Design with Carbon: Reconsidering Landscapes, from Planning to Soils - 1.25 PDH (LA CES/HSW)

Description

Transform your practice by taking responsibility for the carbon footprint of your work. This session reviews innovative tools and frameworks, from planning scale to site and garden design, integrating metrics and soil science. Each panelist will share their findings from translating primary research into accessible tools and best practices.

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Learning Objectives:

• Gain a general understanding of the key concepts of emissions, embodied carbon, operational carbon, life-cycle-analysis, and natural carbon sequestration.
• Learn about the state of research on carbon sequestration and carbon storage in the environment— including new regulatory and certification trends impacting considerations of carbon in design.
• Explore different tools and best practices for how to measure carbon impacts of planning, landscape, and horticultural designs.
• Review a wide array of avenues and strategies for climate advocacy within landscape architecture.

Speaker(s):

• Christopher Ng-Hardy, ASLA, LEED AP, Senior Associate, Sasaki
• Pamela Conrad, ASLA, LEED AP, Principal, Founder, CMG Landscape Architecture, Climate Positive Design
• Deanna Lynn, Assoc. ASLA, Landscape Designer, Wild Land Workshop