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green map systemmilestones
promoting community sustainability and citizen action around the world though locally-created maps featuring the natural and cultural environment
THE GREEN MAP SYSTEM is an awardwinning locally directed, globally linked public relations service for the hometown environment. Each Green Map is unique yet all utilize GMS’s adaptable framework and globally designed Icons to identify, promote and link the different kinds of green and cultural sites. Every day, we’re seeing more beneficial outcomes as Green Maps inspire personal involvement, social responsibility and community pride. Our maps impact residents worldwide as they commute, dine, shop, study, volunteer, relax, recreate and vote. Today, 170 Green Map projects are active in 36 countries. More than 70 cities and rural areas have already published beautiful printed and digital Green Maps, as seen at our website, Greenmap.org. GMS’s busy NYC office is the resourceful tool·website·outreach development center and clearinghouse for strategies on research, design, education, fundraising and more: we offer media and materials in support of the global network of Green Mapmakers. At the same time, we also continually produce new local NYC Green Maps that function as models for city-wide and youth projects elsewhere.
Ô
Each of our projects contributes to GMS’s ongoing evolution and shared resources, and each beautiful map helps transfer successful greening initiatives and global understanding from city-to-city. Green Maps provide a vision for healthier communities today and a more peaceful sustainable future.
Welcome to Green Map System’s second annual newsletter. This June 2002 edition of Milestones highlights our growing movement’s efforts, achievements and goals, and features key news.
Among GMS’s Global Highlights in the Past 12 Months: ¨ W i A
39 newly initiated Green Map projects 22 newly published Green Maps The 100th edition/version of a Green Map was published, in Brooklyn NY! The 150th city joined our global network, Reykjavik Iceland, which represents our 36th country and 19th world-capital!
All over the world, expansion of Green Map projects is underway. Each of our 170 projects has its own vision and leadership, delving ever-deeper into the sustainability needs and resources of our communities.
2002 is Green Map’s POWERS OF TEN year! 10 years ago, the Green Apple Map gave us a new vision of NYC 1,000 days later, the GAM expanded into the local-global Green Map System Now there are: 10 versions/editions of our Green Apple Map, on paper and on-line 10 youth-made NYC Green Maps 100 different editions/versions of Green Maps published globally 1,000 website visitors daily 1,000,000+ copies of our maps in use around the world! We have much to celebrate! Imagine what GMS can accomplish over the next 3 years, at which time our global program will have also reached the 10 year milestone! ƒ STUDENT PROJECTS Today, kids in classrooms and youth programs in 10 US states and 10 countries are active members of GMS’s network! Another 25 projects involve universities and colleges through geography, biology, planning, design and tourism courses, research projects and internships. In the coming year we plan to invest more in assessment and expansion of our online, ondisk and on-paper educational resources for students of all levels.
H GLOBAL PROJECTS Whether a Mayor is helping launch a freshly published Green Map in Santa Monica California or in Victoria Falls Zimbabwe: or youth Mapmaker from rural North Carolina are invited to present at a national conference; or GMS is honored by the Technology Benefiting Humanities Awards; or our projects appear in a new magazine each month; the impact of our collaborative work is being recognized by people from all walks of life.
We invite you to read more about our activities inside, to visit Greenmap.org for a visual overview on Green Map’s projects, processes and people or to contact us anytime you’d like to get involved with Green Map System. greenmap.org • 212 674 1631 • [email protected] • POB 249, NYC 10002
With our year’s activities
punctuated by the 9/11 tragedy and its aftermath, we resolved to do all we can to help each Green Map effectively promote local eco-initiatives as they guide us towards a healthier, more just global community. We are listening carefully to those whose lives have been changed by involvement with GreenMap.org, learning and sharing in the name of sustainable change, from Bowen Island Canada’s Sense of Place/Coming Alive interactive mapping to Campinas Brazil’s determination to involve the poorest, most excluded voices to Baltimore’s watershed-based approach to viewing urban assets and issues. Each local effort is invaluable as it inspires agenda-setting discourse and more hopeful futures. We pledge to make these vibrant leadership stories and our collective repository of eco-info more broadly accessible during the coming year.
English)). Already, 10 cities are involved, half of which have produced their first Green Map. This summer, an exciting youth mapping project will be mounted in the first-ever “art train” in Tokyo, with interactive green site nominations, follow-up exhibits and workshops. Later, the Cycling Green Map will showcase bicycling as a vehicle for a healthier, more convivial world capital city.
2
Some fresh examples
In November 2001, the US State Department brought a delegation from 13 developing countries to our office, including Marco Kusumawijaya from Indonesia. The first outcome was printed just 4 months later, a close-up Green Map of a single neighborhood of Jakarta in the centerfold of Aikon Media Publik magazine. This map helped attract 60 volunteers and seed funding for the city-wide Green Map, and Marco helped spark a second project in Yogjakarta, where a contest for high school students has them busily charting this ancient city’s wealth of ecological and cultural resources. With a vital heritage at stake, Indonesia’s Mapmakers are translating, workshopping and energizing a grassroots media effort as they adapt GMS’s people-centered technology and eco-awareness tools. Marco said: ”Trying to be optimists, all of us have to turn into activists.“ We are so pleased that Marco will be among the 23 Mapmakers from 13 countries (including 6 developing nations) who have been invited by the Rockefeller Foundation to the Bellagio Center in December to share experiences and expand our local-global capacity together.
Halfway across Asia, in Japan, energetic project leaders have been working diligently to create Greenmap Japan as a virtual Hub for eco-innovation (web portal: greenmap.jp/e (in
Back in the heartland of America, residents associated with the rural, multi-racial, Robeson County North Carolina Green Map project are assessing two years of activity in the county’s schools and neighborhoods. A local Lumbee Indian and Mapmaker, Patricia Locklear shares that, “the Green Map project has taught me that there are so many different resources in my community that we never tap into in our daily lives. My attitude toward young people has also changed. I now see young people as having a voice and I encourage them to use that voice.”
Finally, here in GMS’s own community in Lower Manhattan, we found that our freshly published youth-
authored LoMap had gained new meaning after 9/11/01 — helping youth overcome feelings of hopelessness and restore pride and a positive outlook on downtown’s diverse and vibrant environment (click greenmap.org/lomap). With LoMap, we piloted a new youth nomination mapping process, which we turned into a step-by-step manual; it’s now being field-tested in Chattanooga, Portland OR, rural Ohio and even in Central-east Romania. While we’re gearing up to announce our next NYC Green Apple Map project, we’re assisting a half-dozen student groups charting self-selected themes in their own neighborhoods in Brooklyn and Manhattan.
The critical themes expressed here:
active citizenship, support for local initiatives, expansion in developing countries, more diverse and effective projects, development of regional Hubs, and adapting to new communities and contexts have all defined this past year of activity and pointed us towards our future. These projects and more have been supported by generous gifts of those listed on the next page. We hope to add your name to this list soon!
Whether Green Map projects involve teen-agers (like these Boston YMCA youth at the New England Aquarium) or adults (shown here at Heeley City Farm in Sheffield England), our beautiful and diverse outcomes are important news (as seen in this cover story from Japan's geography magazine, Rapan).
41 new city-wide (or larger) Green Map projects were initiated, including
H
ASIA: Jakarta and Yogyakarta Indonesia, Tokyo Cycling and Kameoka City Japan, Manila Philippines, and Daegu South Korea LATIN AMERICA: Pernambuco’s Eco-Via Brazil, Moravia Costa Rica OCEANIA: Holroyd Australia
EUROPE: Bristol, London and Sheffield England, Reykjavik Iceland, Cork Ireland, Breda Netherlands, Fredrikstad & Halden Norway with Stromstad & Tanum Sweden, Central East Romania, and Upsalla Sweden CANADA: Bowen Island and Georgia Basin, British Columbia
USA: Arcata, Sacramento and SF’s Potrero Hills CA, New Haven CT, Chicago’s Thorn Creek Watershed IL, Grant County IN, Rock Island IA, Minneapolis/St. Paul MN, Fulton County OH, Sherwood OR, Pawtuxet Village RI, Burlington VT and Green Bay WI PROJECTS EXPANDED/RE-STARTED IN: Tokyo Japan, FalkirkStirling Scotland, Chicago USA NEW YOUTH PROJECTS IN THE USA INCLUDE Wichita KS, Asbury Park NJ, Harlem and Inwood NYC, Brooklyn, Chattanooga TN; in Japan, Tokyo Kids and Nishinomiya; also Breda Netherlands and the continuously growing Cuba Mapa Verde project, which is now in 47 schools in 5 provinces!
AWARDS r Olympic Organizing Committee of Salt Lake City 2002 presented GMS with the Spirit of the Land Award for our Legacy to Environmental Education. W Technology Benefitting Humanities Awards Finalist ‹ Center of International Learning Achievement Award EXHIBITS Main Public Library in San Francisco CA, Hugo House in Seattle WA, Heeley City Farm in Sheffield UK, and Re/Use Exhibit in Utrecht NL SELECTED PRESENTATIONS BY GMS STAFF AND LOCAL MAPMAKERS Byblos (Jbeil) Lebanon’s International Institute on Peace Education; Pune India’s ECOnnection; Bangkok’s EcoTourism Adventure; Banff Canada’s Smart Growth; Victoria’s City Hall; Toronto’s Partnering for Sustainability Conference; US National Waterfront Conference; NYC’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution; San Francisco’s CoNect “Kids Who Know and Do” conference; Seattle’s Design for the Future, and New Jersey’s Alliance of Environmental Educators. KEY PRESS Arcade, Coop America Quarterly, E, Manna, Mother Earth News, Whole Earth, planetyou.net, Green Stick (RU), Rapan (JP), Shift (CA), Sotokoto (JP), Sheffield Telegraph (UK), LA Times, CS Monitor, Twin Cities (MN) Green Guide, and art text books in Spain and Japan.
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Newly Published Green Maps
NEW PLACES WHERE GREEN MAPS HAVE BEEN PUBLISHED Melbourne Australia, Rio de Janeiro Brazil, Yellowknife Canada, Kemang neighborhood of Jakarta Indonesia, Setagaya Japan, Kurashiki/Muragame Japan, Breda Netherlands, Seoul South Korea, Tempe AZ USA, Santa Monica/Ballona Watershed CA USA, Burlington VT USA, and Victoria Falls Zimbabwe. NEW EDITIONS OR FORMATS Kyoto Cycling (print). Singapore (print), Malmo Sweden (web), Pittsburgh Region, PA USA (CD Rom and in print), and New Jersey Meadowlands USA (print).
YOUTH MAPS COMPLETED in Augustenborg Sweden, Go Green NYC USA (non-car mobility), Boston YMCA-New England Aquarium MA USA
GUIDES USING GREEN MAP ICONS Solar Energy Tours of Edmonton Canada and Austin TX USA, Malibu Creek CA’s Living Lighter in Your Watershed, and Environmental Education Centers in Noord Brabant, Netherlands. WEBSITE NEWS Greenmap.org, our ever-expanding website, was seen by upwards of 350,000 “desktop eco-tourists” over the last year! There are now 36 interactive Green Maps on-line, all linked to our home page, each offering a unique view of local ecological and cultural treasures. We’ve added new Comparative and Gallery Pages (click Maps), and a new Local Icons chart (Home) featuring wonderful locally-designed placebased symbols that are used alongside our globally shared Iconography.
DRAFT MAPS & THESES COMPLETED Sheffield UK’s Heeley district, Chicago IL’s Chinatown USA, Kalamazoo MI USA and Pawtuxet Village RI USA.
ttttttttttttttttttt For Your Convenience we have also added an E.Grants “Donate Here” button for those who wish to click to support GMS using their credit card. And, there’s a new Green Map Store where anyone can order their own copies of select maps!
† F STAFF
Who is Behind Green Map System? (affiliations provided for identification purposes, all are located in NYC unless noted) D INTERNATIONAL GREEN MAPMAKERS ADVISORY BOARD Janet Felsten, EcoStructure, Baltimore Maryland USA Dr. Scot Fletcher, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield UK Renate Foks, Foks Educatie, Eindhoven Netherlands Tor Fossum, City of Malmo, Malmo, Sweden Anna Gibson, Green Tourism Association, Toronto Canada Matthew Groshek, Education Design Link, Milwaukee, Wisconsin USA Masahiro Horiuchi, Setagaya Green Map, Tokyo Japan Maeve Lydon, Common Ground, Victoria, BC Canada Luiza Rebello, UniverCidade, Rio de Janerio Brazil Anand Upalekar, Anand Upalekar & Associates, Pune India Ronald Hector A. Villanueva, Manila Green Map, Manila Phillipines Misako Yomosa, Tennen Design Association, Kyoto Japan
GMS HAS ALWAYS BEEN RESOURCEFUL AND VOLUNTEER-DRIVEN, BUT WE COULD NOT MAKE IT WITHOUT YOUR FINANCIAL HELP!
ª
Founding Director: Wendy E. Brawer Education & Outreach Specialist: Dr. Robert Zuber Assistance: Beth Ferguson and Sarahjane Sacchetti Interns: Jennifer Stark-Hernandez, Caroline Samponaro, Grace E. Suhr and Iris Glaser Newsletter Designer: Lauren Monchik
k BOARD OF DIRECTORS
President: Jaimie Cloud, Sustainability Education Center Vice President: Carter Craft, Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance Secretary/Treasurer: Wendy Brawer, Green Map System Constance E. Crosson, Conference of NGOs (CONGO) Dorothy Dunn, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution Sara Tucker, Dia Center for the Arts
n BOARD OF ADVISORS
Brock Adler, New York Regional Association of Grantmakers Sterling Ashby, Esq., Skadden Arps, Washington DC Jean Gardner, The New School Ray Gastil, Van Alen Institute David Kupfer, Journalist & Organic Farmer, Bay Area Mark Randall, World Studio Nina Reznick, Esq. Katherine Tiddens, Terra Verde Pete Seeger, Musician, Beacon NY Bonnie Lane Webber, Grassroots
N EDUCATORS ADVISORY COMMITTEE Roy Arezzo, City As School HS Toni Daly, Friends Seminary HS Meenamba Haas, Satellite Academy Patty Watson, YMCA of Greater Boston MA Regina Weir, Harmony Academy, Bloomington IN
Supporting Green Map System in 2002 is a most appropriate and thoughtful way to commemorate the United Nations International Year of Ecotourism. Green Mapmakers invite us to experience a unique perspective of our world—as Board President, I personally invite you to make a contribution and help us catalyze community awareness and citizen action as we expand GMS's capacity in the coming months. —Jaimie P. Cloud We invite you to sponsor a specific need (such as our Green Map Atlas project, workshops, website development, youth resources or overhead) or to support development of a particular community’s Green Map project. Call any time if you would like more information about these opportunities or to share your ideas. We also invite you to explore our website. There, you can click the Donation Button and use your credit card to provide much-needed support, or mail us your check. Either way, it’s tax-deductible.
\ FOUNDATION SUPPORTERS: Rockefeller Foundation-Bellagio Center Program, Japan-U.S. Community Education and Exchange, Greenacre Foundation, Christopher Reynolds Foundation, New York City Environmental Fund, Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation, and New York Community Trust. ; CELEBRATION SUPPORTERS: Ben & Jerry's, Beth Beasley, Candle Cafe, Doughnut Plant, Herban Kitchen, Five Borough Bicycle Club, Fireboat John J. Harvey, Pier 63 Maritime, Samantha-Odwalla, and Zipcar New York.
r GREEN MAPMAKERS WHO HAVE OPTED TO BE SUPPORTERS: Luiza Rebello & João Lutz, UniverCidade Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Anna Gibson, Green Tourism Association, Toronto Canada Mayumi Takahashi & Isako Yamaguchi of Kurashiki Japan Terje Torkildsen of the Environmental Home Guard, Stavanger Norway Amanda Blosser & Ian Oeser of Sacramento CA USA Kirk Gastinger of Kansas City MO USA Katy Weidel of New Jersey Meadowlands Development Commission USA TJ Moore of Seattle WA USA Deanne Bednar of Upland Hills Ecological Awareness Center in metro Detroit MI USA Namo Chuma of Environment 2000, Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe
y SPECIAL THANKS THIS TO YEAR’S SUPPORTERS: Benefactors ($500 & up): Hope Hanafin, Gina & Michael Hecht-Project E Clothing, Aram Khachadurian, Joshua Mailman, Modern World Design, Race Age Company, Redella & Raymond W. Sage, Gail & Jonathan Schorsch, Bonnie Lane Webber, and 1st Rochdale Cooperative Group Ltd.’s Green Apple Program Friends ($150 & up): Brock Adler, Richard Brause, Jaimie Cloud, Carter Craft, Constance Crosson, Dorothy Dunn, David Harris, Nina Reznick, Rigazzi Family, Sara, Jonathan & Emma Tucker, William Whalen, and Terry Whitcomb Well-Wishers ($40 & up): American Littoral Society, Chris Bachtel & Milo Johnston, Hilary Baum, Kris Benson & Abby Weissman, Hillary Brown, Jamie & Jane Cameron, Mark Caserta, Jack Eichenbaum, Judy Ellis, Douglas Jon Emilio, Lucy Fellowes, Steve Graham, Genevieve Gray, Danielle Katz, Sheila Klein and Ries Niemi, Ellen Ruth Levy, Emma & Matt McGregor-Mento, Dan Minor, Nicholas Meyer, John Rosenmiller, Marilyn & Roger Schnittjer, Toshi & Pete Seeger and Jeri J. Sias.
We are very grateful for your interest in Green Map System. All contributors will receive a selection of amazing Green Maps, and become a vital partner in our organization’s future. Please contact us any time for more information, or to share your ideas or advice.
WE HAVE AN EXCITING YEAR AHEAD, with the Green Apple Map’s 10th anniversary celebration in NYC; Tokyo Art Jungle exhibits and national Mapmakers meeting in Japan; Portland OR’s Community Mapping Summit and Green Map launch on 8/27; our global Gathering in Bellagio Italy; GMS participation in the World Civil Society Forum; educator workshops in Bangkok, in Japan and at the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in NYC, and much more... There is nothing quite like those wonderful maps as an engaging environmental teaching and learning tool. —William Schiller, : American Museum of Natural History, NYC
Contact: Green Map System, POB 249, NYC 10002 • tel: 212 674 1631 • email: [email protected] • website: greenmap.org
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green map systemmilestones
promoting community sustainability and citizen action around the world though locally-created maps featuring the natural and cultural environment
THE GREEN MAP SYSTEM is an awardwinning locally directed, globally linked public relations service for the hometown environment. Each Green Map is unique yet all utilize GMS’s adaptable framework and globally designed Icons to identify, promote and link the different kinds of green and cultural sites. Every day, we’re seeing more beneficial outcomes as Green Maps inspire personal involvement, social responsibility and community pride. Our maps impact residents worldwide as they commute, dine, shop, study, volunteer, relax, recreate and vote. Today, 170 Green Map projects are active in 36 countries. More than 70 cities and rural areas have already published beautiful printed and digital Green Maps, as seen at our website, Greenmap.org. GMS’s busy NYC office is the resourceful tool·website·outreach development center and clearinghouse for strategies on research, design, education, fundraising and more: we offer media and materials in support of the global network of Green Mapmakers. At the same time, we also continually produce new local NYC Green Maps that function as models for city-wide and youth projects elsewhere.
Ô
Each of our projects contributes to GMS’s ongoing evolution and shared resources, and each beautiful map helps transfer successful greening initiatives and global understanding from city-to-city. Green Maps provide a vision for healthier communities today and a more peaceful sustainable future.
Welcome to Green Map System’s second annual newsletter. This June 2002 edition of Milestones highlights our growing movement’s efforts, achievements and goals, and features key news.
Among GMS’s Global Highlights in the Past 12 Months: ¨ W i A
39 newly initiated Green Map projects 22 newly published Green Maps The 100th edition/version of a Green Map was published, in Brooklyn NY! The 150th city joined our global network, Reykjavik Iceland, which represents our 36th country and 19th world-capital!
All over the world, expansion of Green Map projects is underway. Each of our 170 projects has its own vision and leadership, delving ever-deeper into the sustainability needs and resources of our communities.
2002 is Green Map’s POWERS OF TEN year! 10 years ago, the Green Apple Map gave us a new vision of NYC 1,000 days later, the GAM expanded into the local-global Green Map System Now there are: 10 versions/editions of our Green Apple Map, on paper and on-line 10 youth-made NYC Green Maps 100 different editions/versions of Green Maps published globally 1,000 website visitors daily 1,000,000+ copies of our maps in use around the world! We have much to celebrate! Imagine what GMS can accomplish over the next 3 years, at which time our global program will have also reached the 10 year milestone! ƒ STUDENT PROJECTS Today, kids in classrooms and youth programs in 10 US states and 10 countries are active members of GMS’s network! Another 25 projects involve universities and colleges through geography, biology, planning, design and tourism courses, research projects and internships. In the coming year we plan to invest more in assessment and expansion of our online, ondisk and on-paper educational resources for students of all levels.
H GLOBAL PROJECTS Whether a Mayor is helping launch a freshly published Green Map in Santa Monica California or in Victoria Falls Zimbabwe: or youth Mapmaker from rural North Carolina are invited to present at a national conference; or GMS is honored by the Technology Benefiting Humanities Awards; or our projects appear in a new magazine each month; the impact of our collaborative work is being recognized by people from all walks of life.
We invite you to read more about our activities inside, to visit Greenmap.org for a visual overview on Green Map’s projects, processes and people or to contact us anytime you’d like to get involved with Green Map System. greenmap.org • 212 674 1631 • [email protected] • POB 249, NYC 10002
With our year’s activities
punctuated by the 9/11 tragedy and its aftermath, we resolved to do all we can to help each Green Map effectively promote local eco-initiatives as they guide us towards a healthier, more just global community. We are listening carefully to those whose lives have been changed by involvement with GreenMap.org, learning and sharing in the name of sustainable change, from Bowen Island Canada’s Sense of Place/Coming Alive interactive mapping to Campinas Brazil’s determination to involve the poorest, most excluded voices to Baltimore’s watershed-based approach to viewing urban assets and issues. Each local effort is invaluable as it inspires agenda-setting discourse and more hopeful futures. We pledge to make these vibrant leadership stories and our collective repository of eco-info more broadly accessible during the coming year.
English)). Already, 10 cities are involved, half of which have produced their first Green Map. This summer, an exciting youth mapping project will be mounted in the first-ever “art train” in Tokyo, with interactive green site nominations, follow-up exhibits and workshops. Later, the Cycling Green Map will showcase bicycling as a vehicle for a healthier, more convivial world capital city.
2
Some fresh examples
In November 2001, the US State Department brought a delegation from 13 developing countries to our office, including Marco Kusumawijaya from Indonesia. The first outcome was printed just 4 months later, a close-up Green Map of a single neighborhood of Jakarta in the centerfold of Aikon Media Publik magazine. This map helped attract 60 volunteers and seed funding for the city-wide Green Map, and Marco helped spark a second project in Yogjakarta, where a contest for high school students has them busily charting this ancient city’s wealth of ecological and cultural resources. With a vital heritage at stake, Indonesia’s Mapmakers are translating, workshopping and energizing a grassroots media effort as they adapt GMS’s people-centered technology and eco-awareness tools. Marco said: ”Trying to be optimists, all of us have to turn into activists.“ We are so pleased that Marco will be among the 23 Mapmakers from 13 countries (including 6 developing nations) who have been invited by the Rockefeller Foundation to the Bellagio Center in December to share experiences and expand our local-global capacity together.
Halfway across Asia, in Japan, energetic project leaders have been working diligently to create Greenmap Japan as a virtual Hub for eco-innovation (web portal: greenmap.jp/e (in
Back in the heartland of America, residents associated with the rural, multi-racial, Robeson County North Carolina Green Map project are assessing two years of activity in the county’s schools and neighborhoods. A local Lumbee Indian and Mapmaker, Patricia Locklear shares that, “the Green Map project has taught me that there are so many different resources in my community that we never tap into in our daily lives. My attitude toward young people has also changed. I now see young people as having a voice and I encourage them to use that voice.”
Finally, here in GMS’s own community in Lower Manhattan, we found that our freshly published youth-
authored LoMap had gained new meaning after 9/11/01 — helping youth overcome feelings of hopelessness and restore pride and a positive outlook on downtown’s diverse and vibrant environment (click greenmap.org/lomap). With LoMap, we piloted a new youth nomination mapping process, which we turned into a step-by-step manual; it’s now being field-tested in Chattanooga, Portland OR, rural Ohio and even in Central-east Romania. While we’re gearing up to announce our next NYC Green Apple Map project, we’re assisting a half-dozen student groups charting self-selected themes in their own neighborhoods in Brooklyn and Manhattan.
The critical themes expressed here:
active citizenship, support for local initiatives, expansion in developing countries, more diverse and effective projects, development of regional Hubs, and adapting to new communities and contexts have all defined this past year of activity and pointed us towards our future. These projects and more have been supported by generous gifts of those listed on the next page. We hope to add your name to this list soon!
Whether Green Map projects involve teen-agers (like these Boston YMCA youth at the New England Aquarium) or adults (shown here at Heeley City Farm in Sheffield England), our beautiful and diverse outcomes are important news (as seen in this cover story from Japan's geography magazine, Rapan).
41 new city-wide (or larger) Green Map projects were initiated, including
H
ASIA: Jakarta and Yogyakarta Indonesia, Tokyo Cycling and Kameoka City Japan, Manila Philippines, and Daegu South Korea LATIN AMERICA: Pernambuco’s Eco-Via Brazil, Moravia Costa Rica OCEANIA: Holroyd Australia
EUROPE: Bristol, London and Sheffield England, Reykjavik Iceland, Cork Ireland, Breda Netherlands, Fredrikstad & Halden Norway with Stromstad & Tanum Sweden, Central East Romania, and Upsalla Sweden CANADA: Bowen Island and Georgia Basin, British Columbia
USA: Arcata, Sacramento and SF’s Potrero Hills CA, New Haven CT, Chicago’s Thorn Creek Watershed IL, Grant County IN, Rock Island IA, Minneapolis/St. Paul MN, Fulton County OH, Sherwood OR, Pawtuxet Village RI, Burlington VT and Green Bay WI PROJECTS EXPANDED/RE-STARTED IN: Tokyo Japan, FalkirkStirling Scotland, Chicago USA NEW YOUTH PROJECTS IN THE USA INCLUDE Wichita KS, Asbury Park NJ, Harlem and Inwood NYC, Brooklyn, Chattanooga TN; in Japan, Tokyo Kids and Nishinomiya; also Breda Netherlands and the continuously growing Cuba Mapa Verde project, which is now in 47 schools in 5 provinces!
AWARDS r Olympic Organizing Committee of Salt Lake City 2002 presented GMS with the Spirit of the Land Award for our Legacy to Environmental Education. W Technology Benefitting Humanities Awards Finalist ‹ Center of International Learning Achievement Award EXHIBITS Main Public Library in San Francisco CA, Hugo House in Seattle WA, Heeley City Farm in Sheffield UK, and Re/Use Exhibit in Utrecht NL SELECTED PRESENTATIONS BY GMS STAFF AND LOCAL MAPMAKERS Byblos (Jbeil) Lebanon’s International Institute on Peace Education; Pune India’s ECOnnection; Bangkok’s EcoTourism Adventure; Banff Canada’s Smart Growth; Victoria’s City Hall; Toronto’s Partnering for Sustainability Conference; US National Waterfront Conference; NYC’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution; San Francisco’s CoNect “Kids Who Know and Do” conference; Seattle’s Design for the Future, and New Jersey’s Alliance of Environmental Educators. KEY PRESS Arcade, Coop America Quarterly, E, Manna, Mother Earth News, Whole Earth, planetyou.net, Green Stick (RU), Rapan (JP), Shift (CA), Sotokoto (JP), Sheffield Telegraph (UK), LA Times, CS Monitor, Twin Cities (MN) Green Guide, and art text books in Spain and Japan.
1
Newly Published Green Maps
NEW PLACES WHERE GREEN MAPS HAVE BEEN PUBLISHED Melbourne Australia, Rio de Janeiro Brazil, Yellowknife Canada, Kemang neighborhood of Jakarta Indonesia, Setagaya Japan, Kurashiki/Muragame Japan, Breda Netherlands, Seoul South Korea, Tempe AZ USA, Santa Monica/Ballona Watershed CA USA, Burlington VT USA, and Victoria Falls Zimbabwe. NEW EDITIONS OR FORMATS Kyoto Cycling (print). Singapore (print), Malmo Sweden (web), Pittsburgh Region, PA USA (CD Rom and in print), and New Jersey Meadowlands USA (print).
YOUTH MAPS COMPLETED in Augustenborg Sweden, Go Green NYC USA (non-car mobility), Boston YMCA-New England Aquarium MA USA
GUIDES USING GREEN MAP ICONS Solar Energy Tours of Edmonton Canada and Austin TX USA, Malibu Creek CA’s Living Lighter in Your Watershed, and Environmental Education Centers in Noord Brabant, Netherlands. WEBSITE NEWS Greenmap.org, our ever-expanding website, was seen by upwards of 350,000 “desktop eco-tourists” over the last year! There are now 36 interactive Green Maps on-line, all linked to our home page, each offering a unique view of local ecological and cultural treasures. We’ve added new Comparative and Gallery Pages (click Maps), and a new Local Icons chart (Home) featuring wonderful locally-designed placebased symbols that are used alongside our globally shared Iconography.
DRAFT MAPS & THESES COMPLETED Sheffield UK’s Heeley district, Chicago IL’s Chinatown USA, Kalamazoo MI USA and Pawtuxet Village RI USA.
ttttttttttttttttttt For Your Convenience we have also added an E.Grants “Donate Here” button for those who wish to click to support GMS using their credit card. And, there’s a new Green Map Store where anyone can order their own copies of select maps!
† F STAFF
Who is Behind Green Map System? (affiliations provided for identification purposes, all are located in NYC unless noted) D INTERNATIONAL GREEN MAPMAKERS ADVISORY BOARD Janet Felsten, EcoStructure, Baltimore Maryland USA Dr. Scot Fletcher, Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield UK Renate Foks, Foks Educatie, Eindhoven Netherlands Tor Fossum, City of Malmo, Malmo, Sweden Anna Gibson, Green Tourism Association, Toronto Canada Matthew Groshek, Education Design Link, Milwaukee, Wisconsin USA Masahiro Horiuchi, Setagaya Green Map, Tokyo Japan Maeve Lydon, Common Ground, Victoria, BC Canada Luiza Rebello, UniverCidade, Rio de Janerio Brazil Anand Upalekar, Anand Upalekar & Associates, Pune India Ronald Hector A. Villanueva, Manila Green Map, Manila Phillipines Misako Yomosa, Tennen Design Association, Kyoto Japan
GMS HAS ALWAYS BEEN RESOURCEFUL AND VOLUNTEER-DRIVEN, BUT WE COULD NOT MAKE IT WITHOUT YOUR FINANCIAL HELP!
ª
Founding Director: Wendy E. Brawer Education & Outreach Specialist: Dr. Robert Zuber Assistance: Beth Ferguson and Sarahjane Sacchetti Interns: Jennifer Stark-Hernandez, Caroline Samponaro, Grace E. Suhr and Iris Glaser Newsletter Designer: Lauren Monchik
k BOARD OF DIRECTORS
President: Jaimie Cloud, Sustainability Education Center Vice President: Carter Craft, Metropolitan Waterfront Alliance Secretary/Treasurer: Wendy Brawer, Green Map System Constance E. Crosson, Conference of NGOs (CONGO) Dorothy Dunn, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution Sara Tucker, Dia Center for the Arts
n BOARD OF ADVISORS
Brock Adler, New York Regional Association of Grantmakers Sterling Ashby, Esq., Skadden Arps, Washington DC Jean Gardner, The New School Ray Gastil, Van Alen Institute David Kupfer, Journalist & Organic Farmer, Bay Area Mark Randall, World Studio Nina Reznick, Esq. Katherine Tiddens, Terra Verde Pete Seeger, Musician, Beacon NY Bonnie Lane Webber, Grassroots
N EDUCATORS ADVISORY COMMITTEE Roy Arezzo, City As School HS Toni Daly, Friends Seminary HS Meenamba Haas, Satellite Academy Patty Watson, YMCA of Greater Boston MA Regina Weir, Harmony Academy, Bloomington IN
Supporting Green Map System in 2002 is a most appropriate and thoughtful way to commemorate the United Nations International Year of Ecotourism. Green Mapmakers invite us to experience a unique perspective of our world—as Board President, I personally invite you to make a contribution and help us catalyze community awareness and citizen action as we expand GMS's capacity in the coming months. —Jaimie P. Cloud We invite you to sponsor a specific need (such as our Green Map Atlas project, workshops, website development, youth resources or overhead) or to support development of a particular community’s Green Map project. Call any time if you would like more information about these opportunities or to share your ideas. We also invite you to explore our website. There, you can click the Donation Button and use your credit card to provide much-needed support, or mail us your check. Either way, it’s tax-deductible.
\ FOUNDATION SUPPORTERS: Rockefeller Foundation-Bellagio Center Program, Japan-U.S. Community Education and Exchange, Greenacre Foundation, Christopher Reynolds Foundation, New York City Environmental Fund, Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation, and New York Community Trust. ; CELEBRATION SUPPORTERS: Ben & Jerry's, Beth Beasley, Candle Cafe, Doughnut Plant, Herban Kitchen, Five Borough Bicycle Club, Fireboat John J. Harvey, Pier 63 Maritime, Samantha-Odwalla, and Zipcar New York.
r GREEN MAPMAKERS WHO HAVE OPTED TO BE SUPPORTERS: Luiza Rebello & João Lutz, UniverCidade Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Anna Gibson, Green Tourism Association, Toronto Canada Mayumi Takahashi & Isako Yamaguchi of Kurashiki Japan Terje Torkildsen of the Environmental Home Guard, Stavanger Norway Amanda Blosser & Ian Oeser of Sacramento CA USA Kirk Gastinger of Kansas City MO USA Katy Weidel of New Jersey Meadowlands Development Commission USA TJ Moore of Seattle WA USA Deanne Bednar of Upland Hills Ecological Awareness Center in metro Detroit MI USA Namo Chuma of Environment 2000, Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe
y SPECIAL THANKS THIS TO YEAR’S SUPPORTERS: Benefactors ($500 & up): Hope Hanafin, Gina & Michael Hecht-Project E Clothing, Aram Khachadurian, Joshua Mailman, Modern World Design, Race Age Company, Redella & Raymond W. Sage, Gail & Jonathan Schorsch, Bonnie Lane Webber, and 1st Rochdale Cooperative Group Ltd.’s Green Apple Program Friends ($150 & up): Brock Adler, Richard Brause, Jaimie Cloud, Carter Craft, Constance Crosson, Dorothy Dunn, David Harris, Nina Reznick, Rigazzi Family, Sara, Jonathan & Emma Tucker, William Whalen, and Terry Whitcomb Well-Wishers ($40 & up): American Littoral Society, Chris Bachtel & Milo Johnston, Hilary Baum, Kris Benson & Abby Weissman, Hillary Brown, Jamie & Jane Cameron, Mark Caserta, Jack Eichenbaum, Judy Ellis, Douglas Jon Emilio, Lucy Fellowes, Steve Graham, Genevieve Gray, Danielle Katz, Sheila Klein and Ries Niemi, Ellen Ruth Levy, Emma & Matt McGregor-Mento, Dan Minor, Nicholas Meyer, John Rosenmiller, Marilyn & Roger Schnittjer, Toshi & Pete Seeger and Jeri J. Sias.
We are very grateful for your interest in Green Map System. All contributors will receive a selection of amazing Green Maps, and become a vital partner in our organization’s future. Please contact us any time for more information, or to share your ideas or advice.
WE HAVE AN EXCITING YEAR AHEAD, with the Green Apple Map’s 10th anniversary celebration in NYC; Tokyo Art Jungle exhibits and national Mapmakers meeting in Japan; Portland OR’s Community Mapping Summit and Green Map launch on 8/27; our global Gathering in Bellagio Italy; GMS participation in the World Civil Society Forum; educator workshops in Bangkok, in Japan and at the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in NYC, and much more... There is nothing quite like those wonderful maps as an engaging environmental teaching and learning tool. —William Schiller, : American Museum of Natural History, NYC
Contact: Green Map System, POB 249, NYC 10002 • tel: 212 674 1631 • email: [email protected] • website: greenmap.org
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