In August, this group discussed the general topic of native plants and pollinator support. We considered options for measuring the effectiveness of the current landscape as pollinator support, and we considered methods for encouraging more native plantings throughout the community.  One big hurdle is that there is no actual funding available.  One of the examples of past success with a similar situation is Champaign County Bikes, where a group of highly motivated community members worked together to change the bicycling culture.  We determined that a good first step would be for iSEE to invite interested individuals together to discuss options for moving forward.  (There are several groups that should be invited, so it will not be difficult to find the interested folks.)

Scott Tess, from the City of Urbana, provided the following related links:

http://pollinator.org/PDFs/Guides/PrairieParklandrx12FINAL.pdf

http://resilient-cities.iclei.org/fileadmin/sites/resilient-cities/files/Resilient_Cities_2013/Using-Ecological-Theory-Guide-Urban-Planting-Design_low.pdf

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3353335/