About Us

Acknowledgements

The Making Nature’s City Toolkit is funded by

    • Arcadia, a charitable fund of Lisbet Rausing and Peter Baldwin
    • International Union for the Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Urban Alliance
    • U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Water Quality Improvement Fund
    • Google Ecology Program

SFEI Project Team

Lauren Stoneburner

Cate Jaffe

Vanessa Lee

Robin Grossinger

Erica Spotswood, PhD

 

 

Web Designers:

Vanessa Lee

Ruth Askevold

Katie McKnight

Brandon Herman

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Photo Credits

Landing page:

    • Neighborhood in New Orleans, LA (Courtesy of Robin Grossinger, SFEI)
    • Patch size example (Courtesy of Google Earth)
    • Connections example (Courtesy of Google Earth)
    • Matrix quality example (Courtesy of Robin Grossinger, SFEI)
    • Habitat diversity example (Courtesy of Google Earth)
    • Native vegetation example of remnant patch of native Oaks in Flood Park, Menlo Park, CA (Courtesy of Erica Spotswood, SFEI)
    • Special resources example (Courtesy of Google Earth)
    • Management example of re-oaking project in East Palo Alto, CA (Courtesy of Erica Spotswood, SFEI)

Overview page:

    • Red fox in the backyard of a home in the suburbs of London, UK (Courtesy of Giedriius)
    • Night heron in the urban landscape (Courtesy of Jason Thompson, CC BY 2.0)
    • Green hairstreak (Courtesy of Ott Rebane, CC BY 2.0)
    • Anna’s hummingbird (Calypte anna) (Courtesy of Shira Bezalel, SFEI)
    • Coyote in San Francisco, CA (Courtesy of Matt Knoth)
    • Bird preparing to take flight in a city park (Courtesy of Unsplash – photo by Jeremy Bezanger)

Elements pages:

    • Patch size: Bosque de Chapultepec in Mexico City (Courtesy of Ricardo Gomez Garrido, CC BY 2.0)
    • Connections: Ohlone Greenway in Berkeley, CA (Courtesy of Kelguen, CC BY 2.0)
    • Matrix quality: Hauser & Wirth in Los Angeles, CA (Courtesy of Robin Grossinger, SFEI)
    • Habitat diversity: Aerial view of South Lagoon in Lincoln Park, Chicago, IL (Courtesy of Marco Verch, CC BY 2.0)
    • Native vegetation: Remnant patch of native Oaks in Flood Park, Menlo Park, CA (Courtesy of Erica Spotswood, SFEI)
    • Special resources: Millakcheon Creek in Uijeongbu, Gyeonggi, South Korea (Courtesy of Stock for You)
    • Management: Green roof at the California Academy of Sciences (Courtesy of SF Planning Department)

Precedents page:

    • Camley Street Natural Park: Family enjoying a nature trail (Courtesy of Arnhel de Serra)
    • ACROS Fukuoka Prefectural International Hall Green Roof: Green roof terraces as seen from street level (Courtesy of kentamabuchi, CC BY-SA 2.0)
    • Green Hairstreak Corridor: Green hairstreak butterfly resting on a seed head (Courtesy of katunchik,CC BY-SA 2.0)
    • Caribbean Avenue Green Streets: Bioretention basin planted with locally-native pollinator species (Courtesy of the City of Sunnyvale)
    • Nature Ways: Habitat plantings and reading nook along a city corridor (Courtesy of JY Architecture Photography, CC BY 2.0)
    • Addison Green Streets: Aerial image of Addison Street (Courtesy of Google Earth Pro 2022)
    • Bayview: Aerial image of Google’s Bayview campus (Courtesy of Google Earth Pro 2022)
    • Caribbean 100 & 200: Aerial image of Google’s Caribbean 100 & 200 campus (Courtesy of Google Earth Pro 2022)
    • Charleston East: Aerial image of Google’s Charleston East campus (Courtesy of Google Earth Pro 2022)
    • Charleston Retention Basin: Aerial image of Google’s Charleston Retention Basin (Courtesy of Google Earth Pro 2022)
    • East Palo Alto Urban Greening (Canopy): Aerial image of East Palo Alto (Courtesy of Google Earth Pro 2022)