Sustainability Symposium 2011: Healing Spaces, Session for Landscape Industry Professionals

Single Day Fee: $80/member; $90/nonmember
(Includes Garden admission, morning refreshments, lunch, parking, and program handouts)
ONLINE REGISTRATION IS NOW CLOSED.

Does a view of a garden promote a speedy recovery in hospital patients? Can weeding, planting and pruning lower blood pressure? Answers to these questions and more are revealed in this newly expanded sixth annual Sustainability Symposium. This is a new Friday special session with continuing education credits for green industry professionals.

Saturday Keynote address:
Collaboration in the Garden: Creating Restorative Environments
David Kamp, founding principal of Dirtworks Landscape Architecture PC

Additional Presentations:

• David Slawson (Landscape Artist): The Art of Evoking the Natural World in Restorative Gardens
• Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority: Planting a Vision, Growing a Community: the Future of Public Housing
• Amy Roskilly (Cuyahoga Soil & Water Conservation District Conservation Education Coordinator): Rain Gardens

The Symposium is eligible for 4.75 professional development hours on Friday and 5 professional development hours on Saturday through the Landscape Architecture Continuing Education System.

The Symposium is also approved for PLANET Landscape Industry Certified recertification at 1 CEU per hour of instruction attended. For more information on PLANET recertification, please visit PLANET's Recertification Center at the link above.