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The Art of Sustainable Living Week 2: Sustainable Land – Development Principles and Practices
Instructor - Richard Reep, LEED-AP
Workshop Series: The Art of Sustainable Living
Join us for an informative and empowering series of workshops to discuss and analyze sustainable living, and apply concepts to one’s own lifestyle.
Instructor: Richard T. Reep, LEED-AP
Workshops are offered as individual classes for $25, or enjoy the entire series for $125. Students will be provided valuable, practical information to integrate into their daily lives. Must pre-register as course is limited to 15 students.
Workshop 2: Sustainable Land – Development Principles and Practices
Students will complete the workshop with tools to understand their property’s impact on the environment, their water useage, and ways to improve sustainability in these two key categories. Students will explore land development, construction, and water efficiency using accepted analysis methods related to the US Green Building Council’s LEED program. Students will gain an understanding of land development, and have tools to analyze their own environment and the “green” claims of others.
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Goals/Learning Objectives:
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Understand landscape and hardscape design from a homeowners’ standpoint
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Understand irrigation, drought-tolerant planting, and water conservation
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Understand how paving material choices affect heating and cooling;
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Understand water efficiency measures
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Workshop: Using their own residences, students will analyze their landscape and hardscape materials, as well as their own water useage, to determine how to reduce waste and increase productivity. Bringing in photos and a survey of their property, or a photo from Google Earth, students will be able to analyze items such as:
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Potential alternative transportation and community connectivity
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Ecological habitat
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Heat Island Effect
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Water efficient landscaping
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Innovative waste and wastewater technologies
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Water use reduction
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Students taking these workshops will gain an understanding of sustainability related to landscape, architecture, and interior design, both for their own residences and for their community.
Each workshop explores a different question, and the workshops can be taken individually or as an entire class series.
Sunday, Feb. 14th, 2010, 1:00pm - 4:00pm
Florida School of Holistic Living Main Campus, Orlando $25 for individual workshop or $125 for six week series