Touch and rotate a globe as you like!

Size: 1.28 m in diameter (a 10 millionth of the actual planet)
Where are greenhouse gases?

Tearoom Earth

5 digital globes portrait different aspects of the Earth

From left

1.　　Live Earth

• Real time global metrological data fed through the Internet from about 300 places in the world
• Where does the rain come from?
• How does the forest absorb CO2?
• Where and how far whales and birds travel around the globe?

and more …

2.　Warming Earth – global warming and climate change

• Simulation of the changes in average temperatures for the years up to 2100 by Japan's supercomputer “Earth Simulator”
• Red area: rise in 3 Celsius since 1900
• Yellow area: rise in another 3 Celsius
• Where will be most affected? --- North Pole and Himalayas

3.　Earth from space – global observation and disaster prediction

• Featuring Japan's remote sensing technology like Advanced Land Observation Satellite (ALOS)
• How do they look from the space? - Hurricanes, earthquakes, forest fires …

4.　Earth as a human habitat

• Urbanization, ecological footprint, food crisis,
  water, and other human security issues

5.　"Good news" - Earth with hopes for the future

• Let's share hopes near us.
• We encourage reporters at the International Media Center to post "Good News".

Globes spin together at every 30 minutes

• Hi-vision movie of Earth from the moon, taken by the Japanese satellite "Kaguya"
• Present time and temperature of the major cities of the world and population counters…

How it works

For more detail, please visit:www.tangible-earth.com

Tearoom Earth project team

NPO Gaia Initiative
Earth Literacy Program (Director of Tearoom Earth: Shin-ichi Takemura)
GK Tech Inc.（Production of Tangible Earth）
Shigeru Uchida, Uchida Design Institute (Co-director of Tearoom Earth)
Harumi Fujimoto (Lighting design)

Contact

NPO Gaia Initiative www.gaiainitiative.org
E-mail：
Tel:03-5772-7972