From February to October, the featured Free PDH of the Month will be the webinars offered as part of the Biodiversity Climate Action Webinar Series.

This session focuses on how to approach decarbonization as designers. Landscape architects are skilled at balancing a complex array of different considerations on every project, regardless of its type or scale. To achieve carbon reduction goals, our design approach must incorporate best practices and strategies seamlessly into our practice.

From February to October, the featured Free PDH of the Month will be the webinars offered as part of the Biodiversity Climate Action Webinar Series.

This session focuses on how to approach decarbonization as designers. Landscape architects are skilled at balancing a complex array of different considerations on every project, regardless of its type or scale. To achieve carbon reduction goals, our design approach must incorporate best practices and strategies seamlessly into our practice.

This session is a global introduction to carbon in the built environment tailored to landscape architects and landscape product vendors and contractors.

Like many small cities, Kingston and Hudson in the Hudson River Valley of New York have municipalities with limited budgets and resources. But they were able to adapt to a rising river through smart waterfront planning and resilient infrastructure.

This presentation demonstrates how biophilic design can be used to regenerate engagement with nature in the daily life spaces of urban children and their families – in childcare centers, schools, neighborhoods, parks, mixed-use developments, and non-formal education institutions such as museums.

Over the last decade, the interest in outdoor kitchens has continued to rise. This is reflected by the AIA Home Design Survey continuously naming outdoor kitchens as a key home trend. Outdoor kitchens add value to a home, extend living and entertaining spaces and brings the comfort of the indoors out. This course identifies current market trends for outdoor kitchens, the scope of products available, decisions to consider before starting a project and design guidelines you need to know to create outdoor kitchens your clients will want to use all year round.

When we design with nature, we help communities become more resilient to climate change. Living Breakwaters and the Tottenville Shoreline Protection Project in Staten Island, New York City, demonstrate how coastal communities can adapt to rising seas and increasingly intense storms. These innovative projects, led by landscape architects, work in tandem to reduce wave action and beach erosion, create wildlife habitat, and enhance public recreation.

Bill Truby has years of experience conducting leadership training for ASLA as well as landscape architecture firms. During this webinar, he will share his revolutionary business success model that has 40 years of proven success in eliminating people problems (both internal and external), maximizing productivity, and abundantly increasing profit. Participants will also learn how to become a confident leader and project manager and how companies have had exponential growth, how profits increase, and how this approach saves time while giving you a greater sense of satisfaction.

Social justice, equity, and reform are not new topics for landscape architecture—rather, they are at its origin. Frederick Law Olmsted’s prominent role in shaping public opinion on social reform in the period leading up to and during the Civil War still impacts practice today. Join us for a conversation that recenters the way we tell the story of Olmsted’s work and origins of landscape architecture.

Community engagement is an essential component of landscape architecture practice and is often required for projects to move forward. Collaborating with the public is key to better planning, better design, better decisions, and better outcomes. But the COVID-19 pandemic brings new challenges to this critical aspect of our work – gatherings are limited, online tools are still being developed, and internet access can become essential to participation. Engaging and empowering communities requires new strategies and approaches. Effective public engagement that emphasizes human connections can still occur, even if it looks and feels different from pre-COVID-19 meetings.