It was a lovely day that day, warm sunshine , blue sky and gentle breeze. We arrived Shameen in the morning, after being divided into two groups, we set out to searching Shameen to make a green map of it.

Shameen’s beauty is beyong description. On each side of the roads stand considerable ficus of old age. Their hair roots were swaying in the wind, wishpering the long history of Shammeen to every passers-by. It seemed that the buildings just wake up from the bird-singing, and the time was as if still when you stared at them. I’t was sort of walking in an old photo.

There were visitors walking slowly, and sometimes they paused to take photos. Foreign children were playing delightedly with their parents. And what impressed us most was that couples shooting wedding photos could be seen here and there, which made us envy a lot.read more »

I think it to me, and to all the people of the workshop, November, 2011, 26 and 27 are memorable days. Because the two days, most of the people are the first time for full participation in the Green - Map drawing process. Attend the period, we learned a lot, thought a lot and felt a lot, grew many......

On the morning of 26th, our teacher——"Whale", a teacher from Taiwan Society of Wilderness brought and showed us many fine green-maps from all over the world. She gave us detailed introduction to the origin of the green-map and the development of it , and the differences between green-map and the general map , the green-map visit quartet (commentator, TaZha, drawings, share), rendering the purpose of green-map (environment education, community development, etc), green Icon and the story behind the green-map... read more »

On October 23th 2010, Green Map sharing session is held by Fresh EPA in South China University of Technology, which invited the representatives of Guangzhou Green Point Environmental Protection Information Center, Friends of Nature, Friends of the Earth, China Mangrove Conservation Network and the EPA members from 7 universities.

Before the indoor session, we had a Green Map experience in SCUT to deepen the impression of Green Map.

At the beginning of the meeting, Mrs. Hong from Friends of Nature shared her valuable point of Green Map, saying that Green Map is sharing the love of what we love.read more »

As it is known to all, water culture is a significant part of Guangzhou. To show a different face of Guangzhou, we made the Green Map series of Guangzhou River Branch cooperating with the Olympic Council of Asia and the volunteers from different groups. This project lasted more than 5 months from the beginning of 2010.

Before the Asia Games, the government had tried hard to promote the environment beside the river branch. This series of Green Map show a greener way to feel the real Guangzhou by pointing out the cultural sites, natural landscape and sustainable living sites.
(These Green Maps have been exhibited in the local square to show the change and the beauty of the river branch to the natives and the tourists.)read more »

On May 26th and 27th 2010, the Green Map Photo Exhibition held by Fresh EPA, went into its 3rd station and 4th station as it was shown at South China Normal University and Sun Yat-Sen University.

Before that, the exhibition was held in South China University of Technology, which was regarded as its 1st station and Guangdong University of Technology, its 2nd station.

During the photo exhibition, the volunteers from Fresh EPA furnished the tent with the pictures about the Green Map in SCUT. These picture shows us its common sense, its history in Guangzhou, and the achievements by Fresh EPA while running the program. When the students walked past our exhibition, our volunteers explained to them with patience. In this way, the show presented by them interested more and more people to stop and to listen to our introduction. read more »

On 15th May 2009, we at Fresh EPA had our first Green Map sharing session at South China University of Technology, which attracted many students who were interested in this new item. The session began at 3:00 p.m. with a humorous drama which made all the people there become fascinated with Green Map. Later, several members of our association gave introduction of the development of Green Map in Fresh EPA and the first Green Map of our university. The atmosphere was great and everyone was enjoying.

In the game part, people had to guess the meaning of icons of Green Map. If they were right, they would be rewarded with a Green Map of Qi Ao Island in Zhuhai, Guangdong Province. The introduction of this map was given later by the Mangrove Group of our association. read more »

In the last year, we re-drawn and published a new Green Map of South China University of Technology in Higher Education Mega Center of Guangzhou from March to May.And we sent the map to freshman of our university in 2009.

In January of this year, we published the Green Map of Higher Education Mega Center of Guangzhou. This Green Map have spend our almost six months to publish.

In October, 2009, we drew Green Maps of Liwan community of Guangzhou with kids from four schools and residents from four communities, promoting the Green Map and let more people understand and participate in Green Map.read more »

好创意让环保不再沉重　年内或制作广州“绿地图”

　　地图你见得多，绿色生活地图你听说过吗？

　　1月20日，广州大学城绿色生活地图正式出版。令人注目的是，它不是由专业机构完成，而全部是由大学生绘制。与普通地图不一样的是，它更像一幅反映人文生态景观的综合图谱，从而达到推广环保的目的。这些大学生计划在今年内绘制一幅全广州的绿地图，为亚运会献礼。绿地图究竟有何特别之处？作为普通市民，我们是否也可以绘制绿地图？read more »