The mission of local ecology is to document and to promote the ecological and social regenerative capacity of nature-made sites and nature makers. Nature-made sites are landscapes in urban neighborhoods designed to provide habitat and forage, especially for small, highly mobile species like bees, birds, and butterflies; to store and sequester carbon; to intercept rainfall and slow stormwater runoff; and to reduce ambient temperatures and to absorb air pollutants. The project is managed by Georgia Silvera Seamans, a former community and urban forester, now doctoral candidate. Her research examines the "ecological street tree" phenomenon and case studies are being conducted in three cities in northern California. Email us at info (at) localecology.org