Started in 1990, the Brooklyn Botanic Garden began a rather ambitious project to document the flora in all counties within a 50-mile radius of New York City, including all of Long Island, southeastern New York State, and northern New Jersey. Much of the funding for the project comes from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation and the New York Community Trust. As part of the public outreach component of...

"While most of the botanical community concentrates on tracking the threats to biodiversity in the tropics," the Brooklyn Botanic Garden is conducting research on the biodiversity found in the urban landscape. The Web site includes useful resources for users interested in identifying, planting, maintaining, or just learning about the plants found in urban areas. The Web site is easy to use, with...

Documentary about urban foragers in Chicago http://boingboing.net/2009/01/07/short-documentary-ab.html The freegans' creed: waste not, want not http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/jul/19/freegan-environment-food Forage Oakland http://forageoakland.blogspot.com/ Urban Edibles http://urbanedibles.org/ Wild Food Tours http://www.wildmanstevebrill.com/ Wandering around...

_Urban Habitats_, published by the Center for Urban Restoration Ecology (CURE), is "a peer-reviewed, fully indexed scientific journal written and edited for a wide audience of researchers, restoration ecologists, park and preserve managers, government officials, and naturalists." The premier issue of this e-journal (focused on urban flora worldwide) is available online, and researchers are...