wendy brawer - extending the impacts of green mapmaking
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Green Map in Rio 775 projects in 60 countries
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Locally made Green Maps highlight natural, cultural, social and green living sites using Green Map System’s global icons and tools
Over 500 unique Green Map® editions are published, including 15 in NYC
Green Map projects are led by community groups, NGOs, schools, enterprises, tourism and city agencies - each with their own goals
Green Map’s award-winning icons identify, promote and link thousands of ecological, cultural, social and green living sites
Barcelona’s Sun Factory
Farmers & Artisans Market
Robeson US’skayak tours
Yogyakarta ID’s Geologic Feature
Breda NL’s Eco Center
Hybrid Vehicles
multi-lingual posters at GreenMap.org/icons
We share adaptable tools and offer support, consulting and strategies for printed, interactive and other types of Green Maps
Icons: I70 icons guide the selection of and then highlight each sustainable site
Mapmaking Guides: Stakeholder engagement, research, design, marketing, etc.
Multimedia Resources: Multilingual websites, books, workshops, videos
Archives: Green Maps, stories, exhibits, presentations and exchanges
Open Green Map is our interactive ‘social mapping’ platform – it’sused online, on mobile phones and as embedded maps using widgets
18,000 sites220 maps8 language interface
Green Map System has received national and internationalawards in addition to those won by local Green Map projects
Victor J Papanek Social Design Award –Design for the Real World Redux 2011
US National Sustainability Award: New Communications Tools
United Nations Global Best Practices 100
The Tech Awards Laureate
Spirit of the Land - Salt Lake City Olympics
EXPO 2000 Project Award the World
Treehugger Best of Green
Living Labs Global
INDEX Awards Finalist
Cause / Affect
Tele Atlas Maps in Apps
NetSquared
We Media Pitch It
Open Green Map’s awards
Open Green Maps can be created with public site suggestions and contributions of images, videos, ratings, and more
DevelopmentOpen Green Map:
• lowers technological and financial barriers to online mapping
• preserves valuable community organizing and dissemination
• increases public participation, exchange and impacts
• make content sharable and useful in different ways
Drupal, Google Map, Green Map Icons & Local Knowledge
Register at GreenMap.org/join to create a new Open Green Map with a theme, neighborhood or cultural focus
Export – CSV or KML
Any smartphone user can explore the sites or suggest new ones – there’s a Green Map iPhone App and embedded widgets
Currently in ‘beta’. Let’s work together to make a NYC mobile app and/or improve our current
We’d love to mash a Green NYC App that includes our 900 sites and print map PDF with your data
Let’s work together to develop an on-the-street marker system for local sites that meet Green Map criteria
500 Green Maps plus education and outreach tools created worldwide will be Archived in NYC. There’s a digital component we can co-create
Users: planners, travelers, entrepreneurs, students, etc
Involve the next gen – make the community the classroom. Teachers disk, energy modules – GreenMap.org/youth
We have worked directly with NYU, Parson, Pace, Columbia – perhaps there is a new kind of higher ed tool we can co-develop
We’re open to collaboration in NYC – and beyond
…expanding resources for involving the community and media
…creatively expressing our visions for a more sustainable and healthy community in many mediums, for/with diverse audiences
Think Global, Map Local!
Explore GreenMap.org
[email protected] +1 212 674 1631
facebook.com/greenmap @GreenMap