Afforest This!

Martha Schwartz FASLA will explain how the profession of Landscape Architecture is finding its way in how to address climate change. As a profession, Landscape Architects have been slow to take up this challenge. As a culture, we tend to focus on technological solutions to solve our problems rather than thinking about ecological strategies that might help.

The presentation will be about how ecology, when reinserted into our urban landscapes at a large enough scale, can help our cities better adapt to and mitigate global warming. Much of the information Prof. Schwartz will be referencing comes directly from “DRAWDOWN”, a book edited by Paul Hawken, that pulls together research done by a group of 70 scientists and scholars since 2013. It defines 80 solutions to mitigate global warming over the next 30 years, with resulting metrics. She will also describe a studio run at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design in 2017 entitled “SEQUESTROPOLIS: The City as a Machine to Combat Global Warming”, which illustrates, through drawings and metrics, how effective the insertion of forests (afforestation) in the urban environment can future-proof our cities.

This presentation is co-sponsored by BSA-COTE.

For those who qualify, 1.5 LU/HSWs are available.

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Topic: Sustainability Education Committee

Time: Feb 20, 2018 12:00 PM Eastern Time (US and Canada)

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