Conserving what's left, renewal, growing new ones, and hearing from the many peoples facing loss of their communities due to the mismanagement and exploitation of forests this special collection gets its start with the launch of the Global Forest Watch (GFW)
GFW is a project where the World Resource Institute brought together fourteen major sponsors, including Rebecca Moore of Google Earth who pioneered the use of mapping to protect our lands and people, enables our citizens to participate in and benefit from an "open data approach in putting decision-relevant information in the hands of governments, companies, NGOs, and the public."
Related special collection on Earthsayers.tv is Biodiversity, Rights of Mother Earth, and the sustainability champion, Julia Butterfly.
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Rang-tan in My Bedroom by Iceland Foods |
One food retail chain, Iceland Foods, didn’t even make it to air before this ad was banned/blocked, leading to more publicity than the retailer may have ever expected. The ad, “Rang-tan“, was not approved as it was created by Greenpeace, a political organisation, and political advertising is absolutely not allowed on British TV. Saving our friends and our environment is political, but advertising products and services destroying our planet is not? Iceland Foods uploaded this Christmas commercial to their YouTube channel where it generated 3.7M views within the first 3 days of being released. |
On mapping and protecting our Forests by Rebecca Moore:
Global Forest Watch | Monitoring Forests in Near Real Time
Fighting wildfires with intelligent robots | AI for Good Webinar
Altkin Count Strategic Forestry Plan
Tourism, not Oil by Hilario Saant of Ecuador
Rang-tan in My Bedroom by Iceland Foods
Screams of the Amazon by Fundacion Pachamama
What does He Plant Who Plants a Tree read by Jeremy Irons
The Reunion by Handcrafted Films
The Forest is For All of Us by Community Leader Domingo Peas
Excerpts from Two Speeches by Ethnobotanist Mark Plotkin
Kayapo leader Megaron Txukaramae
Save Ireland Forests
Voices for Global Forest Watch by the WRI
Amazon Watch, your best bet to protect the rainforest.
Trading Bows and Arrows for Laptops: Carbon and Culture
Woodlands of Ireland by Eco-Eye
High Conservation Value Forests
Twenty Years of Defending the Amazon.
Climate change and forest managment Stéphane Le Goaster
The Paradigm Project by Greg Spencer
Global Forest Watch 2.0 preview at UN Forum on Forests
Of Forests and Men with Edward Norton
Buying-up Eden - Chile
Google Earth Engine by Rebecca Moore
Rapid, Dramatic Changes in What We Do by Randy Hayes