The Big Picture
LoMap is more than a map, it's also a pilot project for a new kind of youth-authored, adult-designed Green Map involving people from different communities, ages and interests. We are making a model of the LoMap process so more of these cross-community youth Green Maps can be created in other parts of NYC and in communities around the world. We're calling it the Multi-Map Model, and the Phase One Manual is completed. It's now being beta-tested in three US communities (so far): Portland OR (by the Portland Green Map Project), Fulton County OH (by the Regional Planning Commission) and Chattanooga TN (by the YMCA's Earth Service Corp). Learning from their and incorporating their experience, Green Map System will be able to finalize the Multi-Map Model next year and disseminate it for use in communities around the world! Updates on the progress of this project will be posted at this website (or sign on to our e-mailing list). Please let us know if you want to use the Multi-Map Manual in your community!
Around the World with Green Maps
It may sound kind of grandiose to say "around the world" but in reality, Green Maps are being made on every inhabited continent! Since we created the very first Green Apple Map back in 1992, people everywhere have become very interested in creating and using Green Maps to highlight their hometown's environment. Much more about the 135 youth-led and adult Green Map projects can be seen at greenmap.org.
Amazingly, it looks like LoMap is the Millionth Green Map printed! Wow!
Here at Green 
Map System's office on Manhattan's Lower East Side, we really enjoy working with Green Mapmakers, both near and far, young and old. The global part of our work includes everything from helping new Map projects get underway to publicizing the resulting Green Maps, collecting the experiences and map-making models developed locally, communicating with the far-flung community of Green Map teams, keeping the website up-to-date with fresh news, and in general, keeping the whole moving forward! Green Map System has won a number of national and international awards and had lots of coverage by magazines, newspapers and other media!
Our
local work in NYC since 1992 includes: producing 4 editions of city-wide
folding paper Green Apple Maps, launching greenmap.org/nyc
in 1998, then adding illustrated travelogues of the East Village's Garden
District and a tourist's view of Downtown to this interactive site, offering
help to the young New Yorkers making their own Green Maps, and now LoMap!
We
have also created exhibits, workshops, bike and walking tours, and done
a great deal to promote a Greener,
More Culturally Enriched NYC! We are very happy that so many people
in our community have gotten involved with Green Maps
! Green Map System has a bright future ahead
of it, thanks to the creative energy of the Mapmakers, our staff, volunteers
and interns, and the generous support of individual donors and foundations!
We'd
very much like to hear from you if you can help us continue this important
and effective work! Click our
Support page to make a tax-deductible donation to this non-profit
organization on-line or to find out how to mail one in. Contact us directly
to hear more about our goals and to help us achieve them, anytime!
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Read about our award-winning eco-cultural program, the Mapmakers, their unique approaches and see the wonderful Green Maps!
