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Google Earth
This project has harnessed Google Earth for community learning, enabling communities opportunities to better understand and observe climate changes and the impact of tree planting in their own backyard. This ability to monitor climate mitigation from the ground up is extremely empowering to rural and remote communities, who are often facing the impacts of climate change in isolation and often lack access to scientific tools to immediately monitor their own land.
The ability to use Google Earth as a public tool and to create 'living artworks' as observable artworks and forests from space, we hope can become a template for other global communities as well as a call to action in planting their own trees and vegetation in patterns that can be recorded by satellite. Creation of 'living artworks' can visually reinforce the critical nature of earth systems and how we care for them.
The ability to use Google Earth as a public tool and to create 'living artworks' as observable artworks and forests from space, we hope can become a template for other global communities as well as a call to action in planting their own trees and vegetation in patterns that can be recorded by satellite. Creation of 'living artworks' can visually reinforce the critical nature of earth systems and how we care for them.
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School plantings by ROBA students recorded by MaxmarTechnologies, Landsat-Copernicus satellite for Google Earth Living artwork (1) Concentric Circle - Gadaa design (right) https://earth.google.com/web/@7.09653655,38.79490112,2678.00599532a,279.37228323d,35y,-65.25410856h,44.99511807t,0r Living artwork (2) Concentric Circle - Gadaa design (below) https://earth.google.com/web/search/N+07.12727++E+038.82125/@7.12755878,38.82135737,2669.70157179a,217.47418638d,35y,122.94093896h,59.99481027t,0r/data=CigiJgokCTff8V_YnBxAEeJsJr__VRxAGT0NCt6GZUNAIVhAjl99XUNA |
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By using an under-utilized digital media channel, Google Earth Satellite, for art – the artists and Kofele participants in Ethiopia are challenging our perspectives on how climate mitigation can combine both climate science and art together.
Ultimately the success of the project lies in Ethiopian participants using visualisation tools to understand land management in a time of climate change. Well planted and tended tree verges can assist to create productive lands with better soils and future-proof sites from climate issues such as excess rain runoff to erosion.
As much as 83% of water coming to the ground is condensed directly from the atmosphere by trees. The planting of seedling trees will help give rise to a dynamic system that can assist in carbon capture and in water restoration services. Trees act as gigantic condensing systems and are responsible for capturing water out of the air.
In the future we should ask ourselves not so much about 'How much rainfall impacts an area? But rather 'What tree cover is in your home city, village or farms?' It is a fact that trees help amplify water and clean air resources.
As much as 83% of water coming to the ground is condensed directly from the atmosphere by trees. The planting of seedling trees will help give rise to a dynamic system that can assist in carbon capture and in water restoration services. Trees act as gigantic condensing systems and are responsible for capturing water out of the air.
In the future we should ask ourselves not so much about 'How much rainfall impacts an area? But rather 'What tree cover is in your home city, village or farms?' It is a fact that trees help amplify water and clean air resources.
