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The 2023 New England Summit

Over 200 people took part in the second annual Landscape Architecture + Climate Action in New England virtual summit. The live event took place online on May 5, 2023.

A PDF of the slide deck is here.

The detailed Run of Show is here.

The keynote presentation with Undersecretary Antos begins at 7:10. The keynote discussion with Pamela Conrad begins at 1:02. The lightning talks begin at 1:35.

..including links to the ASLA Climate Action Plan, Climate Positive Design and the (free) Pathfinder tool, as well as resources specific to each New England state.

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Unpacking the ASLA Climate Action Plan

ASLA has released the Climate Action Plan, with the ambitious goal of making landscape architecture projects and practices zero emission by 2040. What does this mean? How can we get there?

In this presentation and discussion, Scott Bishop, ASLA -- one of the authors of the ASLA Climate Action Plan — explains the plan’s essential pieces.

The live event was recorded on Zoom, April 11, 2023.

This is the first in what will we expect will be an ongoing series of discussions, presentations, and working sessions as we dive more deeply into this work. Whether you're a sole practitioner or part of a large firm, private practice or public sector, every scale matters. Let's figure this out together.