Mapping a more sustainable future - for everyone!

Summary

Support locally-led Green Mapmaking projects that connect, engage and empower communities across the US and worldwide to promote green living, nature, eco-education, social and cultural resources. progress report read updates from the field

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Project Needs and Beneficiaries

Too many people feel bewildered by ecological decline and climate change’s complexities because they lack the resources, models and connections to make meaningful change. To encourage daily actions that support green development, vibrant communities and biodiversity worldwide, Green Maps have guided users to local sites, pathways and resources for sustainable living. Since 1995, our adaptable tools have helped 500+ communities in 38 US states and 54 countries bring everyday solutions to light.

Activities

Think Global, Map Local! We support local leadership with Green Map's globally-recognized icons, adaptable tools, workshops and websites, including the participatory platform that will vastly increase our impact. Preview it today at OpenGreenMap.org

Funding Information

Total Funding Received to Date: £14,904
Remaining Goal to be Funded: £23,275
Total Funding Goal: £38,179

Additional Documentation

This project has provided additional documentation in a PDF file (projdoc.pdf).

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Why this Project is Important

Potential Long Term Impact

Supporting and localizing community sustainability movements worldwide, Green Maps guide millions of people to better choices and best practices that address today’s environmental and social justice challenges. Help us help communities everywhere!

Project Message

Verdant, healthy communities for all. Together, we can make this dream a reality by mapping and promoting every local site, resource and pathway making progress toward sustainability.
- Wendy E. Brawer, Founding Director, Green Map System

Who is Running This Project

Contact

Wendy e. Brawer,
Founding Director & Secretary
220A East 4th St.
New York, NY 10009
United States
212 674 1631
Email:

Project Sponsor

Tech Museum Awards

Organisation

Green Map System
220A East 4th Street (perm-175 Rivington 1D, NYC 10002)
New York, NY 10009
United States
1 212 674 1631
http://www.greenmap.org

Learn more about Green Map System and the project team.

Where this Project is Located

Country

This project is located in United States and can also be found under Climate Change.

For more information about United States, read the Human Development Report on United States or the Wikipedia entry for United States.

When this Project was Updated

Last Updated

This project was last updated on December 28, 2011.

Date Added to GlobalGiving

This project was added to the GlobalGiving project catalog on December 24, 2007.

Latest Update from the Field

Thanks to You, We're Winning!

By Wendy Brawer - Founding Director, December 28, 2011 04:29 PM

Green Map's 2011 Awards

A quick shout out, holiday greetings and thanks to our wonderful network of supporters:

Green Map System is delighted to share the good news that the Open Green Map interactive mapping platform that you help to support through your Global Giving donations has just won its third award in 2011!

We won the NetSquared Invitational, an award that comes with a little cash and plenty of help for our ongoing development, which is really great because we have big plans for the year ahead!! A project of TechSoup, NetSquared is focused on the intersection of technology and social impact. Their soon-to-launch new website will feature our video and help us reach a diverse new audience, too.

2011 also brought other honors - we are recipients of one of the very first Victor J Papanek Social Design Awards - this honor features the Open Green Map in exhibitions in Vienna and New York, a book and other outcomes.

And thank you again to Treehugger.com! We received the Best of Green 2011 for our mobile app in the Science and Technology category (we were also honored in their tourism category in 2010). More about all of these awards is linked below.

Today, there are more than:
• 60 countries involved
• 785 cities, towns and campuses with locally-led Green Map projects
• 500 uniquely designed printed editions and
• 250 Open Green Maps, linked by
• 150 Green Map Icons

Awards are an important part of our outreach strategy and a testament to the value of our work and impacts on communities worldwide through engaged mapmaking. The NetSquared Invitational is the eighth award for Open Green Map and one of 23 international honors to Green Map System overall.

We invite you to explore Open Green Map's 19,300+ locally charted sites and consider using this remarkable social mapping resource to chart progress toward sustainability in your community, too!

Let's make 2012 a transformational year together. We're enclosing our gratitude for all you have done for us and our best wishes to all for a healthy, resilient, joyful and ecologically-sound year to come.

Our Director at the Papanek Awards by P. Aiolov

Rainbow over Green Map's office by T Baybutt

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