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Video for the $50,000 Competition

We've just made a video to promote our entry in the America's Giving competition - please forward it to friends and colleagues, and put it up on your blogs and websites!

And donate $10 today! Only two weeks left...

New Video - Celebrating the Green Maps of 2007

We've just produced a new video, which celebrates all the Green Maps that were published in 2007. The Wall of Maps in the Green Map office is rapidly filling!

Feel free to share this video on your own blog, Facebook, or MySpace pages!

And remember, there's only two weeks left on the Global Giving Challenge - we're in with a really good chance of winning $50,000 - so please pass it around your friends and networks to encourage people to donate!
More details about the challenge in our blog
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The New Global Green Map

Global Green Map – Going Live in 2008!

"“If the best greening resource in the world is just around the corner, but no one knows about it, what good can it do?”
-Yelitza Espinosa, Pereira, Colombia Mapmaker

Project Description

It's an exciting time at Green Map: we've just started work on our latest project - the Global Green Map. GGM is an interactive open world map that will connect people of all backgrounds with local resources and best practices for sustainable living. Scheduled to …

Interview with one of the Glasgow Green Map Team

A new webmap tool to easily make an online Green Map

I’m planning to develop an online tool that makes it really easy for any Green Mapmaker to build an online Green Map. A lot of people have been asking for something like this, so I want to make sure that it’s as useful as possible.

This is a big project, so I think there will be three stages:

• 1) Mapmakers can set up an online Green Map which is available on our website at a subdomain (e.g. newyork.greenmapearth.org)
• 2) Mapmakers set up their online map on our …

Google Adwords for Green Mapmakers

Google have a fantastic grants program for non-profits in certain countries:

http://www.google.com/grants/index.html
USA, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, India, Ireland, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland and the UK

Any Mapmakers in these countries who are non-profits can apply, but it's a pretty slow process.

Though this grant program Google has given Green Map lots of free Google Adwords (the ads that show up down the side when you search for …

Adding a Green Map

I have just updated the website to make it much easier and quicker to add a Green Map to your account.

1. Log in to your account
2. Click on 'My Maps' in the blue menu on the left hand side
3. Click 'Add a Map'
4. Fill in the basic details for the map - Title, themes, set the location, provide a brief introduction and a longer overview, say whether it is published or not, enter the date the project was started, and upload an image. Click Submit, and your Green Map is online!

5. Now you can add …