Allendale is located in the center of Ottawa County in Western Michigan approximately ten miles west of the Grand Rapids metropolitan area and ten miles east of beautiful Lake Michigan. Home of Grand Valley State University with over 16,000 students. Visit the Veteran's Garden of Honor memorial.
Eco may refer to: eco-, a prefix mostly relating to ecological or environmental terms. .eco, (dot-eco), a proposed top-level domain for the Internet. Eco (currency), a proposed currency. Eco (video game), a computer simulation game.
An eco-map (or ecomap) is a graphical representation that shows all of the systems at play in an individual's life. Eco-maps are used in individual and family counseling within the social work and nursing profession. They are often a way of portraying Systems Theory in a simplistic way that both the social worker and the client can look at during the session. These ecological maps, or ecomaps, were developed by Hartman in 1975 as a means of depicting the ecological system that encompasses a family or individual (Hartman, 1995). An ecogram is a combination of a genogram and an ecomap. The terms ecogram and ecomap are often used interchangeably, however.