Browse Content: Tool, conservation and natural resources

A Geographic Information System (GIS) software program for mapping, measuring, and analyzing the storm water, summer energy savings, carbon storage and sequestration, air quality, and wildlife of urban ecosystems.

Google Earth is the web’s most comprehensive set of maps, images and geographic data with an interface that allows users to zoom into detailed satellite images of nearly every corner of the globe and to layer on their own datasets.

A comprehensive planning concept to address built infrastructure, environmental infrastructure, and economic/social infrastructure in the planning process. By focusing on multiple networks, communities may be planned holistically.

Growth Chip Games are a fun, effective activity to engage community members in planning decisions. Players use chips to represent development attributes and place them on maps to create different scenarios for growth and change.

Human Geographic Mapping abandons typical political boundaries and maps areas based on natural elements and human interactions. The process is used to outline boundaries and important features based on social networks and scales.

Most people remember childhood scavenger hunts, but communities have used the game to build community, identify local assets and character, and sometimes take advantage of new GIS and location-based tools.

Do you ever think about building, or fixing up, a playground? The KaBOOM! Project Planner is a step by step tool that has everything you need to learn, plan, organize and build a playground or site enhancement project.

The Center for Sustainable Economy’s Ecological Footprint quiz measures the amount of land required to support one person’s consumption of resources. This educational tool illustrates that everything we do has an impact on land around the world.