The Icons

Green Map® Icons are at the heart of the Green Map movement.

Used by the entire Green Map network, this globally designed universal set of symbols:

• makes each Green Map easy to explore, regardless of the language and cultural orientation of the user.
• identifies, promotes and links a diverse array of sustainability sites along with special places that highlight cultural character.
• makes patterns of green development and resource inequalities between different areas easier to recognize.
• helps successful initiatives spread to new communities.
• helps bring urgent global environmental problems down to the local level, where they can be more easily grasped and changed.

Lending dynamism to every Green Map, the award-winning icons are also powerful tools for assessing the resources that are currently available, and to help plan for healthier communities.

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The Green Map iconography is among its most distinctive and vital resources. It's one of the world’s first universal iconographies for maps..

The Icons were updated through an inclusive collaborative process that culminated in 2008 (from www.greenmap.org).

The Jerusalem Green Map features 42 icons.