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For me it's very gratifying to share with the Green Map network our activities that we have done in the traditional coffee growing region of Colombia during this year.

First of all, the process with one of the high school (Gonzalo Mejia Echeverry) has become stronger. In this moment, Fundación Geovida (our local non-profit organization) have been designing an eco-landscaping feature inside the school, a beautiful ecological path made of bamboo. We will be highlighting local myths and legends along this thematic path. An architecture student is volunteering with us in its development. This idea has been welcomed by the local history teacher, and the art and biology teachers that have decided to coordinate all their projects around one: Green Map Project. read more »

By Evi Mariani, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | Tue, 07/15/2008

After three years in the wilderness, a movement to map out green spaces in Jakarta is back in vogue, riding the global trend toward an environmentally conscious lifestyle.

"The campaigning stage is over, people are aware of the 'green' lifestyle now. Let's focus on green maps' effectiveness, power to change, availability and design," Marco Kusumawijaya, a founder of the "green map" movement said Saturday.read more »

The team developing the Open Green Map interactive mapmaking and social networking site has been very busy. Happily, we succeeded in opening this exciting new tool to our network of Green Mapmakers in July!

While the public debut is not scheduled until Fall (date TBA), Phase 1 is complete! Mapmakers are starting to create their own Open Green Maps. You click OpenGreenMap.org and choose from the list on the right to start exploring!

This website's public use and site submission features are being created now. If you would like more information, check the FAQ or click Contact and send us a message. We'd love to hear from people who want to participate and/or support this monumental undertaking!read more »

Over the past weeks, Green Map System, the Open Green Map, Mapmakers and their locally-led mapmaking projects have received the attention of the press.

Below you will find the different articles and blogs that celebrate the success of Green Mapmaking as an initiative that strength a sustainable future.

More articles and blogs about our growing global movement are listed in our News section.

Who's talking about the Open Green Map?read more »

朝日新聞関西版に「キッズグリーンマップ＠大阪・中之島」が大々的に紹介

7月20日（日）の朝日新聞関西版朝刊に、 グリーンマップの紹介記事1Ｐと「キッズグリーンマップ＠大阪・中之島」が、見開き2Ｐで大々的に掲載されました。

このプロジェクトは、夏休みの宿題は勿論のこと、海外などでは定例化 している地域の大人が世話する子どものためのサマーキャンプのプログラムや夏の特別授業、また学校での年間環境学習などにグリーンマップを役立ててもらおうと、グリーンマップジャパンと朝日新聞広告局が協働で取り組んだものです。read more »

Carlos Martinez, Green Map System's Latin American Liaison and Office Manager, became a US citizen today!

This Colombian-born environmental administrator was also in today's New York Times, thanks to his healthy green habit of bicycling to work, then bringing his bike inside to store safely at the office.

As reported by Colin Moynihan:

" When Carlos Martinez bicycles to work in Manhattan from his home in Jackson Heights, Queens, he must ride along Northern Boulevard, a broad and busy thoroughfare, before crossing the Queensboro Bridge and heading south on Second Avenue toward the East Village.read more »

L'OpenGreenMap du Pays Rochois est commencée!!!! Pour l'instant, seuls quelques site sont inscrits. Demain 8mercredi 2 juillet) une réunion est prévue pour développer tout ça! En attendant d'avoir plus de site, l'OpenGreenMap est encore "privée" et sera ouverte prochainement au publique. Ce n'est qu'une première étape. A la rentrée, nous iront voir les responsables locaux des communes du Pays Rochois pour avoir leur soutien et concrétiser sur une carte papier la Carte Verte du Pays Rochois.

En attendant, voici un aperçu de l'OpenGreenMap du Pays Rochois:read more »

Last month, the University of Victoria in Canada held the third CUexpo08, the Community-University Exposition 2008. The traditional territory of the Coast Salish First Nations welcomed participants from North America and special guests from all around the world. This event was co-created by the Green Mapmakers in British Columbia.

CUexpo08 was a great opportunity to showcase exciting community-campus reserach and action initiatives from different countries. Some of the thematic areas were knowledge exchange, sustainability, poverty, housing and homelessness, healthy living, climate change, community economic development, social economy, food security, arts based activism, Aboriginal leadership in research.read more »

Open Green Map is taking shape, as described in our June-July Newsletter - click here to read it (you can join the mailing list on our homepage).

Our Open Green Map team includes a great mix of developers, designers, outreach and education specialists, including (from left to right in the picture:) Miikka Lammela, Andrew Sass, Carlos Martinez, Thomas Turnbull, Gottfried Haider, Anna Krusic, Wendy Brawer, (not shown here:) Bob Zuber, Yoko Ishibashi, Yelena Zolotorevskaya, Lee Frankel-Goldwater, Maddy Goldfarb and Kathryn Podobinski. read more »