Climate-wise landscaping – Sequestering carbon at home

Join our final Sequestration Week webinar for practical solutions on how to “Sequester at Home.” This webinar will take an active and optimistic approach to dealing with our changing climate by summarizing some of the actions that property owners or managers (homeowners, communities, and municipalities) can take now to become more Earth-friendly. In general, each action suggested accomplishes at least one of three objectives:To help the landscape survive climate change,To help wildlife survive climate change, andTo help to actually mitigate climate change through various ways including carbon sequestrationThis presentation is inspired by the book “Climate-Wise Landscaping: Practical Actions for a Sustainable Future,” coauthored by our panelist Ginny Stibolt – botanist and Florida garden writer, and Sue Reed, a landscape Architect in Massachusetts. Doug Tallamy wrote the foreword, which ends with this message, “Read this book carefully. Everything you need to know to help heal our relationship with planet earth and empower you to make a much-needed difference is within these pages.”Panelist:Ginny Stibolt is a botanist and a garden writer. She’s written four peer-reviewed Florida gardening books–all published by University Press of Florida. Also she co-wrote the award-winning “Climate-Wise Landscaping: Practical Actions for a Sustainable Future” with Sue Reed. In addition, she manages a “Sustainable Gardening for Florida” Facebook page and writes for her own blog, Green Gardening Matters.Sequestration Week 2:This webinar is part of our second annual Sequestration Week where we spend a week covering a variety of topics on carbon sequestration. Every pathway put forward by the International Panel on Climate Change to keep temperatures below certain thresholds includes some amount of carbon sequestration in addition to dramatic reductions in man made carbon emissions. Last year over 2200 people from 50 countries joined these important conversations.Donations:Please consider making a donation for this webinar to the Electrify Everyone Fund. All proceeds from your donations go towards installing free heat pump water heaters in low income homes through the nonprofit Community Energy Project. Your donation will help reduce carbon emissions and lower utility bills for these families. Thank you!Any donation during Sequestration Week enters you to win a free copy of the book Climatewise Landscaping by Ginny Stibolt who will be presenting on Friday, March 18.