Climate

Climate

• Massachusetts Healthy Soils Action Plan
  This plan, prepared over an 18-month period for the Executive Office of Energy and Environmental Affairs, aims to to protect, restore, and better steward soils across the Commonwealth.
• Massachusetts BioMap
  BioMap uses innovative mapping capabilities and the latest scientific data to deliver an interactive map that identifies those areas that are most critical for biodiversity conservation at multiple spatial scales.
• The Forest Ecosystem
  This five-minute video, created by Appreciate Diversity, showcases many of the plants, animals, and insects that thrive within a forest and how they all interact.

Innovative Climate Resilience

• UMass Amherst River Smart Communities shares how beavers offer lessons about managing water in a changing climate
• Green Street design takes a complete view of the street, seeing stormwater as a resource, universal mobility as a priority, and local plants as co-engineers of a complex built environment (Vermont Urban & Community Forestry)
• The City of Cambridge's urban forest guide, an asset considered to be a living system and a part of their urban infrastructure.
• Examples of urbanism and landscapes that are sustainable, organic, and contribute to natural ecologies.
• Learn about Miyawaki forests, which offer an opportunity to reestablish healthy forests in urban environments.