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Climate Change (GG Green)Mapping a more sustainable future - for everyone!
Mapping a more sustainable future - for everyone!
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Creating Green Maps
In Brooklyn New York, high school students created their own Green Map of community gardens to encourage more people to nurture and enjoy these special places. All research was done by bicycle, so safe riding skills were developed alongside expressive mapmaking, communications and gardening skills.
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Green Map Mural-making
In many low income communities, murals are the best way to share Green Maps with residents and visitors. This project brought a diversity of people together to celebrate local ecological and cultural resources in Havana Cuba in 2005, and inspired communities throughout Latin America.
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Rural Elders create a legacy Green Map in China
China’s environmental problems impact all sectors of the population. Elders are helping ensure a better future for the newest generations by sharing and recording their knowledge of rural Anlong’s biodiversity and unique resources.
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Climate Change Solutions in Thailand
Thailand’s Green Mapmakers held a major exhibition of their work in 2005, which focused on climate change and the ways the average person can help reduce greenhouse gases and other impacts of getting around, shopping, dining, working, relaxing, etc. Princess Ubonrat presided over the exhibit’s opening event!
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Dedicated to a Better Future for All
At Green Map System’s global office in New York, a diverse team of environment, education, communications, design and web development specialists collaborate with Green Mapmakers around the world to deliver much-needed resources for charting new directions to a sustainable future.
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Locally-created Green Maps Reflect Community Chara
Each Green Map is a unique community self-portrait. These beautiful maps motivate action and care for hometowns worldwide. Over 350 have been published online and in print, and hundreds more have been drawn in workshops and classrooms to date. Watch for the new Global Green Map online in 2009, helping great greening models and initiatives take root in new places.
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Low Cost, High Impact
Indonesia, India, Japan, China, Taiwan, Malaysia, Thailand, Brazil, Romania and the Phillipines all have active Green Map projects! Each locally-led project has its own methods, motivation and management, but a common goal of helping to promote a healthier, greener and more culturally rich community.
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Intergenerational Mapping
In rural Scotland, Green Mapmaking has brought senior and handicapped adults and children together to participate in ongoing exploration and mapping on a regular basis.
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Youth Gain a New Sense of Responsibility
Youth in rural Scotland concentrate on every detail as their Green Map takes shape.
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Our Globally Recognized Iconography
Green Map Icons identify, promote and link the green living, nature, cultural and social sites, pathways and resources in communities around the world. Thought to be the world’s only universal iconography for use on maps, Green Map Icons Version 3 was released in 2008, reflecting updated understandings of sustainability in the community context.
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Photo from Progress Report 'Fresh Blogs, Tangible Outcomes!'
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Think Global, Map Local!
Photo from Progress Report 'News from our Project! Updated 11-08'
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