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Fall 2013

Global News

As the seasons change, we are sending warm regards to you while we are working harder to spark meaningful change in communities worldwide!

Every day, we’re helping more people chart fresh directions to a sustainable future. Our network welcomes the new tools we created this summer, including a Social Media Guide to help each project reach new audiences in a low-cost, catchy way. We’re amplifying their outcomes by updating our Impacts Book with fresh stories from five continents, foreshadowed by August’s campaign.

Summer’s bountiful produce inspired us to create a new youth mapping module on local food. Now ready for testing, expect to see the finalized version in our energy & environment module set already being utilized in classrooms and community settings.

Speaking of schools, our partners at the Global Alliance of Community Engaged Research brought us to their annual meeting of universities, setting the stage for new ways to work together, including a Green Map Europe and Living Knowledge Network exchange in Copenhagen in spring. If impacting students interests you, download our presentation for September’s Humane Education conference, and catch our summer intern overview here.

In July, our director joined the Green Pilgrimage Network in Trondheim Norway. There, representatives of holy sites and municipal leaders gathered to learn about Green Map and other new tools and share best practices. Their goal: reducing impacts while increasing reverence for nature and respect for sustainable methods. Along the way, meeting the thoughtful team behind Nature.is in Iceland was a real treat for our director – their newest Green Map will debut next week!

This new style newsletter is another summer project – our next issue will tell you more about the upgrades to our interactive mapping platform accomplished this season, too. Utilized by Mapmakers in over 40 of the 65 countries with registered Green Map projects, the Open Green Map platform is vital communications infrastructure for hundreds of communities.

News from our own local NYC Green Map

In New York, our summer projects included Adapting to Change tours / discussions, each highlighting a different aspect of resiliency and climate impacts. We produced the Spanish language edition of our popular Lower East Ride Green Map, thanks to Partnerships for Parks. Find it on facebook.com/lower.east.ride.
 
Facebook.com/less.is.more.NYC features our waste-prevention Less = More Green Map – contact us to get either of these maps in print or to add sites to the interactive version embedded on the Facebook page.



NYC:

Adapting to Change:
Lower East Ride

Friday Sept 27
6:00 – 8:30PM
Tompkins Sq Park’s center
RSVP optional 

Sandy’s storm waters surged into Manhattan, heralding a new 21st century reality. Bike with us to explore both the aftermath and solutions generated on the Lower East Side and East River Park that respond to the realities of climate change. Speakers include Wendy Brawer of Green Map System, Bethany Bingham, Catalyst Coordinator for Greenway Activities at Partnerships for Parks and Charles Komanoff of Komanoff Energy Associates. Created by Green Map System and co-sponsored by Time's Up. Free but rain postpones.
 
This easy yet thought-provoking ride is part of Climate Week NYC and Human Impacts Institute's 10 Days of Climate Action!

Curitiba Brazil:

Regional Green Mapmakers Gathering
Saturday Oct 19, 11am
Federal University of Paraná

Hosted by Green Map Curitiba, this daylong exchange includes capacity and network building, and a side trip to the Botanical Garden. Contact Rafael Reis: rafreis2@gmail.com.

Wendy Brawer will take part in this meeting, the ELECS Conference at Federal University of Paraná on ReThinking the Existing City and the Piracicaba Green Map Launch on October 25th. Wendy says:

"Curitiba Brazil was ahead of the sustainability game back in 1992, when the Urban Center Gallery in New York featured its innovative, low cost approach. The original Green Map of NYC debuted there to draw the connections between the progress being made in the two cities. This visit will bring the story full circle!"


Team Photo (from left to right): Walter Perry, Aaron Reiss, Emily Saltz, Wendy Brawer, Hanne Paine.

Williamsburg Bridge: New plantings mark areas where Sandy's stormwater surged in last fall
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