About the Green Map Icons
Key to Green Map Icons & Colors
These globally designed Icons are utilized on locally-made Green Maps all over the world!
There are about 100 natural and cultural sites that are fully described on LoMap. There are many more sites that are represented as Icons that symbolically show us the type of place each site is. The Icons are like friendly guides that will help you explore this map's surprises. Please take a few minutes to read over the Icon Key! Or print it out.
More About the Icons:
- This award-winning visual language identifies all the different kinds of Green Map sites on LoMap
- On the city-wide Green Apple Map of NYC
- On youth-made Green Maps from Brooklyn and Manhattan
- On Green Maps from many other neighborhoods, cities and regions around the world.
Each Icon promotes a green site and gives it a global linkage.
Green Map Icon copyright Modern World Design 1999
To learn more about the remarkable history of the Icons and how they are defined, click their page on the global Green Map System's website. You can also download your own Green Map Icon Poster in your choice of languages: English, Indonesian, Chinese, Portuguese, Arabic, Japanese, Spanish, French or German!
If you'd like to get involved and create your own Green Map using these Icons, click the Big Picture.
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Community
gardens are cultivated by neighbors. Community Gardens used to be empty
lots, today they provide many social, eco & cultural benefits to NYC!
Our Garden district has more than 50 Community Gardens. Everyone can help,
so dig in & grow a spring flower! Call NYC Parks at 311.
Add
www. to some internet addresses. Green shop, shop smart: avoid buying
disposable, over-packaged & toxic products. Reuse stuff & trade
your extras with your friends.
Ride the lanes for 
on the street. Ride safely: wear a helmet (required if you are 14 or under),
use a bell & light. A sturdy used 
is less attractive to thieves. Lock it up! Free maps are available at
NYC Dept. of City Planning store, 22 Reade St. or call 311. Bring your
bike or skates on the subway & explore distant parks and beaches!
Call the Time's Up! Ride Line for the schedule of rolling parties! 212-802-8222
Only
a few healthy natural cafes and organic produce spots were nominated for
LoMap, but NYC has many! Try a falafel instead of a slice, dog or burger,
or check site #20, www.vivavegie.org
or www.earthsave.org for veggie
resources. www.satyamag.com provides
facts on organic vs. conventional produce
NYC
is the cultural capitol of the US and downtown is the epicenter! Explore
& expand your mind! Most museums have some free admission hours each
week: www.ny.com/museums. More
great culture: www.citylore.org
& www.greenmuseum.org.
2001
is United Nations International Year of the Volunteer. Look for "volunteer
here" on LoMap or www.volunteermatch.org
Youth Venture funds green projects, 212-402-4204.
