Vashon Island Events: Introducing the Vashon Green Map~ Vashon Island Real Estate
April 23, 2009 at 2:51 am Leave a comment
Vashon’s Social Ecology Education and Demonstration School (SEEDS) has completed its work on the online Vashon Green Map, identifying community natural resources, cultural resources and green living resources. The Green Map System uses a set of universally recognized icons that have been developed collaboratively since 1995 and are active in 475 cities and 54 countries. SEEDS begain its first phase of the program at the Vashon Farmers Market on the Village Green on August 23, 2008.
The online maps are interactive and open to an array of uses. Bob Spivey, a member of the developing committee, notes that one idea has been to create a sub-map of land available for farming / gardening on Vashon for residents who may otherwise not have access to land. A key feature of the map is that site visitors may nominate sites that do not yet appear on the map, as well as sites they may wish to see on Vashon in the future.
Developers will be at the Farmers Market in early May to collect suggestions for the future development of the map. Donations to off set printing costs are appreciated.
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Entry filed under: • Community, • Destinations, • Education, Living Green, Living Green Resources, Think Green. Tags: SEEDS, vashon island events, Vashon Island Green Map, Vashon Social Ecology Education and Demonstration School.
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