Green Map

Oryana Natural Foods Market

260 East Tenth Street
(10th St & Lake Ave)
Traverse City, MI 49684
(231) 947-0191
www.oryana.coop

Sponsor of this month's Green Map adventure

Welcome to the Interactive Internet Version of Northwest Lower Michigan's Green Map - A SEEDS Project -

Organic Farmers A map is a graphic representation of a place. Because of their visual nature, maps, allow the user to see a wide variety of information from a geographical perspective far more powerful than a simple list of locations. This map allows you to view locations within five major watersheds in the northwest corner of Michigan's Lower Peninsula. It is focused on the places and spaces of particular ecological importance within this region. By using an internationally agreed upon set of icons this map is a valuable addition to the worldwide network of Green Maps.

This Green Map highlights the businesses & organizations (such as conservancies, environmental advocates, organic food providers, etc.) and places (such as State and National Parks, champion trees, nationally designated Natural Rivers, small farms, etc.) that thoughtfully steward our local natural resources.

**SEEDS is looking for a Green Map Intern. Contact SEEDS Executive Director Sarna Salzman or more information.

Get Started!

Use this interactive web-based Green Map to:

Locate goods and services that support the local economy and environment.
Graphically relate these locations to trails, watershed boundaries, ecological corridors, habitats, and other natural resources that make our region beautiful, unique, and precious.
Illustrate the relationships - and sometimes conflicts - between things like watershed boundaries and jurisdictional boundaries.
Educate students and neighbors about land use and economic planning with an ecological and local focus.

Donate to the Project! Support this project by donating money or services to help keep this Green Map up-to-date and create educational experiences focused on the ecology and economy of our region.

Contact SEEDS Executive Director Sarna Salzman or more information. We can provide:

More information about each of the locations seen on the Green Map
Paper versions of this map
Educational programming and curriculum related to the resources shown on the Green Map
Help starting new green mapping projects in your locale!

Our Partners

Our Green Map of Northwest Lower Michigan couldn't have been done without our partners including:

A very special thanks to some of our many volunteers:

Shaunna Cahill, Heidi Jones, and others from Corbin Design
Jim Muratski
GIS and Cartography: Xiomara Cordoba-Lepczyk, Joe Wagner
Angela Ponetta-Dedenbock
artist donations: Sue Brightheart, Kim Bazemore, Kathy Brady, Peggy deVries, Susan Kopka, Sarah Landry, Christen Landry, Cathy Look, Sally Neal, Tim Risk, The Rowe Family, Chad Smith, Todd Springer

Getting Started!

Welcome to your Green Mapping adventure! This highly interactive website allows you to view only what you want to see.

Click here to open the directions/help window, then enter the Northwest Lower Michigan Green Map.

This site is under construction. Please bear with us as we fine tune it! Give us feedback.