One Million Counterextinctions asks: what infrastructure do we owe the species that live alongside us? Undertaken in partnership with Alachua County Commissioner Anna Prizzia and the Office of Resiliency, the project is a city-level prototype for what it means to take public infrastructure seriously for nonhumans.

The project equips residents of Alachua County to confront the climate futures that nonhuman species face in 2045 and to design responses — habitats, tools, systems, possibilities nobody has imagined yet. Every design is community-authored, credited to its maker, and archived on this website, a permanent, open-source public database of multispecies infrastructure, with over 250 designs and growing, free for anyone to build. The project’s first installations will realize several community-generated designs at functional scale across public sites in Gainesville.

By 2045, rising heat, saltwater intrusion, habitat loss, and seasonal disruption will push dozens of local species past ecological thresholds they can’t come back from: carpenter bees too hot to fly, alligators unable to find fresh water, gopher tortoises with nowhere to burrow, and sandhill cranes stranded when neighborhoods flood.

No infrastructure exists yet for these conditions, and the species our lives depend on — pollinators, soil builders, water filterers, seed dispersers — have no seat at the table where it gets designed. One Million Counterextinctions changes that by equipping the public, not experts, to become the designers of collective, livable futures.