About Nature in the City
Nature in the City, a project of Earth Island Institute, is San Francisco's first organization wholly dedicated to ecological conservation, restoration and stewardship of the Franciscan bioregion.
Program AreasSupporters
Background
Program Areas
Corresponding to the
strategies for achieving our mission, our three major program
areas are:
·
Public Education
· Habitat Restoration &
Community Stewardship
· Conservation Advocacy
whereby we,
·
Educate
city dwellers, stewards, visitors and civic leaders about San
Francisco's natural heritage
·
Catalyze,
nurture and support the citizen network of
community-based ecological stewardship,
and direct
native habitat stewardship projects in
threatened natural areas throughout the city.
· Organize & promote
grassroots advocacy to all government jurisdictions to achieve strong
legal protection
and comprehensive ecological restoration of our urban ecosystems and
biodiversity.
· Facilitate land management agency ecological best practices and inter-agency coordination for natural resources protection, stewardship, and ecological restoration.
Partners, Supporters & Sponsors
Fiscal Sponsor
Current Supporters
The Seed Fund
Financial Arts Network
Foundation for Ecology and Culture
Friends of Glen Canyon Park
Henry George Historical Society
Growing Nature in the City Gala
Fundraiser Supporters
Bookstore Partners
Aardvark Books
Paxton Gate & Curiosities for Kids
Trek Leaders
Josiah Clark
Ruth Gravanis
Craig Dawson
Amber Hasselbring
Liam O'Brien
Peter Brastow
Dominik Mosur
Chris Giorni
Damien Raffa
Past Supporters <$1000
California
Native Plant Society
Friends
of McLaren Park
Green Zebra
Haight-Ashbury
Neighborhood Council
Sierra
Club, San Francisco Group
Past Supporters >$1000
Golden Gate National Parks Conservancy
Parasol Tahoe Community Foundation
Jiji Foundation
Kimball
Foundation
East Bay Community Foundation
Recreational
Equipment Inc. (REI)
Members &
Major Donors
Background
San Francisco is often described as the epicenter of the global environmental movement. The United Nations held World Environment Day 2005 (WED) in San Francisco, in part to honor the region's unique role and history of contributions to environmentalism and global ecological sustainability. Specifically, San Francisco hosted WED for the City's role in urban environmental sustainability.
But is the City doing all it can for San Francisco's natural environment?
Are
we leading the world in local
urban nature and
biodiversity
conservation?
During WED, an ad-hoc coalition
of local ecological organizations hosted the Nature
in the City Symposium
in order to spotlight the fundamental contribution that urban
nature conservation and ecological
restoration make to
ecological sustainability, local and global.
San
Francisco is located within a global biodiversity
hotspot. Several
resource
agencies in San Francisco are part of the Golden
Gate Biosphere Reserve, a unit of UNESCO's Program on Man and
the Biosphere (MAB). Since we are on
the
verge of a potential global climate catastrophe,
San Francisco, like all cities and communities,
has to coevolve in better harmony with the regional
and global natural environments.
While thinking globally and
regionally, we must
remember that our
biodiversity hotspot is right here in the City!
Social and ecological
transformation begins at home. Can people
live
sustainably and be in harmony with their
local environment
without restoring and stewarding
local
natural processes and habitats? We have our own local
ecological
crisis.
We have to
restore our
natural
communities. Local
nature conservation and ecological restoration is critical to urban and
global
ecological sustainability.
