Editing Sojourners in the North (section)

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

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

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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 #earthobserving 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 as a common #biosphere and #ecosystem comes responsibility for our shared security.

Onto first steps... '''We are all connected''' and wherever we are, geographically, nationally, we share a common ground. 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 onboard the [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ozXVgQUUPNQ "only home we've ever known."]

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

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