About Us
Acknowledgements
The Making Nature’s City Toolkit is funded by
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- 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:
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- 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:
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- 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:
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- 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:
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- 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)