FRI-C02: Climate Action Now: Level up Your Climate Advocacy

Friday, November 11, 2022

1:30pm – 3:00pm PT

Location: Moscone Center, Room 301-302

1.50 PDH, LA CES/HSW, AICP, FL, NY/HSW

Lead Speaker(s)

Sarah Fitzgerald, Assoc. ASLA

Landscape Designer
SWA Group
Dallas, Texas

Speaker(s)

Aida M. Curtis, ASLA

Principal
Curtis + Rogers Design Studio
Miami, Florida
Dalton M. LaVoie, ASLA, LEED AP

Senior Associate, Landscape Architect
Stantec, California Sierra Chapter ASLA
Sacramento, California

Learn how landscape professionals can expand their climate advocacy efforts. Highlighting the Advocacy section of the “Member Field Guide” of the ASLA Climate Action Plan, professionals from various generations and geographical regions will outline and model approachable actions that you can take, where it’s your ‘first step’ or ‘the next step.’

Learning Outcomes:

Understand how landscape architects can influence and shape public policy, especially as related to climate.
Leverage the skills of traditional landscape architecture practice to communicate and influence larger ideas about the built environment to affected constituencies.
Understand how to find resources for better design in order to draw down greenhouse gasses.
Connect with models of how Climate Justice can be incorporated into daily practices.