Now, the new Green Map logo is ready to be downloaded. It's in the Resource section's Tool Center, and you need to login first. Choose the color and format you need, anytime.

You can download many new tools there! One we hope will be very helpful is the new Style Guide - it's designed to help you as you make printed Green Maps, and offers many suggestions of value to all Green Mapmakers. This Style Guide includes a graphics kit, and everything in it is provided to you in the Tool Center's Design folder, in different formats. Use these as you like on your Green Maps and supporting materials - you can also share the resources you have made there too!read more »

We're very happy to say we will soon have a dedicated server for the website thanks to Pair Networks, our wonderful provider, who has donated their services to Green Map since 2005. This will speed up the Greenhouse and hopefully help us handle all the new traffic we expect the website to generate. So sometime this week, the website will be turned off for 10 hours, while the switch is made. We'll send a note just before, and hopefully it won't interfere with anyone - there's such a nice range of projects starting to appear on this site!

And on June 6, I will travel to China to meet with Hu Huizhe and Friends of Nature in Beijing, to Tongli to meet Vincent Chen and the Green Mapmakers at Delta Electronics, and to Shanghai to meet with more of the local Green Map network and potential future project leaders. Hu Huizhe and Vincent have organized a great series of meetings and events, involving NGOs, universities and governmental agencies, should be excellent! read more »

Well, I think I've fixed the major layout problems when looking at the website with Safari.

So if you spot any problems with the look of the site in Safari, or any other browser, please let me know. you can contact me through this site if you're logged in ( click on my profile - or just go to http://www.greenmap.org/greenhouse/user/8 ). You can also leave a comment on this blog post.

And let me know what you think of the new look of the website. A few things I'm planning to change are:

- The color of the title bar on each page (it says "Safari Bugs Fixed" on this page)
- The look of each event when you click on themread more »

Issues relating to sustainability can be, well depressing. Fortunately, there are positive things happening (like Green Maps), and optimistically, it's not too late.

I recently moved to Craik, Saskatchewan, not because it is an environmental utopia, but because the local leadership is open to new ways of doing things. They have been very supportive in encouraging longtime residents and new residents to take action. Things are happening because people are making things happen.

What a fantastic place to live.

At our May 4 Board meeting, our programmer Thomas Turnbull provided a behind the scenes look at the website in progress (pictured, from left to right: Wendy Brawer, Alice Hartley, DK Holland, Joshua Arnow, Sara Tucker and Carter Craft, with Thomas, seated (not shown: Jaimie Cloud).

Great response and suggestions, thanks as always to our great Board! Join us on 30 May to celebrate this new Presentation•Collaboration•Resource Center - click the calendar for details.

Take a look at Blog in slovene language, full of thoughts from grammar school children! They research local natural and cultural heritage and present it in a sustainable way...

http://web.mac.com/rastokirn/iWeb/GMS_TV/Trnovska_vas/Trnovska_vas.html

Take a look at Blog in slovene language, full of thoughts from grammar school children! They research local natural and cultural heritage and present it in a sustainable way...

http://web.mac.com/rastokirn/iWeb/GMS_SA/Sveta_Ana/Sveta_Ana.html

Take a look at Blog in slovene language, full of thoughts from grammar school children! They research local natural and cultural heritage and present it in a sustainable way...

http://web.mac.com/rastokirn/iWeb/GMS_Makole/Makole/Makole.html

I just got a question from Rasto in Slovenia about adding maps to the Greenhouse website, so I thought I would post my reply here in case other people were wondering the same thing.

Rasto is working with schools to produce several Green Maps for different areas. He was wondering if each Map project should have it's own page on the website, or if he should just put them all in as one project.

On the website each Green Map Project should be added separately. This lets you add more detailed information about each map. It also lets us keep track of exactly how many Green Maps have been made around the world. So this is another reason why it's really important that everyone adds all of their Maps to the Greenhouse.read more »

Among the many new resources we have created recently for the public and for the Green Map network is a wonderful new outreach packet.

Its centerpiece is a colorful brochure filled with global images, thoughtful quotes and narratives about our program's impacts. The packet includes our new DVD (with videos from Cuba, Japan, India and New York, new slideshows and more), our latest Milestones newsletter, a miniposter featuring Green Map Icons, version 2 and more, thanks to the contributions of Green Mapmakers worldwide.

Designed by Tien-Hui (Millie) Lin, with printing supported by Sappi Ideas That Matter, this packet will be distributed soon, online and by mail.read more »