News + Updates
St John’s Terminal wins AIA New York Design Award and Citation for Biodiversity
February 2025
Google's St John's Terminal has received an AIA New York Design Award and Citation for Biodiversity.
‘Catalysing Biodiversity on Buildings’ Released
February 2025
Have you ever asked yourself how buildings can contribute to nature and biodiversity?
Biodiversity Benefit Accounting Landscape Assessment Released
January 2025
The first product of a collaboration between water and nature experts – to facilitate impactful and well-documented biodiversity outcomes in water stewardship projects – has been released.
Second Nature scientists contribute to Urban Biodiversity and Equity, a new book from Oxford University Press
January 2025
Urban Biodiversity and Equity: Justice-Centered Conservation in Cities is the first text to advance justice-centered biodiversity conservation in cities, demonstrating the necessity of, and tools for simultaneously addressing social inequities and biodiversity conservation.
Cities Can Be Wildlife Hotspots, Too: Interview with Second Nature Director of Science Erica Spotswood
October 2024
Learn more about the science of urban ecology and its importance to the future of cities, in this in-depth interview with Erica in Bay Nature magazine.
Second Nature Principal Robin Grossinger Presents at COP16 Colombia
September 2024
Second Nature was proud to participate in the international biodiversity summit and present at Nature in the City: toward nature-positive buildings and urbanization, a side event hosted by ICLEI, IUCN and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development.
Google Campus Work Wins Pollinator Partnership Award
June 2024
Our work with Google’s California campuses has been recognized with the Monarch Sustainer of the Year Award from the Pollinator Partnership – awarded to Google after creating 20 acres of new monarch habitat from 2021 to 2023.