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- Greening Your Homeowners Association (The National Wildlife Federation, 2/4/22)
- Trees Are Time Machines (The Atlantic, 10/9/20)
- As Rising Heat Bakes U.S. Cities, The Poor Often Feel It Most (NPR.org, 9/3/19)
- Declining urban and community tree cover in the United States (U.S. Forest Service, D. Nowak, 2018)
Climate Change and Environmental Equity Maps
Interesting, useful, or fun sites for nature enthusiasts.
- Climate Change Atlas: includes Tree Atlas and Bird Atlas – maps potential changes to native range affected by climate change.
- Tree Equity Score: from American Forest – Scores based on social, economic, canopy, etc. measures mapped by city and neighborhoods.
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Climate & Economic Justice Screening Tool: In January of 2021, President Biden issued Executive Order 14008. The order directed the Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ) to develop a new tool. The Climate and Economic Justice Screening Tool has an interactive map and uses datasets that are indicators of burdens in eight categories: climate change, energy, health, housing, legacy pollution, transportation, water and wastewater, and workforce development. The tool uses this information to identify communities that are experiencing these burdens. These are the communities that are disadvantaged because they are overburdened and underserved. Census tracts that are overburdened and underserved are highlighted as being disadvantaged on the map.
- Climate Change Atlas: includes Tree Atlas and Bird Atlas – maps potential changes to native range affected by climate change.
Cabinet of Curiosities
Interesting, useful, or fun sites for nature enthusiasts.
- Wageningen University & Research – Image Collections: Historic and unique photographs, illustrations, images of nature, agriculture, and art.
- The Morton Arboretum Collections (ACORN): Discover more than 82,000 photographs, videos, audio files, publications, artwork, rare books, maps, and other archival materials from the Suzette Morton Davidson Special Collections of the Sterling Morton Library.