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== '''The Big Picture: Earth from Space''' ==


The world of space is a world in flux. The term "New Space" has come to represent a first generation of start ups that are designing, building and launching small, mini- and micro-satellites. 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 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.

Let's start by looking at an astro-space establishment, the images of earth and data about earth being sent back from space by established multi-billion dollar companies/ government companies and [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Imaging-New_Space 'New Space' companies] that are now on radar and reporting back with multi-spectra #Earth360 data.

Start with NEX, NASA's version of ''crowdsourcing''... NASA's social media experiment. Ready? Are you interested in using your digital skills to help the government/NASA with environmental security? Perhaps you might start here - [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/NASA_EarthSciences,_Challenges_Public_to_Join_In '''The NEX Challenge''']

Add your talent to the grand project of seeing with an [http://www.earthpov.com '''EarthPOV'''] -- so that we can make informed decisions and policy... [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]

Observe, consider, act - [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Look_at_how_thin_our_atmosphere_is "The Big Picture"]

NextGen #earthscience in an era of #climatechange and #globalsecurity threats...

Join up with '''GreenPolicy360''' and share our [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/GreenLinks'''GreenLinks'''] and [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Friends_of_GreenPolicy360#GreenPolicy360_Open_Data_Distributive_Web_Online_Resources '''GP360 Open Data''']. Time to get going -- planet citizens @work

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

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


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'''''August 2014'''''

'''''Citizens of planet earth''' typically watch meteor showers by looking up. But this remarkable view, captured on 8/13/11 by astronaut Ron Garan, caught a Perseid meteor by looking down. From Garan's perspective onboard the ISS orbiting at an altitude of about 380 kilometers, the Perseid meteors streak below. The glowing comet dust grains are traveling at about 60 kilometers per second through the denser atmosphere around 100 kilometers above Earth's surface.''''' -- SETI Institute [http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2011/09aug_perseids2011/] 

'''''Lettuce in space''''' [http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2014/14feb_10years/] [http://science.nasa.gov/science-news/science-at-nasa/2014/25apr_lettuce/ Come to think of it - Where is Bruce Dern these days?] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Silent_Running Silent Running]  and...

'''''Douglas Trumbull's VFX vision in Silent Running and beyond continues on in our memory banks''''' [http://douglastrumbull.com/] [http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/05/movies/awardsseason/douglas-trumbull-honored-for-technology-hes-still-creating.html] [http://variety.com/2012/digital/news/trumbull-lights-up-hypercinema-1118050369/] [http://www.firstshowing.net/2011/doug-trumbull-wants-to-make-a-120fps-3d-space-adventure-movie/]
 

[[File:-Earth360 Perseid ISS AstroGaran.jpg]]


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=== Environmental Security ===

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

[http://www.planetcitizen.org '''#PlanetCitizen''']

[http://strategicdemands.com/environmental-security/ '''#EnvironmentalSecurity''']


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