planet Citizen' Elon introduces the Model 3


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

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

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


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A Question of Questions

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

 

Planet Citizen/Climate Citizen News

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Polls: Planet citizens & global citizenship

BBC: 'Global citizenship' on Upward Trend


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

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

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

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

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


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Back in the USA: Climate Politics

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


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Tiny Blue Green


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"A single kind of blue-green algae in the ocean produces the oxygen in one of every five breaths we take"
~ from "The World Is Blue: How Our Fate and the Ocean’s Are One" by Sylvia Earle
Visit GreenPolicy360's new site, proposed and co-designed by 14 yr old Olivia Schmidt
Oh Phyto!! -- the Zooplankton Keep On Hanging On & Drifting Along with You!!
Planet Citizens, Planet Scientists
~ www.tinybluegreen.com


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Thin Blue Layer

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


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


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Climate Agreement In Paris

Renewable Energy Investment Growth


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

GreenPolicy's list of Countries & Climate Action INDC Plans

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


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A Generation's Challenge

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


In Paris for the Climate Summit

Paris Climate Agreement: Moments

Falling Short on Climate in Paris

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


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Chris Mooney/Washington Post after the Paris Agreement

What happens next?


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November

Road to Paris

Global Climate March - News/Actions

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

Events/Locations 350.org #ClimateMarch

Paris Climate Summit, Opening Nov 30 - Information Hub

Agenda -- Meetings -- Schedule

Important: Legal forms for Paris climate agreement


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Join In, Act, Follow, Be Out in Front

It's Your Breathing Planet

#climateaction
#COP21
#INDCs
#climatechange


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DSCOVR/EPIC New Site Goes Live

Visit EarthPOV for Latest News

EarthPOV.com

A million mile view


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"Northern Lights over Alaska"

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


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Environmental Security: a Planet Citizen Vision

Climate Summit / Road to Paris

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


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2020 Update: From Christiana Figueres and Tom Rivett-Carnac


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Christiana Figueres @CFigueres

Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change


Figueres - REDDIT AMA -- Oct 28


UN Climate Action @UNFCCC

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

#COP21 #INDCs #climatechange #climateaction


UN Conferences / Eyes on the Future


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"We can commit to do more."

- Gavin Schmidt, NASA Goddard climate science director


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ClimateCentral (@ClimateCentral)

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


@ GreenPolicy, Review Climate Action National Plans/INDCs

Which Countries Are Doing the Most?

Sustainable Development Goals


@ GreenPolicy, 2015 UN Climate Change Conference


The International Climate Conference in Paris


We Mean Business on Climate Change


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Historic Earth Images from the DSCOVR Mission

GreenPolicy assists the NASA mission team

December 2015


First images of Moon and Earth from DSCOVR-EPIC


July 2015

Planet Citizens, DSCOVR and the New Blue Marble

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

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

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

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

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


#Earth360 Updates

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

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

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

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

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

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


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

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

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


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

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


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

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

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


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

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

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


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New Ways to See and Experience Planet Earth


How Beautiful Planet Earth Is


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EARTH FROM ORBIT / VIDEO IN HD


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

Watching Earth Roll By: On the International Space Station

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Planet Live via UrtheCast


Earth Viewing Live via UStream


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Visit Google Earth's 10th anniversary:

Journey with Voyager +

Introducing Voyager & Earth View



Going Planetary.org

Earthviews from Above

Remember "Earthrise"

Our "Blue Marble"

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


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Planet Labs 'Doves' fly from the ISS


Planet Labs & NanoRacks

Doves


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Planet Citizen: Elon

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


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Overview and Perspective

See and experience the Earth in new ways

The Overview Effect

Orbital Perspective


January 2015


Recently Added Planet Citizen, Planet Scientist Pages





 





 


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#Earth360: The Overview


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As the New Year Dawns, Earth from Space

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

Overview

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



From Above, beauty and awe...


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All Alone in the Night


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The View Outside My Window


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


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"Game changer"

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


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


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


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


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


Sample Data -- OCO-2 Data Portal


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

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


November 2014

You Are Here

And Here!


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Up Here, #EarthPOV

Earth's Observation's new website

Vid Watch

Look

Green Skies


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Earth: How are you?

@EarthVitalSigns
#EarthRightNow




About Planet Citizen

#PlanetCitizen #EarthPOV


SJS/GreenPolicy360 Siterunner:

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

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

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

Rep. George E. Brown was out in front.

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


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

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

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

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


  • Planet Citizens and GreenPolicy hold a simple value proposition:


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



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An API for the Planet

www.Planet.com

Planet Labs Pulse

#PlanetLabs @Open Source Conference

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

Mission: Democratizing Access to Information About the Changing Planet


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Planet Labs/NYT

Launch of new Flock of Dove Satellites to Image Earth

Doves fly

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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!  

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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

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