There is now a global network of satellite environmental information called GEONETCast. Access is free and it is a resource for all kinds of projects worldwide. This is over my head so I’ve included a description from their site in this post:

“GEONETCast is a global network of satellite based data dissemination systems providing environmental data to a world-wide user community. The current partners within the GEONETCast initiative include the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) and EUMETSAT, as well as many prospective data provider partners.

Aim of GEONETCast
GEONETCast is a milestone in the emerging Global Earth Observation System of Systems (GEOSS) that is being coordinated by the intergovernmental Group on Earth Observations (GEO), and is designed to put a vast range of essential environmental data at the fingertips of users around the globe. This user-driven, user-friendly and low-cost information dissemination service aims to provide global information as a basis for sound decision-making in a number of critical areas, including public health, energy, agriculture, weather, water, climate, natural disasters and ecosystems. Accessing and sharing such a range of vital data will yield societal benefits through improved human health and well-being, environment management and economic growth.
Within the existing framework, GEONETCast is already partially realising this goal with environmental data exchange and data delivery available in Europe, Africa and the Americas. An additional data exchanged is now being established covering the Asia Pacific region.

The following products and services are being made available to the GEONETCast user community:
Meteosat image data
GOES East and West image data
FY-2 image data
Land and Ocean Sea Ice Satellite Application Facility (SAF) products
EUMETSAT meteorological products
NOAA-NESDIS meteorological products
NOAA-NESDIS Ocean colour and sea surface temperature products
VEGETATION products from VITO
MODIS Ocean colour products
In-situ and observational data”

Worldchanging is a website dedicated to personal action and it is now a comprehensive book on the subject. As the effects of climate change and global warming accelerate, it is easy to wonder how any of us as individuals can do anything about it that really makes a difference. Worldchanging is about personal action and how small actions, when aggregated across millions of people, can change things.

This may very well be a handbook for our future.