We know community resilience and healthy ecosystems are intertwined and interdependent.

All beings in an ecosystem play a role in the health and wellbeing of people and the planet. We are part of a larger whole that sustains us, and we have an active role to play in caring for and protecting all the life forms that make up our home.

At Linnean, we work with local governments, landscaping professionals, conservation agencies, Tribal stewards, and residents to define values to inform changes to land care and management practices – away from extractive and polluting and towards resilient and relational – that build healthy soils, sequester carbon, improve water quality, reduce flooding and local temperatures, enhance open space, strengthen biodiversity, and support overall wellbeing.

We believe that health and well-being is not just the absence of illness or exposure to toxic environments, but the maintenance of physical, social, spiritual, and ecological well-being. Through these processes, we initiate community conversations around land ownership, land use, and land rematriation. We take action through activities for collective stewardship, whether that’s through facilitating community planting days or student research projects to monitor ecosystem health.