Event:
Winter Garden Lecture Series: Landscapes Give Back! with Ray Mims |
Location:
Estate House |
Date:
3/10/2010 |
Start Time:7:00 PM
End Time: 9:00 PM |
Information:
The Sustainable Sites Initiative released The Case for Sustainable Landscapes and Guidelines and Performance Benchmarks 2009 and opened a call for pilot projects. Available at www.sustainablesites.org this represents the first rating system for the sustainable design, construction and maintenance of landscapes and is the culmination of four years of work by dozens of the country’s leading sustainability experts, scientists, academics, and design professionals. The Initiative believes that we can move well beyond a do-no-harm approach. Unlike buildings, landscapes can sequester carbon, clean the air and water, increase energy efficiency, restore habitats and ultimately give back though significant economic, social and environmental benefits. In other words, Landscapes can give back, and as these guidelines become widely used, they will be as transformative to the landscape industry and will be the guide that allows built landscapes to be regenerative like natural landscapes.
$25 |
For more information regarding this event contact
Welkinweir@gmail.com; 610-469-7543 |
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