From South Africa to the Americas, we’re on the news!

On Cape Town’s SAfm Enviro Show, host Nancy Richards interviewed designer Philip Todres on the wonderful Cape Town Green Map and Wendy Brawer about Open Green Map and progress in NYC on Thursday 5th Jan 2012. Both are linked here.

Carlos Martinez, formerly Green Map staff and now our Board Treasurer is creating radio segments for Radio Diaspora, a public affairs program on the issues and experiences of recent migrants from Caribbean and Latin America hosted by WRFG in Atlanta USA. This segment includes Campinas Green Mapmaker Leonardo Freire de Mello, along with director Wendy Brawer, Board member Thomas Turnbull and others on the Power of Maps. Enjoy! read more »

We are happy to share the good news that Open Green Map has won the NetSquared Invitational!

Green Map System is really thrilled that our little video has received lots of votes and the jury's support. This award comes with plenty of help for our social mapping platform's ongoing development in the coming months, which is really great because we have big plans!! Thank you voters, NetSquared, TechSoup, our staff and technical team as well as the Green Mapmakers who have now published more than 250 diverse Open Green Maps!read more »

It was a lovely day that day, warm sunshine , blue sky and gentle breeze. We arrived Shameen in the morning, after being divided into two groups, we set out to searching Shameen to make a green map of it.

Shameen’s beauty is beyong description. On each side of the roads stand considerable ficus of old age. Their hair roots were swaying in the wind, wishpering the long history of Shammeen to every passers-by. It seemed that the buildings just wake up from the bird-singing, and the time was as if still when you stared at them. I’t was sort of walking in an old photo.

There were visitors walking slowly, and sometimes they paused to take photos. Foreign children were playing delightedly with their parents. And what impressed us most was that couples shooting wedding photos could be seen here and there, which made us envy a lot.read more »

I think it to me, and to all the people of the workshop, November, 2011, 26 and 27 are memorable days. Because the two days, most of the people are the first time for full participation in the Green - Map drawing process. Attend the period, we learned a lot, thought a lot and felt a lot, grew many......

On the morning of 26th, our teacher——"Whale", a teacher from Taiwan Society of Wilderness brought and showed us many fine green-maps from all over the world. She gave us detailed introduction to the origin of the green-map and the development of it , and the differences between green-map and the general map , the green-map visit quartet (commentator, TaZha, drawings, share), rendering the purpose of green-map (environment education, community development, etc), green Icon and the story behind the green-map... read more »

December 13th is the 20th anniversary of a great idea!

I was with a group of New York activists at the United Nations, planning side events in New York during meetings leading up to the Earth Summit, which was held in Rio in 1992.

I thought about the individual’s experience during their 5 weeks in NYC – and realized a map would help people of all backgrounds discover signs of progress toward sustainability. I knew it was possible to make a fresh view of the city in a few weeks, and that it would be resource-efficient and fun!

That very day, I named the project the Green Apple Map and had 10,000 copies donated, thanks to the Municipal Art Society (Curitiba Brazil’s eco-innovations was their next exhibit and the Green Apple Map would highlight local examples). read more »

直前のアナウンスになってしまいましたが、神奈川県小田原市で、この3月に完成した、『おだわらグリーンマップ』とその後の展開につながる講演会が、明日、開催される運びとなりました。人数も小規模なもので、初の試みで、どんな感じになるかわかりませんか、少しでも関心をもってくれる方々の輪が広がるといいなと思っています☆2010年グリーンマップハーモニーも配布します！詳しくはこread more »

北九州エコライフプラザにて、グリーンマップ展を開催しています。全国からのサステイナブルな商品を集めたエコライフプラザ。今回のグリーンマップワークショップでは、小倉駅周辺のお店を回りながら、『まち・生活・ショッピング』をテーマに、グリーンマップづくりをチャレンジします。『エコ』とか『環境に優しい』ものって良く聞くけどいまいちピンとこないっと感じる人は是非参加してみてください！１人１人のちょっとした毎日の生活への気づきが、世の中を変えていく...read more »

O projeto “MAPA VERDE SOROCABA Sociedade, Cultura e Meio Ambiente” começou a ser formatado em fevereiro de 2009 e foi aceito pelo GMS – Green Map® System em dezembro do mesmo ano com a denominação GM Sorocaba.

O “MAPA VERDE SOROCABA - Sociedade, Cultura e Meio Ambiente” é um produto cultural que permitirá ao usuário, cidadão ou visitante, a identificação e a localização de diferentes atrativos distribuídos pela cidade. Nossa previsão é mapear a 200 pontos no município.
Os atrativos, divididos em seis categorias, além de estarem identificados visualmente no mapa base da cidade, contam com uma ficha de identificação onde estão disponíveis: endereço e contato telefônico e/ou digital.read more »

We are pleased to announce the debut of three new videos highlighting our tools, engagement, and icons.

These short videos demonstrate how Green Mapmakers can guide communities towards sustainable living choices both globally and locally.

Special thanks to the videography team at Dedicated Lane – Allie Compton and Christopher Fenech – for creating these 1 minute videos using images and clips made around the world by Green Mapmakers. Feel free to share them with your friends, family, and community, or embed them in your website, blog, and presentations.

We’ve also embedded the wonderful hour-long documentary about “4BsHive” project, highlighting outstanding teamwork over the last two years by four European cities. Created by the noted German filmmaker, Bjela Probowsy, it’s really a delightful way to experience the process developed by Green Mapmakers from Berlin, Bristol, Budapest and Bistrita.

Find out more about this great project at this poston our website or at 4bshive.wordpress.com/ where you can download the terrific new 4BsHive Guide to Green Mapping, explore photos and much more.

Find more Green Map videos on youtube.com/greenmapsystem!

It is with great honor I received an environmental price for my 3 years of voluntary work with the site EkoBlekinge.se which is also home for Blekinge Green Map.

The motivation was that the site makes local environmental and sustainable projects visible and for the work with Green Map.

900 children in the region has participated and shared their thoughts on the subject "We will save the world". The result is a book with drawings, poetry and interviews on the subject which will be sold and the earnings is the award price. This enables me to put more work into the site and Green Map. That in combination with the publicity for EkoBlekinge.se will boost the visibility of local sustainable initiatives!read more »

Baltimore Green Map was invited to present Green Mapping as an example of "How Communities are Using Mapping Tools" at Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond's October, 2011 Unleashing the Power of Local Data conference.

Participants had their laptops open for the interactive element, with time to explore Open Green Map.

We combined information from our own archives, OGM screen grabs and the Green Map-OGM Resources/promote section to put together a presentation that illustrated a diversity of map scales and strategies to collect information.

We also wanted to demonstrate full utilization of the OGM features More info, Comments, Multimedia, Impacts before turning participants loose to browse maps on their own. Those user input features are where "the power" and potential of Green Mapping resides. read more »

Janice Golding argues that Africa needs to cultivate environmental champions and high-thinkers who live by the heart, relate to the land and who can articulate an alternative indigenous environmental narrative to the western environmental neo-imperialism.

On continents that are colder and less giving than Africa, the fastest growing new mass religion is “Environmentalism”. Climate change and sustainability are its key drivers.

“Environmentalism” (also called “Going Green”) is an earnest lifestyle for it is fervent in the endeavour of reducing carbon footprints. Household examples are fruit and vegetable gardens, recycling, solar panels and the reduced use of motorised transport. But its safety net for personal well-being that is ensured by relatively prosperous economies makes this movement a holier-than-thou quest. This is because Going Green is not a fundamental necessity born out of poverty and survival as in most parts of Africa.read more »

One, regular activities
1, organization to the Department for children to a group to build the job, to form a whole; to map training, so as to make them into a state of;

2, continue to improve the Yao Hu campus map ( two ideas: 1, the picture into a update map; 2, will strive for this chart as a level 2012 neonatal guide map);

In 3, the year the Castle Peak Lake campus green map;

In 4, for in the proper time to Komsomolsk campus site check, for drawing the youth campus green map make preparations for;

5, strive for inside and outside the province and related community green map sector exchanges, cooperation;read more »

The Detroit Green Map team met in September to discuss goals and a plan for the future of Detroit’s Green Map. Folks involved in transportation, project planning, education, and art gathered at Marygrove College to represent the diversity of Detroiters.

We are in the middle of grant writing to fund the creation of a website and social media platform that will encourage Detroit residents to “be Detroitish” and celebrate the strengths and beauty of Detroit’s past, present, and future through participation in the Detroit Green Map. To lead off the grant efforts, the mission statement was dusted off and revised to reflect the new energy in Detroit.read more »

Table Mountain could be named one of the New7Wonders of Nature, an accolade that could generate up to 11 000 new jobs and an additional R1.4 billion in annual revenue for South Africa.

The only way to win is to steal the largest chunk of citizen votes from the over 1 billion people who will take part in the campaign worldwide. To win that honour Table Mountain needs to beat 27 other admired and celebrated sites such as the Islands of Maldives, the Amazon in South America, the Dead Sea in Israel and the Grand Canyon in North America.

The announcement of the seven sites on 11/11/11 (11 November 2011) will bring to a close a battle which has spanned more than three years.read more »

The '4BsHive' is a transnational project between four river cities: Bristol (UK), Berlin (Germany), Budapest (Hungary) and Bistrita (Romania). The project set in motion a collaborative, green map-making process within and among these four European partners:

• Querspur-Verein zur Förderung soziokultureller Aktivitäten mit dem Medium Video (Berlin, Germany)
• Asociatia Ascendent (Bistrita, Romania)
• GreenBristol Ltd. (Bristol, UK)
• Tudatos Vásárlók Egyesülete (Budapest, Hungary)

The 4BsHive project started right after a Grundtvig Preparatory Visit in early 2009. After two years of numerous adult learners mobilities and green mapping workshops, the 4BsHive project ended in July 2011. You may learn about all common and local results at the European Shared Treasure database. One of our greatest result is a documentary video, which highlights scenes from the study visits and the workshops in each of the cities involved.read more »

Entre os dias 03 e 07 de outubro realizam-se oficinas no campus Botânico UFPR: UFPR – Setor de Ciências Sociais Aplicadas Campus III - Jardim Botânico Rua Prefeito Lothário Meissner, 632. O Mapa Verde Curitiba é tema: dia 03 as 14:00horas(onde houve participação de alunos dos diversos campus da Universidade)e dia 05 as 19horas. Lembrando que a feira é aberta a toda comunidade!

Pense local, mapeie global!

It has been a very busy few months. The Cape Town Green Map team has just finished and printed its 3rd Edition of its Green Map. We even managed to get the City's Mayor to pose for the cover. Added to that we have redesigned our website layout and content structure, see Cape Town Green Map.

We also had two international interns join us for 3 months to assist with the project. Line and Mari really got stuck in and helped us with many aspects of the project, including our website redesign, a customer survey of all green sites, they held a small work group with green map participants and they also provided us with a project report on how we can improve our Cape Town Green Map Project.read more »

We are proud to share the news that the Open Green Map is a Winner of the first Victor J. Papanek Social Design Award!

As Victor's groundbreaking work helped to inspire the inception of Green Map System, we are delighted to be one of the four recipients of this prestigious new 2011 international award. Our Director will take part in the awards ceremony and exhibition opening in Vienna on November 9, followed by a conference celebrating the new Papanek Foundation. More details about the New York Design for the Real World Redux exhibit will be added here soon. read more »

自从6月申请到了GREEN MAP SYSTEM认可的合肥绿地图制作权以来，已经过去了整整两个月，两个月里，暑期实习和学校迎新工作又占了很大一个比例。时间紧迫，队员从全国各地提前赶回也非常辛苦，活动进行的背景不能不说是很艰难。另外，学院关于实习报告的上交时间突然提前到了8.24，听到这个消息后心里“嘎登”了一下，但为了可以把活动尽量做到和策划一致，提高完成度，我想我们团队只能放弃申请全国优秀暑期社会实践调查报告的机会了，真的很遗憾。read more »

"NPO Think of Satoyama" did GM workshops on the last weekend supported by Zenrin, which is a one of biggest company of maps in Japan. Kids and their parents teamed up together for map making. This workshop took placed at a center of Kitakyushu-city (southern part of Japan), which was the one of biggest polluted city in '60. The Government, Corporations and citizens have collaborated together to turn "polluted city" to "sustainable city". And here they are!

20 pair was participated on the workshop. We found fishes, green energy, share bike, trashes on the river, illegal-parked-bike and so on.read more »

As a Resource economics and Geography major at the University of Connecticut, I am very interested in mapping environmental and communal sustainability. Green Map System pursues this field with intelligence and commitment. I recently came in contact with Green Map System when I decided to direct the creation of a Green Map of my university, located in Storrs, CT.

During the summer of 2011, I am working as a summer intern at Green Map System. I enjoy working at an organization that diligently promotes environmental consciousness and sustainability.

Recently, the summer intern team has been mapping energy development in New York City. Thorough research has been done and many new energy sites have been added to our Open Green Map (which includes, among others, sites from the 2006 Powerful Green Map). The updated map will display certified LEED buildings, sustainable infrastructure, renewable energy sites, city parks and farmers markets throughout the five boroughs.

As part of my research, I have developed a guide that shows various energy maps of New York City. This guide contains maps that display the solar energy potential for every building in the city, such as the NYC Solar Map, developed in late June at the City University of New York. There are also maps that show the renewable energy potential for New York State, including Wind and Solar maps developed by the National Renewable Energy Laboratory. The new interactive Energy Green Map will debut during Climate Week (which starts on September 19).

In addition to the research I have been doing on renewable energy, I have also been working with Local Spokes to promote sustainable transportation, green infrastructure and urban design. Local Spokes is the Lower East Side/Chinatown Bicycling Coalition. I have put together a presentation for the Youth Ambassadors demonstrating Manhattan Island’s historical evolution and efforts to preserve and further maintain the natural environment.

Download the NYC Renewable Energy Guide

Download my presentation on Historical Evolution of New York City.

As soon as the new map debuts, a link will be added here.

Aaron Miller read more »

O método utilizado é o SEMEAR, da empresa NEOLABOR, um jeito de ensinar-aprender que facilita o envolvimento dos alunos com as mudanças tecnológicas e culturais que acontecerem no seu entorno. É um método eficiente de educação ambiental, cujo passo a passo reproduzimos:
Sensibilização: Sustentabilidade é um tema inter e transdisciplinar. A idéia é proporcionar situações que estimulem o aluno a ter vontade de participar ativamente do processo de aprendizagem, pois só mudamos quando queremos. Os estudantes são convidados a refletir sobre conceitos de sustentabilidade e têm o primeiro contato com o Mapa Verde, que pode ser projetado em apresentação.read more »

Barcelona, Spain is a city abundant in historical and cultural character, attracting a vast tourism industry. The city’s free, McDonald’s sponsored tourism map, Barcelona Tourisme, highlights many of these sites for visitors. However, ecotourism sites that advance Barcelona’s sustainability are left uncharted. Barcelona Green Map, now led by Petz Scholtus of Pöko Design Studio, seeks to change that.

Barcelona’s green resources were first charted on Mapa Verd in 1999. Led by solar engineer Josep Puig, hundreds of sites were plotted on the map. Since then, the city has advanced its sustainability efforts, including a bike share system that revolutionized sustainable transportation throughout the city. To share these resources with tourists, Barcelona’s Green Mapmakers have created an eco-advocating refinement to the thousands of maps distributed by McDonald’s. Using the existing Barcelona Turisme as its base, Pöko Design Studio created an overlay printed on transparent vellum (trace paper) that adds a layer of green sites to the free map available at the Barcelona Tourist Office. This provides tourists access to natural, cultural and green living resources, in addition to the sites on the underlying map. Barcelona Green Map also provides its sites with a window tag, identifying their inclusion on the Green Map and promoting them as sustainability sites. read more »

Kazan is the capital of the Republic of Tatarstan, a major industrial and cultural center in the Volga region, one of the oldest cities of Russia. A unique combination of Muslim and Christian cultures and advantageous geographic location makes the city a popular attraction for domestic and international tourism.
In 2013 Kazan will hosts the World summer Universiade games. We want our city to be not only the most sports, but also the greenest city of Russian Federation.
In 2009 the Children's Center "Tankodrom" and the Institute of ecology of Tatarstan Academy of Sciences made an agreement with the «Green Map» organization. In fact, this is the first project in the Russian Federation.read more »

Este projeto foi resultante de uma palestra ministrada pela Profa. Maria do Carmo no curso de pós-graduação em Design da UFPR, na disciplina de Design de Produtos Sustentáveis, ministrada pelo prof. Aguinaldo dos Santos.
Produto fora lançado durante a Bienal Brasileira de Design em setembro de 2010, destinado aos participantes da bienal e a todos os interessados em localizar os pontos considerados como produtores ou revendedores de produtos com design e com conceitos de sustentabilidade inseridos – mapeados segundo a ótica dos alunos matriculados na disciplina.
Depois de treinados no uso da plataforma pelos bolsistas de extensão do projeto – os mestrandos em numero de 10 passaram a estabelecer os critérios de trabalho e localizar os pontos a ser mapeado com registro dos dados em planilha própria. Segundo passo, definição e localização das coordenadas geográficas dos pontos levantados na pesquisa de campo e uso da plataforma greenmap system.read more »

O EDS 2010 contou com a participação de empresários e acadêmicos de todas as partes do mundo. Todos buscando encontrar e compartilhar ideias para semear um futuro sustentável. A oficina Mapa Verde Curitiba totalizou 62 inscritos dos mais variados segmentos da sociedade. Em sua maioria, o público participante foi composto por professores de variadas instituições de ensino, desde a educação básica até a universitária – em maior parte de outras cidades e potenciais para se tornarem makermaps em suas cidades.
Os participantes demonstraram forte interesse no projeto, que adquiriu maior representatividade perante a comunidade, conforme constatatado através de propostas de parcerias e solicitações de oficinas em suas organizações, após o término da oficina. read more »

So much in this city can be described as “green.” Each street corner may reveal a sprawling farmer’s market of local fruits and vegetables or perhaps a painted green concrete bike lane. As New York City enters an age in which it must improve its energy yield, Green Building is at the forefront in creating a sustainable metropolis. In 2007 Mayor Michael Bloomberg released PlaNYC, a plan to reduce New York City’s greenhouse gas emissions by more than 30% by 2030. In April 2011, an updated version of PlaNYC concluded that 80% of New York City’s greenhouse gas emissions are due to the operation of buildings. From sprouting skyscrapers to historic brownstones, buildings define our cityscape. In order to move towards sustainability, NYC must improve the performance of existing buildings and any new construction to come.read more »

First published in 2007, the Compost Green Map of Manhattan has been a beacon for gardeners and waste-aware citizens across the city. Indicating both composting how-to’s and sites for community composting, this small yet powerful map teaches residents of Manhattan how feasible—and beneficial—it is to turn food and garden scraps into rich new soil. Our partner on the project, the Lower East Side Ecology Center, has resultantly experienced exponential growth in the amount of compostables dropped off at their locations in Manhattan!

In 2011, policy makers have acted to increase composting in Manhattan and funded 23 new projects, including the expansion of the online edition at OpenGreenMap.org/compostnyc. New sites are springing up all over. Each of these new efforts is mapped thanks to a grant from Borough President Scott Stringer, Manhattan SWAB, and Citizen's Committee for NYC.read more »

O experimento do novo modelo de oficina, voltado para pequenos públicos e com a característica de formadores de opinião (universitários), mostrou-se satisfatório e de grande representatividade no que tange a principal inovação, o ingresso de uma etapa de discussão, em que a opinião da comunidade ultrapassa os limites do mapeamento em si e chega ao nível de compreensão das práticas de sustentabilidade.
Outro resultado foi a ampliação do número de voluntários envolvidos e capacitados para aplicar a metodologia de intervenção do Mapa Verde em Curitiba. Como a oficina contou com poucos participantes externos, foi possível aos mapmakers na ocasião, dar atenção aos novatos no projeto.read more »

De forma a estimular a modernização pública, deve-se investigar meios de racionalizar custos e promover a transparência e democratização dos serviços públicos. Objetiva-se investigar sistemas de informação aplicados como ferramenta na construção de cidades digitais para então construir um protótipo que simule a estrutura física da UFPR, através das etapas: planejamento, revisão bibliográfica, escolha da plataforma, coleta de informações, e inclusão dos dados.
Uma análise da situação do portal de informações da UFPR evidenciou dificuldades quanto ao acesso a informações, especificamente, a localização exata das diversas unidades da instituição, a atividade por elas exercida, o contato para dirimir duvidas e obter informações e também o fato de os links que redirecionam o usuário as suas homepages são conteúdos que não se encontram organizados de forma a serem acessados facilmente pelos usuários. read more »

O projeto visa conhecer a estrutura e localizar as informações da Universidade Federal do Paraná, construindo um mapa virtual e interativo da instituição de grande porte, visando obter informações referentes a dimensão física do campus e sua dispersão no espaço da cidade de Curitiba.
Para tanto foi realizado um levantamento de dados sobre a estrutura física e acadêmica da universidade, especificando os pontos importantes para facilitar a localização exata das unidades da UFPR, bem como o entendimento de suas atividades e o contato do(s) responsável(is). Provendo desse modo um universo de informações organizado que facilita o manuseio para o usuário.read more »

Oficina oferece participação em mesas temáticas por meio de resumos de artigos previamente inscritos e selecionados para um dos quatro temas globais. Entre os mais de 150 trabalhos apresentados e discutidos nas mesas temáticas, a equipe de mapmakers contribuiu com 5 produções, todas evidenciando as inúmeras aplicações do Green Map em relação à educação ambiental. Os resumos inscritos foram os seguintes:
1- A iconografia como instrumento de apoio à educação ambiental;

2- O sistema de informação do Mapa Verde: estudo de usabilidade;

3- Educação ambiental e acesso a informação para o exercício da cidadania;read more »

Foi possível adquirir maior representatividade perante a comunidade, em grande parte devido à reportagem publicada em jornal de grande circulação do Estado, acessível no seguinte link: http://www.gazetadopovo.com.br/vidaecidadania/conteudo.phtml?tl=1&id=100.... A matéria relata nossa oficina, divulga o Mapa Verde e traz instruções de acesso ao mapa. Além disso, a oficina no EDS rendeu interesse da TV RECORD para a realização de uma reportagem com a equipe. Nos dias seguintes à oficina, a equipe foi entrevistada a fim de dar informações sobre o Mapa Verde.read more »

Nos dias 20/9/2009, 26 e 28 de Abril de 2010, nas dependências da Universidade Federal do Paraná, foram realizadas oficinas do Mapa Verde, com o objetivo de estimular os participantes a conhecer sua própria região, percebendo e valorizando zonas verdes situadas próximas, além de servir como um estímulo para que adotem atitudes favoráveis ao meio ambiente atrvés de nossa metodologia.
Os participantes das oficinas foram os alunos do 2o. e 3o. ano do curso de graduação em Arquitetura e Urbanismo da UFPR. Aproximadamente 30 alunos em 2009 e 40 se inscreveram nos dois dias de evento em 2010, todos alunos. As oficinas foram divididas em 3 etapas: Apresentação, Mapeamento e Reflexão. Cada uma delas teve duração de cerca de 1 hora, o que resultou numa oficina de aproximadamente 3 horas de duração.read more »

O ENEC é um fórum com objetivo de socializar, integrar e refletir sobre os conhecimentos gerados pelos Programas e Projetos de Extensão desenvolvidos na instituição. Estas ações demonstram a interação dialógica com a sociedade paranaense numa relação transformadora da realidade por meio da indissociabilidade entre o Ensino, a Pesquisa e a Extensão. O 8º ENEC ocorreu na semana de 19 a 23 de outubro de forma integrada com o EVINCI (PRPPG) e ENAF (PROGRAD) no Campus Jardim Botânico da UFPR (auditório, salas de aula e pavilhão interno do Setor de Ciências Sociais Aplicadas . (http://www.proec.ufpr.br/enec2009/links/edital.htm)read more »

De 25 de julho a 2 de agosto de 2009 ocorreu em Curitiba a I Jornada de Gestão da Informação: SuGestão 2009, promovida pela Universidade Federal do Paraná (UFPR) em parceria com o Museu Botânico Municipal de Curitiba. O evento celebrou os dez anos do curso de graduação de Gestão da Informação. O evento foi idealizado a partir da oportunidade de uma parceria entre o Departamento de Ciência e Gestão da Informação (DECIGI) da UFPR e o Museu Botânico Municipal - MBM. Esta parceria teve por objetivo expor resultados e trabalhos do profissional Gestor, a estrutura do curso de graduação e do programa de mestrado multidisciplinar. A idéia central foi abordar o tema sustentabilidade, não só aliado as funções a que o espaço se destina como também demonstrando o viés da informação neste importante tema. Destacou-se a interdisciplinaridade que caracteriza o curso de Gestão da Informação pela atuação e competências do seu profissional nas mais diversas áreas. O fator atrativo do evento foi indubitavelmente a visibilidade que o espaço oferecia por se tratar de um ambiente público - enquanto espaço de pesquisa e guarda das espécies botânica do meio ambiente no Paranáread more »

Leykam’s internship experience was unique in that she partook in Green Map’s "virtual internship" program. This program fostered mapmaking and independent research skills during the summers of 2009 and 2010, allowing numerous interns to conduct their own Green Map projects while collaborating online via blog. Leykam’s project involved mapping the Syracuse University Area, in order to document its increasing focus on sustainability. Her project began in 2009, and she developed it throughout the next year, ultimately completing it as a senior thesis. “My internship with Green Map completely shaped my last year of college,” said Leykam. “It tied together all the different things I was learning about and helped me focus what my concentration in geography was.” read more »

Foram realizados eventos para promover às crianças a oportunidade de desempenharem papéis sociais e desenvolverem a imaginaçao, criatividade e atitude sustentável. Visando que os participantes pudessem vivenciar o acesso e uso das informações para construção de cidadania.
As crianças que participaram do evento contaram com um espaço reservado, onde lhes foi explicado como os dados fornecidos por elas se transformam em informação, e nas demais atividades foram utilizados brinquedos pedagógicos, como dominós, jogos de memória e quebra-cabeças, ilustrando meios de transporte, profissões e recursos naturais, bem como a importância de cada um deles para o equilíbrio da natureza. Aos adolescentes as dinâmicas visavam prepará-los como agentes transformandores, desenvolvendo habilidades e formação de atitudes condinzentes com o exercício da cidadânia.read more »

Problemas como desmatamento, aquecimento global, efeito estufa, estão presentes em nossa realidade, e para sustá-los faz-se necessário a conscientização das pessoas para uma mudança de hábitos, e também a adoção de novas práticas baseadas no acesso à informação e a transparência da administração dos problemas ambientais urbanos.
Nas oficinas foram abordados temas como: comunidade, educação, relação entre pessoas e coisas, e educação sócio-ambiental. Enfatizou-se à importância da correta condução para bons costumes na educação das crianças, que são as futuras gerações, das quais dependerá o futuro do nosso planeta e buscou-se principalmente disponibilizar informações a serviço da sustentabilidade e da educação ambiental.read more »

This week I was talking about sustainability and Blekinge Greenmap. Hopefully now more people know about our local greenmap and will start suggesting sites. Here is my image and some excerpts from the talk.

It was also a good opportunity to clean up the local website EkoBlekinge.se which is the home for Blekinge Greenmap. I'm planning more updates when I have the time. And a new export function which Greenmap systems is working on will improve my list of green sites.read more »

Cartógrafos de América Latina, por favor, deplacése hacia abajo para nuestra encuesta adjunta!

Mapeadores da América Latina por favor, desloque-se para a nossa pesquisa ligado!

Latin American Mapmakers, please scroll down for our attached survey!

Mapa Verde is Spanish for “Green Map” so we use the name Mapa Verde to describe our Latin American sustainability mapping initiative. It has grown significantly since its first project, Buenos Aires, was registered in 1998. Since then, the Mapa Verde network has published over 25 unique Green Maps in print or online, including several Open Green Maps. To date, Mapa Verde has published projects in 15 countries, with many more registered or underway. Now, to gain more insight into the processes, outcomes and impacts of this locally-directed work, we are surveying the region’s culturally linked Mapmakers, including all those from South America, Central America and the Caribbean.

As an intern at Green Map System and a University of Richmond student of Geography and International Studies focused on Latin America, it was natural for me to develop an investigation of the Mapas Verdes initiatives. After digging through Green Map’s archives of locally made maps, education and outreach tools, searching through resources online, and reviewing the project profiles on GreenMap.org, I have categorized a number of Mapa Verde projects, including a few that were previously undocumented.

The time I spent organizing and collecting project data only increased my interest in the Mapa Verde initiatives and the diverse developmental processes undertaken with each map. Consequently, it is my desire to move further with this research, answering questions such as, how has Mapa Verde impacted communities? How does each project collect data, incorporate member participation, and distribute their maps? And most importantly, has Mapa Verde increased sustainability in Latin America?

In order to gather the needed information for my inquiries I have created a trilingual survey designed for all Latin American Green Mapmakers. Directly appealing to each initiative, I intend to delve into the hidden layers of map production and develop an assessment that will inform future participants in the region and provide a qualitative analysis of Green Map’s effectiveness and uses.

With my findings, I will author an analytical report that will incorporate discussions of my methods, literary reviews, results, and conclusions. This research has been supported by the David D. Burhans Civic Fellowship, and will be presented in the fall of this year to this foundation, University of Richmond students and professors and the Richmond Virginia community. I would like to extend thanks to Wendy Brawer, founding director of Green Map System for allowing me to undertake this project, as well as Dr. David Salisbury, my academic advisor at the University of Richmond for guiding me through this process.

As of July 19, ten mapmakers have responded as mapped here. I invite all Mapmakers from Latin America to fill out the survey by clicking here. I look forward to learning from these responses and sharing the report here later in 2011.

Sincerely, read more »

With my freshmen year of college almost at its close, I made it my priority to find a summer internship. Having had a connection to Green Map through a research project I’d conducted during high school, I contacted Wendy Brawer—founder and director—to inquire about any available positions. Having been intrigued by Green Map’s innovative methods of identifying and teaching sustainability, I was thrilled when Wendy told me I was welcome to an internship.

On the first day, Wendy introduced my fellow interns and me to the numerous projects Green Map was participating in that summer: projects involving sustainability in NYC, updating existing maps, and researching energy improvements being planned for the city. I became involved in my first project—updating a map of bicycle routes in NYC. read more »

日本語の記事は下にあります。

Hi! My name is Yutaka, how are you guys doing? First, let me introduce myself very briefly. I’ve started interning at Green Map in May 2011, and right now I am managing collaboration works with Green Map Japan.

Green Map Japan is an NPO, established in 2002, as a support “hub” for Japan’s Green Mapmakers. Thanks to the coordinator Misako Yomosa-san’s dedicated work, Japan is a country with some of the most Green Maps in the world, as seen in Green Map Japan’s annual newsletter, “Harmony”. There is also a Green Map Japan's Facebook page to check out.

As you all know, a massive earthquake hit Japan about 3 month ago, and things really changed in Japan as a result. Less food supply, less electricity, transportation impacts, etc. I was in Yokohama when the earthquake hit Tohoku, and experienced the fear of explosion of the power plants, the waters and air being nuked, etc. For me it was my first time to experience this sort of emergency. My friends, brothers, parents were all safe, but I would like to express my sincere condolences and pray for the victims to overcome this difficult hurdle.

Hiroo Maruya, an advisor to Green Map Japan gave us a strong message about the disaster, how powerless we are against nature, and what map-making means for humanity. It’s on the bottom of this page (in Japanese). He is also an architect and a city planner, and recently he has established an organization dealing with recovery in Tohoku, called ”The Road of Japan” (「日本の道」). Please support his work!

It’s a tough time and still an emergency situation in Japan, and most people are still feeling depressed. But like Maruya-san, many of those who are not directly impacted want to do something for the future. Both Green Map Japan and Green Map in New York want to help! We welcome your help and support - let know how you want to pitch in.

For example, right now we are looking for volunteers who can help us translate the Open Green Map interface so Japanese mapmakers can use this platform more easily to create an interactive map at virtually no cost. If you want to gain experience translating or just have free time and good English to Japanese skills, please contact me yukata (at) greenmap.org. With your help, we can finish this project in Summer 2011.

If you are interested in Green Map and want to participate in mapmaking in Japan, please start at GreenMapJapan.org and see how you can contribute to a healthier, fresher, friendlier Japan!

Yutaka Nakashima

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こんにちは＆初めまして！

NY本部のグリーンマップで先月からインターンをしている中島と言います。 これからこのブログやFacebookなどを通じて、グリーンマップ本部の状況やグリーンマップジャパンに関する情報を発信していこうと思っています。よろしくお願いします！

さて、みなさんもご存知のように３月１１日、東日本地域で大地震・大津波が発生し、東北地方や北関東を中心に多大なる被害を受けました。また福島県では原子力発電所がメルトダウンを起こし、放射能による汚染が広がっています。地震や原発の事故によって日本の生活は震災前とはまったく違うものになったと感じます。私も地震があった時はまだ日本におり、また原発が爆発した映像も生でテレビで見て衝撃を受けました。被害に見舞われたかたがたに対し心よりご冥福をお祈りします。また一刻も早くこの困難を乗り越えられますようグリーンマップはがんばりたいと考えています。

震災に関してグリーンマップジャパンのメンバーである丸谷博男さんから、生きること、そして地図を作ることについて力強いお言葉をいただきました。記事の最後に載せていますので是非一読ください。また丸谷さんは復興支援のための団体「日本の道」を設立し、復興支援のみならず新しいコミュニティのありかたについて提言、尽力されています。どうか彼の仕事をサポートしてください。

震災の影響は凄まじく、簡単に立ち直ることは難しいですし、原発に関しても心配は増すばかりですが、落ち込んでばかりではいられません。被害にあってない身 としては逆に震災をより持続可能なよりよい社会やコミュニティ作りにするきっかけにしたいと思っていますし、グリーンマップはそれをおおいに手助けすることができるツールだと思います。グリーンマップを活用して復興の手助けをしたい、何か提言したい方はいつでもコンタクトをお待ちしています。

例えば現在グリーンマップではオープングリーンマップ（OGM）の翻訳作業を手伝ってくれる方を大募集しています。OGMは、ウェブやiPhoneから気軽にグリーンマップ作りが参加できるプラットフォームです。 OGMについてはグリーンマップジャパンの解説サイトが充実していますのでこちら をどうぞ！

OGMに興味があるかた、英語の勉強がしたいかた、または日本語の勉強がしたいかた、など等お気軽に私にご連絡ください！連絡先は下にあります。

最後に、先日グリーンマップジャパンはフェイスブックページを開設いたしました。グリーンマップジャパンのフェイスブックページはこちらです。最新情報の発信、また情報交換の場としてどんどん活用していきたいと思っていますのでどうぞよろしくお願いします！またイイネ！ボタンを押すこともお忘れなく！

中島　豊read more »

When I first saw a presentation about Green Maps I saw tremendous potential on many levels for community building and engagement as well as creating environmental awareness. Although I was ready to get started, some challenges had to be overcome before I could begin this project, the first of which was finding a group.

VOTE FOR TABLE MOUNTAIN TODAY

Table Mountain is one of only 28 natural sites from around the globe shortlisted to be named one of the Official New7Wonders of Nature.

From an initial list of 440 magnificent natural sites nominated in 2008, Table Mountain was voted onto a list of 77 sites prior to being selected for the final shortlist of 28 finalists in July 2009.

Table Mountain Aerial Cableway, Table Mountain National Park and Cape Town Tourism have formed an official supporting committee to champion the mountain’s cause. Table Mountain needs approximately 30 million votes to secure a top 7 spot.read more »

The launch party of Local Spokes, a new bicycling coalition in the Lower East Side and Chinatown was a success last Wednesday, May 25th as supporters, members, and interested local participants gathered in the picturesque 5th St. community garden, El Jardin del Paradiso.

Based in the community, Green Map System is a member of the 9-organization coalition. I took part, along with 6 other summer interns, Wendy, the director of Green Map, and Matthew Willse, Green Map’s designer who created LocalSpokes.org.

At the Local Spokes party, Green Map System provided a participatory mapping experience, where attendees were able to use stickers to mark bike related locations. These included points such as bicycle parking, bike repair shops, caution or traffic hazard sites, bicycle paths and parks. This enabled participants to help spread their knowledge of certain cycling sites, and to learn of suggested cycling routes from others. read more »

On June 10 2011, 'Green Map International Workshop' will be held in Ansan, Korea. The '2011 Green Map Maker School' in Green Gyeonggi 21 workshop is hosted by My Town Green Map

This workshop is held in cooperation with Green Map System in New York. My internship at the global office is ending just in time to take part in this workshop held near my home. I will bring Green Map materials and a short greeting video I made with Wendy Brawer, founder of the organization.

We are delighted that more than 80 people will grace the occasion with their presence. A special guest speaker, Marco Kusumawijaya, will take part. He was the first to create a Green Map in Indonesia, and has supported the movement’s spread to more than a dozen diverse communities in that country. He’s also been a great support to the Asian Green Map network and has created an influential blog(click to the blog), at the Rujak Center for Urban Studies.read more »

Introduction

With support from the Geraldine R Dodge Foundation we are delighted to be able to work with a ground-breaking organization, Sustainable Jersey to create a series of programs and resources to support Green Teams throughout the state of New Jersey. So far, 356 of New Jersey’s cities, towns and townships are actively addressing sustainability in myriad ways, following a checklist of over 100 Actions towards certification in an exciting program that has been likened to a ‘LEED’ for communities. To date, 96 communities have been certified.

Green Map System's role is to strengthen community engagement -- a key to reaching Sustainable Jersey's bronze, silver or gold status -- by connecting participants with our award winning resources for youth, printed and interactive Green Mapmaking. Download a chart matching Sustainable Jersey's Actions to Green Map's iconography here. Find a blog by Donna Drewes of Sustainable Jersey and more articles here.

Events

All New Jersey Green Teams can take part. Seats are limited, be sure to register. Find project overviews and downloadable resources below, along with a Green Map of the Green Teams involved in the Sustainable Jersey initiative. Past events are on the bottom of this page.

Princeton Environmental Film Festival/Sustainable Princeton "Great Ideas Breakfast" read more »

Merging sustainability and culture, the Festival of Ideas for the New City took place in Green Map’s neighborhood in early May 2011. Organized by the New Museum, we took part in a busy street festival, along with many local organizations involved in green culture, sharing ideas, products and experiences with thousands of residents, visitors, press and media people.

Our booth was popular as we offered people a chance to learn what Green Map is all about, and gave them Composting Green Maps of Manhattan as well as cards about our global program. We created buttons using recycled New York Green Maps, and many visitors made their own ‘permanent nametag’ – a small but important way to reduce waste and make a statement about personal interests using Green Map Icons. Especially for children, it was a great chance to produce a special Mothers Day nametag, created with utmost sincerity. It’s Time to Mother Earth!read more »

On April 28, we hosted the GEL 2011 Conference 'All Around the Map' workshop at Green Map System's studio. Our space was filled with more than 30 conference attendees - our interns and colleagues participated in the event as well. We had 3 stations; mapmaking with map painter Connie Brown in our conference room, nametag button making in our special projects space and the Green Map slideshow was presented in Wendy's office. Attendees could explore the gallery of Green Maps and work at our desks as desired, there were also two ‘around the block’ tours to see local green sites. Australia, Canada, Cayman Islands and several US states were in the house!read more »

We are delighted to share this good news from the Cape Town Green Map project leader, Arne Purves, Professional Officer in the City's Sustainable Resource Management division:

"The Cape Town Green Map is proud to have been a part of the award winning 2010 Green Goal program, the environmental programme for the 2010 FIFA Soccer World Cup that was held in South Africa June/July 2010. Recognition from the IOC is a huge honor and has ensured that the City of Cape Town's 2010 Green Goal programme really sets the standard for "Greening" large sporting events into the future."read more »

The snow was covering the tulips and daffodils on the lawn of Marygrove College on April 18, 2011, where several women from the Detroit Green Map met with others from higher education. Our quest: to see how the Green Map might be integrated into, and developed by students at the college / university level. We are pursuing a number of ideas and will keep you posted!

Our enthusiastic and creative team for this meeting - hosted by Marygrove College Detroit - included

* Wendy Brawer, founding director of the Green Map System
* Chris Seguin, Dean of Education at Marygrove
* Brenda Bryant, Dean of Community-Based Learning, & Executive * Director of the Center for Social Justice & Community Engagementread more »

萬年溪綠色生活地圖.

Bring the Cape Town Green Map to life using Google Earth & Street View. You can explore the sites in 3D, look at them using Streetview and bring a new dimension to how you experience the CapeTown Green Map.

Instructions:
1. Download and install Google Earth on your local PC
2. Download the .zip file from our Cape Town Green Map blogpost and save it to your local machine. extract the contents ( cape_town_greenmap.kml) to your local machine. To extract the file Select it -Right Click - Extract All.read more »

As you probably know, the nonprofit Green Map organization has a local Green Map project in addition to our work to support local Green Map teams around the world. Green Map System often tests out new ideas in New York, and successful initiatives become models shared with our global network. This project is a good example. We are experimenting in two new ways – firstly, we are testing the Meetup.com event platform to reach new audiences and secondly, introducing a local micro-funding platform - IOBY.org - to our supporters worldwide. Fortunately, IOBY (In Our Back Yards) –has arranged for 100% matching of all donations, up to $200, through May 5! read more »

As we prepared to take part in one of New York City's great community gatherings, we made a count of local maps on our interactive social mapping platform. There are 18 Open Green Maps charting diverse communities and themes, created by different schools, organizations and by Green Map System! We'll link to featured editions here, find them all by clicking Search on the right sidebar, alongside the map.

33 new sites were suggested for the NYC Compost Green Map at the Grow Together, hosted by our City's community gardening branch of the Parks Department, GreenThumb! We printed out the map, and provided stickers so people could add sites quickly and precisely.

A restorative and energy-efficient everyday action, compostables are currently 17% of NYC's household waste stream. It's important and exciting to see composting growing all across the city. Our own NYC Compost Green Map just received a grant from the Manhattan Borough President, the SWAB and Citizens Committee of NYC. We'll soon be adding 22 new projects that are funded through this program to the map!

• NYC Citywide Green Mapsread more »

Japan is constantly on our minds these days. With the earth still shaking, the shock yields to pain and sadness. We don't yet know the full extent of the unprecedented disaster but our hearts go out to each impacted person and their communities. Having worked with 70 diverse Japanese cities and towns over the years, our network sent messages of hope and people from Kyoto, Tokyo and other points south of the path of destruction have responded they are OK, thankfully. We know there are many great losses and deep uncertainties due to the nuclear nightmare. We know people need help to rebuild and remember, heal and regenerate. We have begun to discuss how Green Mapmaking can help in the recovery effort – let us know if you would like to know more about this or wish to offer help directly to some of our exemplary projects in Japan.

At Green Map’s NYC office, we remember how after 9/11, people reached out for a vibrant vision of Manhattan to help wipe away unbelievable after-images of the Twin Towers collapsing. We sent copies of LoMap, our youth-view of Lower Manhattan, to help them heal. We’d like to highlight the spirit of the Japanese Green Mapmakers in the same way with these self-portraits of community. We hope these images and links underscore the strengths of Japan’s remarkable community leaders and culture, and help revitalize sustainable society across the country and around the world.

One of the early stories we posted about the Green Map network growing in Japan is now a nostalgic PDF - or jump to a quick overview with links to key pages.

Staff from New York has taken part in several events from Tokyo to Hiroshima to Nagoya to Kitakyushu.

The Tokyo Art Jungle was a great exhibition curated by David d’Heilly in 2002. For us the highlight was university students’ Green Maps of each of the 29 stations around the Yamanote, Tokyo’s central train line. We loved the video they created, as well as the project's photo-rich website. Lots of people pitched in, including Setagaya Green Mapmaker, Masahiro Horiuchi. The overall organizer was Yohei Yasuda, whose most recent project Open Today was launched last week on Facebook, a ‘cheer project’ aiming to help people reconnect.

Hiroshima's youth and elders teamed up to create the Eco Peace Map with contrasting views from pre-1945 and 2003, using the tram lines to focus their exploration. Led by Sendai-san, the layered map shares the hope for a better future from one generation to the next - download the outcomes here.

Thanks to Chubu Recycle and hundreds of participants, the World’s Fair, Aichi EXPO 2005 offered two Green Map Pavilions and 40 unique locally created Green Maps as seen here. The page links to www.gm-aichi.net (in English), where you can see the wonderful books published to share process and outcomes by Keiko Nakagawa, Hagiwara-san and colleagues. Our director took part in the 2010 five -year review of Aichi’s impacts, which included creation of another 40 community Green Maps and a exhibit, forum and events alongside COP10, the United Nations Biodiversity Conference described in this blog post.

Diverse locally-authored stories are captured in the two books we co-created with Green Map Japan and Aichi Green Map. The first is the Green Map Atlas, online in Japanese and English. Download the complete English book (PDF 7MB) or get the individual stories here. We also love sharing the Green Map Impacts book (PDF, 7MB), which includes 18 illustrated overviews, 10 of which are about Japanese initiatives.

The NGO Green Map Japan has been supporting local efforts since 2002. While GreenMapJapan.org, their website is in Japanese, you can send a message of hope directly in any language or click reply below and share your thoughts here.

You won’t find a direct way to send donation on GreenMapJapan.org, but you can use our Donate button to support their ongoing work. Please add a note and we will be sure that Misako Yomosa, the Coordinator who has dedicated countless hours over the last 15 years to teaching and connecting Green Mapmakers will receive your help to continue this - now more than ever – important work. Find Yomosa-san's Harmony Newsletters, list of Japanese Green Maps as well as a recent illustrated overview of projects linked to the photo below, too.

Thanks to readers of Treehugger.com, we are delighted to find that ours is nominated for the Best Eco App!

UPDATE: We won!

You can help us win a 2011 Treehugger Best of Green Award in the Science and Technology category by clicking http://bit.ly/dFBjQM- there's no need to register to help us gain this important recognition. Want to help get the word out? Here is a Tweet:

On your mobile, add or explore green sites with @GreenMap. Nominated Best Eco App @TreeHugger! Vote today http://bit.ly/dFBjQMread more »

Hello again readers!

This is Green Map intern Joseph Pangilinan and I’d like to give you an update in regards to our progress in compiling Green Map’s archives. Since I last posted a blog, we have added 76 maps and 63 materials, totaling 418 maps and 198 materials. These materials offer a great range of purpose from academic (theses, books and booklets evaluating Green Map and its global effect) to community outreach and education (Green Maps and learning materials aimed at children) to recognition (magazine and newspaper articles lauding Green Map for increasing the public’s consciousness on sustainable living). Preparing these materials for public viewing not only supplements the information provided directly by the Green Map, it also gives the viewer a new perspective into the workings and influence of these projects, possibly inspiring new communities to get involved.read more »

Soon, I will be arriving in Seattle Washington. Although my stay is short, I'm meeting with Vashon Island Green Mapmakers, Beverly Nadius and Angela Rueber at 2 on Monday March 14. Ideally, there will be a chance to meet with potential project leaders in Seattle as well catch up on recent regional progress.

Next stop, Victoria BC. From the 15th to the 19th, I'll be working with long-time colleagues Maeve Lydon and Ken Josephson of University of Victoria. The school is hosting an exciting series of community mapping events, as noted in the attached discussion paper. read more »

Ernest Vidal and Coco Coronal together with Petz Scholtus created a video to promote the use of the Barcelona Green Map! If you like it, please spread it around, thanks!

Greetings readers!

My name is Joseph Pangilinan, I am an intern here at Green Map System and I'd like to take an opportunity to update you on the happenings in the Green Map offices. My fellow intern Jinhwa Ju and myself have taken on the task of archiving all of the Green Maps created world wide, as well as locally created books, marketing and learning materials. This was the first step toward having all of our Green Maps archived in the New York University Library or another Collection at a library, university or other institution for public access in both their original and digital formats. Supported in part by NYU's Green Grants program, the archive will inform and inspire as it illustrates many aspects of community sustainability in urban and rural areas. read more »

Our original NYC Green Apple Map website is having a makeover!

We were selected by an amazing new resource, desigNYC which has the mission to "amplify the work of extraordinary NYC nonprofits, community groups and city agencies serving the public good by connecting them with the power of good design. Our focus is local. Our approach is multi-disciplinary. Our process is participatory and community-centric."

We are in a wonderful cohort of projects, and we are delighted to be working with a very cool company, OTTO to realize the entirely new GreenAppleMap.org in 2011. read more »

A special thank you to Pair Networks, a wonderful company that has been our internet service provider for many years, supporting our online work with a dedicated server. Pair is celebrating its 15th anniversary this week with some specials, but what we think is especially notable is Pair's environmental policy, which includes carbon neutrality, free organic fruit in the cafeteria, and bike, transit and tele-commuting. Congrats to Pair on 15 Years, and plenty more to come!

지속가능한 발전과 쾌적한 도시환경을 모토로 삼고 있는 단체인 푸른경기21실천협의회의 주도로 진행된 '경기도 Green Map 프로젝트'가 성공적으로 마무리되었습니다! 한국에서 환경에 대한 관심이 날로 높아지고 있는 요즈음, 한국 최초로 경기도의 '경기도 Green Map'을 완성은 매우 반가운 뉴스입니다.

그간 Green Map System, Inc.와 한국의 정부부서 및 민관단체들의 Green Map 만들기에 관련한 프로젝트를 시도해오기는 했지만, 이처럼 완성되어 발간된 것은 처음으로 그 의미가 더 크다고 할 수 있습니다. 또한 경기도는 Green Map의 완성에만 그치지 않고 '2010 그린맵 컨테스트'를 통해 대중들의 의견을 모니터링하고 발전을 꾀했다는 점에서 매우 인상적입니다.read more »

October 2010 the printed version of a Reykjavik greenmap was published. It coincided with the Reykjavik International Film Festival and later the Reykjavik Airwaves festival. We are therefore hoping that the printed map did draw attention to international crowd as well as local. The map was printed in 10.000 copies and is now about to be "sold out" (it is not sold however, it is distributed free of charge and sent to those requesting it for postage cost only).

I myself have been both a quiet observer and active member of the greenmap network since year 2002. For me the participation in an international gathering in Bellagio, Italy with a group of representatives for diverse green map projects from 23 countries around the world became the platform to experiment with the mapping, both in terms of teaching and map-making. read more »

Detroit Metro Green Map - 2010 Report

Much is stirring in the Detroit area...as the web of sustainability is being ever more woven into the fabric of our communities, economies & food systems:

EXHIBITS at the
* 2010 MI Earth Day Festival held in Rochester, MI.**
* Rainbow Blight Fair - held on the park grounds in front of the old Detroit Train Station to promote urban renovation, the Imagination Station for the arts, and community awareness/fun.
* Great Lakes Bioneers Detroit Conference hosted at Mary Grove College in Detroit.

US SOCIAL FORUM
In June, 2010 the US Social Forum was held in DETROIT. Wendy Brawer came into town to give an awesome presentation to a classroom of folks from Detroit and around the country. read more »

As we are wrapping up another great year at Green Map System, we are looking into the future ... we are excited about the support you have given us that helps to ensure a wonderfully effective year ahead for our global network!

We have much to be grateful for, as we outlined in three newsletters this week, highlighting the people, progress and hopes for 2011. We invite you to take a few moments to read these short messages and join with us in helping to engage communities and support healthy, vibrant and sustainable communities, near and far!read more »

On October 23th 2010, Green Map sharing session is held by Fresh EPA in South China University of Technology, which invited the representatives of Guangzhou Green Point Environmental Protection Information Center, Friends of Nature, Friends of the Earth, China Mangrove Conservation Network and the EPA members from 7 universities.

Before the indoor session, we had a Green Map experience in SCUT to deepen the impression of Green Map.

At the beginning of the meeting, Mrs. Hong from Friends of Nature shared her valuable point of Green Map, saying that Green Map is sharing the love of what we love.read more »

As it is known to all, water culture is a significant part of Guangzhou. To show a different face of Guangzhou, we made the Green Map series of Guangzhou River Branch cooperating with the Olympic Council of Asia and the volunteers from different groups. This project lasted more than 5 months from the beginning of 2010.

Before the Asia Games, the government had tried hard to promote the environment beside the river branch. This series of Green Map show a greener way to feel the real Guangzhou by pointing out the cultural sites, natural landscape and sustainable living sites.
(These Green Maps have been exhibited in the local square to show the change and the beauty of the river branch to the natives and the tourists.)read more »

On May 26th and 27th 2010, the Green Map Photo Exhibition held by Fresh EPA, went into its 3rd station and 4th station as it was shown at South China Normal University and Sun Yat-Sen University.

Before that, the exhibition was held in South China University of Technology, which was regarded as its 1st station and Guangdong University of Technology, its 2nd station.

During the photo exhibition, the volunteers from Fresh EPA furnished the tent with the pictures about the Green Map in SCUT. These picture shows us its common sense, its history in Guangzhou, and the achievements by Fresh EPA while running the program. When the students walked past our exhibition, our volunteers explained to them with patience. In this way, the show presented by them interested more and more people to stop and to listen to our introduction. read more »

On 15th May 2009, we at Fresh EPA had our first Green Map sharing session at South China University of Technology, which attracted many students who were interested in this new item. The session began at 3:00 p.m. with a humorous drama which made all the people there become fascinated with Green Map. Later, several members of our association gave introduction of the development of Green Map in Fresh EPA and the first Green Map of our university. The atmosphere was great and everyone was enjoying.

In the game part, people had to guess the meaning of icons of Green Map. If they were right, they would be rewarded with a Green Map of Qi Ao Island in Zhuhai, Guangdong Province. The introduction of this map was given later by the Mangrove Group of our association. read more »

On December 6th, in NYC, developers Thomas Turnbull and Te Baybute joined Green Map System's Founding Director, Wendy Brawer at the Tech4Good NetSquared Meetup and previewed version 2 of Green Map for the iPhone and mobile web. The new data collection tool will make it so easy to add new green sites to Open Green Maps!

We demonstrated the resourceful use of third party and open source tools in the Open Green Map social mapping platform they launched in 2009, and highlighted some unique outcomes from cities around the world as well as future plans. Download the slideshow. Soon, video will be attached here.read more »

Recently, I went to the thesis defense of Bala Mulloth, a PhD-Technology Management candidate in the Department of Technology Management at NYU-Poly in New York. Abstracted below, Bala's thesis title is: "Diversity in Contemporary Entrepreneurship: The Evolution of Two Representative Clean Technology Companies in New York City as Cases in Point."

It was quite interesting for me to see how this study developed and explored a new aspect of our work – entrepreneurship. We had several discussions and Bala took part in different aspects of our work during the past year – we even collaborated on a paper published by the Cumulus Social Innovation Conference in China, linked below. read more »

Our last map focused on resources in one city watershed and had an inset map of Druid Hill Park, the large central park within that Baltimore watershed. It is a 745-acre park filled with curvilinear drives and distinctly different topography, scenic areas, and activity sites. People tend to know one area but have trouble wrapping their minds around everything the park contains and how to navigate through it. The inset proved so popular that we decided to print a stand-alone map in time for Druid Hill Park's 150th birthday celebration in mid-October. The updated map contains over 65 site entries and uses 17 Green Map icons. And on that map we were able to include a timeline of the park's history and to provide more information about specific resources within the park. We are asking for donations at the map's distribution points both to insure those that pick up the "free" map really want it and to help seed the funding for the next park project, a passport to accompany the map.read more »

Subtitle: Promoting a transformational project for Locally Generated Renewable Energy
Location: Jersey City NJ, USA
Date: 3rd Nov 2010
Background: 8th in a series motivated by the proposed Gas Pipeline in JC

There is glaringly oversight in JC, made obvious now that FERC and Spectra are entertaining the prospect of their 30in High-pressure Natural Gas pipeline through the centre of JC for the benefit of NYC.

What is missing is a vision for Renewable Energy in JC. I’m advocating Jersey City Wind (JCW) - on the 255 acre brownfield site next to Liberty State Park – a significant urban wind-farm like no other. It would act as a beacon that sets a new precedent in the desires and sacrifices an urban community accepts. A symbol that a community has spoken, has decided on sustainability and is able to hold its head up to say “We are doing our part”. read more »

We were very happy that our parcel made it to the Green Map office in New York and hope that as many map makers as possible can get a copy of our map.

"so happy to find such a nice big box of your cool maps and great materials on the environment and sustainability programs there, Arne and Philip! wonderful - we have already send copies down to Uraguay and today, Puerto Rico. I also left the copies I had in Japan - inspriing for people there! much appreciated, Wendy"

You can also download an electronic copy:Here

The Detroit and Detroit Metro Green Map Team has been expanding our presence in the region through public exhibits, meetings and connections. Details to come in the next week. Stay posted!

Subtitle: The 6th St Embankment, the Planners, the Residents, the Entrepreneur and the Lawyer
Location: Jersey City NJ, USA
Date: 22nd Oct 2010
Background: Seventh in a series motivated by the proposed Gas Pipeline in JC

It was not until I started to build the JC GreenMap that I began to fully understand the 6th Street Embankment, its connection to the past and the vision that some have for its future. The Coalition’s efforts have been superhuman in perseverance, if nothing else, over the last 12 years. This preservation effort is so important to a better future for the whole of JC and not simply to further enhance the gentrified downtown districts with another park. In fact it is a vital link in a network of green corridors and open spaces that is JC’s wild, overgrown “lost world”. This world is awaiting cyclists and pedestrians to traverse the city through secret routes where no car can go. What other post-industrial city can boast such a hidden treasure? However there is a seemingly intractable problem to this vision. But in the true nature of America, the land that I dreamed of coming to and that I now call my home, there is a solution available. A tool or technique that can be wielded in just such a situation as this. The time for applying that solution has surely arrived.read more »

Subtitle: In praise of a 911 Memorial Soccer League for Kids @ Liberty State Park
Location: Jersey City NJ, USA
Date: Oct 2010
Background: Sixth in a series motivated by Fossil-fuel addiction and it’s affects on JC

The advantage of being a Green Map map-maker is that I am perhaps more able to see seemingly disjointed issues in a more connected and related manner. It comes not only from studying satellite images and internet searches, but also from the more mundane kinds of communications such as newspapers, magazine articles. From snatched conversations in between proceedings at say a City Hall meeting or a “charette” brain-storming session. It also comes from not siding with any one issue but trying to study, as a whole, the city through a vision I am forming in my mind. Here is a for-instance, which entwines a lack of soccer facilities for kids (see previous blog-entry: Let all the kids play soccer in Jersey City) with an unwanted 911 memorial, an opportunity for the present and some hope for the future of JC.read more »

Read the article by Dr Janice Golding, an Honorary Research Associate (Botany) at the University of Cape Town who is also the author of Extinction by Design: plant ecology, species extinction and taxonomy in south-central Africa

Subtitle: How can soccer help to break our fossil-fuel addiction?
Location: Jersey City NJ, USA
Date: Oct 2010
Background: Fifth in a series motivated by Fossil-fuel addiction and it’s affects on JC

What attracted me to this hobby of green-mapping was the potential to do some good by efficiently using my professional skills and interests. JC has a fair-sized population of around 250,000 at the last census and is in fact in the top 100 cities in America, by population. However it is actually the smallest city, by area, in that same top 100 list which means that it’s really quite a small place and, maybe not quite like a village, certainly there is a town-feel about the place. Sometimes I find that issues, that come up in my quest for renewable energy, play themselves out quite graphically in the lives of my family and in particular my kids. Here is an example...read more »

Location: Jersey City NJ, USA
Date: Oct 2010
Background: Fourth in a series motivated by Fossil-fuel addiction and it’s affects on JC

Most every time I collect new material for the JC Green Map, I happen upon something that surprises and intrigues me. One time it was the discovery that JC has a “Little Italy”, known to its inhabitants as The Village. Nestled between an elevated section of the NJ Turnpike, a walled embankment supporting railway sidings, and NW-SE diagonal section of Newark Avenue, this little triangular enclave has surprisingly few thoroughfares bisecting it and retains indeed a village feel about it (as far, perhaps, as could be possible, in such an urban environment). But why is this relevant to being, or going, “Green”, and how does it help adoption of locally generated, non-fossil fuel energy?read more »

Right now I am getting ready to fly to Kitakyushu Japan, the hometown of Misako Yomosa, Coordinator of Green Map Japan. As director of Green Map System, I'm really looking forward to this trip with many colleagues and presentations - find the first blog with images from this trip here.

Here's the plan, find more details at GreenMapJapan.org (or in English):read more »

Conhecer melhor o lugar em que vivemos é uma questão de abrir os olhos. De enxergar de maneira mais curiosa e crítica aquilo que nos rodeia. Essa é exatamente a intenção de um projeto de Iniciação científica do IFTO tendo com ideia é criar o Mapa Verde da cidade de Palmas.

Bom dia!

Durante esta semana foi colocado no ar o novo mapa temático (http://www.opengreenmap.org/pt-br/greenmap/design-route-cwb),
que conta com ícones como Luminárias alimentadas à Energia Solar e o Design & Sustainability Research Center da Universidade Federal do Paraná.

Good morning!

During this week the new thematic map (http://www.opengreenmap.org/pt-br/greenmap/design-route-CWB) was released.
This map features icons such as solar-powered Lighting and the Design & Sustainability Research Center, from the Federal University of Parana.

Enjoy this album and overview of the terrific Green Map exhibit, on view at Finlandia University Art Gallery in Hancock Michigan on the Keweenaw Peninsula through October 16. Special thanks to the Ironwood Daily News Source, exhibit creators Barbara Hardy and Rick Lodoha and curator Carrie Flaspohler. The Green Map Icons highlight local green sites and connect with the great globally-designed Green Maps beautifully!

Explore - Critique - Create!

In October 2010, we invited everyone to take part in the first pilot test of the Green Map site marker system.

Designed to engage an even wider audience, these site markers will make it easy for anyone to spot green sites, even without a printed Green Map or access to our mobile website. We tested out designs created by Green Mapmakers in several countries on Manhattan's 14th Street.

Our goal to test the concept was met, and based on the feedback received, we intend to extend the project in 2011. We found that the simplest designs with bold icons worked the best. We also learned more about the site owners and how they viewed being selected for the Green Map and sharing valuable space in their window for a marker. read more »

Location: Jersey City NJ, USA
Date: Aug/Sept 2010
Background: Third in a series motivated by Fossil-fuel addiction and it’s affects on JC

I'm a bit of a sucker for old movies and have known for sometime that Midnight Cowboy (1969 – the only X-rated movie to receive a best-picture Oscar) has a fleeting scene in JC. However, in researching for JC GreenMap, Bill McKelvey of LHR confirmed that another classic, representing the other extreme of my taste, was also partially filmed in JC. That one was Funny Girl (1968 - Barbara Streisand, best-actress Oscar; what can I say?). This, you might imagine, intrigued me somewhat. How could these two celluloid-opposites cross-paths in JC, of all places? (..and what has this to do with fossil-fuel addiction?)read more »

Association of Conscious Consumers has developed the first printed green map in Hungary, the green map of Lake Tisza and its surroundings. The map is published officially by the Municipality of Sarud and came out for the Lake Region Festival held in the village in 13-15 August.

The map has an ecotourism focus and covers 18 topics, including rural accomodations and horse riding possibilities. For this two, as not yet included in the global icon set, new icons were created.read more »

Where: Jersey City, NJ USA
Topic: Seeing forward by looking back

Once again I am in awe of my adopted home of 10 years. Little did I know that Jersey City was the light-at-the-end-of-the-tunnel for escaping slaves. It was their hope for freedom; their rendezvous with liberty. Jersey City, in Lady Liberty’s backyard, was the last “station” on the “Underground Railroad” that ran up through the eastern seaboard states of the USA. Their new life, like for many of us, began here. read more »

No segundo periodo do seminário 3 do projeto Rio do Nosso Bairro, na atividade que está sendo realizada hoje na cidade de Santos, os professores puderam elaborar um "Wiki de papel" de maneira coletiva, para vivenciarem na prática um modelo de contrução colaborativa de idéias que será utilizado na terceira fase do projeto dentro das escolas.

Foi exemplificado como referencial de processo de construção de conhecimento à "varias mãos", a enciclopédia virtual "Wikipédia", que é sustentada virtualmente por milhões de usuários que inserem informações no sistema.

Diego de Itu que está facilitando a oficina comenta sobre a importância dos processos comunicativos. "Na divulgação das informações numa maneira coletiva podemos interpretar as questões ambientais e contribuir para a disseminação de propostas que tracem caminhos para a sustentabilidade".read more »

Nesta manhã a jornalista Viviane Amaral iniciou os trabalhos de formação dos professores e professoras da Baixada Norte / Seminário 3 - projeto Rio do Nosso Bairro - Escolas Cuidando da Água.

Na oportunidade o tema abordado pela comunicadora foram as Redes Sociais e a capacidade comunicativa das mesmas.

Durante a apresentação foi mostrado modelos de interação e de interfaces que as redes possibilitam. De acordo com Viviane todo processo dialógico deve pressupor a comunicação como atividade geradora das redes. "Quando compartilhamos informações geramos um repertório que possibilita instrumentos para desenvolvermos trabalhos que fortaleçam as operações nas comunidades", afirma.read more »

Buscando tecer uma grande malha para fortalecer o tecido comunicacional entre as escolas participantes do projeto Rio do Nosso Bairro - Rede de Escolas Cuidando da Água, acontece nesse sábado (15), a partir das 09hs no CAIS – Centro de Atividades Integradas de Santos a última etapa do processo de formação dos professores e professoras das cidades de São Vicente, Santos, Guarujá, Cubatão e Bertioga (Baixada Norte), que desde o mês de abril já participaram dos seminários sobre “Saneamento Ambiental, Participação e Controle social” e “Educação Ambiental e Métodos participativos”.read more »

Citando Herbert de Souza, o Betinho, a participação é um dos princípios chave da democracia. “Sem ela, não é possível transformar em realidade, em parte da história humana, nenhum dos outros princípios: igualdade, liberdade, diversidade e solidariedade”.

Assumindo esta ideia como premissa, o Seminário 2 – Educação Ambiental e Métodos Participativos do programa de formação do projeto Rio do Nosso Bairro – Escolas Cuidando da Água trouxe para debate com os professores e coordenadores pedagógicos das escolas inscritas no projeto a função da participação na Educação. read more »

A Ecosurfi vai realizar em Itanhaém, no próximo sábado (17/4), o primeiro seminário do programa de formação do projeto Rio do Nosso Bairro – Escolas Cuidando da Água para os professores da Baixada Sul (Peruíbe, Itanhaém, Mongaguá e Praia Grande). O seminário para professores da Baixada Norte aconteceu no sábado passado (10 de abril) no Centro de Atividades Integradas de Santos (CAIS).

Esta primeira atividade tem como tema “Saneamento ambiental, participação e controle social” e traz como objetivos apresentar a perspectiva de análise da sociedade a partir da bacia hidrográfica, explicando os conceitos básicos de saneamento ambiental e suas relações com a saúde pública.read more »

Amanhã (10/4) acontecerá no Centro de Atividades Integradas de Santos (CAIS) o primeiro seminário do programa de formação do projeto Rio do Nosso Bairro - Escolas Cuidando da Água.

Esta primeira atividade tem como tema "Saneamento ambiental, participação e controle social" e traz como objetivos apresentar a perspectiva de análise da sociedade a partir da bacia hidrográfica, explicando os conceitos básicos de saneamento ambiental e suas relações com a saúde pública. A proposta é abordar a política de águas e o sistema de gerenciamento de recursos hídricos, valorizando a idéia da participação e do controle social como elementos fundamentais para o avanço democrático e para uma gestão sustentável dos recursos hídricos.read more »

Hoje de manhã quase quatro mil pessoas tomaram as ruas de Peruibe, no litoral sul de São Paulo, para se manifestar pelo envolvimento das escolas na gestão sustentável dos recursos hídricos. A ação marca as comemorações do Dia Mundial da Água, que desde 1992 é comemorado em 22 de março e, na Baixada Santista, é marcado anualmente pela Semana e Caminhada Metropolitanas da Água.

Em sua 5° edição a Caminhada da Água promoveu um grande arrastão. Milhares de jovens e professores de escolas das nove cidades da Baixada Santista percorram as principais ruas do centro de Peruibe portando faixas e cartazes, demonstrando a preocupação da juventude com os recursos hídricos na região.read more »

Terminando as comemorações da Semana da Água o Comitê da Bacia Hidrográfica da Baixada Santista, através da sua Comissão Especial de Educação Ambiental e Divulgação, Prefeitura de Peruíbe, em conjunto com a Ecosurfi, realizam a maior mobilização da região pela proteção e preservação dos Recursos Hídricos.

A passeata deve reunir no próximo dia 22 em Peruíbe mais de 4 mil alunos de todas as cidades da Baixada Santista no Dia Mundial da Água

Realizada desde 2006, a já tradicional “marcha da água” reúne milhares de jovens das escolas públicas e particulares dos 09 municípios da Região Metropolitana da Baixada Santista e encerra a Semana Metropolitana da Água no próximo dia 22 (segunda-feira). A cada ano a caminhada é realizada em uma cidade diferente e tem a proposta de, no Dia Mundial da Água, divulgar na Baixada Santista os trabalhos desenvolvidos pelo CBH/BS.read more »

Where: Jersey City, NJ USA
Topic: Proposed 30 inch, high-pressure Natural-Gas pipeline, suggested routing through center of JC, supplying NYC
Parties: FERC (Federal Energy Regulatory Commission); Spectra Energy (TX USA)
Map (to right): JC Green-map with proposed pipeline route in black. Note route through residential sections of JC with enormous number of Green-Assets and Icons in close proximity.

Another record breaking hot summer (is there a trend?) and ~300 residents assembled last night in an auditorium (Ferris High School) with a broken AC for over 4 hours. Why? To voice opinions about a proposed 30 in natural gas pipeline, to run through the heart of JC, for the benefit of NYC, and presumably Spectra’s bottom-line. Sitting in that high-school auditorium, not 30 feet from the proposed pipeline route (with a supposed blast-zone of 600 feet), I sat back and studied the accidentally-released helium-balloons still hugging the ceiling from the graduation celebration where presumably upwards of 1000 pupils and their families must have recently congregated. Helium, Natural Gas, a lack of AC - there was a lot of hot air.read more »

We've been accomplishing so much at Green Map this summer, and although much is behind the scenes or to be revealed this fall, it's been a great season so far.

Special thanks to:

Celine Teo Ying Zhen, a rising senior at Vassar College, for her great work on the Open Green Map's Chinese interface, work with our virtual internship program.

Sara Imperiale, recent grad of Muhlenberg College for her many wonderful contributions to our development and editorial projects.

Daniel Gratch, rising senior at Stanford University for his important research and ideation development as well as Hebrew translation work.read more »

How do you go about finding a printer who can fold maps? Any suggestions in metro Detroit are appreciated.

籃子裡的部落生活-加納納(KALALA)
一群人，在土地的點點滴滴的生活
籃子形狀的Kalala，由於籃子底部較為平坦的，大部分部落內的房舍也聚集在這裡，Sakatip、Kawali、Kalutongan分別代表了部落西邊的位置、東邊的位置與有猴子的小聚落，聚落的名字依著所在部落的位置與特性而有所不同，西邊Sakatip代表位於部落西邊，這個地方的人是最多的、東邊Kawali的人次多、猴子坑Kalutongan的人最少。
沿著Salilis行走，恰巧可看見部落與鄰近山川地勢的關係，這是一條沿著部落東方的山陵線路徑，約莫1.5公里左右的陵線，也是部落所稱為瞭望點Pisininan的位置，這條沿著山系而走的陵線，除了有防守的意義外，走在其上也更能體會Kalala的景觀。read more »

Today GreenMap.org enters the twentieth-first century just a little bit late. The new drop down menus will increase the ease of use as well as help to streamline the design of the website.

Now, every page on Green Map is accessible no matter where you are. Say you are in the press section but would like to jump to a submenu in the About section to find out more about the Green Map Icons. What used to take you up to 6 or even 7 clicks is now just one.

It may be a change in the way you navigate GreenMap.org but your experience will be far more convenient, less frustrating, and maybe even a little prettier.read more »

Following the Green Map of the Annecy area (Rhône-Alpes, France), a 10 schools and youth groups have developed local, educational Green Maps. The projects were lead by the FRAPNA Haute-Savoie, with support of the City Council of Annecy and Ekoacteurs (GRAINE). The project involved training the teachers and group leaders, then spending time working with the groups of children and classes to select areas to map, identify, adapt and apply the Green Map icons and themes. Each Green Map fits in with an ecocitizenship project developed by the school. Several of the schools have decided to continue the project into the next year. The environmental observations made in the field will be passed on to the City Council. The Green Maps produced were presented during Sustainable Development Week events I April 2010 (see photos in the PDF file). For further information: www.frapna.orgread more »

Detroit Green Map is highlighted at the US Social Forum, a gathering of thousands taking place in Detroit June 22-25.

During the US Social Forum, there will be a workshop on June 25 (10am- noon in Cobo 02-36) that includes Detroiters Deanne Bednar, Jacob Stevens Corvidae and Lois Robbins, who will share their vision for their hometown Green Map and help everyone take part! Following the workshop, this Detroit local effort will surely grow- follow the progress and get involved at OpenGreenMap.org/detroitmetro. read more »

Here in our Green Map System office in East Village, New York, we have been receiving visitors along with their newly made Green Maps. In less than two weeks, we have had Green Mapmakers from Cape Town, Colchester and Baltimore. From the oldest recorded town in Britain to the host city of the 2010 World Cup, they have all raised awareness on sustainable living and resources through their Green Maps.

Colchester, UK

Rowena Macaulay founded Walk Colchester in April 2010. Her fledging group is a community Green Mapping initiative that aims to record and protect the paths, parks, woodlands and open spaces as well as the cultural heritage of this remarkable place by promoting enjoyable, accessible, informed pedestrianism for walkers of all ages and abilities. read more »

Our founder, Wendy Brawer has been featured in a special green episode of $9.99 on NYC Media. This media outlet is the official TV, radio and online network of NYC. This program, featuring Vivian Guzman, seeks out places and activities in NYC for New Yorkers and tourists alike, who are on a shoestring budget of only $9.99. In this episode, titled “Going Green”, places such as the Hearst Tower, the Highline and the Union Square Green Market were featured.

From 19.49 to 21.02 on the video, Wendy Brawer was interviewed at the Union Square Green Market. On Material Mondays, people can bring in and recycle their used textiles such as bed sheets and old clothes. They can also drop off their food waste at the compost bins located in the square. Using our Compost Green Map of Manhattan, you could search for the nearest compost bins from your home. Our Powerful Green Apple Map of energy resources will help you explore green and sustainable places in NYC. read more »

In Budapest on May 27 2010, Green Map System's Director, Wendy Brawer took part in a special public and press celebration with Green Map projects from 4 countries. There, exciting new widgets were launched! The widgets have already appeared on Mangrove Guard, Cape Town Green Map, Green Apple Map, and Walk Colchester.

Chicago has received a lot of kudos in national and international media about how green it is. While pols and city boosters tout all of our green roofs, planted street medians, urban tree-planting endeavors and green buildings, the SAIC mapmakers are finding a different story in the neighborhoods where we acutally live.

Part of the process of our project is to document what is on the ground and do the historical research to find out how these neighborhoods come to be what they are today. The parameters set forth in the greenmap international project makes this task straight forward. We investigate the triple bottom line of sustainability, economic development, social responsibility and the natural environment.read more »

Direct from Budapest, Green Mapmakers are taking part in a special public and press event that will launch exciting new widgets on May 27.

"These widgets were inspired by our mobile website and iPhone App. So many people have responded to them, we developed the widgets to provide a similar user experience on the desktop. And since we know the value of sharing tools, we’ve provided the code and invited everyone to add the widgets to their own website and blog", said Wendy E. Brawer, Founding Director.read more »

Bom dia!

Semana passada aconteceu em Curitiba o EDS2010 (http://www.prppg.ufpr.br/eds2010/), Conferência Internacional de Educação para o Desenvolvimento Sustentável.

Participamos do evento com uma Oficina, que contou com a presença de quase 60 pessoas, que vieram de diferentes partes do Brasil.
A oficina foi uma rica troca de experiências: cada participante contou o que faz para implementar a educação para o desenvolvimento sustentável e em equipes, propuseram planos de ação.

A Oficina recebeu destaque local com reportagem em um jornal de grande circulação. http://bit.ly/aZbZrtread more »

Green Map System and its locally-led global movement are delighted to be represented in the National Design Triennial.

Global cooperation to solve the world’s problems is reflected in “Why Design Now?” held at Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in New York City. Opening May 14, the National Design Triennial is on view through January 9, 2011.

Find an array of Green Maps in the exhibition and Green Map Icons in the family guide's map. Learn about this movement and its worldwide impacts through the museum's educational tours and summer workshops, as well as at a special program this fall.read more »

My name is Ajamu Brown and I am here to commemorate the 40th anniversary of Earth Day.

In 2009, TogetherGreen, an initiative of the Audubon and Toyota partnership, awarded me a fellowship. It is designed to build the promise of a greener, healthier future through innovation, leadership and volunteerism.

I live in Bedford-Stuyvesant also known as Bed-Stuy located in the heart of North Brooklyn. My neighborhood has many challenges both socially and economically. Despite this, the trend of going green is catching on, and my Bed-Stuy Eco-Mapping Project is designed to highlight some of these local green activities. read more »

We are getting ready to host the second session of our Summer Youth Mapmaking Internship, our 'semi-virtual' program teaching skills in mapmaking and independent research.

Check out some outcomes from Year 1.

This self-directed summer program focuses on mapping sustainability in and around NYC. Our program is an opportunity apply what you have discovered about local assets and issues, ultimately making a Green Map focused on a neighborhood and topic of your choice. Mapping is a creative process, and you have the option of using digital or printed medium to construct a visual exploration of sustainability.

During the second week of June, Interns will meet for a 2 day training in our office. Each will work independently under the guidance of a “mapping mentor” and contribute to our blog on a weekly basis.

There will be a midway 'check in' in person, and in mid-August, we will have an exchange event where you will present your Green Map project. You can continue your work into the school year, and make it part of your senior project or thesis, depending on your educational objectives.

While this internship is unpaid, certain expenses will be covered by the Green Map office, thank to the support of Con Edison. If you hope to gain a greater understanding of your community’s sustainable network, we encourage you to apply.

The internship is open to both high school and college students. As of April 26, we have 6 confirmed participants. Our maximum is 15 people.

Interested? Please send resume and a short writing sample (or a link to your portfolio) by May 15th to: info [at] greenmap [.] org.

Spread the word on Twitter! read more »

Jerusalem Green Map is getting ready for Earth Day celebrations in Jerusalem.

On Thursday 22nd April Jerusalem will host Earth Day celebrations at the Mamila Pavillion opposite the Jaffa Gate and Old City Walls.

Event takes place 4-8pm and the Old City wall lights will be turned off at 8pm to celebrate "lights out hour" and earth day.

The Cape Town Green Map recently surpassed the 300 listings mark! This is a great achievement! We also received some super coverage on CNN, with the Green Cab's, Amiene van der Merwe including the Cape Town Green Map in her interview with CNN's Inside Africa! What a great contribution from the Green Cab Team!
The CNN Inside Africa Interview

We are delighted that our Open Green Map sustainability mapping platform has been selected by Treehugger.com for 2010's Best of Green, and designated the Best Tool for Green Travelers!

There are now over 10,000 sites to explore! See more than 100 Open Green Maps on your desktop, mobile or iPhone!

Special thanks to the City of Oakland California for creating the Open Green Map featured by Treehugger - Oakland is also the first to test out data importing on the OGM platform.

Thank you Treehugger! Your coverage of Green Maps created around the world has been outstanding!

Our first 15 years have been remarkable!

Join with us in celebrating! Help to assure the next 15 years will be even more amazing by making a contribution today.

Since 1995, 648 Green Map project leaders in 55 countries have stepped up to create a new perspective on local nature, culture and green living resources. New Green Maps are being published all the time! So to thank you for your tax deductible contribution of $15 - $150 - $1500, we created a special widget for our supporters!

You can add this widget to your website, blog or Facebook page and let everyone know about the Green Maps you help to support. Thank You!

Green Mapmakers continue to innovate and create new ways to share their findings using GIS mapping tools. Our organization welcomes all types of mapping, and offers a unique Google Map-based interactive platform, the Open Green Map, as well as field-tested resources that help local Mapmakers create their own GIS or printed Green Maps, as desired. Murals, performances, postcards, kiosks and other formats have been produced as well, all with the goal of inspiring more community members to get involved in local green living.

Recently, Andrew Carter, a volunteer in our global office with GIS experience reviewed 3 great new interactive Green Maps. Enjoy!read more »

We've got a new timeline! This view of our 15 years of sustainability mapping was created by University of Michigan students Hanna, Bo, and Kristen who worked with us for a week in March. The timeline is just one of the resources they developed together with our staff during the School of Information's Alternative Spring Break (ASB) program.

Download Green Map System's Timeline and spread the word!read more »