Joe Firmage – one-time Novell exec, successful entrepreneur, and infamous believer in extraterrestrial life – has a new project, this one firmly grounded on planet Earth.
Here’s an e-mail from Firmage that landed in my inbox this morning:
30 years ago Earth Day was established to remind us each year, for at least one day, how important it is that we understand, appreciate and renew our planet. Today, I am pleased to share with you a preview a major endeavor that will be unveiled later this week. It is called the Earth Portal – a new non-commercial destination on the Web for news, learning and debate about the state and future of our environment.
Backed by hundreds of the world’s top scientists spanning 49 countries, the Earth Portal will enable a new community to emerge, directly connecting scientists, journalists, policy makers and you.
Watch the vision of the Earth Portal now at https://www.earthportal.org. You can also a download a high-quality version of the video there.
Given the trends we all are seeing more clearly every day, the future of our planet is at stake in the decisions we make in the next few years, and the Earth Portal community may make a pivotal difference in that future.
It launches in five days. Join us on April 27 and let’s make every day Earth Day!
Not much to go on in the way of details. Request in for more.
While the e-mail from Firmage provided no names of those hundreds of scientists backing the project, here’s a thoroughly random half-dozen picked off the video’s rapidly scrolling list: Peter Saundry, executive director of the National Council for Science and the Environment; Cutler Cleveland, a professor at Boston University’s Center for Energy and Environmental Studies; Rita Colwell, chairman of Canon U.S. Life Sciences and former director of the National Science Foundation; Robert Costanza, director of the Gund Institute for Ecological Economics at the University of Vermont; Robert Corell, senior policy fellow with the Atmospheric Policy Program of the American Meteorological Society; and, Thomas Homer-Dixon, director of the Trudeau Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Toronto.
