LandscapeWebinars.org hosted educator and author, Douglas Kent on August 1st for a valuable session regarding services that can be grown in urban landscape that are both vital to public and ecological health.

This session, "Essential Goods and Services in Urban Landscapes" is available OnDemand at LandscapeWebinars.org. Kent explained how to combat common issues that lead to more use and in turn requires a greater need. Attendees learned about a variety of theories like half Earth that facilitates a connection to nature.

He utilized his expertise and firsthand examples of a variety of plants, herbs, and natural remedies that everyone can add to their gardens and designs for a healthier, independent lifestyle. Kent recently published a book of the same name that assists readers the same way.

 
Click here to register for this session to receive the link for this course: https://landscapewebinars.org/landscape-webinars/webinar/growing-essential-goods-and-services-in-urban-landscapes

Webinar Description:
Growing and capturing essential goods and services in urban landscapes is a modern mandate. Health and wellbeing should always be available, to everyone, and at all times. Join this fascinating workshop and examine growing urban energy, food, landscape materials, public health, self-care, thermal comfort, and so much more. Urban gardeners and landscapers can take pressure off the Earth's ecosystem by honoring the landscapes outside their homes and businesses at life-sustaining. Our landscapes can-must- do a better job of protecting, nourishing, and sustaining the animal that most interacts with them. Caring for us cares for all.

Learning Objectives:
1. Be able to list the services, such as public health, self-care and thermal comfort, that can be grown in urban landscapes.
2. Be able to name the goods, such ceremonial items, energy and landscape materials, that can be regenerated in urban landscapes.
3. Be able to articulate why regenerating essential goods and services is vital to public and ecological health.

Douglas Kent
Doug Kent is an author, activist, and educator in ecological land management. He has been exploring the ecology of human sustainability for over 40 years. He is the author of eight environmental land management books, including Regenerating Essential Goods and Services in Urban Landscapes (Routledge 2024), Firescaping (Wilderness Press 2019, 2nd Ed.); Foraging Southern California (Adventure Publication 2019); California Friendly (MUNI 2017); and Ocean Friendly Gardens (Surfrider Foundation 2009). Doug also teaches ecological land management at the Center for Regenerative Studies (Cal Poly Pomona), UCLA Extension, and USC Architecture. His work can be viewed at www.anfractus.com and he can be reached at newair@mindspring.com.
Click here to register for this session to receive the link for this course: https://landscapewebinars.org/landscape-webinars/webinar/growing-essential-goods-and-services-in-urban-landscapes