Using Google Earth and YouTube to Tell Your Story
I Love Mountains, a campaign by REVERB hub Kentuckians for the Commonwealth and Appalachian Voices, is using Google Earth and YouTube to vividly show the environmental degradation caused by mountaintop mining. Top of their webpage has a link “What’s My Connection to Mountaintop Removal” that allows users to type in their zip code and pull up a Google map of all the power plants in their area that use mountaintop removal–a great way to personalize a campaign. Their YouTube page, “America’s Most Endangered Mountains Video Menu” is easy to use and is a great example of effective online storytelling.
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[...] Tunisia’s far away from our local communities in places like Detroit or Birmingham, but we might imagine “mapping” our local communities with these new tools. We might imagine geotagging videos of grassroots activists telling their stories of struggle over the offices of corporate wrongdoers, slumlords, banks, politicians, etc. I Love Mountains, a campaign by REVERB hub Kentuckians for the Commonwealth and Appalachian Voices have already done a version of this around mountaintop removal. [...]