Larry Orman

Emeritus Executive Director
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As of January 15, 2020, Larry is now on emeritus status and not part of the regular staff

Larry created GreenInfo Network in 1996 because he was passionate about the importance of compelling visual images for advocacy, policy and public education. He also had a life-long love of maps - when he discovered desktop GIS in the late 1980s it was a revelation, compared to the laborious hand-drawn products he'd been involved in before that.  Here is a collection of three blog posts on GreenInfo's history written by Larry on our 20th anniversary in 2016.  In December of 2015, Larry handed over his role to Executive Director Dan Rademacher, and continued part time through January 2020 as Senior Fellow.   

Here's an interview with Larry about how GreenInfo came into being, as well as his background generally;  and here's a profile written about him in the Summer 2018 edition of Esri's ArcNews.  One of Larry's major GreenInfo projects was to support the development of the USGS Protected Areas Database of the U.S. (PAD-US) - learn more at www.ProtectedLands.net, and here.  This work was greatly informed by the pioneering GreenInfo work led initially by Larry on the California Protected Areas Database (CPAD).  From 2015 to 2019,  Larry, along with Allen Carroll of Esri, presented map communication and design workshops at the annual Esri User Conference. - Here's a link to a 70 min. recording of one of those, "Designing Great Maps for Print and Image" (850mb .mp4 file)»

Before GreenInfo, Larry spent 19 years as Executive Director of Greenbelt Alliance, the Bay Area urban planning and conservation non-profit.

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