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Greater Victoria's
Green Map
Common Ground
is putting together Victoria's first Green Map and we need your
help! What makes Greater Victoria green and healthy to you? We've
put together a tentative list, but we want community input. Click
here to look at a
list of the sites we've compiled already and then type in a site
below to make a suggestion. It can be anything, from a duck pond
to an organic garden to a historic site. E.g. the Moss St. Market,
McDonald Park field, Mural on Cecelia Creek overpass.
Green Maps
The International Green Map
System is a global
collaboration to encourage and support
sustainable regional and urban development by identifying, promoting
and and urban development by identifying, promoting and linking
eco-resources within cities. Maps chart ecologically significant
places and sociocultural resources which make a city special and
contribute to the well-being of its residents. There are over 70
Green Map projects in progress around the world -- 44
maps have been
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completed. Over
100 cities in 35 countries on six continents are involved.
Kids, neighborhoods and regions can all contribute to Green
mapmaking.
[See
www.greenmap.org].
Common
Ground has officially joined the
International Green Map System
and plans to have a print-based
of our Capital Region ready for
fall 2001. This will be
the basis for Common Ground Regional Planning Atlas,
Common Ground's long-term mapping project.
Click
here for a look at a draft
of the Green Map for Victoria's James Bay neighbourhood.
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-Dr. Robert Zuber: A
Senior Consultant from the Green Map System giving a talk at Common
Ground's Nov 4th 2000 Annual Mapping Day at Rogers School, Victoria,
B.C.
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