The Detroit Green Map team met in September to discuss goals and a plan for the future of Detroit’s Green Map. Folks involved in transportation, project planning, education, and art gathered at Marygrove College to represent the diversity of Detroiters.

We are in the middle of grant writing to fund the creation of a website and social media platform that will encourage Detroit residents to “be Detroitish” and celebrate the strengths and beauty of Detroit’s past, present, and future through participation in the Detroit Green Map. To lead off the grant efforts, the mission statement was dusted off and revised to reflect the new energy in Detroit.read more »

The snow was covering the tulips and daffodils on the lawn of Marygrove College on April 18, 2011, where several women from the Detroit Green Map met with others from higher education. Our quest: to see how the Green Map might be integrated into, and developed by students at the college / university level. We are pursuing a number of ideas and will keep you posted!

Our enthusiastic and creative team for this meeting - hosted by Marygrove College Detroit - included

* Wendy Brawer, founding director of the Green Map System
* Chris Seguin, Dean of Education at Marygrove
* Brenda Bryant, Dean of Community-Based Learning, & Executive * Director of the Center for Social Justice & Community Engagementread more »

Detroit Metro Green Map - 2010 Report

Much is stirring in the Detroit area...as the web of sustainability is being ever more woven into the fabric of our communities, economies & food systems:

EXHIBITS at the
* 2010 MI Earth Day Festival held in Rochester, MI.**
* Rainbow Blight Fair - held on the park grounds in front of the old Detroit Train Station to promote urban renovation, the Imagination Station for the arts, and community awareness/fun.
* Great Lakes Bioneers Detroit Conference hosted at Mary Grove College in Detroit.

US SOCIAL FORUM
In June, 2010 the US Social Forum was held in DETROIT. Wendy Brawer came into town to give an awesome presentation to a classroom of folks from Detroit and around the country. read more »

The Detroit and Detroit Metro Green Map Team has been expanding our presence in the region through public exhibits, meetings and connections. Details to come in the next week. Stay posted!