вторник, 24 февраля 2015 г.

Final campaign

Ta-daaam! It's my final post, and that's actually kinda sad but there's also a great feeling of accomplishment :) Hopefully, you all feel the same way!
GNML was a very useful experience for me, I learned a lot of new tools and ways to make the audience interested in the specific issue.
I suppose, in the future I'm gonna use all of the platforms but some of them seem more convincing and exciting to me.
I'll be using Blogger to bring all my posts from different social networks together for my readers' convenience. I'll also be posting google alert stories along with interesting new that talk about my particular campaign to make the audience (along with myself) more concerned and educated on the topic.
Twitter will be used for quick posts and links to some cognitive websites. When it comes to research, it's a useful platform as well because I can follow other users and organizations who focus on the similar issue.
YouTube is a really good one to grab attention, I think. People usually are interested in watching videos and it's  way easier to reach them by showing a video campaign because the mix of music, pictures and speech usually leads to leaving a better impression.
Facebook will help me in my work as well  because people are online for almost all the time. It will be helpful to let the audience know about  some important new immediately.
Vision memory is very common too. Who doesn't like pictures?! It's a very powerful tool, especially when it's supported with a strong capture. Instagram's gonna help me with it!
LinkedIn is an awesome one to keep in touch with those who are involved in your project area. Most likely, that's a good way to find sponsors or those who volunteer and ready to help you grow your campaign.


Space satellites for saving the forests. Why not?

There are many ways to save the forests: cleaning, volunteering to grow new trees and many-many more. Seems like scientists have found a new one - observing forests from satellites in space. What a great idea, don't you think?  Now they'll be available to use these radio waves to calculate the forest biomass and tomographic radar to measure the layers of the forest to better understand how trees are distributed. It's a quiet important discovery because it opens a new door and makes us closer to saving tropical forests in such countries as Brazil and Indonesia. Learn more here.

пятница, 23 января 2015 г.

Five steps to save the Amazon

Brazil's climate gets drier; therefore, one of the most beautiful and largest tropical forests of the world - Amazon forest - is at risk.
Aerial view of the Amazon Rainforest, near Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil. Photo: Neil Palmer / CIAT for Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR).
Brazil's National Institute for Space Research (INPE), specifically Dr. Nobre, held a scientific research and created a plan for saving the Amazon: 


  1. Popularizing forest science
  2. Zero deforestation
  3. An end to fires, smoke and soot
  4. Recover and regenerate forest
  5. Governments and society need to wake up
"In a final warning, Dr Nobre's report predicts that climate chaos "has the potential to be immeasurably more damaging than World War II. What is unthinkable today may become an unavoidable reality sooner than expected.
'Restoring native forests is the best bet we can make against climate chaos, and is the only true insurance policy we can buy.' " 
This article has got some really interesting facts and information that'll probably surprise you and  will help you realize the importance of this worldwide issue, so you might wanna take a closer look at it ;)

The biggest mengrove forest is in danger. Part 2/ Save forests through better management

If you scroll down a little bit, you'll notice my post about Bangladesh forest, which is in trouble now. UN members of the country understand that the oil spill is a serious issue and needed measures must be assumed immediately to protect the forest. 
There is no doubt that government will spend as much money and effort as necessary. Learn more details here. 

вторник, 20 января 2015 г.

Hayao Miyazaki volunteered to clean 'Totoro' forest

Probably, most or at least some of us know Hayao Miyazaki - worldwide famous animated movie director who won Oscar for his masterpiece that's called "Spirited away". He is quite old(in his 70s) but still young in heart.
On January 18th he joined a group of 260 volunteers to clean up Fuchi no Mori forest in Tokyo. Way to be so active! Miyazaki is showing young generations a bright example and we need to start acting just like as he does. It doesn't have to be something global, but if we all start making changes in our communities, we can make the world much better. 
Check out the whole article here. 


Save koalas from exctinction - save the forests

As we all know, the issue of destroying the forests around the world is one of the most urgent and significant ones. A lot of animals are dying and becoming extinct every year because of environmental problems and human carelessness. So, it started happening to ones of the cutest and rarest animals of the world - koalas! Their bamboo trees are being killed, so koalas are really struggling. ‘If we want to save the koala from extinction, we have to save the forests that are their home,’ NCEC spokesperson Susie Russell said. You can learn more here.
The future of the region's koala populations is shaping up to be an election issue. (file pic)