Research, frameworks & knowledge tools

Thinking out loud is part of how we work. Publishing what we learn, and testing ideas in the open with partners, is how good frameworks get better. Our work has appeared in venues from Nature Sustainability and Conservation Biology to reports for the World Resources Institute, and we treat every tool we make as something that should be genuinely useful to the people on the ground.

Those tools include "Better Forests, Better Cities", the evidence base for why cities should invest in forests; the Forest Footprint for Cities methodology, which lets a city measure and reduce the tropical deforestation embodied in what it consumes; the interactive Sustainable Wood for Cities guide; and our writing on systemic collaboration and communities of practice. The thread through all of it is the same: take complex sustainability science and make it clear, usable, and ready to apply to a real decision.