Climate Action United States Project #1965

Green Maps for a more sustainable future!

by Green Map System

Project Report | Dec 2, 2024
Engage with Green Map's newest resource!

By Wendy Brawer | Director

Use Green Map's new Space to make a website

Thanks to your support, Green Map’s Platform now provides engagement space that can be customized to draw in local participation. While still in development, mapmakers can already use the platform’s new “space” resource to build websites, either starting from a template or building from scratch. We provide templates that quickly merge the project’s Green Map and public Surveys with other features, including a calendar so mapmakers can add events. We are excited about this new feature - now, map users can see when to go, in addition to where to go to connect with the local environment and pitch in.

This new website builder is a boon to under-resourced Green Map projects and a major plus for those who want to engage more participation - see for example, http://growdundee.blog which draws everyone to the garden in this Scottish city (with the backstory here). Closer to home, we’ve just started a space for an emerging cultural corridor in Manhattan with AvenueC.greenmap.org.

We are grateful to the ongoing partnership with GISCollective and Tacit Design for the progress to date. Our team is also developing tools to enable users to design print maps and other printable visual materials using the same intuitive visual editor. The Spaces feature will be fully realized when it supports the customization of mobile apps created on our platform. Your support will make all the difference!

Our first Spaces demo was held in November, and our December monthly Open Office Hour will include it too, join us Weds, Dec 4th at 11 ET - rsvp at https://bit.ly/GMooh24

We’re so glad to have had your support this year. We’re grateful to the Green Mapmakers who share their project stories, such as Society of Wilderness’s latest post on cooperation and from Telluride Institute in Colorado, insights on the Scape water quality app and more!

Our best to you tomorrow on Giving Tuesday, where your support is boosted by GlobalGiving. Thank you!

Locally and globally, Green Maps transform places

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Nov 4, 2024
See Green Map's new Builder!

By Wendy Brawer | Director

New! Website Builder! Join us at the demo, Nov 12

It’s November! Acknowledging the fraught moment and grateful to all of you.

We are excited to invite everyone to the first demonstration of the amazing new publishing resource created by the GISCollective for Green Mapmakers. The new Website Builder makes it easy to engage participation. It blends the map’s site suggestion surveys alongside the map, making it easier to expand involvement. In addition to locating great local resources on a map, now there’s a way to showcase when events are taking place, too.

Here’s an example made with the Builder - growdundee.blog - see how it enhances collaboration and capacity for resilience. Please reserve your spot at the demo and discussion on Tuesday November 12th at 11 ET - UTC-4 with the Platform Team at bit.ly/gmWBD

We are especially interested in seeing how the Website Builder benefits under-resourced groups. Special thanks to our GlobalGiving donors for helping us continually work for communities of all descriptions striving for a healthier, more just and green environment.

Our regular monthly Open Hour is Weds, November 6th at 11 ET, come with any questions and strategies for mapping, we are happy to discuss together - register at bit.ly/GMooh24

Come to a live event in NYC this Saturday too, starting at noon on Avenue B at East 8th Street. Let’s go on a Green Infrastructure walk! We’ll visit several sites where stormwater is being managed in different ways nearby. Thanks to Loisaida Open Street Community Coalition which is celebrating the local environment on Ave B all afternoon. All welcome - no need to RSVP, just show up! Here’s the map, you are welcome to walk it on your own.

News from some of the wonderful Mapmakers:

Love this 1,000 Rain Garden Mapping Challenge in Victoria BC! All being mapped on our platform using this Survey. We love the unique What’s the Rush map too!

Cuba’s Green Map project continues to do outstanding, joyful work as this latest newsletter from this dedicated team attests.

The Scape project represents another approach to using the versatile Platform - this time to track water quality! Read about it here, then come to Open Hour or the Builder session and consider using it yourself.

Our best wishes for positive outcomes and a brighter future in this season of gratitude.

Mapping with the ongoing Mapa Verde Red project

What's the Rush's 1000 Rain Garden Challenge

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Sep 18, 2024
Mapping for our Future

By Wendy Brawer | Director

Harbor School mapping on Governors Island, NYC

Hello Friends!

We are happy to announce a new grant has come in for our Local Food mapping initiative. We’d like to thank the Puffin Foundation for their support of this project. We’ve already had meaningful outcomes, including the completion of the Local Food Icons.

We’re now getting ready to use these symbols at NYC's citywide GreenThumb Harvest F air on September 28th, which honors the best veggies, herbs, fruits and dishes produced community gardeners. Come and see how locally grown food and resiliency go hand in hand.

We’ll be mapping and sharing data that collects the gardeners' feelings about security, needs and resource sharing. Come by to see the prize winning produce and more of the beneficial outcomes of community gardening from all across the city at El Jardin, 710 East 5th Street between Aves C and D.

While you are in the East Village, there’s a plethora of events - check out 10 days of fun, music and garden magic that includes the splendid LUNGS Harvest Arts Fest, merged into one calendar at bit.ly/924evcal - all of this overlaps with Climate Week NYC, which brings thousands of experts together to move the mountain forward on every front.

We are activated on Governors Island (which has its own schedule of events), supporting students in the Marine Affairs Career Technology program at the Harbor School as they chart island resources using our mapping platform's 'snap to the map' surveys. Guided by a terrific teacher, they are learning about the UN Global Goals (the SDGs), eco system services and zero waste principles. Making a Green Map is the first project of the year for three classes. We’ll be sharing outcomes via social media soon!

With local food production a resiliency imperative, we’re especially glad that Washington State's stellar school and food bank project that's growing with the support of the Green Map project was covered by the Seattle Times (pdf here) and is continuing to expand, thanks to a great team and the leadership of Ms. Hunt, a frequent participant in our free monthly Open Office Hour.

You are welcome to pop in with questions:
Today! Weds Sept 18 - 11 AM ET RSVP
Weds Oct 3 - 11 AM ET RSVP
Weds Nov 6 - 11 AM ET RSVP

“The Green Map System has proven effective in identifying opportunities for new green spaces and enhancing existing ones, illustrating how citizen science can inform and improve urban green infrastructure planning within an adaptive management framework," says Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution. We’ve also worked with Mr. Collins of Telluride Institute on the Scape water testing app - he recently spoke about it (remarks on Green Map start at 49:10).

In our next newsletter, we’ll have an update on the Green Map of the Green Map Projects - our digital archive development project. Want a sneak peek? See it here.

With the new season just around the corner, we look forward to being solutionary, together with you, month after month!

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New! Overview for new users of our new Mapping Platform

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