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Webinar Description:
This seminar explores the crucial role of landscape design in addressing the twin challenges of mitigating climate change and designing climate resilient landscapes to adapt to its impacts.
In this presentation we will examine how sustainable landscape practices can reduce carbon emissions, enhance biodiversity, and improve resilience to extreme weather events. Topics will include carbon sequestration through plantings, water management and flood control, creating climate resilient landscapes, biodiversity, and habitat restoration.
This session is designed for landscape architects, urban planners, environmentalists, policy makers, and anyone interested in sustainable design practices.
Learning Objectives:
1. Attendees will be able to explain the threats to the landscape caused by climate change.
2. Students will learn five ways that landscape design should adapt to help lessen the impact of climate change.
3. Be able to explain the role of landscapes in the mitigation of climate change.
Leimone Waite
Leimone Waite is a Horticulture instructor at Shasta College teaching courses in landscape design, landscape construction, plant identification, landscape maintenance, irrigation, and soils since 1998. She is also the Master Gardener coordinator and trainer for Shasta County. Leimone has a professional permaculture design certificate from the Permaculture Institute of North America and a master’s degree from Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo in Agriculture with an emphasis in Horticulture. She is also a certified QWEL trainer and is a licensed Pest Control Advisor.
