Cape Town Green Map launches its second edition print map today!
We are excited to launch our second print edition of the Cape Town Green Map today, ahead of 5 June, World Environment day. With this virtual launch we reduce our carbon footprint and cut down on emissions from travel to and from a venue, long winded speeches, waste, and a myriad other aspects of an event that contribute to CO2 production.
Instead you can download the map immediately, and use it right away to enjoy nature or support one of the many "green" sites listed in the map on World Environment Day.
This edition of the print map is also available at Cape Town Tourism Visitor Information Centres and green sites listed in the map. See here for details on how to get hold of a copy of the map.
What's special about this edition? It has over 120 listings, better map panels, new information boxes, a catchy cover image, and is divided into easy-to-use sections:
- great green outdoors - City nature reserves and parks
- transport - getting around the city with a smaller environmental footprint
- good food - where to eat organic
- organic/local markets
- tours - of the eco-friendly variety
- sleep well - where to find environmentally responsible accommodation
- visit - places, centres and projects with a 'green' or environmental theme
- shopping - stores that focus on eco/organic products
Information boxes highlight great green reads, events, blue flag beaches, recycling and box delivery schemes.
With 125 000 copies distributed around the city, Capetonians and visitors will be able to access the best green living the Mother City offers!
It is a resource of ways in which to live, work and play in order to reduce our impact on the fragile ecosystems within the city.
The Cape Town Green Map was initiated as a project by the Host City Cape Town's Green Goal 2010 Action Plan, the environmental programme for the 2010 FIFA World CupTM. As such, the Cape Town Green Map is aimed at raising environmental awareness and providing valuable 'green' information as part of the Green Goal programme's Green building and sustainable lifestyles target area. However, the Green Map is designed in such a way that it will have a future long after the World Cup is over.
The Map is also part of a global network of Green Maps around the world and joins over 600 communities in 60 countries which use a series of award-winning icons designed by Green Map System. The online map is also powered by Green Map System, an international NGO, which turns 15 years old this year.
World Environment Day is one of the main days through which the UN stimulates worldwide awareness about the environment and encourages political attention and action. According to the United Nations Environment Programme “through World Environment Day, we are able to give a human face to environmental issues and enable people to realize not only their responsibility, but also their power to become agents for change in support of sustainable and equitable development.” We believe that the Cape Town Green Map helps to achieve this goal.
The printed version of the Cape Town Green Map will be available free of charge at all Cape Town Tourism Visitor Information Centres. Cape Town Tourism is a contributing sponsor of the Cape Town Green Map and is committed to implementing the Host City Cape Town Green Goal 2010 programme.
The map is printed on SAPPI Triple Green paper, an environmentally-friendly paper stock made from chlorine-free sugar cane fibre, to support sustainable afforestation in South Africa and kindly sponsored by SAPPI. The printers use only vegetable based inks and presses rated amongst the most energy efficient in the world.
The team behind the creation of both the on-line and printed map are the City of Cape Town Environmental Resource Management Department, urban sprout and A&C maps. For more about the map, see our about page.
