It was late six years ago. Where are we Today?
Not much seems to have changed in the last 6 years. On 29 October 2018, storm Vaia felled 14 million trees in the Alps. It was only the first of many extreme events which, especially in the past two years, have devastated not only our country, but the entire planet with increasing frequency. The wettest, driest year, the warmest, coldest in the last 20 years. This is what we hear almost every day in the news. We hear it so much that we hardly pay attention to it anymore, as if this type of information has now become part of the daily “background noise”.
Five years ago, almost exactly one year after Vaia, we met to take stock of the situation during the event “Ci vuole un Fiore – 100 ore per l’ambiente. We spent five days in conferences, connecting with other people and in cleaning activities. From those five days our Quaderno 11 was born: Quaderno 11: “È già tardi? Ci vuole un fiore – 100 ore per l’ambiente”
Today we begin by sharing one of the articles in the Quaderno, linked to the environment through the world of Google Maps Local Guides and the technological tools connected to it.
Is it worth “Cleaning the world?”
Technological tools – brief introduction
My personal approach, and then that of Progetto Re-Cycle, to the digital technology of Google Maps, was born after the 2016 earthquake in Marche, Umbria and Lazio. We were looking for a tool that would allow us to interact / integrate with the territory, and to disseminate information in a visual way. Hence the choice to join the Local Guides community, where we can interact directly with Google. We do not work for Google, but we use its tools (accessible to everyone) and propose improvements, which are sometimes accepted.
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