GreenInfo Network

We're thrilled to be part of the team working on a Park Needs Assessment with the City of Los Angeles Department of Recreation and Parks and an amazing team of partners led by OLIN. The assessment, which kicked off yesterday, will combine robust data analysis and an incredible array of community engagements throughout the Los Angeles. That will result in a community-driven plan for the future and support for park funding in LA for decades to come. Check it out and get involved: https://lnkd.in/gxvYgPtv

We're thrilled to share the Conservation Lands Network 2.0 Progress Report with you! We're making progress! Big shout out to the land trusts and open space districts and water agencies who conserved over 130,000 acres over the past five years. And big shout out to the folks who contributed to this report: GreenInfo Network, Amanda Kochanek (Recinos), Dan Rademacher, Catherine Brozena, Jennifer Downey, Tom Robinson, Laura Rosenthal, Peter Cowan, Stu Weiss, Mark Kalnins. And the biggest shout out to the California State Coastal Conservancy for funding the CLN for years and years. Find some information and inspiration here --> https://lnkd.in/d6NMKGMy

To accelerate the conservation of biodiversity, we need to know what’s most important to protect. And science has a critical role in this. California is one of 36 global biodiversity hotspots, and our native plants are the foundation of our extraordinary biological diversity. It was wonderful to see partners from Plantlife International, who are leading the global effort to identify the most important places to protect for plants, at #COP16 in Cali, Colombia. Back in California, an incredible team of California Native Plant Society volunteers, staff, and partners at GreenInfo Network are building the first comprehensive map of the state’s Important Plant Areas (IPAs). The California IPA project is identifying the places that are most important to protect from the standpoint of our documented botanical resources. Building on foundational efforts led by California Native Plant Society over the past few years, we’ve developed a new methodology that is consistent with the global PlantLife International guidance, tailored to best address factors unique to California, to produce the state’s first comprehensive map of IPAs. In the months ahead, we’re looking forward to releasing our California IPA map and to contributing to the international picture of IPAs, to inform conservation efforts at the local, state, and global scales. Together, we can go further, faster. ???? #biodiversity #conservation #nativeplants #climateaction 30x30CA

We have really enjoyed collaborating with everyone to build TrueViews!

We are excited to see you there! Come to our talks if you're interested in learning about how we integrate open source + data into our park equality work (and how you can too!) Park equity for California - Producing open data from opensource software, Jayita Bhojwani? (https://lnkd.in/eJP6Zmyi) Making California’s 30x30 Data Happen with GeoPandas, Dariya Draganova (https://lnkd.in/eekV2mJD) #fossfgna #gis #opensource #data #30x30 #conservation #geopandas #cpad #database #PostgreSQL #QGIS

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Come work with us! We are hiring a new GIS Manager and Senior Analyst to lead our GIS team! Our GIS team is half a dozen staff members working across cartography, analysis, data processing, and automation to produce static and interactive maps and datasets using Esri and open source tools. The work we do is collaborative, innovative, and always committed to the public good. GreenInfo's clients are passionate about fair elections, equity in park access, public health, and land conservation, to name a few. Read the job description to learn more! https://lnkd.in/et_Hxg5X