About Us
The Cork Greenmap project is an evolving community project initiated in 2002.
It has evolved to include several volunteers and collaborators, and hopefully will
continue to do so as the project develops.
Aims and Principles
What we want to achieve:
- To encourage awareness and understanding of, as well as creative engagement with the environment through the use of maps, walks and other activities.
- To develop systems of thinking and working that remedy negative human impacts on the ecosystem.
- To promote and develop systems that empower communities to engage with and take control of planning processes in their areas.
- To propose and help implemement effective, long range solutions to ecological and social damage.
How we go about doing it:
- Do more with less - Through imaginative use of skills and resources we can achieve more on a minimal budget than many larger organisations.
- Every problem contains its own solution - Look close at hand for answers.
- Imagine the impossible - Just because it seems impossible doesn’t mean it is. If it can be imagined it can be done.
- Speak out boldly and truthfully - Real change means confronting uncomfortable truths about the way we currently live. If we don’t say them who will?
- Seek out reliable allies and make connections to get things done - It’s a big job we’re taking on. We need a lot of help to do it.
Vision Statement
The overall vision for the Cork green map is that:
- It will provide a long-term evolving resource for society and community in Cork City and beyond.
- It will nurture awareness of community in space and time, connect communities and people by demonstrated shared needs and aims.
- It will grow to become a vital tool for sustainable living and community planning, protecting and enhancing the capacity of the area to support life.
- It will provide people with the vision and tools to protect and enhance their own bioregion both at a local level, and as part of the greater global system.