A Message from Danica Remy, B612 Foundation's COO
 When my longtime friend Rusty Schweickart first told me about the B612 Foundation and the work he and his colleagues were doing to protect the planet from asteroid impacts, that was the moment I first became aware of a unique global issue. (I’ve known Rusty since way back when I helped found Global Business Network (GBN), a futures research and scenario planning organization). Like many people, the subject of asteroid impacts as preventable natural disasters was definitely not something on my radar even after working with futurists for many years! I quickly became passionate about both the problem and the solutions --- so much so that I joined the team as the Chief Operating Officer just before we announced the Sentinel Mission in 2012.
Prior to my work with B612, I was with Tides (Foundation & Center) overseeing operations. My work at Tides and early at GBN required bringing a wide and diverse range of people together on important issues to change the world… which has deeply informed my work with the astronauts and scientists and other thought leaders working on the subject of Near-Earth Asteroids.
When I look back at what B612 has accomplished in the last 13 years, I can see through our advocacy, education, science and technology work how B612 has contributed significantly to the global conversation about both the asteroid problem, and its solutions. As Asteroid Day approaches on the anniversary of the Tunguska Event, June 30, we are excited to be a founding partner to Asteroid Day.
Asteroid Day is a global awareness campaign launched last year with two of our strategic advisors, Lord Martin Rees and Brian May, along with filmmaker Grig Richters and more than 100 distinguished scientists, business leaders, astronauts and artists to bring people around the world to make their voices heard about Planetary Defense. I look forward to continuing to watch global awareness increase in the coming years, by building on the work of B612 Foundation and others in the emerging field of planetary defense. With the launch of Asteroid Day, you don’t have to be an astronaut or a scientist anymore to make a difference. We hope that by engaging people from across the globe to raise our collective voices and take action on this critical and completely solvable issue, we will make “the asteroid problem” disappear in our lifetime. In fact, with smart strategic funding of solutions like Sentinel and other asteroid-hunting telescopes, it could be solved in a decade or so.
As Rusty Schweickart says, YOU count! Please join me in connecting the people in your life to this exciting planetary defense campaign and beyond and help us make the first Asteroid Day one for the history books!
yours from asteroid central,
Danica Remy
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