By place

This page includes interactive search, maps and virtual reality. See also maps page

Scorecard.org allows you to see environmental hazards by maps or Zip code ****

Sourcemap is an open source project about where things come from. You can add maps and info.

Worldmapper *** Very cool; shows how different countries produce and consume etc by changing relative size.

ToxMap shows toxic waste sites in US ***

What's in your Water?

Where does your water come from?

CA Pesticide use map

UCSC Atlas of Global Inequality ****

Mapcruzin by Slug Mike Meuser ***

SkyTruth uses remote sensing and digital mapping to educate the public and policymakers about the environmental consequences of human activities, and to hold corporations and governments to higher standards of accountability around the globe. This link is to Gulf Oil Spill. They also have an interactive tool, Spill Tracker. See also fishing trawler sediment trails and oil sands.

ToxicRisk.com - Mashup Combines recent EPA Toxic Release Inventory data (03/19/2009), school locations and chemical release information with Google Maps to help you locate potentially risky toxic facilities in your community where you live, work and play and where your children go to school.

See map of green jobs

CAKE map of projects adapting to climate change. CAKE is a joint project of Island Press (Slug!) and EcoAdapt. It is aimed at building a shared knowledge base for managing natural systems in the face of rapid climate change. NEW!

New tool maps and grades "food deserts" to lure supermarkets.

North American Environmental Atlas

Dymaxian map by Buckminster Fuller Large

Solar Incentive US map, Oregon's pilots of a solar highway (and other useful graphs and info)

National Geographic has biome map and one of 200 hotspots designated by WWF.org.

New 3D earth images11/10

The most and least remote places in the world. Surprisingly less than 10% of the world's land is more than 48 hours of ground-based travel from the nearest city. Amazon? Two days.

How climate change will affect migration in Mexico, in India, in Viet Nam, and in Egypt. See full UN report.

Mannahatta Project. Eric Sanderson pictures New York -- before the City. 400 years after Hudson found New York harbor, Sanderson shares how he made a 3D map of Mannahatta's fascinating pre-city ecology of hills, rivers, wildlife -- accurate down to the block -- when Times Square was a wetland and you couldn't get delivery. TEDtalk video.

urban tree map of San Francisco, is part of larger open data initiative that helps with mass transit and recycling by providing mobile apps.

First-of-its-Kind Map Depicts Global Forest Heights

NASA Gulf Oil Spill images

Time lapse images of mountaintop coal removal

New 3D maps from new satellites

Santa Cruz Watershed info map

Find good food by place via Eatwell Guide, see also another tool Eat Local shopws where to get local food and how to get there.

A tool that maps and grades "food deserts" to lure supermarkets.

Walkscore.com tells you how walkable a neighborhood is.

Sourcemap is an open source project about where things come from. You can create your own maps, and add information. Other eco-maps.

Rising Ocean Levels interactive maps

Sylvia Earle on Google Earth 5 mapping the oceans. Interview here's a sample

Interactive map of marine dead zones

Representing Earth is an NYU course that investigates the potential of recreating the earth in images, VR etc.

Blaise Agüera y Arcas is the architect of Bing Maps at Microsoft, building augmented reality into searchable maps. He's also the co-creator of Photosynth, software that assembles static photos into a synergy of zoomable, navigatable spaces.

Currently mostly San Franciso Bay Area content

Environmental maps Lots of resources here

eNature allows you to identify, track and report wildlife in your area

Care2 gives various kinds of eco and demographic info based on geography

Wind Map tells where it's feasible to use it as a power source

Greenhouse Gas maps

Rising Ocean Levels interactive maps

UN map of Africa showing effects of Global Warming. Atlas

Get topographical maps

US organic farms

Whale ship collision map Boston shows how these could be avoided

Open Greenmap a collective effort to show eco-info. A related concept is using maps for crises, as was done in Haiti. An extension of that is peace-mapping.

Watch the spread of Wal-marts

Books about maps (not necessarily green) at Amazon including Radical Cartography andYou Are Here: Personal Geographies and Other Maps of the Imagination

Else/where : mapping new cartographies of networks and territories / Janet Abrams + Peter Hall, editors Minneapolis, MN : University of Minnesota Design Institute : Distributed by University of Minnesota Press, c2006 View contents online S&E Stacks GA139 .E48 2006

Google Earth

Google Earth allows you to fly over a globe and look at information people have posted. The software is free, but you need reasonable graphics on your computer to run it.

Google Earth Engine is an online environment monitoring platform that makes available to the entire world a dynamic digital model of our planet that is updated daily. It stores petabytes of satellite data and allows high-performance tools to analyze and interpret this information that can then be visualized on a map, ranging from rainforest changes in the Amazon to water resources in the Congo.

List of many eco sites using GE ***

GE Climate Change maps

Endangered Species requires download

Animal migrations

EPA Criteria Pollutants - (Google Earth )Mapped by facility and tons of criteria pollutants released to the air. Criteria pollutants include carbon monoxide, nitrogen oxides, sulfur dioxide, volatile organic compounts, particulate matter < 10 micrometers, particulate matter < 2.5 micrometers. From Mike Meuser, Slug.

Investigate climate change via Google EarthGoogle Earth guided tour of global warming impacts.

Animal conservation

Google Earth stops mountaintop removal

North American Environmental Atlas uses various tools, including Google Earth.

UCSC Ecology Dept is using Google Earth to map research on Bristlecone Pine.

Google Earth map of endangered species

UN Google Earth maps of global climate change and its effects

Google Earth maps of Appalachian mountaintop removal in coal mining

Jane Goodall's work with chimpanzees

Sierra Club's maps of ANWR

Coral reef watch

California

Coastal Photo Survey

UCSC

We make maps at UCSC at the The Center for Integrated Spatial Research (CISR), formerly the GIS/ISC Laboratory, is the central facility for spatially-focused research and training at the University of California, Santa Cruz. CISR is focused on integrating state-of-of-the-art spatial technology and methods (geographic information systems, global positioning systems, remote sensing, spatial modeling/statistics) with pressing interdisciplinary research and fostering cross-domain cooperation in the application of these tools., for example of The Farm