With the locally-led Green Map movement active in 55 countries, something new is happening every day! Below you can read some of the posts from Green Map bloggers around the world.
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The Citizen science project at Saint Mary's University, Halifax Nova Scotia Canada presented their first news letter in September 2009.
Citizen Science is a project that started in 2008 and their mandate is to work towards global environmental sustainablity. The project aims at encouraging and fostering Atlantic Canada's Students, faculty, staff and community members in working towards the Millenium development goal #7: Ensure Environemntal Sustainability.
The project is comprised of three parts: A student video competition, Film screenings & Public Discussion forums, and Green mapping. Each of these sectors are designed to promote knowledge sharing among student, faculty, staff, community and students in the Global south, through the aid of new media and traditional activities.read more »
Take a moment to vote for Wendy Brawer, Green Map's founder. She is a finalist for the WeMedia Game Changer's award. If she wins she gets a keynote speech slot at the WeMedia Conference in March and all Green Mappers benefit from the exposure. Let's see if through our international network of Green Mappers and map-users we can vault her to top vote-getter spot on the list of 24 finalists!
The winner is decided through public vote by FEBRUARY 3. Friends, please help her win! Pass this along to your networks. Read about her activities and impact, then scroll down to the bottom of the sidebar, click VOTE, then click spot for Wendy Brawer, then click VOTE...read more »
好创意让环保不再沉重 年内或制作广州“绿地图”
地图你见得多，绿色生活地图你听说过吗？
1月20日，广州大学城绿色生活地图正式出版。令人注目的是，它不是由专业机构完成，而全部是由大学生绘制。与普通地图不一样的是，它更像一幅反映人文生态景观的综合图谱，从而达到推广环保的目的。这些大学生计划在今年内绘制一幅全广州的绿地图，为亚运会献礼。绿地图究竟有何特别之处？作为普通市民，我们是否也可以绘制绿地图？read more »
The Open Green Map interactive mapping platform is shortlisted as a finalist for the Living Labs Global contest, selected by Stockholm, Sweden's - in the category of eServices for Citizens and Corporations.
Here is a link about the showcase, or you can view our entry here.
We're honored and hope we win, followed by the opportunity to work with Stockholm's technology park, Kista Science City. We have a wonderful Green Map project in that city, led by Max Goldstein, Therese Kristiansson and colleagues!read more »
A great new year is underway at Green Map System!
We're so pleased to complete 2009 with a record number of new Green Map projects - 119 new locally-led efforts got underway, a 33% increase in the rate of registrations. A number of factors contribute to this increase:
• more people realizing they can and must take leadership locally for climate protection, sustainability and a healthier environment.
• the Open Green Map, our new social mapping platform that removes the financial, technological and time barriers to publishing an interactive, always available Green Map. read more »
Wendy's COP15 blogs include:
Overview | On our Way | First Impressions | Green Mapmakers Present | COP 15, Day 3| Cop 15's Major March
Finale's not really the right word, as it's not really over. The official side may always be mired in the muck, but the rest of us are already moving forward, with new cross-cultural alliances, new social innovations, new tools and fresh energy. read more »
C：项目情况描述
项目实施时间 2009.4——2009.12
项目实施地 华农校内及武汉某“绿色”社区
项目概述：简短描述项目的内容（200字以内）
该项目以社区为平台和载体，结合抗击气候变化的社会热点，推广低碳生活方式，将绿色融入人们的生活中。
这次我们走出大学校园，绘制据学校较近的社区绿地图。从大学生到社区居民，各个职业的人都将参与其中，并能够从绘制绿地图的过程中理解并践行低碳的生活方式。
绿地图的成品经印刷出版后，将极大地推动社区创建生态小区的进程，也将使该社区成为武汉第一个低碳生活社区。read more »
17th Dec. 2009, our group went to the preschool in Nanhu Villa (a community) to teach the kids about the knowledge of low carbon dioxide and saving water & electricity.The kids and their teachers warmly welcomed us. We show the Green Map icons to them and told them the meaning: finding the beauty of life and preventing the pollution of our surroundings. We also told them how to saving water and lower carbon dioxide in our daily life through interesting games.The kids listened to us carefully. We also joyful to see the hope of our future environment protection.
今天华中农业大学绿地图小组在学校北苑小区的路口进行了绿地图和低碳社区相结合的活动。活动分为两个部分：对绿地图项目和低碳社区的宣传和对社区踩点绘制绿地图。我们挂出的绿地图图标吸引了不少小区的居民驻足，特别是老人和孩子。我们向他们宣传节水节电知识和绿色出行方式。由于贴近他们的生活，他们认真地听，表示以后一定认真地做，如尽量步行或乘公交代替私家车，夏天空调尽量调低温度，用微波炉代替普通加热方式可以减少散热，电器不用时插头要拔出等一些知识。read more »
Wendy's COP15 blogs include:
Overview | On our Way | First Impressions | Green Mapmakers Present | COP 15, Day 3| COP 15, Finale
Taking part in perhaps the most important demonstration in human history, I felt both exhilarated and humbled. Marching with my husband Ray and our Danish friend Ulla, my spirits were buoyed by the crowd's colorful signs and the many marching bands that accompanied us, but the march's message is grave and utterly serious. read more »
Wendy's COP15 blogs include:
Overview | On our Way | First Impressions | Green Mapmakers Present | Cop 15's Major March| Cop 15 Finale
My third day was quite busy, good thing we had bikes to get around to everything. Riding in this city is very easy!
The images all have complete captions (click Notes to see them) but basically, after a breakfast meeting, we went through the center to meet with Copenhagen Green Mapmakers at the Agenda 21 inner city office and the design museum, then off to Christiania to experience the Climate Bottom, had dinner with our homestay hosts, then to a partyboat and theater for events, then back by the ice (polar bear) to see if it was still melting. I am still processing all that I met with that day!
The Mother Jones House, a partnership between Wheeling Jesuit and Laughlin Memorial Chapel,is an intentional Christian service community of WJU students. Under the direction of a house mentor, Mother Jones House students work and serve in the neighboorhood of East Wheeling. Each Student devotes ten hours each week to service with Laughlin Memorial Chapel in their after-school and at the Catholic Neighborhood Center where they assist with prison ministry, visiting shut-ins, and preparing meals. Some are assigned to Catholic Elementary School, Lincoln Detention Center, Housing Connections, and Wheeling Healthright (free medical clinic).read more »
Wendy's COP15 blogs include:
Overview | On our Way | First Impressions | Day 3 | Cop 15's Major March| Cop 15 Finale
Today, we had a great time presenting at the Klimaforum. We had at least 10 countries - from Eqypt to New Zealand - represented in the audience and time for good questions and exchanges. Our speakers came from 5 countries - Sweden, Indonesia, Taiwan, Denmark and US, and each told a remarkable story about their community's Green Map projects. read more »
Wendy's COP15 blogs include:
Overview | On our Way | Green Mapmakers Present | Day 3 | Cop 15's Major March| Cop 15 Finale
Arrived in the evening and staying with New Yorkers Bill Di Paola and Laurie Mittlemann of Time's Up and Ray Sage of Pioneer Valley Organic Farm at a marvelous 200 year old home in the center of Copenhagen. With just a couple of hours to mix it up, we went to the tail end of Green Drinks then wondered into the Klimaforum. This giant globe in the City Hall square crowns energy exhibits and gives off a sense of urgency and hope. The lighted tree is bike powered!read more »
Wendy's COP15 blogs include:
Overview | First Impressions | Green Mapmakers Present | Day 3 | Cop 15's Major March| Cop 15 Finale
I'm just about ready to leave the office, and looking forward to meeting and working with a wide range of people involved in CO2 emissions reduction and climate healthy living converging at the United Nations COP15 event in Copenhagen.
Although I won't be there throughout the whole 10 days, I expect to learn quite a bit at the Green Mapmaking panel and our other events, listed on our COP15 page.
I'm using miles, not money, to pay for the flight. I have a homestay so thanks to my host and the many civil society groups who have set up meal venues around the city, this trip is costing very little, none of which is coming from Green Map's budget (except our outreach postcards and maps). I'll find a good way to offset the CO2 from my flight, too, and report back later.
So see you in Copenhagen! I'll be on a rented bike with the sticker below, and at all the events listed here, so watch for me there!
Dear friends,
I'm very happy to share with you that Unicamp's Green Map is online! It was developed as part of an academic project during 2005 and 2006, but only today we were able to publish it on the web. You can get it at http://www.nepo.unicamp.br/pesquisa/projetos/linha7/projeto12.html
More info about the University is available here:
http://www.unicamp.br/unicamp/en or
http://www.unicamp.br/unicamp/es
Please visit our page, download our map and share your impressions and opinions about it.
Thank you!
Leonardo Mello
The 24 November 2009 was the launch of the print version of the Cape Town Green Map - a user-friendly, handy guide that makes green choices both accessible and meaningful.
The print map is a fresh take on the Mother city's natural environment, reminding visitors and residents to live, work and play responsibly in order to reduce human impact on our fragile ecosystems.
Whilst the website is a dynamic and interactive way to engage with 'green Cape Town', the print map is an easy-to-hold snapshot in time for easy reference. All of the sites have been handpicked from a far greater availability on the online version of the map – not an easy task, considering there are now over 250 of them.read more »
Coverage about Green Map projects won 3 awards from the Indonesian Ministry of Public Works in November 2009!
Mapmaker Marco Kusumawijaya won first prize in On-line Media category with his "Warga, Tata Ruang, Jakarta Lestari" (Citizen, Spatial Plan, Sustainable Jakarta) which appeared in his blog, Rujak.org.
Second Best was won by a group of writers for "Peta Lokal, Jaringan Global" (Local Maps, Global Network) at Majalah Temporead more »
Having achieved its many of its initial goals, most notably construction of an Eco-Centre and the initiation of an Ecovillage, the Craik Sustainable Living Project (CSLP) has been able to turn its attention to Outreach and Education. This has taken the form of workshops, seminars, solar fairs, a resource library and more. Recently, the CSLP Health subcommittee has initiated eat local events and pedometer challenges. As part of this continued development, the website has been redone, with the new version at www.craikecovillage.com, and the former one at www.craikecovillage.ca until the changeover is complete.read more »
