Sunday, September 2nd, 2007

September 1st, 2007

Google recently launched a new Google Earth Outreach project that featured our National Memorial for the Mountains, the centerpiece of iLoveMountains.org, as one of the nation’s most innovative nonprofit uses of Google Earth. Our mountaintop removal layer was one of 6 featured at the Google Earth Outreach launch in New York, along with layers from the Jane Goodall Institute, the UN Environment Program, the World Wildlife Fund, and the Holocaust Museum’s Darfur layer.

• Case study highlighting how we used Google Earth

  http://earth.google.com/outreach/case_studies.html

• Showcase of the best Google Earth layers

  http://earth.google.com/outreach/showcase.html

• Google Earth Outreach homepage

  http://earth.google.com/outreach/index.html

Several articles have been published recently about the Google project, in addition to the national AP article that was published in March when our layer first went live on Google:

• Feature article in the Sierra Club’s national Sierra Magazine, “Eyes in the Sky and On Your Desktop”

  http://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/200709/google.asp

• USA Today (online), “Environmentalists Warm to Google Earth”

  http://www.usatoday.com/tech/products/cnet/2007-06-08-dogooders-google-earth_N.htm

• TechSoup.org, “Reach out with Google Earth Outreach”

  http://www.techsoup.org/learningcenter/internet/page7406.cfm

• NTEN (The Nonprofit Technology Network), “Appalachian Voices Fights for the Mountains”

  http://www.nten.org/blog/2007/06/25/appalachian-voices-fights-for-the-mountains

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