Google has named October 13 and 14 International Cleanup Weekend and has asked Google users around the world to clean up their local parks, beaches and other outdoor areas, first submit maps of the cleanup area to Google Maps.
The software giant says the scheme started as an internal project to encourage employees to cleanup their local area and share progress using My Maps. But the initiative is now being launched publicly in co-ordination with community groups in 15 countries to demonstrate how local cleanup efforts can collectively foster community awareness of the environment at large.
Google says more than 100 maps have already been submitted with a veritable forest of green markers across North America and Europe pinpointing cleanup sites on its official cleanup world map .
So far, Idaho doesn't have a single clean green google marker, although California, Colorado and Washington are all over it. The only river on the map is Boulder Creek in Colorado.
Kayak Idaho wants to help you get on the Map. A few spots kayak Idaho Users could clean: The Alder Creek Dispersed Sites (Deb Baldwin and Jules Uriaga have spent the summer cleaning that already), the Gutter, any of the North Fork Access sites, the whole Main Payette.
To find out more, follow this link.
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