Last year, Wynne Coplea and Sheila Stocks-Smith of the Urban Action Network in Springfield spoke to our Club about the online Sustain Springfield Green Map that they created to guide visitors to environmentally friendly services, parks, community gardens, and other sites and amenities in Springfield. After their presentation, we helped promote the online website and map. They have completely redesigned the map to make it easier for visitors to find resources such as recycling locations, community gardens, car charging stations, and they have recently added little libraries and micro-pantries. Our Club is proud to be listed as a promotional partner for this project, which helps support Rotary's new Environmental Area of Focus. For more information on this wonderful project and a link to the website and Green Map, click on "Read More" below to see their Press Release. Redesigned Sustain Springfield Green Map
New Release from The Urban Action Network, November 24, 2020
The Urban Action Network has partnered with Lincoln Land Community College’s GIS Program since 2017 to provide an online map of all things “green” in Springfield. The Sustain Springfield Green Map is a user-friendly, GIS-based, online resource that guides residents, visitors, organizations and businesses to sustainable or environmentally-friendly services, sites, and amenities. Map users will easily find recycling locations, community gardens, car charging stations and much more.
This completely redesigned Map streamlines category headings, tells its story better with tabs and graphics and includes a new Special Projects section in the Gallery. The special mini-maps currently include Springfield’s tiny libraries and micro-pantries and the section provides opportunity for more LLCC GIS students, the public and special audiences to contribute to its development. A Steering Committee (see Supporters tab in the online map) formulates new ways to expand Map content and engage the public.
The Sustain Springfield Green Map is a project of the Urban Action Network which provides executive oversight and operational support. The original map was created as a classroom project by Jordyn Lahey, an LLCC GIS student. The SSGM is hosted by LLCC under the guidance of Geography Professor, Dean Butzow and is maintained as an in-kind service by LLCC GIS Instructor, Rey de Castro and Think GeoSpatial Educator, Jenni Dahl, who are also members of the Steering Committee.
“Springfield is remarkably green for a city of its size and we must continue to cultivate and support sustainability in Springfield. The Sustain Springfield Green Map is a dynamic tool that showcases Springfield’s environmental services, sites and amenities placing the information at our fingertips,” said UAct President Sheila Stocks-Smith. “Please share the Map widely with your family, friends and social networks and perhaps the Sustain Springfield Green Map can help inspire us all to make conscious choices and act collectively to make every day Earth Day.”
See the newly redesigned Green Map online at: https://arcg.is/u14Hq