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in 1995, three years after we published the original Green
Apple Map of NYC. GMS quickly gained the creative support and
involvement of a diverse network of designers, environmentalists,
activists, students, engaged citizens and civil servants. GMS became
truly global in 1997, with projects underway on every inhabited continent.
In 2000, Green Map System was spun off as a separate not-for-profit
organization that Wendy continues to direct. Today, we offer a universally
shared visual language of Icons and adaptable frameworks used by city-wide
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greenmap.org
- This Website is 95% dedicated to telling Green Map's amazing story
and to describing the wonderful outcomes produced in cities and towns,
bio-regions and neighborhoods.
To date, there are more than 350 locally-led projects underway in
47 countries, in places from Barcelona to Bangkok to Buenos Aires
to Boston. Wendy leads the production of Green Map exhibits, presentations, talks, new web and mapmaking resources, collaborative books and more. Green Map System also creates new editions of the local Green Apple Map for NYC. It's the
original Green Map, both in print and
online.
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In fact, of the 250
different editions of Green Maps now completed around
the world, our own 2001
LoMap, Lower Manhattan's Youth Green Map brought us,
collectively, up to the One Million Maps
Printed Milestone in April 2001! In mid-2003, GMS surpassed
the 2 million mark in maps printed around the world!
LoMap is a printed folding
map, an online map
and also, this project yielded a model
methodology ready to be utilized in other communities. You can find a digital version of LoMap at GreenAppleMap.org.,
along with our 2006 citywide energy-themed Green Apple Map and many other Green
Apple resources (including free outreach postcards), great resources in English, Spanish and Chinese and our events calendar. Do visit GreenAppleMap.org.
The Green Apple Map is one of the ten projects featured in the
Green Map Atlas! It debuted online February 29, 2004 at greenatlas.org
and has been downloaded well over 200,000 times since then! Wendy wrote the NYC story and has had an ongoing role in the project. She has also contributed to other Green Map books, including 2005's Mapping Our Common Ground (in Spanish and English) - see our Store for details!
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Here at Green Map System's headquarters on
Manhattan's Lower East Side, our small, dedicated staff and
interns really enjoy working with Green Mapmakers, near and
far. We help new Map projects get underway,
publicize the resulting Green Maps, collect and share
the experiences and map-making models developed locally, communicate
with the far-flung community of Green Map teams, showcase
the local projects' diverse approaches, keep the website
up-to-date, and in general, keep this inspiration
engine fired up! Green Map System has been a tremendously rewarding
project!
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Our local work in NYC since
1992 includes:
- producing 5 editions of city-wide folding paper Green Apple
Maps
- launching greenmap.org/nyc
in 1998, then adding illustrated travelogues to this interactive
site. In 2004, we launched GreenAppleMap.org
as the new online home for all NYC Green Map projects.
- offering help to young New Yorkers who are making their own
Green Maps in Brooklyn,
East
Harlem and on the Lower
East Side.
- and most recently updated in 2004,
LoMap, our youth-authored, adult-designed close-up
view of Lower Manhattan!
- we have collaborated on the publication of 5
books about Green Mapmaking, too.
- we have also created exhibits, workshops, bike and walking tours,
and done a great deal of mapping to promote a
Greener, More Culturally Enriched NYC! We have collaborated
on the publication of 5 books about Green Mapmaking, too. We are
very happy that so many people in our community and on our planet
have gotten involved with Green Maps!
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Getting to know Green Mapmakers is one of greatest
rewards of this project! We have had regional
gatherings in New York, Havana, Aichi Japan, Detroit, Dublin,
Copenhagen-Malmo Sweden, Americas West Coast, Yogykarta Indonesia,
Taipai, Kyoto, and Bellagio
Italy. Mapmakers' workshops, meetings, collaborations and virtual
relationships spanning the globe! |
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We've had great interns too, including Emma McGregor-Mento
and Beth Ferguson, as well as wonderful Board members
and advisors, including these NYC-based educators. Green Map System
has a bright future ahead of it, and you can click its
Support Page to learn more about our goals and help us achieve
them, anytime! |
"Whether helping people create a comprehensive view
of a region or a close-up view of a city neighborhood, the Green Map
System is ultimately about the recognition and the revitalization
of sustainable living."
Orion Afield, Fall 99 |
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