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SUSTAINABLE LIVING

Green Economy

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Mobility

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Technology & Design

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Eco-Agriculture Healthy Eating Farmers Markets Social Enterprise Used Goods Recycling

Green Technology Geothermal Solar Green Roof

Pedestrian-friendly Bicycle path Rapid Transit Water Transport Car share

Land & Water

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Flora & Fauna

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Outdoor Activities

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NATURE(Sampling of 170 icons)

Park/Recreation Area Scenic Vista Public Square Nature Walk Sport Site

Green Technology Bird Watching Wildlife Center Community Garden Native Plants

Eco-Design Feature Wetlands Shaded Boulevard Water Feature Reclaimed Site

Cultural Character

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Justice & Activism

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Eco-Information

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CULTURE & ACTIVISM (Sampling of 170 icons)

Environmental Education Green School Public Library Research Site

Environmental Blight Site Significant Agency Volunteer Site Soup Kitchen/Organization Food Pantry

Museum Historic Site Eco-Spiritual Site Community Center Performance Art Spot

Website

Interactive MapsDesktop

Interactive Mapsmobile at m.greenmap.org

Geolocate, then tap icon to see more information

Print MaterialsMaps, Passport

Park to Park Walks

Tools for Engagement

Students select icons relevant to their school and project.

Green Map Your Green School

Cartooning as a method of recording

Develop Text elementsWhat we are proud of and why.

What we learned from interviews.

What we want to change.

What else we might add.

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Design Layout.

Choose images.

Edit text.

Assemble & print.

Test it out.

Conduct interviews

Education OutreachGreen Map Your School

School in Relation to Community

School in Relation to Community

Partnerships - Very Important!!

Academy of College & Career Exploration Green Map

Collaboration with William Moeller, ACCE Environmental Issues Teacher

Touring the Neighborhood to learn about its history,taking photos, making notes

Choosing icons, captioning photos, making a rough draft

S ACCE High School

A Green Map* shows places that make a community vibrant, healthy and sustainable. This map shows what we learned about Hampden by taking walks out our front door and through conversations with some residents and shopkeepers.

Historic Feature

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b Roosevelt Park

This park and recreation centerhas something for every age!

MAP KEY

These Green Map icons representthe resources we identified on thewalks we took to explore our school’s neighborhood:

paths walked

Skate Park

When we went to the skate park we saw teenagers skate boarding and hanging out. The lumps that you see are for skate boarders to do cool tricks. (Dezmond)

Swimming Pool

I work here summers. (Tyler)

2 Baltimore Free Farm

This Cooperative teaches people howto grow and cook healthy food.

T 3 Druidville

Mill managers built these stone homes for mill workers.

o 1 Jones Falls

Water powered the mills back then. This is the river under the highway near the Clipper Mill. Some of us didn’t know this water goes into the harbor.

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} Woodberry Light Rail Station

Many of us take the Light Rail to get to school. When we look around from here, we see old buildings all around us.

B 1 Coradetti Glass Works

We saw the process of making one cup. Glass is expensive and takes time to make. The fire is heated to 2100 degrees.

B 2 The Charmery

They make local flavors. They mixed salt caramel ice cream with Old Bay seasoning. We tasted it.

T 2 Clipper Mill

Half of the building burned down in 1995. The arch is a memorial to the firefighter who died. Part of the mill that burnt down has been made into a community pool.

1 Restaurants on The Avenue

Mr. Moeller pointed out many stores that bought produce from our garden during the summer: The Corner; The Veranda; Ma Petite Shoe; and more.The Corner was our best customer.

T 4 Union Mill

This mill used water power, then coal to run its machinery.

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Hon Mural

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We looked inside this Antiques & Used Books store and learned that used things can cost a lot!

This Green Map project was a collaboration of Mr.

Moeller’s Environmental Issues class and Baltimore

Green Map with additional funding from a Green and Growing Grant from the Baltimore City Office of Sustainability. Green Map icons are used with permission from the Green Map System, an international network of mapmakers. © 2012

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This is where our “Trout in the Classroom” fish were set free.

ACCE Hampden Neighborhood Green Map

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ACCE Gives Back to the Community

This is Mr. Moeller, our Environmental Issues teacher and the main reason we have been able to do all these cool things.

About ACCE

ACCE is the Academy of College and Career Exploration. It’s a big school. We have good, smart teachers here. We go on field trips to colleges and have speakers come to the library to talk about different careers. BCPS is planning on renovating this building to make it better, so we will be gone from the neighborhood next year…BUT, before we go, we want to record all the good projects we have done as a Maryland Green School and all the ways the school has given back to the neighborhood.

o Water Quality Testing in the Jones Falls. Believe it or not, we found a large variety of macro-invertebrates!

5 ACCE recycles over 200 lbs of material a week! Go ACCE!!!

C Take the Energy Challenge! We helped over 100 community neighbors pledge to reduce energy usage.

H ACCE’s Green Team learned about and raised trout. The trout were released in Stony Run to help the ecology of the area’s waterways.

o Here, by the Jones Falls, we are learning about fishing.

We keep bees on the roof. Here we are keeping the bees (and us) safe!

2 Our 4000 Sq. Ft. garden has produced hundreds of pounds of produce for the community each year. It’s the freshest produce in Hampden!

0 We give away and sell our produce. We also have a food bank at ACCE when we give away food once a week.

We like experimenting with what we can cook from what we grew. That eggplant parmesan was good!! Thanks, Baltimore Free Farm for inviting us to your kitchen!

Environmental Issues Class, Fall 2015LaNell, Kye Ree, Victor, Aman, Antonio, Devin, Dymonnae, Wilbert, Dezmond,Tyler, and George

We are students who come to ACCE from many different neighb-hoods with hopes and dreams for ourselves and for our futures:

Aman M- Game Designer, FBI Agent, Teacher, Actor Dashawn M – Rapper and DJAntonio T – MTA Bus Driver, truck driverBryant C – Architect or CarpenterTyler M – Business owner, Roofer

• Raise Awareness of the Baltimore’s many “green” assets

• Strengthen Connection to Community Places & People

• Invoke a Sense of Shared Responsibility & Stewardship

We map to

a 501(c)(3)not-for-profit organization

Presenter: Janet Felsten Director, Baltimore Green Map, Inc.Green Map SystemInternational Advisory Group

Contact info:jfelsten@baltogreenmap.org 410-404-7637 cell

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