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Environmentalist Taps Google Earth To Educate Consumers
By Daya Baran at November 16, 2007 0 CommentsGoogle Earth is helping environmentalists in their fight to save the planet. Environmentalist groups can now show consumers visual imagery of the impact human are having on this planet.
Appalachian Voices, which campaigns against coal mining that removes mountaintops provides consumers images of specific mountaintops that have been razed to provide coal for their electricity providers, and potentially for their own homes. Appalachian Voices is providing individuals with links to protest to their legislators or power companies about the mining, which it says is bad for the environment, miners and the local communities.
The Jane Goodall Institute uses it to show the location of specific chimps in the Gombe Chimpanzee Reserve in Tanzania. Other organizations are using Google Earth to raise awareness of oceans pollution, climate change, clear cutting and mining activities and their impact on the planet.
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