Networks – Check out the Green Map! April Newsletter Update
Posted in Models by fedwards on April 14th, 2008
Green Map’s April Express! http://www.greenmap.org/greenhouse/en/node/4036.
Building a New & Inclusive Green Mapmaking Website
This season, Green Map System is focused on the creation of the OpenGreenMap. Moving from the concept stage to designing a robust and fun-to-use interactive mapmaking tool has our team jumping. You jumped too – your votes helped this become a Featured Project in the NetSquared Mashup Challenge! As we move toward the mid-2008 public launch, this ‘remixing the web for social change’ conference will bring our project together with 20 others for well-timed development support.
OpenGreenMap is the finalized name for this project. Designed to involve a great diversity of people in bringing sustainable living to light, the website is already being tested and integrated with other online resources including GreenMap.org. Our upcoming presentations (listed below) will preview it, including our May 21st Top Ten Party – thanks again to our America’s Giving Challenge donors who seeded this project! Find out more and discuss this social media project in progress at OpenGreenMap.org.
Green Map Board of Directors News
Our projects, large and small, often take a giant leap forward once our Board gets involved. These wonderful, talented individuals have devoted many hours towards our nonprofit organization’s effectiveness. …Each deserves a big bouquet of spring blossoms for their dedicated years of ! service to the Green Map movement!
Local Impacts – Global Connections
Charting the impacts of our work in 20 diverse vignettes, our latest collaboratively-authored book was released by Aichi Japan’s Green Mapmaker, Keiko Nakagawa this week! Watch for news on the English edition later in the year.
Newly selected as the pilot project for UNEP’s Green Passport project, the Parati Green Map project has sustainable tourism as its goal. Led by Dr. Claudia Green, students of tourism management at NYC’s Pace University have been working with this Brazilian community for three years. We are looking forward to seeing how this model impacts tourism worldwide!
In December 2006, Green Map System began distributing our local Compost Green Map of Manhattan, together with our project partner, Lower East Side Ecology Center. LESEC also collects compostable food scraps from customers at the Union Square Greenmarket. Already, Saturday collection has increased over 300%, according to director Christine Datz-Romero, and doubled at their other collection site. We’re so pleased to see this most efficient and regenerative form of recycling grow that we’re starting to plan our 3rd printing of this popular little map/composting poster. Download it or pick one up in Union Square.
To find out more about the Green Map project or to subscribe to their newsletter visit http://www.greenmap.org/greenhouse/en/node/4036.
