USGBC-LA is offering an online free 18-hour training Landscaper Certification Program is providing on California native plant maintenance. This certification can be used as a requirement or recommendation to clients on a maintenance schedule or specification. Here is the link to the program. I will add to the weekly broadcast and create a news post on [...]
The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF) has announced a call for nominations for Landslide, the foundation’s annual thematic report about threatened and at-risk landscapes. Landslide 2022: The Olmsted Design Legacy, timed to the bicentennial of the birth of Frederick Law Olmsted, Sr. (1822-1903), widely hailed as the father of landscape architecture, will focus on landscapes designed by Olmsted, Sr. and his [...]
September 14, 2021: ASLA Southern California sat down for a midday discussion with Kelly Comras, FASLA and Claire Latane to discuss schools, mental health and Claire's new book "Schools that Heal, Design with Mental Health in Mind".
In November 2021, the President signed into law the Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act, also known as the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, which made significant investments in transportation, water, broadband, and other infrastructure projects. Recently, the White House released a Bipartisan Infrastructure Law guidebook to provide information on what you can apply for, who to contact, and how [...]
The first in person event in two years, chapter members, colleagues and friends gathered on Saturday afternoon, February 19 in in the Desert for a walking tour of a 2-acre public open space that is the heart of the city's ambitious redevelopment and revitalization of downtown Palm Springs. Thank you to RIOS for providing [...]
The U.S. Department of Transportation has published a Notice of Funding Opportunity (NOFO) for $1.5 billion in grant funding through the Rebuilding American Infrastructure with Sustainability and Equity (RAISE) discretionary grant program. The popular program helps large and small communities around the country carry out infrastructure projects with significant local or regional impact, including active transportation, [...]
The Council of Landscape Architectural Registration Boards (CLARB) is preparing to launch its Job Task Analysis (JTA), a study of the practice of landscape architecture that forms the basis of the Landscape Architecture Registration Exam (L.A.R.E.). We are asking for your participation in the survey that will launch the week of February 1. If you [...]
Last November many of you heard me outline our ten-year vision for the future of ASLA. Today I’d like to share that we’ve stepped boldly toward that north star with two new strategic partnerships. Over the last few months ASLA has secured strategic partnerships with Land8 Media and the LABASH Conference. As the largest organization servicing the landscape architecture profession, ASLA is the hub where education, community and thought leadership in landscape architecture come together. Meeting those expectations requires innovative approaches to our work. [...]
Sustainable Communities? No, this is not about place, it is about people. The national organization of ASLA has been hard at work over the last couple of years attempting to address the issue of making the profession of Landscape Architecture a Sustainable Community. They have commissioned studies to determine how to better communicate who we [...]
Dear Members, Thank you for the privilege to serve as President of the Southern California Chapter of the American Society of Landscape Architects. I just had the honor to represent the chapter at the 2021 Conference of Landscape Architecture in Nashville. For those of you who did not have the opportunity to attend, I wanted [...]
