Rethinking Lawns
November 11, 18, 25, Dec 2
Session B 2:00 pm PST
Virtual - You Are In!
Presented by Kathryn Alexander MA with Carl Welty
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Lawns are getting a bad rap. Under the guise of saving water, we are encouraged to rip them up and use gravel and mulch instead. What if laws could be a part of the ecology? What if lawns could help us fight climate change? Come explore another way of thinking about that most American thing: the green lawn.
Benefits
By putting lawns in context, we can begin to see the benefits and challenges while discovering the path to a reconnection to the land, right in our own back or front yard.
Description
This 4-week course will explore some new thinking about is possible in your front yard. Each week will include a short video and a deep discussion to answer your questions, deepen our understanding, and to provide you with the support and encouragement you need to make changes to your own front (and back) lawns.
In this experiential course participants will be expected to do some deep learning and a bit of self-discovery, so that the changes committed to, do, in fact, happen.
This course is for anyone who has a lawn. Bring your neighbors, as lawns are a part of community.
November 11, 18, 25, Dec 2
Session B 2:00 pm PST
Virtual - You Are In!
Presented by Kathryn Alexander MA with Carl Welty
Access the class by Clicking Here
The link above will give you access to the actual class. Please be sure you have accessed the class and RSVP'd to all the Class dates so that you get emailed links at the right time.
I'm looking forward to seeing you!
Lawns are getting a bad rap. Under the guise of saving water, we are encouraged to rip them up and use gravel and mulch instead. What if laws could be a part of the ecology? What if lawns could help us fight climate change? Come explore another way of thinking about that most American thing: the green lawn.
Benefits
By putting lawns in context, we can begin to see the benefits and challenges while discovering the path to a reconnection to the land, right in our own back or front yard.
Description
This 4-week course will explore some new thinking about is possible in your front yard. Each week will include a short video and a deep discussion to answer your questions, deepen our understanding, and to provide you with the support and encouragement you need to make changes to your own front (and back) lawns.
- History – how did we get here? Just where did this idea come from and why has it been around so long, with little reflection or thought?
- Lawns and the Climate Meta Crisis How do lawns fit in with the massive changes we are seeing all around us?
- What Ya Gonna Do? Now, what can we do, on our own land, to mitigate or even regenerate the nature we feel responsible for? What are some of the challenges that need to be addressed for success?
- Bringing Back Harmony By looking at examples of different approaches to lawns you will be able to make a plan for your own lawn that is in harmony with the planet.
In this experiential course participants will be expected to do some deep learning and a bit of self-discovery, so that the changes committed to, do, in fact, happen.
This course is for anyone who has a lawn. Bring your neighbors, as lawns are a part of community.
Kathryn Alexander MA, with a life-long focus on nature and a collator of the values the Earth lives by, Kathryn brings over 20 years of change and leadership expertise. Author of the book, “What’s it Mean, Shifting to Green” and designated as a ‘woman to watch’ in sustainability by the Boulder Weekly. Kathryn is a Regenerative Living coach, in her firm, Bridge To Partnership.
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Carl Welty has over 35 years of experience in the field of architecture. Carl provides full service architectural and planning. He collaborates with planners, landscape architects, and other design professionals with extensive history in the State of California.
Carl finds creative architectural solutions to ecological and cultural problems by incorporating commonsense technical and structural expertise inspired by nature and an ambitious vision of modern art, to create places that connect people to nature and conserve energy and other resources. Carl is committed to creating an architecture that connects human beings to nature, not as outside observers but as full partners in the complex web of nature’s closed-loop systems. Designing in partnership with nature means more than building efficient buildings that consume fewer resources: wasting less is good, but we can do better than just wasting less. Carl is a proponent of regenerative design, the idea that we can create buildings and communities that generate more resources (energy, water, and building materials), and at the same time restore native habitat.. |