Did you ever wonder if Space Technology and the space community could help the Earth's environment? Climate change, pollution, desertification, etc. are changing the ecological balance of our planet leading to loss of life and severe problems for humans at large. SGAC is at an early stage trying to scope out how Space Agencies and Technologies can help our planet, perhaps on a planetary scale. We need your help for it – together we can save the world and explore space at the same time. How? By delivering the correct message to the people who can most benefit from it.

Carbon Neutral Space Agencies

One project is to find ways to get the space agencies carbon-neutral, so by being role-models they can initiate governments to follow.

Space Technology for Earth

Another project is that the technology to change Earth's climate already exists. Space agencies can utilize the technology used for habitats for space exploration to provide Earth based applications. The same challenges of closed loop life support, where the climate is monitored and where necessary, controlled, and waste is recycled back into the system sustainably, can be applied to our very own spaceship, spaceship Earth.

This project aims to collect the necessary information to set the right strategy to convince world leaders, the public and space industry that this is a win-win situation for everyone. We need to find a convincing business case that multinational companies who control the current economic resources can make similarly successful businesses through farming crops, for fuel and food, tackling famine and disease as well as distributing energy for transport. I would urge you to take a look at Dr. J. Craig Venter's ideas.

Win win for all means people don't have to go out of business, they can use the knowledge learnt through 50 years of space exploration to make old industries such as farming more efficient, or make money from harnessing solar power, and for our goals, this vast use of space technology on Earth can bridge the gaps in our data our modest space programmes can tackle, making our future exploration of space safer, more reliable, and more common place.

Ad astra, by way of taking control of our own spaceship.

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If you would like to participate, please go to the Space and Environment forum.

For questions and comments Contact Dave Haslam, the project lead.