Both the printed and digital Green Apple Maps include sites where nature, culture and society interconnect, including:

• gardens, parks, wildlife habitats and places of natural beauty;
• important cultural, social, historical, eco-info and eco-tourism resources;
• farmers markets, eco-businesses and sustainable economic developments;
• pedestrian zones, bicycle sites and non-car mobility options;
• renewable technologies and environmentally-sound architecture;
• information on our water, power and waste infrastructure, even toxic hot spots.

Beyond great places to visit, the GAM also features very useful eco-resources available by phone or in print or over the internet. A globally shared visual "language", the Green Map Icons are used to symbolize the different kinds of sites and projects, ensuring that this Green Map will be easily navigable and understood by visitors as well as New Yorkers.

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About the Printed Edition

In April 2000, 100,000 free copies of this map were distributed to over 30 pick-up locations around the city. Thanks to Earth Day New York and New York City Environmental Fund, we were able to add dozens of updates and new sites. It has 115 websites, for example! There's so many interesting things on it, you must see it for yourself (using a magnifying glass is optional!). This map utilizes the NYC Department of City Planning's Transportation Division, Bicycle Network Development Program base map. Many thanks to the dozens of organizations, agencies and individuals who contributed ideas, sites and insights to this Green Apple Map! Thanks to them, with this single sheet of paper, people can discover where to experience nature on a hometown holiday or how to live more lightly every day. Special thanks to Will van Roden, Chalie Rowan, Tracy Steed, and Sara Cedar Miller for their work on this project.

Pick up a Green Apple Map in New York City at:

• the Greenmarkets in Union Square (Manhattan) and Grand Army Plaza (Brooklyn)
  and many other of their 24 locations around the city at the Market Manager's table.

• Terra Verde (120 Wooster in Soho) which also has several Green Maps from around the world on display
• various other locations and events around town may have free copies available, too. Click here for the List!

  To receive one by mail, please send a self-addressed #10-business size envelope with:

  • $ .55 postage to the USA
  • if you need two Maps, attach $ .76 postage

  Send your envelope & postage to
  Green Map System
  PO Box 249
  New York, NY USA 10002-0249

If you are outside the US, or want lots of copies, please contact us by email.

If you'd like to receive a larger quantity for your environmental event or class, email us.

Our goal in 2001 is to publish a new kind of Green Apple Map, a close-up of Lower Manhattan authored by youth! Read about it here, and plan to come to the Launch event on April 26, 2001! Special thanks to Greenacre Foundation, New York Community Trust and to Beth Ferguson, project coordinator

In 2002, we'll begin on a new citywide map, completely redesigned and researched! Contact us at 212 674 1631 or by email (apple@greenmap.org) if you would like to get involved in this project!

The third edition of this Map was produced as a collaboration between Modern World Design, the NYC eco-design studio that started the whole Green Map project in 92-95, and the well-known cities and design monthly publication, Metropolis magazine. 90,000 copies were distributed beginning in March 1997, including the updated second printing published in February 1998. Thanks to the generous support of Interface, Inc. (the first US corporation to join The Natural Step as part of its environmental program) and the New York City Environmental Fund (which seeks to include as many communities as possible in the restoration & enjoyment of the environment (contact through the Hudson River Foundation, 212-924-8290), that edition of the Green Apple Map was free!

About the Web-based Green Apple Map (webGAM).

With support from the New York City Environmental Fund, Modern World Design's interactive, database-driven internet-based Green Apple Map was created in Spring-Summer 1998 with the talented web designer and programmer, Ron Wakkary at oo-design, our director, Wendy Brawer, and our interns, Jason Goldsmith (Summer 1998 on break from Carnegie-Mellon U) and Peter van de Loo (a recently graduated cartographer). Internship opportunities are still available, please see below, and check the "staff" section of the About GMS webpage.

Please tour the Web-GAM. -- we are excited to bring you an expanded view of all the great places here! This information-driven website is a resource map, rather than a touring map. Top priority is on conveying the details on greening initiatives and cultural/social resources that make NYC special. WebGAM has room for 9,999 green sites, and we look forward to receiving your suggestions for additions anytime. Please contact apple@greenmap.com or phone 212-674-1631 if you want more information.

As 1999 began, the New York City Environmental Fund granted our request to add new features to WebGAM website, to work with NYC's school kids on neighborhood green maps and to create the first "close up" Green Apple Map, too! New Travelogues and youth maps were completed, and this funding helped us launch the LoMap project -- all are described at the First Green Map page!

The Green Apple Map was included numerous exhibits and magazines since 1997, when it was in the Twentieth Annual 100 Show of the American Center for Design, held in Chicago, and at Glamorous Green at the Materials Connexion in NYC. Most recently it was the subject of an Oxygen Media broadcast, the Re-F-use exhibit in Paris and Copenhagen, in Adbusters magazine and many other places!

"webGAM" was selected as a Web Pick by Metropolis Magazine for August 1998.

You might enjoy reading the narrative Design in the Green Apple Tour article or a 1995 talk on the Greening of NYC we've posted, too. Check out the Stories link within GMS's website, too.

Wendy E. Brawer, originator of the Green Apple Map and director of the Green Map System, was also the 1997 Designer In Residence at the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution. New York City teachers were invited to her workshop on making neighborhood-scale Green Maps during Design Education in Action: Models for Change, a week-long Summer Design Institute at the Cooper-Hewitt in July 2001. Now the development of the Youth Green Map project continues, if your class or youth club wants to get involved, please let us know.

Many thanks to these supporters of

Thanks, Metropolis, for putting the Green Apple Map on your Web Map!

	Green Map System Interactive Green Apple Map More about the Printed Green Apple Map
	Modern World Design
	WEB Resources for Eco-designers