Land use has a moral dimension to it. That’s why Molly Burhans, the founder and executive director of GoodLands, wants to help the Catholic Church better manage its land—first by mapping it.
Land use has a moral dimension to it. That’s why Molly Burhans, the founder and executive director of GoodLands, wants to help the Catholic Church better manage its land—first by mapping it.
He has dedicated his life’s work to indigenous peoples and their land rights. He counts conservation among his passions as well—though, at times, the two have come into sobering conflict. With GIS, however, he has ironed out some of those wrinkles and produced extraordinarily innovative work on indigenous communities’ landholdings and histories.
Amid the milieu of fierce deliberation and uncertainty that defined much of the 21st Conference of the Parties (COP21) in Paris in late 2015, primatologist, conservationist, and UN messenger of peace Dr. Jane Goodall offered a message of hope. Along with renowned marine biologist Dr. Sylvia Earle, Goodall launched the Tapestry of Hope, an interactive online map that documents thousands of projects around the world that young people are establishing to benefit communities and animals who share the earth.