Green Map® System promotes inclusive participation in sustainable community development worldwide, using mapmaking as our medium.

We support locally-led Green Map projects as they create perspective-changing community ‘portraits’ which act as comprehensive inventories for decision-making and as practical guides for residents and tourists. Mapmaking teams pair our adaptable tools and universal iconography with local knowledge and leadership as they chart green living, ecological, social and cultural resources.

Over 350 unique, vibrant Green Maps have published to date, and hundreds more have been created in classrooms and workshops by youth and adults. Both the mapmaking process and the resulting Green Maps have tangible effects that:

• Strengthen local-global sustainability networks
• Expand the demand for healthier, greener choices
• Help successful initiatives spread to even more communities

Green Map System has been developed collaboratively since 1995, and the movement has spread to over 500 cities, towns and villages in 54 countries. Along with our network of regional hubs and community-led Green Map projects, we share the award-winning outcomes through Mapmakers profiles, photo albums, our blog, newsletters, organizational booklet and through Green Map books and media productions, workshops and other public presentations.

This website is the gathering point for both the makers and users of Green Maps, and offers inspiration to everyone interested in a sustainable future.

We are currently working on an exciting new participatory mapmaking website, the Open Green Map. Set to launch in fall 2008, Open Green Map will revolutionize Green Mapmaking, creating an interactive space for everyone to share their insights, images and impacts about local green sites of all kinds. Based on open source and familiar mapping technology like Google Map, the inclusive Open Green Map has encyclopedic potential! Preview the site now and help this effort by clicking Support Us below!

Online since 1995, this GreenMap.org website was re-launched in May 2007 with an exciting presentation-collaboration-resource center for Mapmakers. We named this content management system the Greenhouse for its ability to cultivate and preserve our diverse ‘garden of Green Maps’). Today, you can explore it in Spanish, Japanese and Chinese! Download a list of all Green Map projects, or click About the Mapmakers to find out more about the people behind movement. In the continually expanding Maps section, find fresh locally-created editions from all parts of the world!