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Welcome to the GreenPolicy360 eco Operating System (eOS)
GreenPolicy360 believes in "change, change for the better" as Planet Citizens of a blue-green 360° world so magnificently first viewed in December 1968 from the view of the Apollo 8 mission.
We are a MediaWiki, a Global Network, an Operating System, an eOS
We are a 'Green Best Practices' resource hub to use community-by-community, day-by-day.
Our mission statement supports fact finding and the '3 Ds' -- Discussion ➡️ Debate ➡️ Decision-Making
GreenPolicy360 continues a multi-year defense of facts, science, & 'critical thinking skills'.
We have, over decades, supported democratic, constitutional government, human rights, and a vision of a better tomorrow.
GreenPolicy360 supporting ....
A Living Democracy
We recall a quote of Benjamin Franklin responding to a question in 1787 about the newly announced birth of the US as he left Independence Hall after the Constitutional Convention:
We have "a Republic, if you can keep it."
Today's generation, and future generations, would be wise to recall, remember and rethink Franklin's words of warning.
A Case Study of our Field Work
Bringing Online the Democracy Resources of the 'Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions'
DemocracyAlive.com .... Acting to Keep 'Democracy Alive'
Coast-to-Coast, Florida to California and Throughout All the United States ....
Walking the Walk, Generation to Generation ....
We have "a Republic, if you can keep it."
Our GreenLinks online connections reach across our planet.
GreenPolicy360's network has hundreds of millions of visits and millions of shares ...
GreenPolicy360, in the Midst of the Modern Environmental Movement
Through tumultuous times and seas...
For decades now... We continue on an eco-journey...
Over a half century, from the 1960s, we have carried on...
We are still going, and going, and going...
GreenPolicy360's eco-Operating System / eOS
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The Modern Environmental Movement
- A 'Generational Green Movement'
As a Note: One of GreenPolicy360's foremost original goals was to provide models and templates, stories and visions of successful 'green best practices' ' via a 'distributive web' eco Operating System (eOS).
It is of interest to see how our online sites are now being visited, scraped and vacuumed, our data being uploaded for the re-use of chatbot AI businesses in a new era of Artificial Intelligence start ups, myriad applications and purposes.
The GreenPolicy360 database was designed and developed to be shared.
GreenPolicy360's founder carried forward policy, digital technology, and management ideas as an official responsible for a state educational system in the 1990s, and after joining with Aspen Interactive in 2000 he helped to shape with biz dev and as a CEO a database marketing organization that became one of the largest in the US.
Our GreenPolicy360 online metrics now are revealing to us in the 2020s that we/the GreenPolicy360 network are providing large amounts of learning data for database 'chat' model applications, a 'distributive web' in action.
What we especially find fulfilling in this rush to visit and (freely) acquire our data is that a good portion of our stories and best practices are 'original material', memoir, biography, first-hand, up close memories.
We are 'adding value' to the historical record with AI and AI, in turn, is spreading our green model practices and messages community-to-community, far and wide.
The 'modern environmental movement' is being remembered, shared and multiplied. The historical record is being added to, 360°, and together we are turning green visions into reality.
'What does the AI need to know? (W)hat is it that I know that's not on the historical record anywhere?'
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Green creativity, building, GreenLinks, green networking, using all the tools we have, traditional and future-oriented.
Beyond the world wide web and internet, here we are!
Carry on Planet Citizens!!
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"Earth Day Is Every Day and Every Day Is Earth Day"
GRN360 projects -- thousands of Green Best Practices, successful local/regional/national and international models shared... from Democracy support to Legal Enforcement of National Climate Pledges thru Shareable Climate Law & Best Practices, from Resilient Living Coastlines to Protecting Our Living Earth... A to Z and in languages across the world and communities linked across continents, we have worked for decades to network and protect our Living Earth and Quality of Life.
We are open-source and shareable. GreenPolicy360's interactive eOS, 'eco Operating System' supports green values and projects globally. We are connecting green work through interactive, networking. We bring eco-ethics, values-based politics, the Internet and World Wide Web together to empower today's connected citizens.
Over a hundred million GreenPolicy360 users across all the nations of Planet Earth have used y/our online network to make a positive difference. Our GreenLinks additionally share resources, models, and environmental protection solutions. Join in to discover visionary eco-news and "Green Best Practices".
We are a diverse, multi-cultural and multi-national community. The work we do every day brings change and makes a last, positive difference.
We offer a helping hand to each Planet Citizen and deep appreciation to all Planet Citizens for improving, protecting and sustaining Life on Earth.
The GreenPolicy360 network is a clearinghouse and exchange. We identify forward-looking ideas and green success stories. Our community-by-community engagement is an active resource where you can find what works, green policies and practices that are action multipliers.
Take the green best practices offered via Topics and Categories and pass them along.
Be an 'Influencer' and 'Change Maker'. Make a positive difference every day.
GreenPolicy360 highlight the importance of facts and science
Stats - Green Research & Science
Your GreenPolicy360 Founder/Siterunner: Steven J Schmidt (SJS)
- SJS, 2006, Clearwater, Florida
Contact GreenPolicy360 at our terrestrial home base
e-Mail: GreenPolicy360@gmail.com
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"Good science needs good data"
-- Steve Schmidt, GreenPolicy360 Founder-Siterunner
Measure-to-Manage
GreenPolicy360: Our Position on the Use of Science
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Looking Back, Looking Forward
Planet Citizens, Planet Scientists, Preserving & Protecting the Home Planet Earth
'Earthrise' ... Planetary Awareness - https://greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Earthrise_Planetary_Awareness.jpg
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Y/our GreenPolicy360 site and network run on a MediaWiki platform.
Looking back-in-time and with wiki data-points, the original Wikipedia was developed in the early 2000s in St. Petersburg, Florida. GreenPolicy360 was concurrently developed in St. Pete, adopting a wiki platform and an 'agile development model'.
GreenPolicy360 supported "democratization of the web" as a key goal to create open-network sharing focused on 'green best practices'.
GreenPolicy360's founder Steve Schmidt, residing in St. Petersburg from 2000 and a digital media executive of an international, interactive company, launched M Channel as an independent venture. Our mission was to support the growth of a global green politics via 'big tent' connectivity.
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About GreenPolicy360 & StrategicDemands
Wikipedia has been praised for its enabling of the democratization of knowledge, extent of coverage, unique structure, and culture.
The Wikimedia Foundation was established in 2003 in the home of GreenPolicy360, St. Petersburg, Florida, by Jimmy Wales as a nonprofit organization to fund Wikipedia, Wiktionary, and other crowdsourced wiki projects.
GreenPolicy360 brings key elements of the Wikimedia approach and platform forward as we employ the MediaWiki open-source system. Key in our work are facts and science, verifiability and reliable sourcing.
References are essential, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability
Wikipedia, Wikimedia, MediaWiki, and wiki
The wikipedia - mediawiki - wiki network is among the top online networks in the world. Wikipedia itself traces, one of the top ten sites worldwide, traces its founding back to our GreenPolicy360 region, St. Petersburg-Clearwater in Florida, USA. Here is the story of the Wikipedia and why we chose to join the wiki 'open network' to deliver our Green stories, as planet citizens sharing ideas and best practices throughout our fast-connecting home planet.
GreenPolicy360's News, Stories, Media, Best Practices, Initiatives, Projects and Programs have been shared more than tens of millions of times. Our GreenLinks global network enables sharing designed for community-to-community, individual and peer-to-peer distribution. Sharing multiplies the green message, ripples become waves. Creating green waves of change to protect & preserve our Living Earth is a core mission of GreenPolicy360's work.
Ecolivia
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GreenPolicy360's 'Mission Statement' --
"To care for our home, the only home we have"
Planet Citizen Vision of Living Earth
Step up and create a future to positively impact the quality and sustainability of life
We encourage you to employ our eco-resources to launch new initiatives in your community. Share your successes, your learning, join in, nourish and grow. Use the resources offered through GreenPolicy360's GreenLinks
- https://greenpolicy360.net/w/Green_Politics_360
- https://greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Sustainability_Policies
Planet Citizen Action | Environmental protection | Quality of Life
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SJS/GreenPolicy360: We are the first generation to scientifically and systemically monitor the 'Vital Signs' of the Earth...
Earth Right Now | EarthPOV | Earth Observations
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Earth Observing System and an Eco Operating System
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* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Science_Vital_Signs
* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Science_Research_from_Space
GreenPolicy360 Siterunner: We've been advancing, #EarthScience, day-by-day since the launch of #EarthDay in 1970.
Advancing Science, Facts, Technology and Data to Make the Case for Environmental Protection
- 1960s/70s, Beginnings of Planet Citizen Eco-Action, Big Science, and a New Vision
In Memory of Congressman George Brown
- Visionary Leadership, Historic Environmental Achievements
- Creating a Foundation for Today's National & Global 'Green' Movement
Steve Schmidt GreenPolicy360 Siterunner: George E. Brown became known as Mr. Science in Congress and for thirty+ years, I saw my friend George as a patriot who became a Planet Citizen for the ages
We remember George Brown explaining to Gaylord Nelson in a planning mtg how we needed data, climate info w a baseline and access to the data sets for scientists, educators, and public. Rep Brown told the Senator that he'd get the job going in his com't oversight role. He did -- for three decades George Brown shepherded NASA/NOAA/USGS/JPL, a flock of Earth Science missions, programs and their funding. George was referred to over the years as the 'Big Science Congressman' ...
Planet Citizens, Planet Scientists
Read the latest on these 'Vital Signs' data gathering missions...
New Definitions of National Security
NASA
Focus special attention on our "Thin Blue"
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GreenPolicy360 make copious use of many NASA images, particularly regarding #EarthScience missions and our focus on the vital importance of #AtmosphericScience.
Any questions re: use of images can be directed to GreenPolicy360 at GreenPolicy360@gmail.com
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GreenPolicy360 Siterunner:
Memories of the Original Earth Science Mission Statement on NASA and 50+ Years of Leadership
Our GreenPolicy360 work brings historic emphasis to Earth Science and Atmospheric Science research that takes us back to the beginnings of the modern environmental movement and to a mentor, and then colleague of your GreenPolicy360 siterunner, who brought Earth Science to a new level over a nearly four decade career in the U.S. Congress. A tip of our green hat to the memory of Representative George E. Brown and his pioneering vision and generational activism on the Science, Space and Technology Committee.
Envisioning then Engineering & Oversight of Earth Science from Space
- From the Original NASA Mission Statement:
- “To understand and protect our home planet..." 🌎
The Original Mission Statement of NASA ((1958) provided Congressional intent and guidance to the first generation of space programs. George, if he were here, would've done I am certain everything within his power to protect the original mission statement...
“To understand and protect our home planet; to explore the universe and search for life; to inspire the next generation of explorers ... as only NASA can.”
SJS/GreenPolicy360 Founder:
"We are the first generation to scientifically and systemically monitor the 'Vital Signs' of the Earth..."
"Let us work now to expand our vision and act to protect Earth's living systems. The well-being of future generations is in our hands."
From the mid-1960s until 1999, I personally watched a Congressman, George E. Brown take the original NASA 'Mission Statement' and point to a highlighting of Earth Science. As a member and then a chairman of the Congressional oversight committee of Earth Science missions, George taught me and I am sharing what many in George's orbit have worked to do over the years and to bequeath to future generations. As a mentor then friend and colleague, George was a lesson we continue to share. He quietly, not loudly in the spotlight, organized and worked to get the job done. Here is one passage from my memory of 'George'... George E. Brown -- Never give up.... keep on with 'the mission'.
Rep. George E. Brown's memory is a treasured legacy and is featured at GreenPolicy360 -- launching and overseeing Landsat, shaping the US Earth Imaging from Space programs, Digital Archiving (documenting change over time), Atmospheric Science, Earth Observation Systems, NASA/USGS/JPL/NOAA cooperative programs, and as noted in his obituaries the creation of the Environmental Protection Agency (can you picture what it took to persuade President Nixon to buy into the proposed consolidation of agencies and to sign the legislation)...
Rep. Brown was a quiet powerhouse, a mover and shaker behind the scenes and in his own way changed the world for the better... as we say at the top of each of the pages at GreenPolicy360, each of us in our own way 'can make a positive difference by stepping up & doing our best.'
The examples we speak of at GreenPolicy360 go on and on... we point at highlights of George's as models, large and small, a NASA/USGS Landsat program that truly began Earth Science using satellites ... George Brown shepherded and in an oversight capacity in Congress for decades oversaw this revolution of capabilities. In the 1960s monumental new technologies were invented that Rep. Brown pushed forward -- a fortuitous shift in U.S. remote imaging capabilities to digital, 'multispectral' scanning. In particular, the Landsat program took off and the data that began coming back from near-orbit Landsat satellites forever changed how we see, study and interact with our world.
Here is a search of articles from the GreenPolicy360 archive that reveal rarely discussed yet momentous highlights of the Landsat era, the beginnings of the Earth Observing System (EOS), and Earth Science missions now in their fifth decade, all of which have George Brown's signatures on them and guidance behind them.
Zoom in on the Multispectral Scanner and "The Woman Who Brought Us the World" -- Virginia Tower Norwood.
The Landsat mission with its #EarthScience observations set in motion what became multi-decade measuring of changing Earth Systems -- https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Landsat_data_users_handbook
SJS: George Brown worked tirelessly in Congress. With saving and protecting the environment as a key goal, George moved conservative and liberal politicians in new directions. George saw connections that transcended states and nations. He saw interconnections and new roles to protect health and safety. George was was central in proposing and setting up an EPA as an umbrella agency to coordinate environmental federal and federal-state efforts... George was a "first-mover" as the term has come to be known. He had a big-picture plan and set out to accomplish it. He succeeded on multiple fronts, pushing forward the idea and the vision for 'omnibus' legislation. The Environmental Protection Agency was founded and historic initial green laws and regulations for environmental protection and security were passed.
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George was among the first voices to be raised warning about the environmental threat of climate disruption and, although few realize, he was at the forefront of the initial efforts to study the climate, pushing the development of initial atmospheric science programs and missions of NASA and public/private research. He combined his engineering skills with his legislative reach.
The First National (and International) Climate Legislation
Representative George E. Brown, in fact, drafted the "National Climate Program Act" of 1978, which became the first national (and international) climate change legislation.
1978 Climate Act PDF via GreenPolicy360
Rep. George Brown brought his extensive work with U.S. top scientists, featured in the work of 1977's 'Energy and Climate Report' of the National Academy of Sciences and the follow 1979 'National Academy Climate Science Report' that was presciently accurate in its predictions.
The Congressman-Engineer emphasized, constantly to me and in his work, the essential importance of having accurate data in order to make the best possible policy and engineering decisions. He imprinted, if I could use this word to its fullest meaning, the vital nature of gathering information with studies over time to monitor changes. He was in a position, holding one of the most powerful positions in government shaping policies of science -- atmospheric science, earth science, big science -- and he felt the weight of his responsibilities. He was visionary in how he saw science as key to understanding the challenges of climate change.
Whenever we see the NASA 'marching directive' "You can manage only what you can measure", think of George. The original mission statement of our nation's first ventures into space began with studying the home planet. Measuring and monitoring became a mantra of Earth Science...
The Congressman left us a legacy of vision and action against threats to the atmosphere, earth's life systems, and sustainability.
We have, all who believe in the importance of science, carried forward his thoughts over the years since the 1960s and 1970s. As best we could, we have carried on against deep odds and opposition by those with other goals.
- A Historical Perspective on Its Role in Environmental Protection
Representative George Brown was a key player in legislation founding the Environmental Protection Agency.
As the LA Times noted (without pomp or circumstance) in George's obituary in 1999: "He championed the creation of the federal Environmental Protection Agency". The creation of the EPA was in many ways Congressman George Brown's vision achieved..."
The founding of the EPA was 'natality', a birth of an idea ... Listening to George envision how a new being combining research, new science applied to protecting health (clean air and water at first), the a whole earth environment, was more than an eye-opening experience. This was life changing creativity.
The vision of the "Whole Earth" that began with unprecedented Apollo photos on the cover of Life magazine in January 1969 led to a coming together of education, students 'teach-ins', scientific space missions studying earth systems for the first time, and popular demands for environmental protections.
A leader and a chairperson on the House science committee for over 30 years, George Brown was also listening and legislatively engineered an array of science efforts.
Environmental protection | George E. Brown Jr
"My friend George"... In His Time, a Visionary Leader in Science
- Changing Our World, Advancing Historic Environmental Achievements
A Foundational Eco-Decade
Generational politics & Earth science: We are a generation of environmental policies, programs & law
Here's to his vision and political work over decades, from peace organizing to the first Earth Day and far beyond, a tip of our GreenPolicy360 hat to friend, mentor, and colleague, Rep. George E. Brown.
Our friend George and the first 'Earth Day'
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Looking back at meetings and talks between Representative Brown and Senator Nelson
As we are reminded of student-initiated peace 'teach-ins' that inspired a US Senator to proposed a similar nationwide day of 'teach-ins' and environmental-related educational events
Personal Earth Day Memories
- On the 50th Anniversary and Its Organizing
- Original Art by 'OS' Olivia Schmidt / BY-NC-CC
GreenPolicy360 & Strategic Demands
Visit our Associate Strategic Demands for more on peace and war, new definitions of national security, policy and environmental security.
GreenPolicy360 is closely associated with the work of StrategicDemands.com and its focus on the threat of nuclear weapons.
- https://strategicdemands.com/about/
- https://strategicdemands.com/nuclear-issues-cold-war-2-0/
- https://strategicdemands.com/nuclear-arms-race-3-0/
Together with #StrategicDemands - #StratDem, we look to the need for "New Definitions of Security."
Today the ideals and ideas of peace that began in a serious way in opposition to war and imminent threat of nuclear disaster continue on .... a movement, a political cause, and now a diverse mix across the globe, employing the Internet with many voices, colors, ages, especially young people joining in. GreenPolicy360 and Strategic Demands, GreenPolicy360's associate with a geo-politics emphasis, continue on year after year, decade after decade....
Green, environmental, national and global.... we are strongly confronting and working to solve our generation's existential challenges. Reaching across our home planet, touching and interacting with planet citizens, looking to share solutions to the pressing problems and challenges of our generation.
Read international news and personal stories of many special newsmakers -- Representative George E. Brown, Daniel Ellsberg, Roger Morris...
GreenPolicy360's origins and green politics connect deeply with our associate, Strategic Demands. Our mutual work over many years has centered on nuclear weapons proliferation -- and Nuclear nonproliferations. We focus on offering solutions for control of the nuclear threat and environmental security.
Looking back many years to GreenPolicy360 founder-siterunner's anti-nuke origins in the 1960s and 70s, we come now to 2023 -- and a PBS "American Experience" special event film.
The film reveals how close the world came to nuclear disaster in 1969, and how the 'Vietnam Moratorium' and peace movement stopped planned nuclear use and nuclear war
The role the Vietnam Moratorium peace movement had in 1969 acted to prevent President Nixon from ordering the use of nuclear weapons against North Vietnam
Watch scenes from the PBS 'Movement & Madman' Documentary here -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PfhHcq-IUQo
Watch a sequence from the PBS 2023 documentary, The Movement and the Madman
Click above, read, watch... and reflect.
More from Strategic Demands and GreenPolicy360:
- https://strategicdemands.com/nuclear-arms-race-3-0/
- https://strategicdemands.com/nuclear-issues-cold-war-2-0/
- https://strategicdemands.com/new-definitions-national-security/
- https://strategicdemands.com/now-is-the-time-to-advance-new-definitions-of-national-security/
- https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/New_Definitions_of_National_Security
- https://strategicdemands.com/new-definitions-of-security/
- https://strategicdemands.com/eco-nomics-new-definitions-security/
- https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/File:Surviving_Victory.png
- https://strategicdemands.com/surviving-victory-updated/
- https://strategicdemands.com/surviving-victory-from-the-archive/
As Planet Citizens we are interconnected global citizens ... "Earthrise" .
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