Designing Biodiverse Urban Landscapes on Google’s Campus

The landscape of the Google campus offers more to Silicon Valley than aesthetics. Google’s Ecology program, launched in 2014, aims to expand wildlife habitat, withstand the effects of climate change, and restore ecological functions of the landscape lost to development. The program has supported efforts to “re-oak” Silicon Valley with native valley oaks and expand the footprint of vanishing willow groves by creating new habitats across the campus.
Learn about Google Ecology’s science-based, collaborative approach to restoration, as well as public resources available for similar projects in the region.
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This webinar was hosted and recorded by Canopy on April 29, 2021.
About the More Trees Please webinar series: While our urban forests are threatened by both climate change and rapid urbanization, they’re also part of the solution. Trees - the backbone of nature in our urban areas - sequester carbon and provide many other environmental and public health benefits. We need to protect and plant more trees in our cities, but which trees, and where, and how? This webinar series, launched in 2020, offers guidance from Bay Area experts on ways to ensure resilient urban forests, providing useful tools to decision-makers, from elected officials to city planners, arborists, tree growers, and landscape architects. Learn more: canopy.org/mor...