'Don't let Wendy Brawer's urban address fool you -- this New Yorker has a soft spot for nature. After all, she's the founder of Modern World Design, an eco-design firm, and has spent the last 11 years at the helm of the Green Map System, a nonprofit organization dedicated to helping citizens all over the world document and map their local environmental resources...'
- How Wendy Brawer Put Green on the Map, Grist.org
'"With maps, you can show people how an abstract concept connects to where they live." Wendy Brawer, founding director of GreenMap.org, a mapping site based in New York used by people in 54 countries, says maps can make a point even if they are in a foreign language. "Maps are really helpful for that 'Aha!' moment," she says.
- Mapping a Better World, The Economist, 2009
'Cartographic counseling is a big part of Brawer's work, making the "community" in community mapping inevitable. "No one person has all the skills needed," Brawer said.'
- Green Maps Motivate Activism, National Catholic Reporter : Jeff Severns Guntzel, 2005
'Opportunism, enterprise and flexibility are equally vital qualities that designers must possess. Wendy Brawer exemplifies how coming up with a good idea is not enough. She brings her entrepreneurial skills and opportunistic use of new communication technologies to turn this into a worldwide agent of change.'
- The Design Experience book by Mike Press and Rachel Cooper, 2003
NetSquared interview with Thomas Turnbull by Jed Sundwall, 2008 Resilience Science 2-09 by Henrik Ernstson, 2009
I Love Postage interview by Mike Renzy 2007
Wikipedia on Wendy
Copenhagen Voice Interview, 2009 (5 minutes)
Seeds of a Global Movement, a 2007 NYU student video (7 minutes)
Wall of Green Maps, created to showcase worldwide outcomes (2 minutes)
Video interview series by Cornell University (several 3 minute clips)
Find other videos on Green Map's YouTube channel
