Greenlink Equity Map
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The Greenlink Equity Map (GEM) is an interactive and easy-to-use web-based app that illustrates the intersections of health, housing, and environmental inequities.
GEM highlights social and environmental disparities across neighborhoods and cities to promote sustainable consumption and support equitable decision-making processes and policies.
Cities, states, and organizations across the country are using GEM to reduce their carbon emissions, upgrade the grid through energy efficiency and clean power sources, channel funding towards disinvested communities, and advance community-driven processes.
GEM propels the clean energy transition by providing rigorous data insights to changemakers at every level.
Co-created alongside over 150 community leaders across the country, GEM was designed and developed to inform their most pressing social and environmental challenges.
With intersectional data for every census tract in the United States, GEM is a powerful and effective tool that can help inform and create robust policies, programs, and laws that address climate change and rectify a history of injustice.
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What Does GEM Measure?
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GEM integrates over 60 indicators based on the most current data to provide insights into social and environmental disparities across neighborhoods.
Check out the full list of indicators, brief descriptions, and how we collect these data by downloading our easy-to-use Equity Indicators Guide.
You can also find more information about the platform on our FAQ using the link below:
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Use GEM to Inform Your Work
Our data help create robust policies, programs, and laws that address climate change and rectify a history of injustice.
GEM’s interactive functions provide deep insights into the distribution of environmental and socioeconomic burdens. These relationships can be explored in depth to make connections and improve outcomes.
Policymakers use the platform to make informed decisions about which programs and regulations deliver the most equitable benefits.
Community leaders and organizations use the data to reveal disparities in neighborhoods and support more directed work and funding allocations.
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What People are Saying About GEM
"This is phenomenal! One of the most beautiful things I've seen in my time in this job."
Brandy Brown, Former Climate and Energy Advisor, Michigan Department of Environment
"The addition of GEM to Greenlink Analytics’ services to gather intelligence from your maps is truly fantastic service and one that will greatly help cities on their journey towards more
equitable, inclusive, and sustainable communities."
Chris Castro, Former Director, Office of Sustainability & Resilience, City of Orlando
Karen Apple, Electric Vehicle Program Manager, Office of Sustainability, City of Phoenix, AZ
“When we saw the GEM app, I said this is it. This is the information we needed! It’s so helpful to have something we can show as visual and spatial proof.
Group facilitation practices in the Community of Practice are so helpful; I have learned so much from experts in the field across the country."
Cheyenne Flores, Former Community Climate Resilience and Mitigation Specialist