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On Thursday, May 26, Grace Farms, in partnership with the Perfect Earth Project and the Connecticut Chapter of ASLA, is hosting a full-day event featuring panels, tours, guided walks, and breakout discussions with tools to create biodiversity positive, nature-based solutions in our landscapes, installed with sustainable materials free of forced labor.

Participants will come away with a new understanding of how commitments to sustainable ecosystems in landscape design and land care can advance equity both locally and globally.

Highlights include:

• Keynote with Karenna Gore, founder and executive director of the Center for Earth Ethics at Union Theological Seminary in New York.
• Joy Harjo, 23rd United States Poet Laureate and first Native person to hold that position, will open the Landscapes Forum at Grace Farms with a recorded poem and reflection.
• A panel about the ethical role of landscape architecture and landscape design with Jennifer Reut of Landscape Architecture Magazine; Sierra Bainbridge, ASLA, MASS Design Group; Tamar Warburg, Sasaki; Richard Roark, ASLA, OLIN, and more.
• Guided walking tours with principals of OLIN, landscape architects of Grace Farms.
• Hear from Warrie Price, Founder and President of The Battery Conservancy; Paul Tukey, award-winning journalist and Chief Sustainability Officer for Glenstone Museum; Rebecca McMackin, Director of Horticulture for Brooklyn Bridge Park; and Penn Marchael, Founder of Pennington Grey, about the role of public gardens, managers, and gardeners.
• Learn about forced labor associated with common material choices in the built environment from Gabe Guilliams, Principal for BuroHappold; Luciana Varkulja, Architect and Urban Designer from São Paulo; Stony Creek Quarry, and more.

Attendees will be eligible to earn 6.0 professional development hours (LA CES PDH).

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