GREEN MAP

What is Green Map ?

A Green map lists and emphases the local sustainable development initiatives, the environmental services, the social services, the eco companies and products that could exist in a city or rural area.

A Green Map could cover a neighbourhood, a commune or any larger territory.

The green maps are community’s action, made up on a participative process: with the cooperation of inhabitants, students, associations, commune and local authorities, local firms.

The Green Map priority target is inhabitants but it also involves every person that spends some time on the territory (workers, students, business men, tourists etc.). With the pedagogical and interactive aspect of its setting up, it implicates young people (students) and even other communities (elders, foreigners).

 

General principle and identity

A paper map shows the local actions and uses, in order to identify them, a collaboratively designed set of icons representing the different kinds of green sites and cultural resources, used internationally. Practical information for each place and organisation, are indicated on the back of the map.

An electronic version with a website complete the paper map in a interactive and funny way. This website allows an instant up to date, the share of information, a collect of new initiatives or actions thanks to the collaboration of inhabitants and website’s visitors that could add their comments and data on the website.

 

Objectives

The global aims to Green Map are:

• Emphasise local initiatives related to sustainable development and incite the creation of new ones
• Inform people about these initiatives which are available to anyone (address, hours, contacts…), and encourage people to use them
• Make students more sensitive to concrete and local sustainable development issues, make Green Map a sustainable development education tool
• Involve inhabitants in the community’s life and environment, encourage the share of information and meetings for a better integration of new inhabitants
• Incite people to adopt more responsible behaviours

The student’s mission is to collect data and information linked to sustainable development, from different stakeholders of the territory. They could give their opinion on the information collected. This work is supervised by a coordinating team (Earth Focus Foundation, SBM Conseil). The collect of information gives them the opportunity to meet persons active or working on sustainable development. It raises them awareness and help them understand what sustainability means and how it set up locally in a concrete way. These workshops and visits take around 2 hours each.

To know more about Green Map: pdf file 

To know more about GreenMap in Switzerland and about the international concept