Strategic Demands & GreenPolicy360 Siterunner: #EarthScience News, from then to now … In the late 1960s we witnessed the beginnings of a modern environmental movement and we saw the science work of NASA-NOAA-USGS pioneering US efforts. From the initial Earth Science missions of NASA, planning purposefully set in motion the ongoing collection of Earth data
Generation Green
Beginnings of a Modern Environmental Movement
https://greenpolicy360.net/images/1969_beginnings_of_the_modern_environmental_movement.pdf
A First “Earth Day“
Green generation ‘eco-Teach-ins’ across the nation
* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Category:Earth_Day
* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Day
We were looking to protect our Living Earth
* https://www.greenpolicy360.net/w/Earth_Science_Vital_Signs
Today, we look back after five+ decades of Earth Science
Studying Earth Systems, we have built with scientific endeavors a foundation of environmental knowledge and awareness.
‘Earth observing systems’ (EOS) went from visions in the 1960s and 70s of what data and science was needed to following decades of programs and missions that acted to deliver a treasure trove that opened eyes and began providing today’s Climate Science, Atmospheric and Earth science.
https://greenpolicy360.net/w/Planet_Citizen_Vision_of_Living_Earth
https://greenpolicy360.net/w/Planet_Earth_Perspective
Here is a personal remembrance of those early days, beginning with… the launch of #EarthDay in 1970.
Remembering our friend Congressman George E. Brown who was a prime mover of a first-generation of Earth Observation (EO) missions. We needed data, George explained and, in his role on the oversight committee and a mover & shaker over three decades, he put his physics/engineering background into practice. George drafter the first national climate legislation and multiple accomplishments began and were managed by this good man.
Climate data and Landsat came forward and a baseline of dynamic Earth systems information was collected. Access was provided to the data sets for scientists, educators, and public.
George 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’ man … he was an amazing visionary and doer.
As another Earth Day approaches, we at Strategic Demands tip our hat to a man who truly understood “national security and global security”.
