Columbus, Ohio unveils bicycle master plan, Neogeography and cartography, Ontario teaches youth about sutainable energy & Governor's Island Sci. expo

Check out Columbus, Ohio's bicycle master plan as featured in The Columbus Dispatch.

Off The Map opens the discussion about the lack of cartographic principles in web-mapping. This is something that web technology has wrestled with since its advent. With fewer and fewer cartography classes and more and more web programmers and neogeographers producing maps there's a general lack of cartographic integrity in most web-based maps.

Image from Treehugger.com

Ontario, Canada is taking the lead in teaching its youth about sustainable energy production. This is the Treehugger article that describes the program that is helping teach the youth of Canada to take the lead in the global marketplace.

And lastly The 3rd annual Governors Island Science, Art Exhibition and Lecture Series: at presented by CUNY Institute for Sustainable Cities at Governor's Island, NY. Here is a link from Green Brooklyn and below is a list of events:

* June 7th: The CUNY Sustainability Project and PlaNYC
Laura Saegert Wenkel, The CUNY Sustainability Project

* June 14th: Beyond Bike Lanes: Retrofitting the 21st Century Metropolis for Bicycles and Pedestrians
Tom Angotti, Hunter College

* June 21st: New Materials for Renewable Energy Technologies
Steve Greenbaum, Hunter College

* June 28th: Industrial Sludge as a Source of Composite Absorbents for Environmental Remediation
Theresa Bandosz, City College

* July 5th: Plants in the Green City
Steve Clemants, Brooklyn Botanic Garden

* July 12th: Greening the Big Apple: a Natural History of the New York Megalopolis
Betsy McCully, Kingsboro Community College

* July 19th: Water: The Integral Design Element for Green Infrastructure in the City of New York.
Paul Mankiewicz, The GAIA Institute

* July 26th: Fuel from Algae
Juergen Polle, Brooklyn College

* August 2nd: Curbing Catastrophic Waste in your Home, Condo, Coop, or Multifamily Building
Andy Padian, Steven Winter Associates

* August 9th: PlaNYC: Toward a Greener, Greater New York
Ariella Rosenberg-Maron, Mayor’s Office of Long-Term Planning and Sustainability

* August 16th: Water Efficiency in New York: Why It’s Important and How to Achieve It
Warren Liebold, New York City Department of Environmental Protection

* August 23rd: The Queensbridge Wind Power project
Andrea Polli, Hunter College

* August 30th: Sustainable Cities Town Hall: An open forum for New Yorkers
Moderated by Bill Solecki, Director CUNY Institute for Sustainable Cities

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