From China to Texas: Advancing Regenerative Design with High-Performance Landscapes
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Registration Information:
To register for this course - please reserve your seat for the "Regenerative Ecosystems Summit" located in the Greenbuild agenda.
Registering for the session holds your seat in the class until 5 minutes prior to the scheduled start time. At that time your seat in the session can no longer be guaranteed.
If a workshop or session is full, you will not be able to add it to your agenda; however, if you have the appropriate pass you will be able to enter the session on a first-come first-served basis 5 minutes prior to the scheduled start of the event so long as capacity has not been reached
Greenbuild staff at the entrance of the session have the ability to stop permitting entrance to the session when the room hits the set capacity.
Description:
More than half of the global Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is generated from industries that depend on our natural world. Nature is also one of our best defenses against climate change; land and water systems are natural carbon sinks, absorbing about half of the emissions in the air. Despite this, through habitat destruction and fragmentation, overharvesting, and pollution, humans are directly responsible for the accelerated loss of biodiversity and its impact on ecosystem services. Just like LEED transformed the built environment and the building market, the Sustainable SITES Initiative (SITES) is doing the same for the landscapes and open spaces of the world we live in. Unlike buildings, built landscapes and green infrastructure have the unique capacity to protect and even regenerate natural systems, thereby increasing the ecosystem services they provide, such as sequestering carbon, filtering air and water, and regulating climate. This session provides diverse yet aligned perspectives on design strategies and performance-based metrics that address the biodiversity crisis, promote regenerative design, and increase our collective knowledge of nature-based solutions. Specifically learn about SITES projects located in different climates, biomes, contexts, and cultures that achieved multiple project goals by prioritizing the site and landscapes (and the surrounding community) from the outset and throughout the development process.
