Recovery Icons by Green Map

Place for health testing or monitoring. Can indicate medical offices, nonprofits, groups and websites, either permanent or set up during crisis situations.

Material goods that cover basic needs and the most important supplies in a time of crisis.

Building or temporarily designated space where emergency, surgery or other critically-needed health care can be obtained.

Place to receive health and wellness care outside of mainstream medical practice. Yoga, massage therapy, holistic, herbal and traditional Chinese medicine represent a few examples of wellness resources that spur recovery. Seek certified practitioners.

Officially recognized or well-known site where residents' health has been threatened by disaster, disease, emissions, environmental degradation or unjust practices.

Wash and refresh here. Icon can be used to indicate hand washing stations and may provide drinking water, a comfort station, or information on water purity and conservation.

Sells regionally grown produce. May be organic or traditional foods, sold in a lively permanent or temporary setting. Food does not travel far from where it’s grown, so it's fresh and nutritious. Shopping here directly supports small family farms, local economies and a greener countryside. May sell flowers, craft items, baked goods, honey, wine, wool, or regional cookbooks.

Growing abundant fresh food is the focus. Increasing food security, coop farms also sequester carbon, build skills and relationships to one another and promote healthy eating. Seed saving, pollinator planting, permaculture and other regenerative practices are often included in these larger, cooperative farms.

Grow, pick and gather wild or cultivated edibles, glean fields and fruit trees, go fishing, or harvest wild herbs and foods. Consider ecological concerns, delicate habitats, health, and waste issues when using sites under this icon.

City farms, demonstration farms, gardens with chickens and rabbits, police horse barns, and other places where the public can see domesticated animals carefully tended, ethically cared for and sustainably raised. Purchasing directly from these sites (in person or online) can help sustain the farmers and provide high quality food.

Provides resources to help people in need. May include 'green collar' job training, charity, welfare agencies, advocacy, food assistance or health programs. Some social services are run voluntarily by community groups, others by religious, governmental and non-profit organizations (NGOs).

Food banks and emergency food distribution sites assure food is not wasted and hunger is reduced by providing low or no-cost food for persons facing emergencies, low-income or displaced people. These food security sites may serve meals, provide ingredients for home cooking or deliver to housebound people.

Language support that enhances participation and access to services by all people.

In times of disruption, whether acute or chronic, this place can provide or help to locate shelter.

Includes safe spaces and areas with displaced families and individuals due to disaster, disease, social inequities, strife, climate change, and other dire conditions. Includes environmental, economic and political refugees, as well as safe places for services, isolation or respite.

Space planning and design (permanent or temporary) that encourages people to physically separate themselves.

This area may be too crowded for physically distancing from others. Wear your mask and be cautious and considerate, or move on to a less crowded area.

Generally used where you might buy, borrow, repair or rent bicycles, work bikes and other kinds of human-powered vehicles. Can indicate bicycling organizations of all kinds, bike-friendly services, infrastructure and sites.

Accessible ramps, rails, elevators and other facilities provided for people with disabilities. Encourage exploration of nature trails and park areas with this icon. (Useful for baby carriages and market carts, too.)

Streets generally without cars, cleared for pedestrians, full or part time. Wider than sidewalks, pedestrianized streets contribute to wellbeing and conviviality, especially with shady trees, benches and other street furniture. Such #OpenStreets extend zones for safe physical distance walking.

May include free speech zone or area where speaking out is openly encouraged. May be permanent or temporary, or may indicate an organizing convergence spot; a mural or wall for community self-expression; an online blog, radio station, or communications organizations. Recovery resources here support community and official communications, online and off, in various languages, etc.

Often planted on public or formerly abandoned land, community gardens are run by volunteers who cultivate flowers, herbs and vegetables, closer relationships to nature and one another. Sometimes fenced and locked or threatened by development, but generally open to all participants, raising the quality of life in the community, and improving air and soil quality at the same time. Offers hands-on learning and a habitat for birds and insects, too.

A good place to relax and refresh yourself in a community gathering place, often car-free open space that may have benches, a water feature, events, etc. It can be a public space located in a sunny plaza, garden or park, or in special cases, may be indoors in a mall. These places are often have an inclusive character and are accessible to all.

Public place to view animals in the wild (even the urban wild). Officially recognized or locally-known sites may have a nature center or interpretation with guidelines for viewing without harm, and details on the species you might see. Avoid exposing delicate nesting areas or endangered habitats.