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The Green Apple Map was first published in1992, and was the map that inspired the initiation of the Green Map System in 1995. The fourth folding paper edition of the Green Apple Map was published in April 2000, and the fifth citywide view is in development, with Energy as its theme. A brand-new website was launched in January 2004, at GreenAppleMap.org! The complete history of the Green Apple Map is at this new site, including links to every NYC-based Green Map project, including those by youth and community groups. Illustrated travelogues provide neighborhood tours of Lower Manhattan, too.

One NYC project which is especially interesting to kids and their familes is LoMap, the Lower Manhattan youth Green Map. It was published, online and on paper in April 2001. See the 2003 updated version at greenmap.org/lomap! And in August 2004, 30,000 copies of the 2nd edition were printed -- find out how to get a copy at GreenAppleMap.org. This project yielded a new way of creating a community-wide Green Map, and we documented the replicable methodology in the Multi-Map Manual, now available by request for use around the world.

Youth projects get started in various parts of NYC every few months. Past projects are shown in more detail at GreenAppleMap.org, but you can have a glimpse of the Lower East Side as mapped by Satellite Academy High School's ecology class, terrific Recycle A Bicycle Green Maps of Brooklyn and Manhattan, and All Saints East Harlem Green Map. New student projects include Manhattan's Central Park with the Central Park Conservancy, Parsons School of Design, and Bushwick, Brooklyn with EBC High School for Public Service.

Many thanks to the New York City Environmental Fund and Greenacre Foundation for continuing support of this ever-expanding project!

The Green Map System's global headquarters produces the NYC project, because this is where the global-local collaborative was begun in 1995. Green Map initiator and ongoing director, Wendy Brawer of Modern World Design, spun Green Map System off as a separate not-for-profit organization in 1999 (see details in the About Us section of this website). Articles on the Green Apple and a historical overview are posted, as well.