For me, Green Map's Director, this fall's highlights included traveling to South Korea to be part of the Seoul Design Olympiad.

This 21 day kick off event leads up to Seoul being designated as 2010's World Design Capitol, attended by 2 million people. Mayor Oh has embraced the concept of 'design is Air' and these exciting keywords: Sustainable, Convergent, Experiential, Participatory and Connecting, expressed in a conference, exhibition, competition and festival. Held in the Olympic Stadium, transformed by 3600 citizens into a gigantic recycled plastic sculpture. read more »

Hello mapmakers from the entire world!

I want to share with you, our progress about green map in Colombia, first of all, Joe Gerlach, who is a student from Oxford University; he has ready his reporting about the research on the processes of green maps made in Colombia. And I would like to share this information with all the people that are interesting in know more about the green maps in Colombia. There is a video in YouTube, which can give you an idea about Pereira Colombia and all the people who is involved in the process:

The Open Green Map is our participatory mapmaking tool, now in preview phase. Explore and learn at OpenGreenMap.org

Enjoy this 5 minute video presentation.read more »

Cette semaine, reprise des activités de l'association. Réunion mercredi 17 septembre, à 20h à la mairie d'Eteau.

The Jones Falls Trail Green Map will make its debut at the Jones Falls Watershed Association's Rally for the River! festival on September 21st, 2008. Our map uses 30 Green Map icons to highlight "Discover & Enjoy!" mappable resources on one side and lists the "Learn and Take Action!" resources on its reverse. It includes a green-mapped inset of Druid Hill Park, our 756-acre central park.

The festival typically attracts 5000 people. It closes part of the interstate highway to allow a few hours of intense pedestrian and wheeled activity, food, music, and boat journeys and frog races down the stream below the highway.read more »

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For me it's very gratifying to share with the Green Map network our activities that we have done in the traditional coffee growing region of Colombia during this year.

First of all, the process with one of the high school (Gonzalo Mejia Echeverry) has become stronger. In this moment, Fundación Geovida (our local non-profit organization) have been designing an eco-landscaping feature inside the school, a beautiful ecological path made of bamboo. We will be highlighting local myths and legends along this thematic path. An architecture student is volunteering with us in its development. This idea has been welcomed by the local history teacher, and the art and biology teachers that have decided to coordinate all their projects around one: Green Map Project. read more »

By Evi Mariani, The Jakarta Post, Jakarta | Tue, 07/15/2008

After three years in the wilderness, a movement to map out green spaces in Jakarta is back in vogue, riding the global trend toward an environmentally conscious lifestyle.

"The campaigning stage is over, people are aware of the 'green' lifestyle now. Let's focus on green maps' effectiveness, power to change, availability and design," Marco Kusumawijaya, a founder of the "green map" movement said Saturday.read more »

The team developing the Open Green Map interactive mapmaking and social networking site has been very busy. Happily, we succeeded in opening this exciting new tool to our network of Green Mapmakers in July!

While the public debut is not scheduled until Fall (date TBA), Phase 1 is complete! Mapmakers are starting to create their own Open Green Maps. You click OpenGreenMap.org and choose from the list on the right to start exploring!

This website's public use and site submission features are being created now. If you would like more information, check the FAQ or click Contact and send us a message. We'd love to hear from people who want to participate and/or support this monumental undertaking!read more »

Over the past weeks, Green Map System, the Open Green Map, Mapmakers and their locally-led mapmaking projects have received the attention of the press.

Below you will find the different articles and blogs that celebrate the success of Green Mapmaking as an initiative that strength a sustainable future.

More articles and blogs about our growing global movement are listed in our News section.

Who's talking about the Open Green Map?read more »