Together with Google Earth Outreach, Bioneers is pleased to offer this post-conference intensive session as part of our 2008 Bioneers Conference.
- WHEN: Monday, October 20, 2008; 9:00am - 5:00pm
- WHERE: Embassy Suites Hotel, San Rafael, CA
- COST: Member - $150, Non-profit/Individual - $175, For-profit - $200 - Lunch will be provided for all participants.
DESCRIPTION:
Google Earth Outreach and Bioneers Present
Mapping Solutions To a Positive Future
A special one-day intensive hands-on training for activists and public-interest advocates on the use of Google Earth technology and applications for public-interest purposes. Led by the Google Earth Outreach team.
Google Earth is a unique and free tool providing everyday citizens access to deeply interactive visualization of our planet. Google offered software engineer Rebecca Moore the opportunity to found Google Earth Outreach after she successfully used the technology to prove that her local water company in Santa Cruz, California was misrepresenting development plans for a large parcel of land. Using Google Earth’s satellite view and animation tools, she was able to show in a powerfully visual way that the plan included the illegal cutting of old-growth trees. By exposing the truth and getting the story into the media, she and her community stopped the project. And Google Earth Outreach was
born in June, 2007.
Today Google Earth Outreach is collaborating with a wide spectrum of NGOs worldwide, leading academic institutions, indigenous peoples and leaders from all walks of life. They are using this powerful technology to serve the common good: Stopping climate change by reducing carbon emissions, halting mountaintop removal, saving forests, conserving the world’s oceans and serving environmental justice and human rights.
Google Earth is a highly practical tool you too can use to provide compelling visualization for your efforts in our world. This session provides hands-on training with Google Earth, Google Maps, Google Sketchup, and a suite of other applications that are free, user-friendly, and just might make the difference you need to be compelling online. You will also learn how to use these applications for internal planning, decision-making, and an overall mapping framework for your organization or cause. Activists successfully using the technology discuss their learning, successes and obstacles.
Activists and change-makers the world over are finding these tools invaluable in the struggle to protect the Earth and our human communities. This unique opportunity with Rebecca Moore and effective change-makers helps provide the training you need to create visualizations that will inspire change and make an impact.
For a sneak peak at some tutorials and case studies, visit http://earth.google.com/outreach.
