My Baby Tree, Google Earth, and WWF

Google, Google, Google.  How I <3 ye.  Earlier this month we talked about how Google Earth is teaming up to show the effects of mountaintop removal mining.  Now we get to talk about something from the Google Earth Blog.  My coworker, Bridget sent me this on Facebook. The original WWF – World Wildlife Federation – has a new site called My Baby Tree.

Big deal – another charity planting a friggin tree  – dime a dozen (or is that greendimes a dozen? - yes – cheap horrible ecogeek joke).  So you go to their site and buy a tree which will be planted in the Sebangau National Forest in Central Kalimantan, Indonesia.  You can feel good for helping reforest the planet.  But wait, there’s more!  If you’ve never used Google Earth, it’s a sweet program that  you install on your computer (originally called Keyhole if you’re keeping score at home) – so slightly different from Google maps.  People can give you files to open in Google Earth which will take you to a specific spot – KML files.   So you buy a tree and the WWF gives you a KML file when the tree is planted so you can virtually watch the growth of the forest you helped create.

P.S. I have to apologize for the lack of posts this week.  I’ve been down-and-out with the flu.  Boo flu!

See how MyBabyTree.org works:

Source: Google Earth Blog, Bridget from work