Wendy Brawer

Wendy E. Brawer is a New York-based eco-designer with an artist's background. She is best known as creator of NYC's Green Apple Map and as the founding director of the award-winning Green Map System, a local-global collaborative community media organization which currently has 375 locally-led projects in 49 countries. Through her eco-design company, Modern World Design, Wendy's diverse consulting and production projects have promoted renewable energy (Liberty Science Center's SolSpherica, 2000) and highlighted waste reduction (Times Square's "self-emptying" recycling bins, 1993). Wendy has also taught (New York University, Parsons School of Design, Cooper Union), spoken (over 25 conferences and universities) and written on eco-design (Print, Whole Earth, In Business, etc) internationally since 1990. Wendy was appointed Designer in Residence at Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in 1997. She was awarded a 2003 Sea Change residency by Gaea Foundation, invited into Santa Clara U's Global Social Benefits Incubator in 2004 and named Terre de Femme/Woman of Earth by Yves Rocher in 2005. Wendy chaired the national eco-committee for the Industrial Designers Society of America and co-founded O2 NYC in the mid-nineties.

Related websites:

GreenMap.org - the global site, with links to all Green Map projects around the world

GreenAppleMap.org - all about the local NYC Green Map project, including 2006's energy-themed edition

GreenAtlas.org - anthology of Green Mapmaking stories

GreenMap.org/web - Wendy's site