The Essential Bioneers
Rebecca Moore
Google 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. Rebecca Moore is a former software engineer turned public-interest advocate who founded Google Earth Outreach, and her efforts are dramatically leveraging the crucial work of NGOs, communities and indigenous peoples worldwide.”We were invited to train an Amazon Indian tribe in how to use Google Earth to save the rainforest, protect their culture and preserve their history. We went down to the Amazon and taught people who have never touched a computer before how to use Google Earth. It’s a way for them to show the world how they are restoring the rainforest and gain a sustainable income so that they don’t have a financial incentive to cut it down.”
Rebecca Moore
Google 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. Rebecca Moore is a former software engineer turned public-interest advocate who founded Google Earth Outreach, and her efforts are dramatically leveraging the crucial work of NGOs, communities and indigenous peoples worldwide.”We were invited to train an Amazon Indian tribe in how to use Google Earth to save the rainforest, protect their culture and preserve their history. We went down to the Amazon and taught people who have never touched a computer before how to use Google Earth. It’s a way for them to show the world how they are restoring the rainforest and gain a sustainable income so that they don’t have a financial incentive to cut it down.”