Help using the map
You can interact with the map on either a laptop or a mobile phone from either https://MyMap.eco or www.MyceliumMap.net. Using a mouse, keyboard or a touchscreen you can:
Here’s a short video to see these options working in practice.
FAQs
Q - my proximity results don't reflect where I'm based.
A - these are based on the location which the map has picked up when you selected 'Allow to use your current location' when you joined the map. Your location is represented by the blue dot. If this is not in the right place (or you want to check from a different location), you can move this. Click on it once - it turns white. Move it to your preferred located. Click on it again - it turns blue. Your proximity range will not use this new location.
Q - my search panel has disappeared, how do I get it back?
A - click on the Q button at the top left.
Help for local organisers
Each organisation represented on the Mycelium Map is the responsibility of one or more administrators in that organisation.
Here’s a short video to see these options working in practice.
What you are seeing here is not the finished, live map. It's a preliminary demo version that has been put together by the map team themselves to show how the map will work. We have researched likely organisations, but in the real map these organisations themselves will include a lot more of their own information, pictures and videos. And we have put on just a very few events, since they will quickly go out of date. Again we hope they give you an idea of the functionality. When we are live we are expecting any event search to come back with many hundreds of results for your local area.
Please also note you may have to move the blue dot representing your own area, if it is not in the place you want to search from. Click on it - it goes white. Resposition it, click again and it goes blue in the new position.
We hope you enjoy exploring this demo version. When it goes live, MyMap.eco will still be the url and you won't need a password.
The Mycelium Map connects people in their local communities to take action on climate change. It provides a comprehensive listing of local climate action groups in the Chiltern area, from small neighbourhood initiatives to large-scale organisations. With the Mycelium Map, you can find the groups closest to you, learn more about their activities and join their efforts to fight climate change.
Green community organisations, sustainability-focused SMEs, faith groups, schools, local councils and the public: in other words, everyone who lives in the area. As the climate-nature crisis presses ever closer, and climate anxiety spreads, communities in Bucks need support to become more resilient both in practical and psychological ways. The Mycelium Map helps communities grow stronger and greener fast, by joining the green dots.
And all this high-quality promotion is available to community groups via the Map for free.
The Map is also for green companies. Businesses would also strongly benefit being on the Mycelium Map because it provides them (as explained above) not only with convenient, low-cost promotion but ‘warm leads’, since their goods and services are being seen by individuals and members of community groups actively interested in greener ways of living.
Yes you are most welcome, so long as your organisation meets our criteria:
Each group on Map is responsible for its own entries: the description, any pictures and videos and, above all, the range of events that it is running.
To become an administrator for your group, please fill in this form and drop us a line at hello@mymap.eco.
Yes, so long as they are working in the field of sustainability and are recognised as such.
The software for this innovative tool has now been developed: we are now looking to funding the pilot phase of its roll-out. We plan to make the map publicly available in Spring 2024.
The Map initially covers two counties: Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire. Over time we plan to progress to include more and more counties in the UK, by making the platform available to organisations who wish to take on the role of county administrators.
The Map was initiated by The Hedgerley Wood Trust, a charity whose charitable object is public education in the area of sustainable development, with a particular emphasis on climate change. HWT was founded and registered with the Charity Commission 10 years ago (August 2013).
As well as the Map, HWT runs a range of projects to this end, e.g:
- running the OneClimate Centre, a fast-growing and very lively community hub for people from local climate organisations across the county
- making high-quality climate-related documentaries.
This is a uniquely experienced team, who have pioneered and run world-first digital media innovations for social benefit over the past 4 decades, including:
Anuradha Vittachi
Peter Armstrong
Tim Hartley
Cami and Jamie Perrelet