Andrew Revkin, the New York Times’ enivronmental reporter who also writes for the newspaper’s DOT Earth blog, has a nice post today about the work of Asheville’s David McConville. McConville is a big thinker, TEDx Asheville star and the main man behind The Elumenati business in West Asheville that makes GeoDomes.
From Revkin:
Google rolled out a new initiative today honoring efforts to use Google Earth to improve the human condition or the home planet. I was immediately reminded of a recent discussion I’d had with David McConville, one of the people behind GeoDome, a fascinating portable, inflatable planetarium-style learning space. One of these devices was deployed recently on the White House grounds during a day devoted to science.
Earlier this year, while he was showing me around the planet and solar system in a GeoDome in Asheville, N.C., Mr. McConville explained his company’s goal of moving beyond the gee-whiz factor in such “immersive environments.” How, he asked, do we translate the astonishing and growing power to monitor, visualize and share information about human activities and their impacts in ways that foster social and environmental progress?
Go and read the rest of the post about the untapped potential of Google Earth and McConville’s thoughts on that.