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Since the Green Apple Map was created in 1992, Wendy Brawer and her colleagues have spread around the globe the message of caring for the Earth by means of speeches, documents and webpages. The same message is also conveyed through every Green Map charted by the participants. Up to now there has been 257 Green Maps from 42 countries of six continents in the Green Map project. In the summer of 2005 Green mapmakers from Japan, Taiwan, Indonesia and India met in Aichi and established an Asian Green Map center, a regional hub for us to connect to the network and a major step for mutual assistance in Aisa. We hope in the future by means of collaboration we can connect to the whole Asia with local concern in mind and broaden our international view. Source of Material: Green Map / About Green
Map System (Maintained by The Society of Wilderness) |
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宜蘭市綠色生活地圖 圖片來源:綠色生活地圖-綠活圖展示館 (由荒野保護協會更新維護) |
台北中山區綠色生活地圖 圖片來源:綠色生活地圖-綠活圖展示館 (由荒野保護協會更新維護) |
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The president of the council in the Society of Wilderness, Wei-Wen Lee, was the representative of Taiwan excellent conservation groups to interview some noncommercial organizations for learning and interchanging when he was the chief secretary of the society in 1998. In New York most of information from visiting either official or private organizations included New York Green Maps. This aroused Wei-Wen Lee’s curiosity. There were various ways to introduce New York; however, what the point was that everyone agreed to introduce New York with this map, of which New Yorkers were proud. Luckily, Wei-Wen Lee visited Wendy Brawer and was informed about Green Maps in this trip. He thought that it could motivate people to care about and conserve from their surroundings so that he applied authorization of these icons and brought Green Maps to Taiwan. Yilan Branch of the Society of Wilderness is the first branch that started to develop Green Map and, since 2004, the other branches of the Society of Wilderness did, too, such as Taoyuan Branch, Hsinchu Branch, Taichung Branch, Tainan Branch and Hualien Branch. As seeds float and fall apart, they are expected to settle down and grow. So far, there are more than 70 speeches held and working shop started by the Society of Wilderness and more than 1,800 people who have drew Green Maps. All of these activities were planned and practiced by volunteers that were constituted with fellows from different backgrounds. Each of them gave full play to their professional knowledge and skill that made greatest profit to the whole group and provided opportunities for them to learn from each other, broadening their horizons. We make much expectation toward the future that Green Maps would have been an international activity and much more people join together and discover the features and values of our residence, arousing local permanent activation. The last but not the least, people begin to be concerned about their surroundings through Green Maps drawing and get compatible with surroundings, turning local areas into healthier ones. We also anticipate that our children could draw Green Maps to get closer to the nature and human culture in our life and to develop their attachment to the place they live in since young. Besides, we wish more communities to draw the maps, tightening our relationship, improving our common views about our community, treasuring our homeland and living our lives with love in this land. Source of Material: Green Map / About Green
Map System (Maintained by The Society of Wilderness) Source of photo: Energetic Green Map
Movement/ The Society of Wilderness: Ye-Ren Publishing House (2005) |
