Map Projects:Activism

From Google Mapki

• Rassismus streichen / strike racism This austrian project is to document racist grafities in vienna. folks post pictures of racist grafities via mms on the campaign-website. they are then beeing put into the antiracist map.

• 9/11 Truth Movement Map The Truth About 9/11 is Spreading like a virus! 9/11 Was an Inside Job.

• Genetically Engineered Crop Fields in France A map showing the locations of GE Maize fields. This map was censored by a French court, and Greenpeace France ordered to remove it, despite an EU directive that compells the French Government to publicize the location of such fields. The map was removed by Greenpeace France and republished by Greenpeace International on its servers in Amsterdam.

• Blot on the Landscape Mapping the visual impact of green energy generation and mobile mast sites, two things that can be considered a blot on the landscape. Highlights the density and ugliness of mobile masts, and the small number of green energy sites.

• Greenpeace Defending our Oceans voyage Map of Greenpeace's year-long Ocean Defenders voyage, including call to satellite surveillance community to hunt the hunters by helping track the Japanese Whaling fleet.

• Hazardous Air Pollutants Map Learn about the unknown hazards around you - the toxins you may be breathing. PlanetHazard uses data from the EPA to map over 86,000 companies throughout the United States that emit hazardous air pollutants

• Discursive Mapping System This web page integrates a GoogleMaps interface with a MiniBB discussion forum in order to forward deliberative public dialog about hazards within Los Angeles County.

• Major oil spills since 1960 A map displaying major oil spill since more than forty years. You can sort them by decades and by spill volume.

• Starbucks Challenge Map A map of Starbucks stores that failed or lived up to Starbucks Fair Trade Coffee promises. For details see the Starbucks Challenge 3.5

• Driving Direction Map and Fuel Economy Tool to better understand how you can reduce your impact on the environment and save money by changing your driving habits.