Our many M Channel projects, ventures and co-ventures have thrived and from our terrestrial home in Clearwater, Florida, we have continued creating green-blue waves across our home planet.
M Channel’s green best practices are turning visions into reality.
Our key green projects and programs, such as GreenPolicy360, Strategic Demands, Climate & Environmental Law Global, are reporting metrics reaching & engaging millions of viewers monthly. We are continuing to pioneer online sharing with MediaWiki platform, database, and online media partners.
Looking forward, we realize that 2024 is shaping up to be a very challenging year, in a world of myriad conflicts.
We can promise as we have often said to our GreenLinks friends, associates, educators and activists — “All of us and each of us can all make a positive difference by stepping up & doing our best.”
Celebrating the 1968 NASA mission that brought us “Earthrise”
And flashing forward to the DSCOVR-EPIC flight in 2015 when GreenPolicy360 assisted NASA’s mission team releasing first images of Earth ‘from a million miles’ — and now 2019 with NASA Earth science needed more than ever
From its origins, NASA has studied our planet in novel ways, using ingenious tools to study physical processes at work—from beneath the crust to the edge of the atmosphere. We look at it in macrocosm and microcosm, from the flow of one mountain stream to the flow of jet streams. Most of all, we look at Earth as a system, examining the cycles and processes—the water cycle, the carbon cycle, ocean circulation, the movement of heat—that interact and influence each other in a complex, dynamic dance across seasons and decades.
For all of the dynamism and detail we can observe from orbit, sometimes it is worth stepping back and simply admiring Earth. It is a beautiful, awe-inspiring place, and it is the only world most of us will ever know.
Of all celestial bodies within reach or view, as far as we can see, out to the edge, the most wonderful and marvelous and mysterious is turning out to be our own planet earth. There is nothing to match it anywhere, not yet anyway. — Lewis Thomas
Feb 12, 2015 / DSCOVR-EPIC Is Launched with SpaceX
GreenPolicy360 assists NASA’s mission team:
The DSCOVR satellite with its EPIC cam, PlasMag & NISTAR instrument package is on the way… a million miles toward the Sun then ‘parked’ in orbit to send data of/to earth, incl first whole earth photos since 1972.
Since 1972 and Apollo 18, the modern-day Earthrise- and Blue Marble-like photos have had to be stitched together from composite images. No more. With the successful launch and testing of the DSCOVR ‘deep space’ satellite with its EPIC imaging system, we have, as planet citizens, a new whole Earth perspective.
DSCOVR w EPIC cam, PlasMag & NISTAR
The Earth science data will be processed at NASA’s DSCOVR Science Operations Center and archived and distributed by NASA’s Atmospheric Science Data Center. Earth Polychromatic Imaging Camera (EPIC)
For those in the US old enough to remember the early days of network television, TV stars on kids shows played a special role in inspiring dreams. The beginning of the “Apollo Era” and the race to go into space was accompanied by educational science TV and, fortunately, the beginning of “hands on” experiments and visionary teachers. Looking back, we especially remember Don Herbert, “Mr. Wizard”, who inspired a generation of young dreamers who went on to create and engineer the programs of ‘deep space’ and ‘earth science’, a legacy that continues in today’s pioneering, critically vital earth monitoring from space. We continue to track these historic missions…
Special thanks to Don Herbert and to all the the science educators who opened eyes of a generation and lit a torch of enlightened science at work.
Bill Nye: “Don Herbert’s techniques and performances helped create the United States’ first generation of homegrown rocket scientists just in time to respond to Sputnik. He sent us to the moon. He changed the world.”
(M Channel’s founder, as a young book editor in NY, edited Don’s science books.)
