Urban Biofilter

Cause Area

  • Community
  • Education & Literacy
  • Environment
  • Justice & Legal
  • Politics

Location

942 Clay StreetOakland, CA 94607 United States
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Mission Statement

Urban Biolter designs, implements, and advocates for the integration of biological systems into our existing urban infrastructure. Urban Biolter is a research and design organization based in Oakland, CA, and is a project of Earth Island Institute, a 501(c)3 nonprot.


Description

As a collaborative team of ecological engineers, designers, and community organizers, Urban Biofilter creates environmental systems appropriate to each site and community. We foster community participation by translating the technical language and bureaucratic processes used by government. Making scientic and engineering knowledge accessible, our projects empower underrepresented community members to assess the ecological needs of their neighborhoods and to collaborate in community-based design process.


We focus on transforming undervalued urban resources such as brownelds and wastewater, into community assets. We identify the microorganisms, minerals, and plants that can provide rapid solutions for collecting, sequestering, and transforming pollutants. Our research is interdisciplinary; in addition to developing innovative bioremediation processes, we explore the policy and economic systems that will enable implementation. Through quantifying ecosystem services such as air, soil, and water ltration, heat island mitigation and climate change preparedness, we build the case for green infrastructure.

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