Equity in Providence Sustainability Plan
Providence, RI
In 2017, Linnean collaborated with a team of organizations—including One Square World, Oredola Consulting, Groundworks Rhode Island, and emersion DESIGN—to help the City of Providence become a national model of equity, sustainability, and resilience. The project’s approach built on the City of Providence’s initial goal of creating a visionary, measurable, achievable, and community-oriented sustainability plan.
The team designed a set of activities to support the City and communities in building their own capacity to hold constructive and inclusive conversations and to take collaborative action around equitable and sustainable development.
Linnean supported this process by generating maps and data to help answer community-driven questions around equity and sustainability. As a whole, the project worked to reconcile diverse community perspectives around a common goal—to create a thriving, just, and inclusive city for the people of Providence today and in the future.