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Green Renter: Mapping Sustainability in New York City. With Wendy Brawer, Founding Director, Green Map System and Michael Heimbinder, Founder, Habitat Map
| December 15, 2008 | ||
| 7:00 pm | to | 8:30 pm |
LOCATION: Solar One, E.23rd Street and the East River. Map and Directions.
Online maps and map-making have emerged as powerful tools for education, awareness-raising, network-building and activism in recent years. Maps not only provide a sense of orientation and a means for measuring distance and proximity, they also create an efficient, highly accessible format for incorporating and comparing a variety of data and characteristics within and between different places.
As such, maps can create an easy to understand portrait of the features and factors that either contribute to or diminish a local area’s sustainability performance. The range of sustainability indicators that can be mapped – such as access to mass transit or locally grown food; the number and distribution or renewable energy systems in the five boroughs, or the relative concentration of power plants or waste treatment facilities in one particular neighborhood versus another - is essentially unlimited.
Most recently, web-based communication applications now allow multiple individuals to contribute their own knowledge to the creation of different maps. This multi-author, ‘wiki’-like capability allows for the richest, most sophistical representations to evolve over time.
Join local mapping gurus Wendy Brawer and Michael Heimbinder as they demonstrate their successful mapping systems, and discuss the current and future power of maps to ‘place’ and envision sustainability, build activist momentum and even change public policy.
FREE!
RSVP: greenrenter@solar1.org or 212 505 6050
