We’ve Reached the Finish Line!

Hello again! Dena and I have completed the Green Map of our school, (Seton Hall University’s), Green! It is entitled ” Seton Hall University’s Trees on the Green: The Other Campus Residents.” The green is central to our campus, complete with many beautiful trees and areas to read, relax, and get to and from classes. We identified these trees, and added information about each one. Our map is a small brochure, with a unique fold-out of a tree! We met with different Ecology professors to ensure the information is correct, and we even joined the Ecology club throughout this whole process! It’s been a lot of work, but a lot more fun getting this Green Map together. The pictures are of the brochure, the first is when it is closed, and the second reveals the tree fold-out and map information. We hope you will enjoy learning about our green! Thank you so much Wendy and all of Green Map Systems!

Here is the brochure in its closed form!

 

- Dena Zapoluch and Jenna Giambalvo

Continuing My Work at Green Map

Hello, all! This is Jenna, part of the Hoboken Green Map team. I am going to create a new green map of my university’s campus, Seton Hall. I will be using this internship as course credit also, so I will be especially conscious of making this map to the best of my ability. Dena will still help with the environmental information, as that is her specialty, and we will use the same promotional tactics to get our map out there once again!! My design professor will be working with me as well to make sure the map is of sound design  and form. I cannot wait to start the process again! Thank you, Wendy and the rest of Green Map for allowing me to investigate new outlets of design and work with your organization! See you next month!

- Jenna Giambalvo

Final Presentation

On August 12th, we had great presentations with our virtual interns –

Dena Zapolch and Jenna Giambalvo (Hoboken Green Map),

: They did an amazing job.

: Hoboken Green Map

Kimberly Elicker (Harlem Green Faith),

: I like her smile.

Boram Park and Hye-Min Kim (Chelsea for Reuse Green Map)

: Trying to open Power Point file.

: Chelsea for Reuse Green Map

– and advisers-

David Kupfer (San Francisco Green Map),

Beth Ferguson (Austin Green Map),

: She’s explaining her work.

Bob Zuber (Spanish Harlem Green Map),

: Created with youth at All Saints RC Church in 1999, many of the “opportunity sites” they discovered have been redeveloped to meet social and community needs

Gottfried Haider (Green Map Volunteer & our photographer),

Té Baybute (Green Map Design Staff),

Wendy Brawer (Founding Director and NYC Green Map).

Janet Wlody (Kenyon College Green Map) and Janella Peters (Brooklyn’s L.E.E.D. to Green) sent us their presentations so we could see their outcomes. Both are linked below. Janella’s is especially detailed and useful!

The virtual interns detailed the mapmaking processes of their Green Maps and showed what they accomplished. The other participants told about their Green Map experiences, and the event was a great exchange. Thank you for all!

Here are links to the Open Green Maps:

Kenyon College Green Map

Brooklyn’s L.E.E.D. to Green

Special thanks to Con Edison for supporting this project, and to Celine Teo Ying Zhen, who coordinated this program’s first 2 months. and to Boram Park who completed this blog.

Janella’s ppt

Janella’s PowerPoint

Brooklyn’s LEED to Green_presentation

Janet’s ppt

Janet’s powerpoint

Here’s my presentation!

Session for Gowanus Mapping Project

Hello, everyone! I am Boram and working as an intern at Green Map. I am happy to help you guys from next week.  As you received emails from Celine, she will go back to Singapore, so you can contact me at intern@greenmap.org. Please feel free to send me any questions!

+ Here is news about Green Map’s visitors.

Architecture students from Korea University and Clemson University in South Carolina, and David Krieger from Gowanus Canal Community Development Corporation visited Green Map this Monday. They are working on for Gowanus Mapping Project, and they came to our office to know more about green mapping and planning neighborhood relating to sustainability.

They had a Wendy’s great presentation that explained about Green Map’s mission and vision, and remarkable Green Map projects all over the world. After the presentation, we had an Eco-walking tour of East Village near our office.

This session was for thinking about What is ecological community development and Green Map-making. Especially for Korean students, this was an unique opportunity to know about the Green Map movements and experience green spots like community gardens that are not common in Korea. We expect that it can affect the greener future they will make.

(Korean)

한국의 고려대학교와 사우스 캐롤라이나에 위치한 클렘슨 대학교 학생들, 그리고 고와너스 캐널 커뮤니티 발전소의 데이드 크리거씨가 이번주 월요일 그린맵을 방문했습니다. 방문해 주신 분들은 현재 브루클린의 고와너스 지역 지도 만들기 프로젝트를 진행중이며, 그를 위해 친환경적인 지도와 도시 개발에 대한 도움을 얻고자 이번 저희 사무실에 방문해 주셨습니다. 그들은 그린맵의 미션, 비전, 그리고 전 세계의 훌륭한 그린맵 프로젝트들에 관한 설명을 들었고, 그 후 이스트 빌리지 지역의 친환경적인 곳을 둘러보는 에코 투어 시간도 가졌습니다.

이번 세션은 학생들에게 보다 친환경적인 시야로서의 지역 개발을 생각할 수 있는 시간이 되었을 것으로 생각합니다. 특히 한국에서 온 고려대학생들에게는 한국에서 볼 수 없었던 환경적인 자원으로서의 지도에 관한 움직임들, 그리고 커뮤니티 가든과 같은 친환경적인 장소들에 관한 경험이 앞으로 그들이 구상할 미래의 지구에 대해 긍정적인 영향을 끼칠 것으로 기대 합니다.

Map Update!

Hi everyone,

Sorry that we completely forgot to post but no worries our map is  finished! We finished the whole map layout on the design programs. We also typed up a flier  to help market our map and hopefully get help paying for some of the printing.  We plan on handing out the fliers sometime next week, hopefully we get some good feed back!

Sorry once again!

Jenna and Dena!

Map Update – Kenyon

Target Neighborhood: Gambier, Ohio (Kenyon) and the surrounding areas

Map theme: Recreation

Target audience: New students or local residents

Map outline (explaining the layout of your map and organizations/people/businesses you will be in contact with): I’ll be working with Open Green Map, since Photoshop seems to be entirely over my head! I’m still in the process of researching different sites to include, but I will likely be in contact with Kenyon’s Office of Admissions, in hopes of linking the Open Green Map to some type of Orientation website.

Brief timeline for mapping process: Over the next two weeks, I hope to have the majority of the map completed! I’ll start by creating sites that will require less research, and end with contacting different groups with any questions that may arise.

Map type (print, video, electronic, etc): Electronic- I’m also considering writing up a guide to accompany the electronic map.

Dissemination plan (marketing and outreach efforts): I’ll be in contact with the Office of Admissions.

Some sample sites you may include on your map: Environmental centers, green-friendly initiatives, natural spots for recreation including rivers.

Brooklyn’s L.E.E.D to Green- Update!!!

Format

*Target Neighborhood: Brooklyn, NY.

*Map theme: Brooklyn’s L.E.E.D to Green

*Target audience: The students of Polytechnic Institute of NYU, the community around the Metro-tech area and my old high school.

My map will show a variety of sites that are either aspiring to be or already L.E.E.D certified according to the U.S Green Building Council’s Registered Project Directory. My sites range from local businesses, community projects, cultural and recreational sites in the community to government and non-profit organizations.

The criteria for choosing my sites was based on the main goal of L.E.E.D. One,  if the construction process involved strategies aimed at improving performance such as energy savings, water efficiency, CO₂ emissions reduction, improved indoor environmental quality, and stewardship of resources and sensitivity to their impacts. Two,  the operational practices of the business or organization encouraged an eco-friendly lifestyle.

So far I have at least 12 sites on my open green map and plan to add at least 25 green sites. Yesterday I visited my former college adviser to discuss the contents of my project and how I want to showcase it on the campus. We agreed to meet next week Wednesday to discuss how I can involve some of the professors in my project and display it on the Civil Department’s interactive display.

Yesterday I visited one of my sites, Brooklyn Bridge Park. I meant the landscape architect that is currently involved in the construction of the site. He gave me his business card to schedule a tour date of the site. The Brooklyn Bridge Park project involves the redevelopment of Piers 1-6 by the East Side waterfront. Currently, Pier 1 and 6 are open.

I plan on scheduling interviews and visiting my sites for the next two weeks. Meanwhile, I will finish adding the rest of my sites by Wednesday and begin thinking about my map layout and continue looking for packaging strategies that is best suitable for my research.  My map will be printed, my college adviser offered the plotter at the college to print out my rough drafts before I finalize the layouts.  I’ve already started using the open green map and will continue to do so in addition to creating one using Arcgis.

*Some sample sites you may include on your map:

Brooklyn Bridge Park

BAM Avery Fischer Hall

Brooklyn Navy Yard

Good luck everyone with the rest of your research!!!

-Janella

Chelsea for Reuse Green Map (Boram and Hye-Min)

Hello, guys! Are you guys enjoying hot weather? Here is our map outline!

Format

*Target Neighborhood: New York City, especially, Chelsea.

*Map theme: Chelsea for Reuse Green Map

*Target audience: Neighbors, City residents and Tourists

*Map outlines (explaining the layout of your map and organizations/people/businesses you will be in contact with):  

We have researched reuse shops by using Internet, a book and information from people. As a result, we founded out around 40 reuse shops are here in Chelsea area. We will contact and visit all shops in Chelsea. Then, we will choose the most suitable reuse shops which connected to sustainability.

*Brief timeline for mapping process:

Now, we are in the process of doing map design and we are planning to visit the shops during the week and weekend.

*Map type (print, video, electronic, etc): We are thinking of a printed map and trying to figure out whether we will make folded map or postcard sized map.

*Dissemination plan (marketing and outreach efforts): We have considered a fund-raising at some events which are related to environment. Also, we are expecting that we can receive support money from reuse shops which we will visit in the near future. At that time, we can have a chance to explain our map project and goal.

*Some sample sites you may include on your map: reuse shops web pages (if they have), sites which are connected to our map project’s theme and sustainability.