BluePoint led a National Fish and Wildlife Foundation grant-funded Nature-Based Resiliency Strategy for the County of Santa Clara, addressing sea level rise, flooding, water quality, and ecological impacts resulting from climate change using nature-based solutions (NbS). In the first phase of the project, BluePoint worked with the County to establish governance and manage and facilitate a new Countywide Climate Collaborative, develop a framework for NbS resilience, and create an innovative and interactive NbS resilience tool and catalog, as well as establish a new website.

In the second phase, BluePoint scaled the effort to address countywide resilience at the watershed level and developed a GIS mapping tool to pinpoint high-value intervention areas where social vulnerability and climate hazards are greatest. Furthermore, BluePoint partnered with Community-Based Organizations (CBOs) to test the mapping tool with the City of Gilroy community, creating an implementation plan and template for future efforts in the county.

View the Climate Collaborative website and mapping tool via the link below: