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== [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/PlanetCitizen'''PlanetCitizen''' News] ==

'''''October 2014'''''

[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/Hello2.jpg '''''Looking out at our Planet from the International Space Station''''']

[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Pictures_from_ISS '''''Where are you? Find Astropix of your place on #PlanetEarth''''']

[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Look_at_how_thin_our_atmosphere_is '''''Perspective, real perspective...'''''] [http://www.pinterest.com/stratdem/environmental-security/ '''''A "thin" layer of atmosphere...''''']  

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=== About PlanetCitizen === 

'''''#PlanetCitizen''''' '''''#EarthPOV'''''

A coming era of '''#Earth360 exploration''', using the tools of the digital age and Internet connectivity, is making it possible to see Planet Earth in a [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/EarthPOV multi-dimension spectrum] and to begin studying life-enabling systems (and life-threatening changes) in ways never before possible. 

These space observatories are delivering "intelligence reports" in effect, strategic insights that can change our knowledge and perceptions of who we are and how we look at a '''shared, common future'''. 

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

We look out at a critical, developing field of [http://strategicdemands.com/environmental-security/ '''#EnvironmentalSecurity'''] as a generation of voyagers -- '''Planet Citizens on a Blue Planet'''.


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''PlanetCitizen is adding forward-looking vision to "Greening our Blue Planet"''

''Like our sister site, EarthPOV, PlanetCitizen holds 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 needed to 'measure and manage' #PlanetEarth in sustainable, productive and life enhancing ways.'''''

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=== An API for the Planet [http://t.co/dfsywixUg6 #PlanetLabs @Open Source Conference] === 

[http://vimeo.com/88602839 '''Mission: Democratizing Access to Information About the Changing Planet'''] 

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[http://nyti.ms/1BzljLJ Planet Labs/NYT] Planet Labs, newly #ISS deployed Doves [http://aviationweek.com/space/smartphone-advances-drive-smallsats Smartphones in space!]

[http://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Doves_flocking_Planet_Labs#Micro-satellites_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]

'''Planet Labs 'Dove' micro-satellites''' [http://www.planet.com/flock1/] 

"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." [http://www.planet.com/] [https://www.planet.com/pulse/ Pulse] [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/Doves_close-up-of-cubesats-leaving-nanoracks-deployer-2014-02-11_m.jpg] [http://www.greenpolicy360.net/mw/images/Doves_launched_from_ISS_float_against_Earth_horizon_m.jpg] [http://gizmodo.com/meet-the-flockers-iss-launches-low-cost-earth-imaging-1517232660]

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=== [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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== '''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''''']

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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/]
 

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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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