Blue Index stream clean-up with community partners in Austin, Texas
Our vision
We envision waterscape design that is centered on equitable human health and community wellbeing. We strive to promote widespread implementation of this model through participatory processes that rely on local communities to play an essential role in monitoring and protecting the waters most important to them and decision-makers to incorporate participant feedback into water management.
We recognize our interconnected relationship to each other, to our shared waters and lands, and to all living things. This recognition is crucial to understanding and implementing robust design centered on equitable human health and to ensuring that what’s healthy for humans is also healthy for the ecosystems that we inhabit.
We are dedicated to expanding public participation in water management, understanding how water health impacts emotional health, and promoting design centered on equitable human health and community wellbeing.
“With widespread usage, Blue Index could become a national index, like walkability, that inspires local governments to take action to secure a high score, and informs individual choices about where to live and recreate, and what to do today.”
— Dr. Wallace J. Nichols, author of Blue Mind