Looking for some hands-on training from
Google Earth Outreach ? If you are located near San Francisco or you can travel to the Bay Area, look no further. We'll be conducting a workshop on October 20, 2008 in San Rafael, CA as part of the Bioneers conference. During the Bioneers Conference, taking place from October 17th to 19th, we'll also have a computer lab open where you can walk-in and get demos of Google Earth and Maps (and other Google tools, too).
Google Earth Outreach Workshop: 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's mapping technology and applications for public interest purposes. This session provides hands-on training with Google Earth and Google Maps. 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 and change-makers the world over are finding these tools invaluable in the struggle to protect the Earth and our human communities.
When: October 20, 2008
Location: Embassy Suites Hotel, San Rafael, CA 9am-5pm
The training is donated by Google to Bioneers. Cost for the workshop:
Member - $150
Non-profit/individual - $175
For-profit - $200
Register at
http://www.bioneers.org/node/2618Bioneers Conference 2008: What is a "Bioneer?" A biologist and an engineer, of course! Each year, people from those two groups gather together to tell inspiring stories of civil advocacy. The mission is to inspire a shift to live on the Earth in ways that honor the web of lie, each other and future generations.
October 17-19, 2008
Location: Marin Center, San Rafael, California
Website Plenary Session: Rebecca Moore
Google Earth: Visualizing Change, Mapping the FutureGoogle Earth’s mapping and visualization technologies are powerful tools for public-interest purposes, from environmental justice to climate change, biocultural preservation, land conservation and creating a sustainable society. This software engineer turned public-interest advocate founded Google Earth Outreach, and her efforts are dramatically leveraging the crucial work of NGOs, communities and indigenous peoples worldwide.
Google Earth Outreach: High Tech Hits the Ground MappingPresented by
Google Earth Outreach. Google Earth Outreach is leveraging positive environmental and social change by merging high tech with activism. With:
Rebecca Moore; Mary Anne Hitt, executive director of Appalachian Voices, whose online campaign is using Google Earth to stop “mountaintop removal” coal mining;
Sylvia Earle, world-renowned oceanographer, on mapping to conserve the life of oceans; and
Peter Warshall, polymath, former
Whole Earth editor, and co-director of Dreaming New Mexico, a Bioneers project using Google Earth to create a “future map” of the Age of Renewable Energy at the state level.
Google Earth Outreach Meets Grassroots Community OrganizingGEO’s high-tech visualization capabilities add a critical organizing tool that works best when combined with classic grassroots community organizing. Here’s how two innovative groups are approaching this mix. NAIL—Neighbors Against Irresponsible Logging—in the Santa Cruz Mountains, CA, integrated classical organizing with Google Earth to mobilize the community to stop a water company from cutting 1,000 acres of redwood forest, including old-growth trees. Dreaming New Mexico is using a Future Map of the Age of Renewable Energy to help coalesce networks and action steps at the state level. With:
Rebecca Moore; NAIL Steering Committee members
Terry Clark, Kevin Flynn, Rea Freedom, Eric Horton, Rick Parfitt, Linda Wallace, and logging consultant
Jodi Frediani; Kenny Ausubel and
Peter Warshall, co-directors, Dreaming New Mexico.
Continuing Education Units are available for attending the Bioneers conference.
Listen to a KQED broadcast describing the Bioneers experience:
http://www.kqed.org/quest/blog/2008/07/16/go-bioneers/
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