Creating the Powerful Green Map

Dreamt up during the Great Blackout of 2003 and completed during the NYC Transit Strike of 2005, energy moved to the forefront of local and global concerns about the sustainability* of our way of life during this period. We made this map to present the critical reasons to act now, alongside practical and cutting edge solutions available NOW to everyone in NYC.

NYC has a remarkable opportunity to become one of the most eco-efficient cities in the world, but only if every citizen, enterprise and agency gets involved.

Take Charge, NYC!

Our goal with this Powerful Green Map is to engage you in taking more steps towards energy conservation every day - by knowing more, using less, employing decentralized generation technologies and reducing the impacts on our health, our climate and our economy. Together, we can do it - and you know what they say - if you can do it in NYC, you can do it everywhere. Your small steps, everyday, make a really powerful difference.

The most important form of renewable energy is human power!

More about the composition and design of this map is in the Colophon. Find out about the organization, Green Map System, that created it, and the globally shared Green Map Icons used on every Green Map in the world. More about the team that created the map, and where we found our data and the support to publish 100,000 free copies and this website are included, too.



As you navigate this website, use the left side links, logo and "trail" on the top to explore the Powerful Green Map. The links on the top right connect to all the Green Apple Map projects since 1992, including those by youth and community groups around NYC. Click the Green Map logo on the bottom to explore the work of the global Green Map movement, now active in over 50 countries!