Bill Greer
@billfgreer.bsky.social
Building a dedicated satellite for humanitarian aid and disaster planning, mitigation, response, and recovery. Open data, GIS, Remote Sensing, and creating the best possible future.
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One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
The Shutdown of U.S.A.I.D. Has Already Killed Hundreds of Thousands
The short documentary “Rovina’s Choice” tells the story of what goes when aid goes.
newyorkermag.visitlink.me
November 6, 2025 at 9:00 PM
One analytical model shows that, as of November 5th, the dismantling of U.S.A.I.D. has already caused the deaths of 600,000 people, two-thirds of them children. https://newyorkermag.visitlink.me/jUzNSc
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We're honored to serve as fiscal sponsor for Common Space, as they work to build a high-res satellite constellation for humanitarian aid. If you use sat imagery for social good, fill out their survey to help shape their 🛰️ mission requirements @billfgreer.bsky.social
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November 7, 2025 at 2:57 PM
We're honored to serve as fiscal sponsor for Common Space, as they work to build a high-res satellite constellation for humanitarian aid. If you use sat imagery for social good, fill out their survey to help shape their 🛰️ mission requirements @billfgreer.bsky.social
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
@commonspace.bsky.social Just won the Kluz Prize for Peace Tech! www.kluzprize.org/updates/from...
We're humbled and completely stoked to have won this prize, which validates the need for the data, the mission we've set up to accomplish, but also highlights the massive challenges ahead! Lets Go!
We're humbled and completely stoked to have won this prize, which validates the need for the data, the mission we've set up to accomplish, but also highlights the massive challenges ahead! Lets Go!
Kluz Prize for PeaceTech
Unlocking the Power of PeaceTech
www.kluzprize.org
September 22, 2025 at 11:38 AM
@commonspace.bsky.social Just won the Kluz Prize for Peace Tech! www.kluzprize.org/updates/from...
We're humbled and completely stoked to have won this prize, which validates the need for the data, the mission we've set up to accomplish, but also highlights the massive challenges ahead! Lets Go!
We're humbled and completely stoked to have won this prize, which validates the need for the data, the mission we've set up to accomplish, but also highlights the massive challenges ahead! Lets Go!
I was on a podcast talking about Common Space: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQof...
I can't stand listening to myself speak, so let me know if i was any good.
I can't stand listening to myself speak, so let me know if i was any good.
Earth Observed | Episode 1: Bill Greer | How Nonprofit Satellites Could Change Everything
YouTube video by The Leadership Lab
www.youtube.com
August 21, 2025 at 12:38 PM
I was on a podcast talking about Common Space: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xQof...
I can't stand listening to myself speak, so let me know if i was any good.
I can't stand listening to myself speak, so let me know if i was any good.
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Posting for reach because I dont know how the Blue Sky Algorithm works: The Moral Case for a Humanitarian Satellite: www.linkedin.com/pulse/moral-...
It's about time that the space race included missions that actually help the people.
#Remotesensing #CivilSociety #humanitarian #GIS
It's about time that the space race included missions that actually help the people.
#Remotesensing #CivilSociety #humanitarian #GIS
A Moral Case for a Humanitarian Satellite:
At what point does inaction become unconscionable?
What does it say about our world when we spend over $54 billion a year on defense and intelligence satellites to spy on each other - yet cannot dedicate even one satellite to saving lives? We take pic...
www.linkedin.com
August 15, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Posting for reach because I dont know how the Blue Sky Algorithm works: The Moral Case for a Humanitarian Satellite: www.linkedin.com/pulse/moral-...
It's about time that the space race included missions that actually help the people.
#Remotesensing #CivilSociety #humanitarian #GIS
It's about time that the space race included missions that actually help the people.
#Remotesensing #CivilSociety #humanitarian #GIS
Making the moral case for a humanitarian satellite: www.linkedin.com/pulse/moral-...
#remotesensing #space #GIS #geospatial #GIS4Good
#remotesensing #space #GIS #geospatial #GIS4Good
A Moral Case for a Humanitarian Satellite:
At what point does inaction become unconscionable?
What does it say about our world when we spend over $54 billion a year on defense and intelligence satellites to spy on each other - yet cannot dedicate even one satellite to saving lives? We take pic...
www.linkedin.com
August 15, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Making the moral case for a humanitarian satellite: www.linkedin.com/pulse/moral-...
#remotesensing #space #GIS #geospatial #GIS4Good
#remotesensing #space #GIS #geospatial #GIS4Good
Hi @bsky.app, At @commonspace.bsky.social we’re building a hi-res satellite for humanitarian aid & disaster response. If you use satellite imagery for good, help us validate the need by taking our survey: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #Sat4Good #HumanitarianTech #geospatial #remotesensing
A satellite for the people // demand assessment
Welcome! We're with Common Space, a nonprofit dedicated to catalyzing an independent, people-focused satellite mission. Read more about our thinking here > www.commonspace.world
Thanks for taking the ...
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May 19, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Hi @bsky.app, At @commonspace.bsky.social we’re building a hi-res satellite for humanitarian aid & disaster response. If you use satellite imagery for good, help us validate the need by taking our survey: docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F... #Sat4Good #HumanitarianTech #geospatial #remotesensing
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The New York Times is the first to put out comprehensive estimates on the cost of a year without U.S.A.I.D. and they’re higher than I thought:
- 1.65 million deaths from AIDS
- 500,000 from lack of vaccines
- 550,000 from lack of food aid
- 290,000 from malaria
- 310,000 from TB
- 1.65 million deaths from AIDS
- 500,000 from lack of vaccines
- 550,000 from lack of food aid
- 290,000 from malaria
- 310,000 from TB
Killing children is by design, I'm afraid. "Pro-natalists" like Musk claim they aren't racist, but their pressure to have children is solely focused on white women, while they back policies that literally kill of non-white children.
He's a eugenicist.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
He's a eugenicist.
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...
Opinion | Musk Said No One Has Died Since Aid Was Cut. That Isn’t True.
A journey through the front lines of global poverty shows that when the world’s richest men slash aid for the world’s poorest children, the result is sickness, starvation and death.
www.nytimes.com
March 15, 2025 at 4:42 PM
The New York Times is the first to put out comprehensive estimates on the cost of a year without U.S.A.I.D. and they’re higher than I thought:
- 1.65 million deaths from AIDS
- 500,000 from lack of vaccines
- 550,000 from lack of food aid
- 290,000 from malaria
- 310,000 from TB
- 1.65 million deaths from AIDS
- 500,000 from lack of vaccines
- 550,000 from lack of food aid
- 290,000 from malaria
- 310,000 from TB
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Life is about to make a big change for me. I will be leaving my full time graphic design job (that I have worked in for the past 14 years) in early April to vend and freelance full time. I am scared, but really desperate to make art. I love drawing.
March 15, 2025 at 8:25 PM
Life is about to make a big change for me. I will be leaving my full time graphic design job (that I have worked in for the past 14 years) in early April to vend and freelance full time. I am scared, but really desperate to make art. I love drawing.
Common Space (@commonspace.bsky.social ) is trying to create a new, consistent and reliable data stream (Satellite Imagery) to support and create a new baseline for humanitarian action. This article by @newhumanitarian.bsky.social calls out exactly why that mission is so important. Time to step up!
March 10, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Common Space (@commonspace.bsky.social ) is trying to create a new, consistent and reliable data stream (Satellite Imagery) to support and create a new baseline for humanitarian action. This article by @newhumanitarian.bsky.social calls out exactly why that mission is so important. Time to step up!
One of the reasons we started Common Space was to make high-resolution optical data open & accessible for humanitarian aid. Right now, the commercial imagery market is dominated by defense & intelligence—which means access is limited, even when lives are at stake.
kyivindependent.com/maxar-techno...
kyivindependent.com/maxar-techno...
Maxar Technologies reportedly restricts Ukraine's access to satellite imagery
Kyiv has relied on high-resolution satellite images for defense and strategic planning, tracking Russian troop movements, assessing battlefield conditions, and monitoring Russian infrastructure damage...
kyivindependent.com
March 7, 2025 at 4:55 PM
One of the reasons we started Common Space was to make high-resolution optical data open & accessible for humanitarian aid. Right now, the commercial imagery market is dominated by defense & intelligence—which means access is limited, even when lives are at stake.
kyivindependent.com/maxar-techno...
kyivindependent.com/maxar-techno...
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I dont normally re-read books, but just re-read these:
The Death of Expertise by @radiofreetom.bsky.social
The End is Just the Beginning by @peterzeihan.bsky.social
Winner Takes All by @anandwrites.bsky.social
Capital and Ideology by Thomas Piketty
All Bangers, all relevant, and recommended.
The Death of Expertise by @radiofreetom.bsky.social
The End is Just the Beginning by @peterzeihan.bsky.social
Winner Takes All by @anandwrites.bsky.social
Capital and Ideology by Thomas Piketty
All Bangers, all relevant, and recommended.
February 27, 2025 at 4:46 AM
I dont normally re-read books, but just re-read these:
The Death of Expertise by @radiofreetom.bsky.social
The End is Just the Beginning by @peterzeihan.bsky.social
Winner Takes All by @anandwrites.bsky.social
Capital and Ideology by Thomas Piketty
All Bangers, all relevant, and recommended.
The Death of Expertise by @radiofreetom.bsky.social
The End is Just the Beginning by @peterzeihan.bsky.social
Winner Takes All by @anandwrites.bsky.social
Capital and Ideology by Thomas Piketty
All Bangers, all relevant, and recommended.
Things that know where they are can act on their location. Spatially enabled things have increased financial and functional utility. So far that has been people, with the hope that AI will get there soon, with #geoAI. Is spatial reasoning necessary for General AI?
February 24, 2025 at 4:08 PM
Things that know where they are can act on their location. Spatially enabled things have increased financial and functional utility. So far that has been people, with the hope that AI will get there soon, with #geoAI. Is spatial reasoning necessary for General AI?
This is me… come hang out at the North51 Conference (www.n51.ca) in Canmore, Canada 🇨🇦 This conference has been one of the most consistently thought-provoking conferences in the geospatial schedule. Let me know if you’ll be there as well! @north51conference.bsky.social
February 10, 2025 at 9:26 PM
This is me… come hang out at the North51 Conference (www.n51.ca) in Canmore, Canada 🇨🇦 This conference has been one of the most consistently thought-provoking conferences in the geospatial schedule. Let me know if you’ll be there as well! @north51conference.bsky.social
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When my house and community burned - where was the satellite information? A very raw blog post I am putting up so folks in the satellite, geospatial and tech fields can listen firsthand why I think we are failing the situations that need us the most.
www.linkedin.com/pulse/when-o...
www.linkedin.com/pulse/when-o...
When our community burned where was the satellite information?
Video of our home burned down taken by a neighbor after the Palisades Fire. I am writing this as a follow-up to my brief post last week showing a video of our home destroyed by the Palisades fire.
www.linkedin.com
January 14, 2025 at 4:43 PM
When my house and community burned - where was the satellite information? A very raw blog post I am putting up so folks in the satellite, geospatial and tech fields can listen firsthand why I think we are failing the situations that need us the most.
www.linkedin.com/pulse/when-o...
www.linkedin.com/pulse/when-o...
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Satellite Imagery is used extensively in open-source investigative research, in this guide tech-fellow Agnes Cameron explains how some satellite images reveal more than the eye can see. www.bellingcat.com/resources/20...
A Beginner’s Guide to Seeing More With Satellite Imagery
Multispectral satellite images can reveal useful information about the world, such as mining activity and changes in vegetation.
www.bellingcat.com
January 10, 2025 at 3:40 PM
Satellite Imagery is used extensively in open-source investigative research, in this guide tech-fellow Agnes Cameron explains how some satellite images reveal more than the eye can see. www.bellingcat.com/resources/20...
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Maxar satellite imaging captured the destruction of the Los Angeles fires. In Altadena, California, entire neighbourhood blocks were completely burned (l).
Shortwave infrared imagery is blended into the (r) image showing the hundreds of fires that consumed the community.
Shortwave infrared imagery is blended into the (r) image showing the hundreds of fires that consumed the community.
January 9, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Maxar satellite imaging captured the destruction of the Los Angeles fires. In Altadena, California, entire neighbourhood blocks were completely burned (l).
Shortwave infrared imagery is blended into the (r) image showing the hundreds of fires that consumed the community.
Shortwave infrared imagery is blended into the (r) image showing the hundreds of fires that consumed the community.
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Satellite imagery shows houses burned down, roads closed, and the fires spreading across Los Angeles.
Satellite images show the scale of the destruction from LA's wildfires
Satellite imagery shows houses burned down, roads closed, and the fires spreading across Los Angeles.
www.businessinsider.com
January 9, 2025 at 3:15 PM
Satellite imagery shows houses burned down, roads closed, and the fires spreading across Los Angeles.
Happy New Years Everyone!
December 31, 2024 at 9:45 PM
Happy New Years Everyone!
Interesting to see the 2024 National Plan for Civil Earth Observations. Highlight for me was "Goal 1. Advance Science-Informed Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Activities"
Lots of conversation about direction, but it all feels strategic, not tactical.
www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
Lots of conversation about direction, but it all feels strategic, not tactical.
www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
www.whitehouse.gov
December 16, 2024 at 10:57 PM
Interesting to see the 2024 National Plan for Civil Earth Observations. Highlight for me was "Goal 1. Advance Science-Informed Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation Activities"
Lots of conversation about direction, but it all feels strategic, not tactical.
www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
Lots of conversation about direction, but it all feels strategic, not tactical.
www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/u...
spacenews.com/why-the-eart...
Nice to see a lot of agreement on the problem, and some new solutions to how to fix it, i'm not sure i'm convinced of this approach, but love to see the focus on solutions.
Nice to see a lot of agreement on the problem, and some new solutions to how to fix it, i'm not sure i'm convinced of this approach, but love to see the focus on solutions.
Why the Earth observation business model is flawed – and what must change
Despite its huge potential, the $6.8 billion Earth observation industry continues to struggle to establish a sustainable and scalable business model. New space companies are eager to democratize th…
spacenews.com
December 16, 2024 at 10:25 PM
spacenews.com/why-the-eart...
Nice to see a lot of agreement on the problem, and some new solutions to how to fix it, i'm not sure i'm convinced of this approach, but love to see the focus on solutions.
Nice to see a lot of agreement on the problem, and some new solutions to how to fix it, i'm not sure i'm convinced of this approach, but love to see the focus on solutions.
Landsat and Sentinel get most of the airtime (from what I see in the geo world) but important to remember that there are a bunch of other important scientific missions out there that the commercial world hasn’t really even started to go after, leading to huge gaps.
www.nytimes.com/2024/05/03/c...
www.nytimes.com/2024/05/03/c...
What Happens When NASA Loses Eyes on Earth? We’re About to Find Out.
Three long-running satellites will soon be switched off, forcing scientists to figure out how to adjust their views of our changing planet.
www.nytimes.com
December 14, 2024 at 8:44 PM
Landsat and Sentinel get most of the airtime (from what I see in the geo world) but important to remember that there are a bunch of other important scientific missions out there that the commercial world hasn’t really even started to go after, leading to huge gaps.
www.nytimes.com/2024/05/03/c...
www.nytimes.com/2024/05/03/c...