Climate Action United States Project #1965

Green Maps for a more sustainable future!

by Green Map System

Project Report | Sep 18, 2023
Support Local Food Mapping this Week & be Matched

By Wendy Brawer | Director

Help us map local food resources, urban & rural!

NEW! Our Local Food Mapping Microproject

We invite you to be among the first to contribute and be matched, all week here on GlobalGiving! Your contributions for Little by Little - up to $50 are 50% matched - until Friday 22 Sept at Midnight ET. Please pitch in here:

https://www.globalgiving.org/microprojects/support-local-food-mapping/

Want to give more to support local food security in communities around the world? Anytime is fine, but on Giving Tuesday, there’s a bigger match for donations on GlobalGiving up to $2500. We’ll remind you as November 28th nears!

We are so excited about the reaction to our new Food Icons! Already there’s a soon-to-be-printed nation-wide Green Map underway in Iceland, and on our mapping platform includes terrific examples from Washington State, Pennsylvania, British Columbia and Scotland.

This work is transformational. It’s so critical that we are still collecting ideas for this icon set in person and online.

Check out the overview and see all the icons at GreenMap.org/localfood.

Have ideas or suggestions? Add to the survey there or please join us, Saturday October 14 at the Swale House on Governors Island in NYC. This is the public day of our Residency there. From 11-5pm, you are welcome to come and explore the Local Food Icons. Have a snack and talk about your mapping concepts and what’s missing from the new set. See you there, at Swale House in Nolan Park!

Our director will be in Victoria BC next week, want to come to a public event?

Join us on Tuesday 9/26 - Community Association of Oak Bay - poster below!

Wednesday 9/27 - Community Green Mapping Presentation and Workshop @ Kwench - 2031 Store Street Victoria from 10am to noon (Coffee/Registration at 9:45)

Thursday 9/28 - Community Mapping tabling in several locations around the University of Victoria campus, from noon until 3PM. Mapping Themes include Food Sovereignty and Truths and Actions of Reconciliation with the UVic Global Community; CM and CBPR classes and Claremont High School students

Our next virtual Open Office Hour is Wednesday 11 October at 11 ET Register here!

Thanks so much for pitching in this week and "little by little", together, we can increase wellbeing and vitality in communities worldwide through local food mapping.

Join us in Victoria BC for events this month

It all starts with good soil, clean water and air

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Matching your donations up to $50 this week with 50% more!

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Jul 20, 2023
Summer News from Green Map

By Wendy Brawer | Director

Our new desk in rural Scotland!

Hello Green Map Friends!

Along with you, we’re worried about the state of our beautiful world. However, more people are putting their climate anxiety into energizing local Green Map projects every day. Thanks to you, we can provide advanced resources designed for spurring engagement without cost, to all.

This season, we added a rural Green Map desk in Scotland! While our New York based team isn’t actually there to use it, the desk is at the ‘community interest company’ owned by Ms. Clinch of the Green Map Platform team. She adds, ““The POP shop is a small co-work space in a rural west coast town. It can be hard to sustain a space like this, so this unique collaboration with Green Map System makes a real difference to us. We’ll be able to increase our connection to other communities creating Green Maps and test out new ways of working to support sustainable community development.”

We’re holding an open office hour jointly in August - bring your questions and join Hannah and Wendy online at this link on Wednesday, August 2⋅11:00am – 12:00pm ET (4 PM in the UK (every time zone). We welcome everyone, from newbies to seasoned mapmakers. And if you are nearby, drop in to see our desk in Dunoon!

We’re happy to report that our local food icon development process is nearing its conclusion, with last comments being made in July. You can preview the set and add comments at GreenMap.org/localfood! The draft set is already in use, and these projects helped inform our recent food security discussion. What’s next? Social service icons that take their cue from the UN SDGs and localize these resources!

Upcoming residencies for Green Map:

Upstate NY Residency in mid-August at Manitoga, the Russel Wright Design Center and beautiful 75 acres of Woodland Gardens in the Hudson Valley, where a new Green Map may get started.
On Governors Island at the Swale House - this Residency has a public open day on Saturday October 14th, from 11 - 5, where the draft Social Icons should be on view.

More NYC News: excitingly, our City Councilmember Marte appointed Green Map's Director as the newest board member at the Trust for Governors Island! The island is one of Wendy's favorite places in the city, and with its focus on climate, culture and community, it's truly an honor to be involved. Find more recent NYC news is here, and background on the images below.

Our best to you for a sustainable and healthy season, and our thanks, as always, for your support!

Our Jane's Walk featured a Passive House Architect

We're part of the coalition behind the Roar Fest

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Apr 4, 2023
Putting Food Security on the Map + more

By Wendy Brawer | Director

Green Map Workshop at Museo Na Bolom in Chiapas MX

Food Security

Regardless of where you live, food security is likely to be an issue for someone in your community. In March, Green Mapmakers had their first discussion dedicated to mapping local farms and food resources, learning from the great work undertaken in Washington state's Jefferson county by Ms. Hunt and the Food Bank Growers. With a great new set of Food Icons (add your comments at GreenMap.org/localfood) being finalized soon, and lots of examples of both print and interactive food oriented Green Maps, you can see the group at work in this recording.

Your support helps us address critical issues like food security, and this week, your donations up to $50 are matched at the 50% level. Please donate by midnight on Friday!

Mexican Workshop

In March, our director was heading to Mexico. After exciting days and meetings in Mexico City, Wendy connected with a historic anthropology museum in San Cristobal de las Casas (which is in the state of Chiapas) to hold a Green Map workshop. Museo Na Bolom had just opened a terrific exhibition entitled ‘The Map Is Not The Territory’, covering the early years of exploration by outsiders of the Lacandon Jungle and its riches of Mayan Ruins.

Mr. May, curator, led the Mapa Verde Taller and an enthusiastic group joined in, including local people plus visitors from Spain, Canada and the US. Using our icons, the community's collectives, areas that flood, and historic sites were quickly charted. We’re glad to share that the sketch map made there was added to the exhibition! We'll place the short video we played there in Spanish and English below, and check this blog for photos and some of our Spanish language mapping resources. Wendy so appreciated the culture and nature she experienced there - we hope to see more mapmaking in Mexico.

Trainings in Scotland

The main city on the Cowal peninsula, Dunoon, was the scene of a series of Green Map trainings, led by the Pop Shop. Many local experts took part as the group explored and mapped out biodiversity sites, green spaces, active travel networks and heritage spots. Whether looking for bryophytes and lichens at the heritage trail by Sandbank or learning to recognize indicators of a rainforest as opposed to a native woodland, as seen on LinkedIn, this was a rich experience for all.

Upcoming Events in Manhattan!

Earth Day Tour! This is a great time to check out Green Infrastructure in the East Village with Green Map. We’ll start at La Plaza Cultural (at Ave C & 9th Street) at 1pm on Saturday April 22. We’ll end at Tompkins Sq Park where hawk watching will be underway. Join us and LUNGS and celebrate our neighborhood’s Spring Awakening - all are welcome to join activities in the vicinity all afternoon.

Open Office (on zoom) April 25 10 AM NYC time - have questions about making a Green Map? Please drop in and we can help you get started or do more with your local project.

Join our annual Jane’s Walk on Friday May 5, starting at 3pm at Siempre Verde Garden (181 Stanton St at Attorney). All are welcome on this climate health and public space tour on the Lower East Side. This one mile easy, free walk is also part of LES History Month. It concludes at Dimes Square.

Our thanks to everyone who contributes to the ongoing work and joy of Green Mapmaking! Your support is doubly appreciated today, as the Little by Little 50% match week continues!

Best wishes to all this Earth Month!

Mapping the richness of Dunoon Scotland in March

Our April 1st workshop at NYC's Grow Together!

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