Green Infrastructure - New Tools for Measuring the Value of San Diego's Urban Forest

Wednesday, August 10, 2011: 5:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
California Center for Sustainable Energy
8690 Balboa Ave., Suite 100, San Diego, CA 92123

This workshop was developed especially for practicing landscape architects and landscape design professionals. Our expert panel of ISA Certified Arborists will discuss tools which integrate aspects of science that are the underpinning of great landscape design.  These tools can open doors to smarter project management, provide key resources to predict the future sustainable benefits of landscapes, and offer documentation for better urban land conservation, watersheds and habitat.

Compelling design meets environmental stewardship

• Design aids for diversity: Our hotspot is cooling
Robin Rivet: ISA Certified Arborist, UCCE Master Gardener

• Filling the future forest: Why urban trees are falling or failing
Jeremy Rappoport: ISA Certified Arborist, FEWA, CLCA

• Beyond CAD: Cool tools for calculating benefits of sustainable design
Nancy Humenik-Sappington: ISA Certified Arborist and tree risk assessor, ASCA

This class is now completed 

Aimed at landscape architects and other design professionals, this comprehensive workshop will address urban landscape sustainability and introduce advanced software tools for improved stewardship of the urban forest. A panel of experts will preside - offering tips, tools and a breadth of experience and knowledge; not only about landscape architecture, but integrating the fields of horticulture, arboriculture, conservation, ecology, contracting, policy and GIS systems.