绿色地图
Tuesday, March 21st, 2006新
的一届地理文化节要开始了，这一次除了野外定向、参观地质博物馆、自恋和商业经济冲昏头脑《中国国家地理》讲座之外，有个新特色，就是介绍了GreenMap这个活动，所以我也去看了一下内容。
“Green Maps illuminate the interconnections between society, nature and the built environment, helping residents get involved and make smarter lifestyle choices while also guiding visitors to successes they can replicate back home.”
-Wendy E. Brawer, Founding Director
THE MISSION of the Green Map System (GMS) is to promote sustainability and community participation in the local natural and built environment. GMS offers adaptable tools and a global iconography for making environmental and cultural maps, empowering local project leaders to give familiar places a fresh perspective. Green Maps function as practical guides to greener living while helping spread model initiatives to new locations.
给大众一个比较平易近人的地图制作和使用入口，并且关心大众对于地图的真实利用想法，应该本来就是地图制作者最关心的内容，同时，加入绿色、可持续发展概念，能使地图在这个年代有一定的特色亮点。
Green Map System aims to:• Help people of all ages represent and share their local eco-cultural resources
• Promote model greening efforts underway in communities across the globe
• Build inclusive networks that expedite progress toward sustainability
• Employ the info-web in service of the web-of-life
• Learn from the beauty, brilliance and diversity of Nature
Together, we will make our hometowns better, healthier places!
地图的图例（icon）给人一种卡通和亲切的感觉，色彩艳丽和易懂的标志，大大简化了地图阅读的门槛。
从提出到现在已经10多年的非盈利性组织，已经在全球很多国家地区展开了项目，从中还可以看到在北京（得到自然之友支持）、杭州的项目。但是不知道为什么，项目中文说明的显示用的是图片而不是文字。可以从官方blog了解最新动向（用wordpress搭建的blog）
期待比较精彩的这一届地理文化节，特别是有深厚的人文、历史、哲学关联的文化地理方面。真正实现“地藏经纬，理统九州”。