Green Bristol
GreenBristol is a pilot green mapping project in the Bristol New Deal for Communities area - Barton Hill, The Dings, Lawrence Hill and Redfield. Green mapping is a participatory tool designed to promote environmental awareness and community sustainability. It began in New York in 1992. Since then 220 green maps have been published to date, charting rural and urban centres on all inhabited continents.
GreenBristol is a forum for local people to explore the heritage of their area; a place to air their concerns about their local environment; and to imagine - and bring about - a neighbourhood for the future. The emphasis is on enabling local people to contribute content. The online world is not equally accessible so public events play a role in reaching other community members.
Bristol has many environmental initiatives to encourage better use of resources and to minimise waste production, GreenBristol seeks to make these more visible, plus Green Bristol is an Open Source project which means anyone can take what has been done and recycle, evolve and modify it to create their own Green Maps.
