Earth & Sky

In this activity, students investigate green infrastructure and native plant communities at the neighborhood, community, and regional scale and explore the dual needs to accommodate population growth and protect green space and native plant communities.

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• Crowded Planet Ecology
• Florida Scrub
• Human Footprint
• Human Footprint 2
• Hungry Bears
• Land-Use Legacies
• Neotropical Songbirds
• North American Birds
• Rainfall Runoff
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• Increased urban density better than sprawl?
• L.A.'s One Million Tree Initiative
• Cities ally with nature to solve problems
• Grasslands soak up carbon to slow climate change
• Atmospheric gas study shows carbon rise in 2007
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• Safe Harbor Agreement protects wildlife, landowners
• Incentives encourage forest stewardship
• Climate change speeding flux of forest ecosystems
• Carbon offsets could be boon to private forests
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