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UC Davis's Landscape Architecture lunchbag lecture series is offered this spring by professor Loren Oki and focuses on peoples' need for development that is aesthetically and functionally designed and yet tempered by a concern for sustainability.

Landscape Architecture’s Role in Low Impact Development Designing For Sustainability, Spring 2013 Loren Oki

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UC Davis's Landscape Architecture lunchbag lecture series is offered this spring by professor Loren Oki and focuses on peoples' need for development that is aesthetically and functionally designed and yet tempered by a concern for sustainability.

    • video
    Green streets in El Cerrito

    Green streets in El Cerrito

    Our ninth and final lecture: Josh Bradt, watershed specialist and project manager at the San Francisco Estuary Partnership, discusses greening up the urban streets of El Cerrito.

    • 38 min
    • video
    The New California Park: Opportunities for Sustainable Low Impact Development

    The New California Park: Opportunities for Sustainable Low Impact Development

    Lecture 8: Marq Truscott, LDA advisory board member and friend of the program, discusses designing parks today. Marq is President of the firm, Quadriga, in Sacramento.

    • 40 min
    • video
    Integrating Storm water Management with Urban Design

    Integrating Storm water Management with Urban Design

    Lecture 7: LDA program alumnus and visiting lecturer, Kevin Perry, of Urban Rain Design studio in Portland, OR, discusses managing storm water in an urban setting.

    • 50 min
    • video
    A sustainable contractor's perspective: water, case studies and return on investment

    A sustainable contractor's perspective: water, case studies and return on investment

    Lecture 6: Aaron Majors, owner and department manager of construction at Cagwin & Dorward of Novato, CA, discusses his views on being a contractor today - a contractor who is sensitive to sustainability.

    • 51 min
    • video
    Managing Landscapes for Sustainability and Watershed Functions

    Managing Landscapes for Sustainability and Watershed Functions

    Lecture 5: Eric Berntsen, staff environmental scientist
    at the California State Water Resources Control Board, proposes how he envisions managing landscapes for their own sustainability and watershed functionality.

    • 50 min
    • video
    Designing Residential Landscapes for MWELO

    Designing Residential Landscapes for MWELO

    Lecture 4: Cheryl Buckwalter, executive director of EcoLandscape California and Landscape Liaisons, discusses her ideas for designing residential landscapes for California's Model Water Efficient Landscape Ordinance.

    • 44 min

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