Wendy Brawer

Wendy E. Brawer... is a eco-designer with an artist's background. Since 1990,her company, Modern World Design, has created services, systems and products that promote ecological stewardship, including the Green Apple Map of NYC's green sites, which inspired the Green Map System, an award-winning local- global collaboration that she directs www.greenmap.org.
Wendy was born in Detroit and was a sculptor in Seattle and Tokyo before moving to NYC in the late Eighties. She was the 1997 Designer in Residence at the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, Smithsonian Institution, and involved with the solar symposium held there in 1998. She is co-founder of the NY Chapter of the O2 International Network for eco-designers and past Chair of the Environmental Committee of the Industrial Designers Society of America.

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Green Map Case Study: Using the net to reinforce cross-cultural communication for local/global exchange