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Posted on: 10/26/2008 02:18 PMUpdated on: 06/03/2010 01:57 PM Expires: 10/01/2009 12:00 AM SEEDS Vashon Greenmapping Program The Social Ecology Education and Demonstration School (SEEDS) began its public phase of the Vashon Greenmapping Program on Saturday, August 23, at the Farmer’s Market on the Village Green. For the next several weeks we will have an interactive display that will explain the concept and goals of greenmapping, and that will invite your participation in nominating current ecological and culturally significant resources on Vashon, as well as green sites or projects you would like to see in the future. Please stop by and help us create a map that encourages an ecologically wise and sustainable future for the Island. The Vashon Greenmapping Program is designed to create a visual inventory of natural, cultural, and green living resources on Vashon. The program involves creating both a product, an attractive and accessible map, and a dynamic process of generating inclusive community awareness and participation toward a sustainable future. Through the Greenmapping Program SEEDS aims to strengthen local-global sustainability networks, to expand the demand for healthier, greener choices, to stimulate and celebrate ecological citizenship, to provide tools for citizens and planners, and to help successful initiatives spread to more and more communities. Our Vashon greenmapping efforts are guided by Beth Ferguson, who has worked with Wendy Brawer, who developed the Green Map approach in New York City in the early 1990’s. Beth has created widely used green maps in Victoria, B.C. and in Cuba, and led a workshop on Vashon last May. Green Map System uses a set of universally recognized icons that has been developed collaboratively since 1995, and is now active in 475 cities, villages and neighborhoods in 54 countries. At the Saturday Market during the coming months we will gather suggestions from participants at the Greenmapping table. We plan to gather additional input from programs in the schools during the fall, as well as other public events this winter, and from an online interactive version of the map. From this community input we will create our Green Map of Vashon, version #1. In the Spring of 2009 we will have a festival and procession on Vashon to publicly release the Vashon Green Map. We are working in collaboration with a number of Vashon organizations, including Sustainable Vashon, which provided a seed grant for this program; the Backbone Campaign, which has agreed to provide some of its Procession for the Future puppets for our release celebration, and Sustainable Tourism on Vashon (STOV), which will feature information about the greenmapping program on the STOV website. For more information on greenmapping in general, visit www.GreenMap.org. For more information on the SEEDS Vashon Greenmapping Program, or to volunteer, contact Bob Spivey at 206-949-4786, or email him at bobespivey@gmail.com. Please note: Icons © Green Map System, Inc. 2008. All rights reserved. Green Map® is a registered trademark and used with permission. 
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