Amber Hasselbring, Executive Director of Nature in the City, is an artist, naturalist, educator, and garden designer, who has helped to shepherd San Francisco projects such as the SF Plant Finder, the Green Hairstreak Corridor and the Green Connections Plan, an ambitious 115-mile, 24-route map of potential habitat corridors in San Francisco. Her artwork includes Art on BART, the Angel Island Art & Ecology Festival, the Mission Greenbelt Project, and Tigers on Market Street. 

It was great surprise to learn that the Nature in the City office was located nearby, so I walked up the street to pick up a box of the new Nature in The City maps, illustrated by muralist Jane Kim of Ink Dwell. 

http://natureinthecity.org/map. 

The maps were the perfect lobby offering for the Marcus Shelby Orchestra’s May 23, 2019 performance of “Green and Blues” at SFJAZZ. From the “Acorn and Seed Blues” inspired by the Ohlone people to the fresh “Green and Blues” found at today’s Bartlett Street Farmer’s Market, the music explores the environmental history of San Francisco with a freshly written narrative by author Daniel Handler.