Green Maps for a more sustainable future!

Lots going on this summer with Green Map! Let’s start with a highlight from the great Oak Bay Community Green Map team, announcing its renewal.

On Canada's wild west coast, in the town of Victoria in British Columbia, a team of local people are recreating the Oak Bay Community Green Map which was first published in 2008. As Maeve Lydon and Sam Moss say, “Oak Bay is surrounded by the ocean amidst the US and Canadian Gulf Islands, on the traditional territories of the Coast Salish First Nations (as you can see on the Salish Sea Map below). UVIC, local NGOs, the Living Lab Project, community-schools groups and First Nations will be revising and reprinting the map over the Fall-Winter 2026-2027 and creating a new web platform.”

With Green Map NYC’s new LES Power project, we published our first Zine - yes, it’s a map-zine that can be explored as a map or as a booklet, rich with resources that connect you with the energy transition that’s making headway on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Check it out - let us know if you want copies or or join one of our events in September.

We have an array of walking tours and events during NYC Climate Week, all of which are linked to this page - bit.ly/CW-LES26 and on our social media. Yes, Climate Week NYC is enormous but a climate walk in a storied neighborhood and the new LES Power map-zine might be just what you need!

A summer highlight was a special tour for the Summer Fellows at the Human Impacts Institute. It was a gloriously green journey through the East Village’s Garden District. See the outcomes on September 20th, and check out their full day of events on Sept 24th. This organization made the Marseilles Green Map in 2024, when France hosted the Olympics!

We promise to send you an update in mid-September with more details on all of this! Until then, thank you for your support, and best wishes from everyone at Green Map.

It’s nearly Earth Day and there are events in every community that will put you in touch with environmental and natural sensibilities. It’s the season for a much needed reboot, this year underscored by the geo political situation and a raft of new uncertainties. Roots and shoots are transforming, we too are shifting. It’s sometimes hard to see progress being made from the sidelines - we know getting involved is a step towards a better future.   

Usually Green Map has Earth Day seasonal events, but this year, we are taking a break while our Director’s new knee settles in. She’s giving the reflection at the Highlands Choral Society in Cold Spring NY on May 3rd, in line with the current Lower East Side mapping project theme of Energy. We’ll be back with events related to that theme and more ways to interface with our team as summer nears with participation at American Museum of Natural History’s Chancellor Day for educators and the Youth Climate Summit in June on Governors Island. 

Our non-profit has been around for disasters of many kinds over the last 30 years. Our toolkit matched with your own local mapping process can be an antidote as getting involved locally is one sure way to lift one into action. Our latest news post is on Crisis Mapping, a topic that keeps popping up lately. 

Nature offers a respite from stressful times. We are inspired by Artemis II's perspective of home. We hope the blossoms and birdsong are a balm as well as an activator for you as it really is time for all hands on deck! 

It's time to breathe in and dig in! Happy Earth Day!