Green Map is a mapping project that charts sustainable and green resources in local communities. It began in 1995 and has now spread to over 470 communities across 50 countries. The maps identify and promote green living sites, nature areas, social and cultural resources using a set of globally designed icons. Most maps are created by local volunteers and focus on that community. The Green Map System provides tools and resources to support these local mapping projects. It is launching a new online platform called Open Green Map to allow communities to more easily create and share maps online to promote sustainability.

1. Charting the way
to a sustainable future

2. We started sharing Green Mapmaking resources in 1995.
What is a Green Map?
It’s a locally created map that charts the community’s green living,
natural, social and cultural resources.
Each is unique but all use globally designed Green Map Icons.

3. Our nonprofit supports local leadership in a great
diversity of cities, towns and villages on all continents
Today, the Green Map movement has spread to
474 communities in 50 countries

4. Thousands of important sites have been charted
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Icons identify, promote and link green living, nature, social and cultural sites,
highlighting patterns of change and potential. (download poster at GreenMap.org/icons)

5. Green Map projects are led by local Students · Planners · Community
Groups · Geographers · Designers · Environmentalists · City
Employees · Tourism Organizations · Dynamic Individuals

6. Green Map System provides each with our collaboratively
developed adaptable tools and award-winning icons
Green Map Mapmaking Multimedia Archive
Icons Guides Resources Resources
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Updated in 2008. or web maps, with multi-lingual each other via
Said to be world’s local conditions, books, guides, stories, Green
only universal community workshops, hubs, Maps, reports
presentations
symbol set for maps process, etc. exhibits, websites and exchanges

7. Millions of copies of 350 published Green Maps
are being used today by residents and visitors
Hundreds more Green
Map have been created in
workshops and
classrooms.
For many teams, like
Victoria BC Canada’s the
process is as important as
the completed map.
They have published 10
maps, 3 websites and a
bilingual community book.
Recently adopted by
University of Victoria
they have trained diverse
grassroots, First Nations,
and academic groups in
Green Mapmaking

8. Find our ever-expanding network, Green Maps,
Exciting New Features!
books, awards and more at GreenMap.org
We‘d like to see thousands of communities involved,
and this website – our multilingual presentation-
collaboration-tool center – is ready to assist them in
traditional Green Mapmaking

9. With critical environment, climate and health concerns
looming, we need to Do More to include everyone!
“If the best greening resource in the world is around
the corner but no one knows about it, what good can it do?”
Yelitza Espinosa, Pereira Colombia Green Mapmaker
Our inclusive solution, Open Green Map: a constantly
evolving cross-cultural guide to sustainability strategies

10. Making a great Green Map can take years, but you can help us
reduce the barriers at a time of real environmental need
Online, Open Green Maps
• are quick to publish, easy to update and expand
• eliminate costly design & production while keeping
valuable community organizing & research intact
• include the wider community and visitors in sharing
updates, insights, impacts, images and videos
• celebrate progress and illuminate issues without cost

11. OpenGreenMap.org provides an immediately visible and
inspiring solution for both local and global audiences
Intuitive
interface
Users can
select icons
to customize
the view
Widgets will
let each map
appear in
many other
websites,
blogs, etc.
Can be used
on various
interactive
base maps,
including
Google Map,
Google Earth,
OpenStreetM
ap, etc.

12. Tabs organize public comments, connections, images and
impacts. Side bar explains each map’s purpose and people
Impacts tab
will collect
how this site
has changed
lives, planning,
communities,
biodiversity,
etc, leading
to more
improvements.
Handicap
access, child-
friendliess,
transit, free
icons will
invite more
participation

13. Hundreds of sites are already added by our network
advisory group. These maps will be first to debut.
New York Stockholm
Several
themed map
views of each
locale are
planned.
Public can
suggest sites
or add their
own to the
worldview
Baltimore Rockland Green Map.
Local teams
may ‘adopt’
them,
expanding the
team and its
potential.

14. Help our team make our mid-2008 public release a global
success! Please support the many phases to follow, too.

15. Think Global, Map Local!
Social Mapping for Sustainable Communities Worldwide
OpenGreenMap.org
info@greenmap.org
212 674 1631