Climate Action United States Project #39557

NYC Green Maps + Climate Action

by Green Map System

Project Report | Aug 6, 2020
Summer in the City with Green Map!

By Wendy Brawer | Director

Newtown Creek Alliance's cool new use of our icons

Moving forward alongside the intensity of the city as it re-opens ain’t easy, but we are delighted to share that we are:

Celebrating 25 years with an exhibit & events at MoRUS Museum
Engaging with new local groups and projects
Being featured in ‘eSpatially’
Sharing our new Recovery Icons, locally and globally
Hosting online demos of our new mapping platform in progress
Standing up for positive change in every way!

Exhibit: “How Green Is My City” is opening soon! The Museum of Reclaimed Urban Spaces in Manhattan’s East Village is hosting a historical overview of our maps and other projects for the rest of 2020! Programming involves a mix of online events, outdoor tours and open hours - all to be confirmed around Labor Day and posted at GreenMap.org/2020exhibit and MoRUSnyc.org. We’ll send you details then too, so you can join in.

Collaboration: Check out the beautiful education resources made by Newtown Creek Alliance using our icons! “The Green Map icons made our final product beautiful, truly unique, far more intuitive, and that much easier to use!” said Ms. Bloodgood in eSpatially’s article.

Green Map NYC has also taken part in the new Loisaida Open Streets Community Coalition, creating new ways to use our public space during the health crisis (and we hope, it will extend beyond the current patchwork as the city addresses the Climate Emergency it declared last year). Our director has pitched in at Earth Matter's Soil Start, an urban farm growing for local soup kitchens, too. She’s supported the #SaveourCompost coalition which is now back in action, with the list of re-opened drop off locations expanding weekly to deal with food waste (a whopping 25% of NYC waste stream).

Green Map will continue this fall as a community member of the NEW INC. incubator, too!

Recovery: While the Pandemic has brought new uncertainties for everyone, we have worked to help illuminate the path forward. The Recovery Icons are being introduced to highlight public health, recuperation and regeneration - see them on our Instagram or our website, along with examples that could inspire you to create a new community resource, artwork, social media or map!

Technology: Yes, this set is available on OGM2, our new mapping platform in progress, and can be used alongside other icon sets there, including the UN 2030 Goals, as seen at Browse. Along with our partners at the GIS Collective, we’ve started hosting demos to supplement the video and text tutorials posted on new.opengreenmap.org - see Twitter.com/greenmap for updates or email us to join. Our director has also been on Instagram Live and has given her permission to use the image below - listen in anytime.

Green Map is a resource for every community. Use it to help your place and its people thrive! Thank you for your support of this vital work, and have a safe, sustainable summer!

More sites & new! routes are on OGM2 all the time

Zain & @cubeedutour hosted this Instagram Live

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Apr 21, 2020
Bringing the new future home + 50% match all week

By Wendy Brawer | Director

Open Space Gateway postcard (with recovery icon)

From our vantage point on NYC’s Lower East Side, the pandemic’s painful reality hits far too close to home. Our hearts go out to all who have lost family, friends and livelihoods, here and everywhere. But we are also seeing communitycommunities coming together under clear blue skies, encouraging us to think about tomorrow, and what comes next for cities everywhere.

How can we help people bring local culture back to life in a climate-smart and healthy way? So far we have created two new approaches and invite your input and support as we move forward with Recovery Icons and Open Space Gateways projects.

If you can donate this week to support these approaches, it’s matched 50 percent! We'd appreciate your help!

Recovery Icons

Green Map and friends have drafted a concise set of icons combining new and existing symbols to help communities regenerate local culture once this viral storm has passed. Use them freely on your maps, signs, murals, social media, apps, etc. and guide the way to local recovery resources and a more resilient and healthy future. Examine the set and the first NYC ‘proof of concept’ examples (including images in this message) - add your comments please at GreenMap.org/recoveryicons

Open Space Gateway - Active Tourism Campaign

Green Maps have always been about celebrating local environments. Now, with everyone re-localizing, we are developing a campaign to encourage people to get outdoors and explore nearby parks and open spaces with the help of an informational Gateway (online and in popup kiosks) that ihighlights the best of the city’s landscapes, biodiversity, programming and special places outdoors that are (1) free and open to the public in this time of re-localization (2) when to go (3) fitness, eco-cultural and age-appropriate features and (4) safe ways to get there.

Open Space means both open to the public and open space, ideal for physical distancing and connection with nature. Cemeteries, campuses, reused infrastructure projects, forested grounds and other open green spaces as well as major parks can gain new audiences safely. This spring, summer and beyond, this eco-active service will be especially valuable to families and really, to everyone as travel is limited, even small parks are closed and residents are urged to stay close to home. It’s especially important now as nature is so healing and so many of us haven’t recently explored the wonderful diversity that our own communities have to offer. Read more here: bit.ly/gateway-2020

Climate Actions

We’ve undertaken several actions during this acute crisis - see them here: bit.ly/GMpivot. Each of these actions has a climate impact and we’ll be sending you more about them this week during GlobalGiving’s Climate matching campaign – your help means so much to us!

Thank you for your donation - 50% match through Friday (up to $500) - a great opportunity for us.

Be well, everyone.

Our Director is a Climate S'Hero & in the exhibit

Recovery Map to the Lower East Side - test map 1

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Jan 31, 2020
Green Map NYC from the Bottom Up

By Wendy E Brawer | Director

First of 1,000 new street trees: Eastern Red Bud!

2020 is an important year for clear vision on climate health, and Green Map NYC’s diverse local projects are moving forward in hopeful new ways.

Waste! We can design waste out to join the circular economy: In January, we worked with SUSDesign and hosted their unique circular design workshop at NEW INC. Attracting a cross-section of local product designers and makers, the workshop was so successful that a second Circular Design workshop is being planned - tentatively for March 20 - watch for updates on the Circular City website and on Twitter.

Toilets! Yes! A new public comfort station is opening at the Stanton Building on the Lower East Side! Step One toward return of this former recreation building to the community, these shiny new stalls are a milestone in our long-term collaboration with University Settlement, FABNYC and Sara D Roosevelt Park Coalition. From Green Map NYC’s perspective, crosscutting spaces like these can build much-needed social resilience. Responding to the impending loss of nearby East River Park, we have drafted a nature-based concept, and welcome your responses to this vision.

Street Trees! Roosevelt Park was also the scene of our SDGs in the Park event in Fall 2019. There, we planted the first of 1,000 street trees that will soon shade our overheated community, initiated by our campaign and supported by CB3 and NYC Parks. This, and other climate actions in our year end report, were accomplished thanks to your support.

Nature! Green Map NYC is taking part in the emerging ReNature NYC coalition as well, aiming to preserve and regenerate verdant spaces across the city, as well as through participation in the 2020 Earth Celebrations (and other local revisionings). We are part of an exciting infrastructure re-use project, DutchKillsLoop.org. Our preparedness for bicyclers video is the featured first case study in Shareable’s new guide to collective resilience, too!

Maps! We’re planning to build on the success of Refresh LES. Our 2019 map of free, cool and healthy places is becoming a model this year, so we can share our open process as the season heats up. In support of Green Mapmaking everywhere, we are currently beta testing our new mapping platform in development, too.

Many thanks to each of our GlobalGiving donors! We’ll share more about climate and collaborative responses in our next report.

2019 projects set the stage for a powerful 2020

We hosted SUSdesign's Circular Design workshop

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