GreenPolicy360 Archive Highlights 2014

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GreenPolicy360 highlights Pope Francis
Catholic pontiff speaks of the environment
Time to take another look at the new Catholic leadership 
“In this globalised world, we have fallen into globalised indifference.”
-- Pope Francis
Next year, the Pope will issue a rare papal encyclical in March on climate change and human ecology, all part of an attempt strongly to influence the UN climate change meeting in Paris in 2015 to achieve a universal commitment to reduce carbon emissions.
“Eco-theology” alarms creationists and divides the Catholic church. Opponents, including some in the Vatican, condemn it as “un-biblical”. Pope Francis sees economic inequality and the plundering of the Earth’s resources as part of a theme. He has said: “In this system, which tends to devour everything which stands in the way of accrued profits, whatever is fragile like the environment is defenceless against the interest of a deified market, which becomes the only rule.”
* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Pope_Francis_on_the_Environment
* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Laudato_Si
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GreenPolicy360 highlights George Brown Jr.
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Remembering the 'start-up' of the environmental movement and the first laws, a set of founding legal precedents many of which came from forward-looking green visionaries from California, like George E. Brown who passed away suddenly in 1999. 
George's 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 Congress...﻿ 
Memories of George http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/George_E._Brown_Jr
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GreenPolicy360 highlights Rebecca Moore
Rebecca envisioned setting up Google Outreach -- and she did.
As GreenPolicy siterunner Steven Schmidt wrote as Earth Outreach/Google started up: 
"Rebecca had an idea how to save (redwood) trees around her home...
and her idea led to setting up Google Outreach - She had a great idea, she made it happen, 
she is continuing to make it happen ! Each day there's new progress, local and global...
Global Forest Watch & Global Fishing Watch are two most recent successful launches."
Here's a tip of our GreenPolicy360 hat to Rebecca's Earth Outreach 'planet citizens' work. 
Thank You Rebecca! You inspire our action as #PlanetCitizens. Time to see how it's all connected !
 
Launch of Global Fishing Watch - 2014 
Google Outreach online, out in front again 
Global Fishing Watch_Data from Earth Outreach 
 link=http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Global_Fishing_Watch
Launch of Global Forest Watch - 2014 
Google Outreach continues to observe the 'state of the world' 
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Global Forest Watch
World Resources
Monitoring the world's forests 
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Update on Project Drawdown
GreenPolicy360 highlights Paul Hawken
Project Drawdown CO2
Introduced at the Bioneers Conference by Paul Hawken
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GreenPolicy360 highlights Climate March's Iain Keith
Climate March organizer, from Avaaz: 
"We realized that a March could send a powerful signal." 
Marches don't always change the world. 
Sometimes they are the only things 
that shake the system into widespread change."
InsideClimate News (TW)
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GreenPolicy360 highlights the Bioneers
Bioneers celebrating their 25th Anniversary Conference 
Long time, very good friends of GreenPolicy360 and a preeminent eco-network, here's to the Bioneers! 
A celebration of the genius of nature and human ingenuity, the Bioneers network continues on doing its good work locally and globally.
 
Hearty Congratulations especially go to co-founders Kenny and Nina 
 link=http://conference.bioneers.org/
Bioneers Dennis Kucinich, Chief Lyons & Leonardo DiCaprio
Leonardo speaks at the UN Climate Summit 
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Signs from the March
September 23rd -- UN Climate Summit
September 21st -- #PeoplesClimateMarch 
Green friend, Louie Schwartzberg's newest film opening the UN Climate session
"Choose to make a difference -- this is our only home..."
What's Possible
No apologies, take a stance
Five Vids from the March
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Naomi Klein at the Bioneers Conference 
Naomi Klein, "This Changes Everything" Naomi Klein speaks at the Bioneers Conference
NY Times..."the most momentous and contentious environmental book since 'Silent Spring.'"
Climate Leadership (Conf videos)
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GreenPolicy360 highlights the Carbon Brief
Carbon Brief - FB - TW
They asked 25 thinkers, writers and journalists a simple question: 
What books or readings inspired you to get involved in climate-related work?
They got back some very interesting insights into why people work on climate, 
why they started, and why they carry on. Warming Earth
Inspirational books and readings
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GreenPolicy360_September 2014
We invite you to Visit GreenBestPractices online at:
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#Earth360 
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Green Policies, Green Progress 
Los Angeles and the US act to clean up the air... 
Calif, over the yrs, out in front of the US in green legislating 
Jerry Brown: “What happens here doesn’t stay here. It goes all around the country and all around the world.” 
The 'greening' results are starting to show 
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Naomi Klein speaks at the Bioneers Conference --- NY Times... "the most momentous and contentious environmental book since 'Silent Spring'" 
Climate Leadership at the Bioneers Conference (videos)
Bioneers celebrating their 25th Anniversary Conference 25 Years 
Long time, very good friends of GreenPolicy360 and a preeminent eco-network. Here's to the Bioneers and many more good years of eco-healing. Hearty Congratulations especially go to co-founders Kenny and Nina. 
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Amid global conflicts and escalating threats, for redefinitions of security priorities and policies, visit #EnvironmentalSecurity at StrategicDemands.com
 
Visit our newest 'satellite site' #PlanetCitizen 
Hello Where are you #PlanetCitizen on #PlanetEarth? 
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Coming Soon, NextGen #ISS Earth-facing cams New live 'video+ platform' w/ #EarthView streaming from the #ISS via @UrtheCast & NanoRacks 
International Astronautical Congress IAC 2014: UrtheCast Robot-arm install Future of #ISS
OCO-2 Orbiting Carbon Observatory continues on its history-making mission Counting carbon over Southern California - OCO-2 at work
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"Ground Truth"
 Wiki-GroundTruth
CERES Project 
AVIRIS-JPL
Hyspiri Spectroscopy, unique views of the surface of Earth...
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Immediate Risk to National Security Climate Change: Pentagon Devises Strategy to Respond"' 
Climate Change = "Threat Multiplier" 
U.S. Military Prepares for Climate Change DoD looks toward renewable energy 
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Question: Is the Earth blue even at night? Astronaut Gerst answers
 
With appreciation of the Overview Effect
/ Overview: the Movie Planetary
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GreenPolicy360 networking in practice...
 GreenPolicy360/eOS -- 
:Expanding the GreenPolicy360 database of green best practices for use in all communities -- local, national, international
We are constantly adding to our GreenLinks network, an online hub for connecting Green groups, local, regional and global, ranging from international NGO's to collections of green news and journalism, from borderless non-profit work to local green activism, from open-source, open data sharing to democracy and independent green, sustainable living advocates... 
We welcome additions of active and exceptional green organizations. 
Join in as we extend GreenPolicy's shareable community resources. 
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Visit GreenPolicy's Associate, StrategicDemands and consider the security horizon... 
National Security ↔ Environmental Security
New Definitions of National & Global Security 
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NASA continues to advance a new space era in its exploration of our home planet with the launch of series of #EarthScience instruments to the International Space Station. 
New earth-observing array of instruments will be exterior mounted on the International Space Station. ISS-RapidScat will monitor ocean winds for climate research, weather predictions and hurricane monitoring. The second instrument, the laser Cloud-Aerosol Transport System (CATS), will measure clouds and location and distribution of pollution, dust, smoke, and other particulates in the atmosphere. 
:#RapidScat 
:Climate Missions 
:#EarthRightNow
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The "New Space" field is pioneering the study of our blue planet with multiple new platforms monitoring earth systems and resources. PlanetLabs is a recently founded company that is out in front with its emphasis on open data sharing. Its mini satellites are called "Doves" and they "flock] for #earthmonitoring and rapid sequence imaging. 
An API for the Planet #PlanetLabs Open Source Conference keynote 
Mission: "Democratizing Access to Information About the Changing Planet" 
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OCO-2 Orbiting Carbon Observatory 
"Watching the Earth Breathe from Space" 
:JPL/NASA 
:JPL/NASA News 
:NASA Earth Climate Blog 
:Ecowatch NASA app 
:Wikipedia/Atmosphere
Observing Global Warming with #OCO-2
:Historic launch -- #PlanetCitizen mission to study #EarthsAtmosphere
"First Light!" 
:"A Train" Goes Live 
:First Light Spectra
 
:OCO-2 announces 'We have data!' 
What monitoring a potential existential crisis looks like...spectra from #OCO-2 
Earth observing satellites, the "Afternoon Constellation", the "A-Train" joined by ‪#‎OCO-2 newly launched and historic in its mission to study global warming Orbiting Carbon Observatory 
Looking closer at OCO-2 OCO-2 tweets - https://twitter.com/IamOCO2
Earth science data is coming in and being openly distributed. Take up the challenge, perhaps with NEX here and multiple venues that are being made available for the first time... 
Add your resources. With the launch of OCO-2, a "game changer", the data of #Earth360 will grow in unprecedented ways... 
Reflection: How bad would ozone depletion and 'ozone holes' be if we had done nothing?
#Earthdata enables informed decisions and policy 
"You can manage only what you can measure"
 link=http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/NASA_EarthSciences,_Challenges_Public_to_Join_In 
NASA Earth Sciences Asks Public to Join In
Add your #PlanetCitizen talent to a future of seeing with an #EarthPOV
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Climate Change, Challenge
Climate News @ GreenPolicy
No time for climate denial... President says it's time for action on Climate Change in Commencement at UC Irvine, June 14, 2014 
A Planet Citizen & Hero: Professor Rowland at the University of California 
In memory of Sherwood Rowland of U Cal Irvine -- and to the Nobel prize-winning discovery of the damage of CFCs and green worldwide response that prevented catastrophic consequences of ozone depletion -- while an anti-science crowd continues to this day to object to critically important science-at-work ... http://arstechnica.com/science/2015/05/how-bad-would-the-ozone-hole-be-if-we-did-nothing/
Climate Rules to Rewrite US Energy Map 
Rules proposed by the Environmental Protection Agency would cut carbon pollution from power plants 30 percent by 2030 – equivalent of taking 2/3 of all cars and trucks in America off the road 
Overview EPA summary Republicans hesitate -- 645 pages 
West Coast Leaders Applaud Obama Administration Proposal to Cut Carbon Pollution California has head start Pacific Coast Climate Action Plan - 2013
Alexander Gerst on the #ISS writes home in tweets and his live blogging... "Our Blue Dot"
From the ISS - Live Astro Gerst blog
GreenPolicy360, from AstroGerst
"Look at how thin our atmosphere is. This is all there is between humankind and deadly space."
 
* GreenPolicy360: A thin atmospheric layer enabling life as we know it...
GP360: "Look at our atmosphere around the earth, twelve miles high in the troposphere..." 
Images revealing the 'height', the narrow band of life-giving atmosphere surrounding Earth 
Atmospheric reality 
From the International Space Station
Thin Layers
All that protects us
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We are in the first era of geo-monitoring our 'thin atmosphere', earth resources and biosphere from space... 
:Micro satellites 
Beginning with first-ever images of our home planet, Earth, taken from the Apollo era... 
:Apollo 4 
:Apollo 17
:An #EarthPOV
:an "Overview" 
New vision, new possibilities as citizens of the planet...
New vision, new knowledge, new challenges
"Thin" layer of atmosphere absorbing the sum of human-produced hydrocarbon & emission "externalities"
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NASA’s Orbiting Carbon Observatory-2 (OCO-2): A game changer? 
:NASA establishes a public-facing online climate change news site
Seeing climate change from space: NASA creates image-based iPad app 
Soon, each of us will be able to connect to and share earth-data as students of earth-space science and new digital networks.
With open data, links and digital apps, schools and future generations will learn new ways of seeing as citizens of the planet. 
 
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Planet Labs/NYT Planet Labs, newly #ISS deployed Doves Smartphones in space!
Launch of new Flock of Dove Satellites to Image Earth Doves fly Doves flock
Planet Labs 'Dove' micro-satellites 
"Rapid cadence imagery, like Planet Labs is developing, helps us become better, more sustainable stewards of Earth." NYT
Geoscience: Eyes in the Sky, Monitoring the Earth by Satellite 
A New Era of Space Startups 
"Earth Imaging" -- NextGen #EarthScience in an era of #climatechange and #globalsecurity threats 
"New Space" startup companies to watch (our eyes are especially on Planet Labs) 
... BlackBridge -- July 2015--Blackbridge/RapidEye acquired by Planet Labs, Dauria-Digital Globe , DigitalGlobe #DigitalGlobe, highest rez commercially avail #earthimaging from space GeoEye , Firefly Space Systems , GeoOptics , NanoRacks , , NovaWurks , OmniEarth , OrbitLogic , PlanetiQ , Planet Labs Pulse , RapidEye (acquired by Blackbridge/Planet Labs) , Skybox , Teledyne , Tyvak Nano-Sat , Urthecast 
"New Space" 
“With all these start-ups, the things you’ll be able to do with satellite images will grow exponentially.” - IEEE-May 2014
Moving from almost exclusively multi-billion dollar military/defense-communication satellite operations to nextgen 'small cap' startups and 'New Space' ventures and applications with earth systems monitoring, resources, sustainable business, and low-earth orbit space travel with companies like Richard Branson's Virgin Galactic... 
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'Ride with Us Urthecast' 
International Space Station / Video of Earth -- http://www.urthecast.com/features 
Urthecast APIs
Live from the International Space Station Watch Earth roll by in streamed HD 
Earth sciences/NASA-JPL and gov contractors 'Eyes on the Earth' 
@JPL/NASA 
Earth Index 
Everyday Flash 
Climate NASA.gov
@OCO-2 OCO-2 
I am OCO! Tweet!!
EarthRightNow 
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Neil deGrasse Tyson in Cosmos takes on Climate Change 
Our Blue Marble, Pale Blue Dot
Remembering Carl Sagan in the original Cosmos 
"The Earth is where we make our stand... our Pale Blue Dot, suspended in a sunbeam." 
"For us it is to cherish and protect the only home we've ever known..." 
 
An oasis in the vastness of space
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NASA's Earth Science Enterprise (ESE) -- Originally called "Mission to Planet Earth (MTPE)" 
October 2014 http://bit.ly/VitalSignsPulseofthePlanet / Video
:To fully appreciate the detail of the models, click on the gear symbol and set to 720p resolution and choose full screen video
ESE is dedicated to "understanding the total Earth system and the effects of natural and human-induced changes on the global environment."
Mission to Planet Earth's successor, NASA’s Earth Observing System provides long-term global observations of the land surface, biosphere, solid Earth, atmosphere, and oceans. 
Earth Observing System Data and Information System - Maps
:Suomi NPP - Next-generation Earth-observing satellite system 
:NPP Images Gallery
Next generation NASA-NOAA #EarthMonitoring satellite to launch in 2017
"The ultimate beneficiaries are the present and future generations of the people on Earth..."
The goal of the Earth Observing project is "improved understanding of the Earth as an integrated system." 
"To improve life here" and "to understand and protect our home planet."
#EarthScience, #GeoScience, #Earth360, #GP360, #EarthPOV 
:Eyes on the Earth-Earth Right Now
:Earth Observing System Project 
:Earth Data 
:Earth Observatory 
:Images 
:Grace 
:Grace-JPL 
:Grace-UTexas 
:Visible Earth
:Global Maps
:Visible Earth_2 
:Visible Earth_3
:Visible Earth_4
:Earth Mission List
IceSat-2 
:Ice monitoring
:IceSat
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European Space Program 
:ESA / Earth Systems Monitoring
European Space Agency 
Living Planet Programme
:Managed by Earth Observation Programmes
: GOCE – Gravity Field and Steady-State Ocean Circulation Explorer - launched on March 17, 2009 - 
: SMOS – Soil Moisture and Ocean Salinity satellite - studying ocean salinity and soil moisture; launched in 2 November 2009 - 
: CryoSat – Designed to map the Earth's ice cover. CryoSat-2 was launched 8 April 2010 - - Euro Cryo Satellite/Earth Imaging 
Geo-science: Eyes in the Sky 
:Antarctic Ice Loss 
: Swarm – Satellites mapping the Earth's magnetism. The SWARM constellation was launched successfully on 22 November 2013 
: Aeolus – Atmospheric Dynamics Mission uses an innovative laser to measure winds. 
: EarthCARE – Earth Clouds Aerosols and Radiation Explorer examines the formation and effects of clouds. 
: BIOMASS – Designed to calculate the amount of carbon stored in the world's forests, and monitor for any changes over the course of its five-year mission. Due to launch in 2020 - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BIOMASS 
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Sea-level Rise: A Coastal Reality across the Globe
◊ Rising Seas - Against the Tide 
March 2014
31 March 2014/Japan/IPCC international conference - "The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) issued a report today that says the effects of climate change are already occurring on all continents and across the oceans. The extensive set of documents, continuing a multi-year series of scientific documentation and analyses, details latest developments and warns that the world is "ill-prepared" for risks from a changing climate. The report also states that there are "opportunities" to respond to such risks, though the risks will be difficult to manage with high levels of warming... #climatechange
IPCC Update 
Government officials and top climate scientists will meet in Berlin from April 7-12 to review a 29-page next steps draft that estimates the needed shift to low-carbon energies will cost between two and six percent of world output by 2050... The IPCC draft report is the third and final study in a U.N. series about climate change, updating findings from 2007. 
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Climate.Data.gov launches 
In the pilot-stage of Climate.Data.gov, you will find resources "to help companies, communities, and citizens understand and prepare for the impacts of coastal flooding and sea level rise." Over time, the "Climate Data community" will expand to include more datasets, web services, and tools. "It will also cover other themes such as the vulnerability of the food supply and the threats to human health from climate change."
 
The resources page features datasets and services on coastal vulnerability. 
Tools and information to help communities prepare for coastal inundation... 
Mar/Feb/Jan 2014
Cities now reporting more than 8,000 climate actions currently underway...
Take climate action in your community - Add to 8,068 climate change actions reported at the international C40 conference 
:C40
:C40 Cities, 
:C40 Webcam, 
:C40 Climate Actions, 
:Climate Action in Megacities, 
:Climate Change Action Begins in Cities
From GP360's "Little Green Book" 
* Agroecological Farming 
* Agroforestry
* Alternative Agriculture
* Antibiotics, Farming, Livestock Industry
* Aquaculture, Aquafarming, Aquaforestry
* Aquifers
* Climate Smart Agriculture
: Livestock & Climate Change
* Community Gardens
: Urban Agriculture
: Urban Gardening
* Community Supported Agriculture
* Country of Origin Labeling
* Farm-Related Policies/Category 
: Farm-Related Policies/Index
* Farmers Markets
* Farm-to-Table
* Food & Health
* Food-Related Policies/Category
* Food Politics
: Organic Food/Farming-Gardening-Wellness
: Organic Food/Agriculture
* Food Waste-Food Saving
: Food Waste-Food Saving-2
* Genetic Engineering
* Market Gardening
* Permaculture Practices
: Permaculture Links
* Pesticides & Pest Management/Category
: Pesticides & Pest Management/Index
* Regenerative Agriculture
* Seed Loss/Extinction-Seed Saving 
* 'Slow Food' Alternative to 'Fast Food'
* Soil-Biology-Mapping
* Soil Loss/Depletion-Soil Conservation
: Microbiomes at Risk
* Water Loss-Water Saving
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EOS eco Operating System
 
 eco Operating System featured in Green Horizon 
 
eOS 
:Networking effective green politics on a global, international scale...'''''
 eOS - Part One - Global Best Practices 
 eOS - Part Two - ECO OS Challenges & Opportunities 
 eOS - Part Three - Seeing the World in New Ways 
Remembering 'Earthrise' - December 1968
Earthrise memories on the 45th anniversary - Earth-home, the historic view of Earth from Apollo
"The earth from here [circling the moon] is a grand oasis in the big vastness of space." — Jim Lovell, live Apollo 8 - 1968
"If somebody had said before the flight, 'Are you going to get carried away looking at the earth from the moon?' I would have said, 'No, no way.' But yet when I first looked back at the earth, standing on the moon, I cried." — Alan Shepard, Astronaut
"As you pass from sunlight into darkness and back again every hour and a half, you become startlingly aware how artificial are thousands of boundaries we've created to separate and define. And for the first time in your life you feel in your gut the precious unity of the Earth and all the living things it supports." — Russell Schweikart, Apollo 9
"As we got further and further away, it [the Earth] diminished in size. Finally it shrank to the size of a marble, the most beautiful you can imagine. That beautiful, warm, living object looked so fragile, so delicate..." — James Irwin, Apollo 15
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Overview Effect 
Overview Effect / The 'Big Picture' 
Overview Effect / Protecting Home
What a View!
Overview refers to the experience of seeing firsthand the reality of the Earth in space, which is immediately understood to be a tiny, fragile ball of life, hanging in the void, shielded and nourished by a paper-thin atmosphere. From space, the astronauts tell us, national boundaries vanish, the conflicts that divide us become less important and the need to create a planetary society with the united will to protect our "pale blue dot." 
"One connected system #BlueDot"
Visit the Overview Institute
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Watch magnificent time-lapse Earth views
All Alone in the Night 
Serving Suggestion: FULL Screen, 1080p, lights off, volume up, lean back and fly 
The View Outside My Window 
Serving Suggestion: FULL Screen, 1080p, lights off, volume up. Even better, 'Original' 4K / 2160p
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Environmental Security ↔ National Security
; GreenPolicy360 ↔ Strategic Demands
GreenPolicy360, in association with Strategic Demands, continues its work to advance "Environmental Security" as a foundation of a broader security policy.
GreenPolicy360's work envisages Environmental Security as integral to National Security and Global Security.
Unprecedented scientific achievements, global connectivity and access to new knowledge via the Internet provide both opportunities and challenges. This unprecedented advance in human knowledge bring the potential for understanding that goes far beyond traditional beliefs. Cultural/religious/tribal belief systems are being challenged but knowledge can provide new ways of seeing and new answer to age-old questions.
The range of new information, understanding, data, systems monitoring are becoming baselines for evaluating change and with observation of changes comes the opportunity to manage change.
Fields of knowledge are growing exponentially:
:Earth Science
:Earth Observations
:Earth Research from Space
:New Space 
:'Democratization' of Space 
:Micro-satellites 
:Atmospheric Science
:Ocean Science, and 
:Climate Change Science. 
Critical questions of the sustainable health of our planet's biosphere and atmosphere, of sustainable economic growth over time, are now being raised across the approximately 200 nations of the world.
In the past, the study of 'national security' was limited, circumscribed by national interest. Nations considered strategic security affairs as primarily political/military and economic concerns and placed environmental security, to the extent 'environmental security' was considered at all, as secondary in nature.
Today, a gathering storm of environmental threats are rising to become national and international security concerns as environmental risks bring existential questions due to climate change, nuclear proliferation and a horizon of global challenges. "New Definitions of National Security." are critically needed in these times. We at GreenPolicy/Strategic Demands intend to continue to pursue connections between National Security and Environmental Security.
Overall, science is expanding its scope with powerful new tools and capabilities. Earth science data is being shared and considered, the intelligence of 'big data' and computational power is delivering unprecedented means to study and manage eco-social systems. A new and fast evolving science of Environmental Security - Sustainable Development is beginning to enable an integral ecology with a new vision of thinking and acting that spans nations and is shared via the Internet. Engaged citizens, in a newly connected world, are acting to shape a future of political awareness with "green best practices".
The key for green policy is moving forward with vision. Our challenge is to use our native intelligence and intelligent new methods of sharing and evaluating data to make decisions that sustain and benefit life, today and for future generations. 
-- SJS/GreenPolicy Siterunner
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"Thin Blue"
A Thin Blue Layer 
"All there is between humankind and deadly space"
 
*http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Look_at_how_thin_our_atmosphere_is
*http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:ThinBlueLayer
*http://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/How_thin_is_earth's_atmosphere.jpg
A New Vision of the 21st Century: Planet Citizens in Action
* "The Commons"
* "Eco-nomics"
* "Environmental Full-cost Accounting"
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; Earth360: A Whole Earth Perspective
; "New Definitions of National Security"
Environmental Security ↔ National Security ↔ Global Security 
New Definitions of National and Global Security
Environmental Security/@StrategicDemands
Climate Change News / Earth Right Now
Security Design / Road to Security
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