NATIVE PLANT PROJECT Competitors

The University of Texas at Austin's Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Center inspires the conservation of native plants through its gardens and education, research and outreach programs. Established in 1982, the center is nationally-renowned for its programs in plant conservation, ecosystem design, native plants, sustainable landscapes and education. It was named the state botanic garden and arboretum of Texas in 2017. People visiting the center's home in Austin, Texas can explore sustainable landscapes and native plants in cultivated gardens, the 16-acre Molly Steves Zachry Texas Arboretum, the Luci and Ian Family Garden and acres of natural landscapes.

"From my point of view, Native Roots is the most efficient, most creative, and most highly leveraged way of increasing the contribution of the experience, culture, and ideas of indigenous peoples to our knowledge, understanding and appreciation of our world, and to demonstrating how we can create community and excite creative community enterprise around our common human interests." The Native Roots Story is an idea, a creative hypothesis, an opportunity to create connections, an intercultural contribution, and a creative community enterprise contributing to our common social interests. Native Roots is a network of communication centres giving our native cultures the opportunity and ability to explore, learn from, and contribute to their understanding and appreciation of their cultural heritage, contribute what they have learned from their experience of the world, and contribute to creating a marketplace of opportunities for the world to explore, experience, learn, and create connections with creative contributions and contributors to the cultural and creative evolution of our world. The idea is to develop Native Roots communication centres as cooperative, self-financing, community enterprises operating independent of the need for government, philanthropic and corporate funding but creating highly leveraged, high return opportunities for government, philanthropic, and corporate investment. The hypothesis is that we can develop a creative community enterprise by agreeing to operate beyond integrity with one another and by contributing information, ideas, stories, and opportunities to create connections, relationships, cooperative enterprise, and community around common social interests. The opportunity we have is to engage with one another to create the systems, the processes, and the art of communicating across cultural differences to create opportunities to learn from our cultural differences, discover the interests and ideas we have in common, and explore and create opportunities which contribute to our ...

The mission of CNPS is to conserve California native plants and their natural habitats, and increase understanding, appreciation, and horticultural use of native plants. Our vision includes a future where: * Californians actively support the Society's mission, which is accomplished through education, plant science, advocacy, land stewardship and native plant gardening. * Californians value native plants, plant communities and healthy ecosystems as essential to the well being of all living things. * Californians can experience native plants throughout the state, in natural environments and human-made landscapes. * California’s extensive and interconnected natural habitats are preserved. * CNPS is the leader for providing reliable information on California native plants and plant conservation. Comprehensive information about California’s flora and vegetation communities is available throughout the state for conservation and educational purposes. * CNPS’s leadership influences personal ethics and actions, as well as public policy for native plant protection.