With the locally-led Green Map movement active in 55 countries, something new is happening every day! Below you can read some of the posts from Green Map bloggers around the world.
You can also use the links to the left to read articles about Green Map and our projects, download our newsletter, check out our awards and more. Journalists, please visit our press room to access our press kit, images and archive of press releases.
Green Mapmakers continue to innovate and create new ways to share their findings using GIS mapping tools. Our organization welcomes all types of mapping, and offers a unique Google Map-based interactive platform, the Open Green Map, as well as field-tested resources that help local Mapmakers create their own GIS or printed Green Maps, as desired. Murals, performances, postcards, kiosks and other formats have been produced as well, all with the goal of inspiring more community members to get involved in local green living.
Recently, Andrew Carter, a volunteer in our global office with GIS experience reviewed 3 great new interactive Green Maps. Enjoy!read more »
We've got a new timeline! This view of our 15 years of sustainability mapping was created by University of Michigan students Hanna, Bo, and Kristen who worked with us for a week in March. The timeline is just one of the resources they developed together with our staff during the School of Information's Alternative Spring Break (ASB) program.
Download Green Map System's Timeline and spread the word!read more »
Global Mapmakers, why do YOU Green Map?
It's been almost ten years since I began collaborating with the Green Map System. Lately several people have asked me why I have been so passionate and persistent about this project, so I've decided to share my reasons here:
1) Promote Access to Resources
I had taken my background in architecture, urban planning and education into a new iteration through an Open Society Institute Community Fellowship to map youth resources in Baltimore. I quickly realized that people were unaware of resources mere blocks from where they lived and had a generally negative impression about city youth. So began my search for effective ways to communicate knowledge about existing resources and about the positive actions young people were taking to improve their neighborhoods. For the past decade I've explored different ways to mobilize the Green Map icons to expand knowledge and to Map the Positives! read more »
项目名称：广州大学城绿地图绘制与推广项目
团队名称：Fresh环保协会绿地图项目组
项目概述：
项目内容主要是绘制出版并推广广州大学城的绿地图。
此项目是在广州大学城，招募大学生志愿者共同绘制出版绿地图。这次是以大学生为绘制主体，以大学生独特的视角绘制绿地图，也为现实的环境现象留下珍贵的记录。
绿地图绘制出版完成后，我们通过环教、公宣、义卖、图片展等方式宣传推广绿地图，并通过协会论坛、Green Map的网站、传媒等，让更多的人参与到项目中来。read more »
In the last year, we re-drawn and published a new Green Map of South China University of Technology in Higher Education Mega Center of Guangzhou from March to May.And we sent the map to freshman of our university in 2009.
In January of this year, we published the Green Map of Higher Education Mega Center of Guangzhou. This Green Map have spend our almost six months to publish.
In October, 2009, we drew Green Maps of Liwan community of Guangzhou with kids from four schools and residents from four communities, promoting the Green Map and let more people understand and participate in Green Map.read more »
Joining the mobile revolution this week, Green Map System is pleased to announce two new sustainable living resources for people on the move:
• a mobile website designed for all internet-enabled cell phones
• the first Green Map iPhone App!
Ideal for locals and tourists alike, both feature the beta version of "What's Green Nearby?™" a handy tool for connecting with green resources on the go. Drawing from over 8800 sites contributed to the interactive Open Green Map sustainability mapping platform by local Green Map teams, this beta version delights users as it guides them to farmers markets, green buildings, gardens and heritage sites that help everyone make greener, healthier, low-impact choices.
Version 1.0 of the Green Map iPhone App includes 10 additional sections, delivering an insightful view into the impacts of this global movement through its Green Maps, videos, photos, Twitter, blog and much more.
Both mobile tools are free and ready for you now! read more »
The Jerusalem Green Map has joined together with the Jerusalem Municipality to print a new city map with Green Map icons included. This is the first time a city map has "green content". New sites include bird observation sites and unique flowering sites. We hope that this is just the start of a series of printed Jerusalem Green Maps. Find out more here (in Hebrew).
Green Map System is pleased to be a Just Means - FT Social Innovation Awards finalist! We'll find out if we won in the Communications category on March 24th, and in the meantime, you can link to our entry, rich with images, pdfs and videos. You can also vote for us there!
The Citizen science project at Saint Mary's University, Halifax Nova Scotia Canada presented their first news letter in September 2009.
Citizen Science is a project that started in 2008 and their mandate is to work towards global environmental sustainablity. The project aims at encouraging and fostering Atlantic Canada's Students, faculty, staff and community members in working towards the Millenium development goal #7: Ensure Environemntal Sustainability.
The project is comprised of three parts: A student video competition, Film screenings & Public Discussion forums, and Green mapping. Each of these sectors are designed to promote knowledge sharing among student, faculty, staff, community and students in the Global south, through the aid of new media and traditional activities.read more »
好创意让环保不再沉重 年内或制作广州“绿地图”
地图你见得多，绿色生活地图你听说过吗？
1月20日，广州大学城绿色生活地图正式出版。令人注目的是，它不是由专业机构完成，而全部是由大学生绘制。与普通地图不一样的是，它更像一幅反映人文生态景观的综合图谱，从而达到推广环保的目的。这些大学生计划在今年内绘制一幅全广州的绿地图，为亚运会献礼。绿地图究竟有何特别之处？作为普通市民，我们是否也可以绘制绿地图？read more »
The Open Green Map interactive mapping platform is a winner in the Living Labs Global contest, selected by Stockholm, Sweden's technology park, in the category of eServices for Citizens and Corporations.
Here is a link about the Award event. You can view our entry here.
We're honored and look forward to the opportunity to work with Stockholm's technology park, Kista Science City. We have a wonderful Green Map project in that city, led by Max Goldstein, Therese Kristiansson and colleagues!read more »
A great new year is underway at Green Map System!
We're so pleased to complete 2009 with a record number of new Green Map projects - 119 new locally-led efforts got underway, a 33% increase in the rate of registrations. A number of factors contribute to this increase:
• more people realizing they can and must take leadership locally for climate protection, sustainability and a healthier environment.
• the Open Green Map, our new social mapping platform that removes the financial, technological and time barriers to publishing an interactive, always available Green Map. read more »
Wendy's COP15 blogs include:
Overview | On our Way | First Impressions | Green Mapmakers Present | COP 15, Day 3| Cop 15's Major March
Finale's not really the right word, as it's not really over. The official side may always be mired in the muck, but the rest of us are already moving forward, with new cross-cultural alliances, new social innovations, new tools and fresh energy. read more »
C：项目情况描述
项目实施时间 2009.4——2009.12
项目实施地 华农校内及武汉某“绿色”社区
项目概述：简短描述项目的内容（200字以内）
该项目以社区为平台和载体，结合抗击气候变化的社会热点，推广低碳生活方式，将绿色融入人们的生活中。
这次我们走出大学校园，绘制据学校较近的社区绿地图。从大学生到社区居民，各个职业的人都将参与其中，并能够从绘制绿地图的过程中理解并践行低碳的生活方式。
绿地图的成品经印刷出版后，将极大地推动社区创建生态小区的进程，也将使该社区成为武汉第一个低碳生活社区。read more »
17th Dec. 2009, our group went to the preschool in Nanhu Villa (a community) to teach the kids about the knowledge of low carbon dioxide and saving water & electricity.The kids and their teachers warmly welcomed us. We show the Green Map icons to them and told them the meaning: finding the beauty of life and preventing the pollution of our surroundings. We also told them how to saving water and lower carbon dioxide in our daily life through interesting games.The kids listened to us carefully. We also joyful to see the hope of our future environment protection.
今天华中农业大学绿地图小组在学校北苑小区的路口进行了绿地图和低碳社区相结合的活动。活动分为两个部分：对绿地图项目和低碳社区的宣传和对社区踩点绘制绿地图。我们挂出的绿地图图标吸引了不少小区的居民驻足，特别是老人和孩子。我们向他们宣传节水节电知识和绿色出行方式。由于贴近他们的生活，他们认真地听，表示以后一定认真地做，如尽量步行或乘公交代替私家车，夏天空调尽量调低温度，用微波炉代替普通加热方式可以减少散热，电器不用时插头要拔出等一些知识。read more »
Wendy's COP15 blogs include:
Overview | On our Way | First Impressions | Green Mapmakers Present | COP 15, Day 3| COP 15, Finale
Taking part in perhaps the most important demonstration in human history, I felt both exhilarated and humbled. Marching with my husband Ray and our Danish friend Ulla, my spirits were buoyed by the crowd's colorful signs and the many marching bands that accompanied us, but the march's message is grave and utterly serious. read more »
Wendy's COP15 blogs include:
Overview | On our Way | First Impressions | Green Mapmakers Present | Cop 15's Major March| Cop 15 Finale
My third day was quite busy, good thing we had bikes to get around to everything. Riding in this city is very easy!
The images all have complete captions (click Notes to see them) but basically, after a breakfast meeting, we went through the center to meet with Copenhagen Green Mapmakers at the Agenda 21 inner city office and the design museum, then off to Christiania to experience the Climate Bottom, had dinner with our homestay hosts, then to a partyboat and theater for events, then back by the ice (polar bear) to see if it was still melting. I am still processing all that I met with that day!
The Mother Jones House, a partnership between Wheeling Jesuit and Laughlin Memorial Chapel,is an intentional Christian service community of WJU students. Under the direction of a house mentor, Mother Jones House students work and serve in the neighboorhood of East Wheeling. Each Student devotes ten hours each week to service with Laughlin Memorial Chapel in their after-school and at the Catholic Neighborhood Center where they assist with prison ministry, visiting shut-ins, and preparing meals. Some are assigned to Catholic Elementary School, Lincoln Detention Center, Housing Connections, and Wheeling Healthright (free medical clinic).read more »
Wendy's COP15 blogs include:
Overview | On our Way | First Impressions | Day 3 | Cop 15's Major March| Cop 15 Finale
Today, we had a great time presenting at the Klimaforum. We had at least 10 countries - from Eqypt to New Zealand - represented in the audience and time for good questions and exchanges. Our speakers came from 5 countries - Sweden, Indonesia, Taiwan, Denmark and US, and each told a remarkable story about their community's Green Map projects. read more »
