About the Project

Global Green Map (GGM) is the temporary working name for:

Our open interactive global Green Map which will connect millions of people with sustainable living, nature, social and cultural sites, routes and resources to spur greener personal choices everywhere.

Using our lively iconography, Google Maps and open source tools, GGM’s sites, green ratings and discussions, videos, images and translations will be configured for multiple websites and other formats such as widgets, mobile phones and site markers.

Green Mapmakers, content partners and the public can add sites, routes and resources (both assets and liabilities). Anyone can post a comment, green rating, update or event in different languages, or add images and podcasts.

Sites collected by Official Green Mapmakers will be differentiated from those contributed by the public or other content partners. Each site contributed by Official Green Mapmakers will link to their profiles in the Greenhouse, so users will know about their organizations and can download your Green Map as PDF, link to your website, etc.

Contributors can use a widget to show a part of the GGM on their own website. It can show just their own city, and just the sites they themselves have uploaded. You could even show a subset of sites, for example, those of interest to visitors. If the user wants, they can open the map further, to see more of the world, right from your site. GMS expects to have other websites with widges.

Our goal is to:

• Help Green Mapmakers make interactive maps easily.
• Help everyone contribute to the GGM and keep current its data.
• Reach an enormous audience and help users connect with the hopeful changes in green development and the challenges we face.
• Grow into an archive of best practices and models so they can take root in new places.
• Promote local Green Mapmaking.
• Make it mobile, so phones, site markers and other formats work great.
• Promote eco-linkages, connections, resources, networking.

Your involvement in developing, funding, populating and updating the GGM is critical to its success.

For more background information:

Public Blog: the new Global Green Map

Visual Overview (PDF - 2.7 MB)

Video (.MOV - 8 MB)