Share and Find Sustainable Projects

by Marnie Webb

Green Map provides a map-based way to explore sustainable projects world-wide. From their about page:

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 490 cities, towns and villages in 53
countries. Along with our network of regional hubs and community-led
Green Map projects, we share the award-winning outcomes through Mapmakers profiles, our blog, newsletters, organizational booklet and through Green Map books and media productions, workshops and other public presentations.

You can also view the projects in a list, by theme.  Best of all? If you are leading or know of a project, you can add it by becoming a mapmaker.

(Disclaimer: Green Map was a Net2 Featured Project -- and I'm very affiliated with Net2)