localecology.org conducts advocacy-oriented research for community groups, nonprofit organizations, and governmental agencies. We provide a repository of cases about ecological open spaces. We create self-guided explorations of local ecology. We like urban places that celebrate ecology. We like policies that support ecological landscapes.

OUR PROJECTS

local ecologist
Our blog covers a wide range of urban ecological issues.

Nature-making
Nature-made sites are landscapes intentionally designed to improve environmental quality of neighborhoods and cities: clean air, moderate air temperature, energy use avoidance, runoff mitigation, and wildlife habitat and biodiversity. Do you manage or know of a nature-made site? Please complete our Nature-made Site Information Form.

Eat Street Trees!
The Eat Street Trees! project encourages cities to plant edible urban forests and city folk to eat the fruits of these forests.

The Ecological Street Tree
This project examines changes to urban forestry policy as a result of the proliferation of evidence showing the ecosystem services provided by street and urban trees. 

Local ecology was founded by Georgia Silvera Seamans. © 2011.