Registration deadline is January 13. 

The Local Government Commission will hold its 11th annual New Partners for Smart Growth Conference February 2-4, 2012, in San Diego. For the first time, landscape architects who attend can earn professional development hours under the Landscape Architecture Continuing Education System (LA CES). 

ASLA is a longtime sponsor of this premier smart-growth event. The multidisciplinary conference will attract participants from across the country, including landscape architects, elected officials, planners, public health officials, transportation professionals, developers, environmentalists, architects, and many others.

The program will feature more than 100 sessions and workshops on a wide range of topics. The program also includes more than a dozen optional tours of local model projects, and a dynamic optional workshop on February 1 that will focus on the connection between equitable development, environmental justice, and smart growth. Plenaries, implementation workshops, focused trainings, and coordinated networking activities round out the program.

ASLA will have a booth at the conference, with ASLA members in attendance during breaks between sessions and at the Thursday evening networking reception. If you're at the conference, please stop by and say hello.

The registration deadline for the event is January 13. To learn more about the program, and to register online, visit the site. To view course offerings available for LA CES credit, go to the LA CES site and search under Local Government Commission as the educational provider.

Join the Virginia Chapter ASLA and the Virginia Society AIA at the Virginia Center for Architecture for light refreshments and explore the Center's newest exhibition, Featured Fellows: The Art and Architecture of Carlton Abbott, FAIA.

Meet Carlton Abbott and see a collection of his artwork including drawings, models, paintings, mixed media, sculpture and metal work.

Presented by the Virginia Center for Architecture and the Virginia Chapter ASLA.

Sponsored by Shade and Wise.

RSVP by February 6.

Questions?
Contact aliguori@aiava.org.

The James River Green Building Council has partnered with FEA to conduct web-based training to help you prepare for the LEED Green Associate test. 

The training is comprised of four 1-hour sessions, once a week, for 4 weeks starting on February 13th.  Watch at your desk over your lunch break  from 12:00-1:00 pm and get prepared! Miss a session? They will be recorded and posted online afterward for your review.  All are welcome, chapter members and non-members. This course has also been used by past participants to qualify you to sit for the exam.

LEED Green Associate Study Sessions

February 13th, 2012
Session #1:  Introduction to LEED, the Credentialing Program, and the LEED Online Process

• Gain a general understanding of what the various LEED rating systems are and their goals.
• Learn the basic application requirements and general exam content for the LEED credentialing system.
• Learn how to navigate the LEED Online process and LEED Online project resources.

February 20th, 2012
Session #2:  Project Site Factors & Water Management

• Learn how the location of a building and its surroundings can impact sustainability.
• Understand the connection between energy and your site location: your carbon footprint
• Identify water efficiency measures to improve water management.

February 27th, 2012
Session #3: Energy Impacts and Stakeholder Involvement in Innovation

• Understand the importance of energy conservation measures to achieve operational sustainability.
• Learn how to build a successful LEED project team.
• Learn how to use the triple bottom line approach to make project decisions.

March 5th, 2012
Session #4:  Project Materials and Project Surroundings

• Gain a general understanding of ongoing consumables, durable goods, and sustainable purchasing materials and the role they play in sustainability.
• Learn the importance of a waste stream audit and its elements.
• Understand the importance of indoor environmental quality.

The cost for this series is $180 for JRGBC Members and $200 for non-members.  Have more than one person seeking accreditation at your company? Each additional attendee you would like to receive a certificate of attendance is only $115!

Register Today!

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Every February the Piedmont Landscape Association hosts an annual seminar (formerly called the Central Virginia Landscape Management Seminar). This event strives to bring gardening enthusiasts and landscape professionals together in an educational setting. Ecological principals of both manmade and natural landscapes, meadow systems, woodland management and how stone can be integrated into the landscape as an element. Additionally, as a foundation to these objectives the PLA's mission is to unite all landscape-related professionals (i.e. gardeners, landscape architects, horticulturist, extension agents, arborist, designers, etc.); encourage high standards of business ethics; provide reliable information and educational programs; offer opportunities for networking; and provide service to the community through volunteer projects, scholarships and other educational programs.

4.5 hours of LACES credit applied for.

For complete details visit the Piedmont Landscape Association web site.

The James River Green Building Council has partnered with FEA to conduct web-based training to help you prepare for the LEED Green Associate test. 

The training is comprised of four 1-hour sessions, once a week, for 4 weeks starting on February 13th.  Watch at your desk over your lunch break  from 12:00-1:00 pm and get prepared! Miss a session? They will be recorded and posted online afterward for your review.  All are welcome, chapter members and non-members. This course has also been used by past participants to qualify you to sit for the exam.

LEED Green Associate Study Sessions

February 13th, 2012
Session #1:  Introduction to LEED, the Credentialing Program, and the LEED Online Process

• Gain a general understanding of what the various LEED rating systems are and their goals.
• Learn the basic application requirements and general exam content for the LEED credentialing system.
• Learn how to navigate the LEED Online process and LEED Online project resources.

February 20th, 2012
Session #2:  Project Site Factors & Water Management

• Learn how the location of a building and its surroundings can impact sustainability.
• Understand the connection between energy and your site location: your carbon footprint
• Identify water efficiency measures to improve water management.

February 27th, 2012
Session #3: Energy Impacts and Stakeholder Involvement in Innovation

• Understand the importance of energy conservation measures to achieve operational sustainability.
• Learn how to build a successful LEED project team.
• Learn how to use the triple bottom line approach to make project decisions.

March 5th, 2012
Session #4:  Project Materials and Project Surroundings

• Gain a general understanding of ongoing consumables, durable goods, and sustainable purchasing materials and the role they play in sustainability.
• Learn the importance of a waste stream audit and its elements.
• Understand the importance of indoor environmental quality.

The cost for this series is $180 for JRGBC Members and $200 for non-members.  Have more than one person seeking accreditation at your company? Each additional attendee you would like to receive a certificate of attendance is only $115!

Register Today!

***Note: You must log in to register for this event. Please click on the login screen from the homepage, then click on "Event Registration." Please follow the instructions on the homepage for purchasing an event. You may already have a profile, so please check by entering your primary e-mail address as the username and Password1 as the password. You will then be prompted to change your password. You may purchase additional tickets for other company employees by clicking "add guest""***

Fees:  Fees for this event are $20 for members, $35 for non-members and $40 for walk-ins. 

Click here for more details and registration.

Join Brookside Gardens in Wheaton, Maryland, on Friday, February 24, 2012 for Green Matters: Urban Farming Pioneers, a symposium highlighting innovative approaches to feeding the world's population. Featuring Dickson Despommier, Columbia University Emeritus Professor and author of  The Vertical Farm: Feeding the World in the 21st Century, Darrin Nordahl, landscape architect and author of Public Produce, Ben Flanner, Head Farmer/CEO and co-founder of the Brooklyn Grange rooftop farm, and Jeff Semler Maryland State Coordinator of Sustainable Agriculture Research & Education, this year's Green Matters will kindle your inner urban farmer and entice you to think about food production in wholly different ways.

Your registration fee of $89 covers the day's events, including lunch. Join us for a Happy Hour immediately following the symposium for just $15 - a great opportunity to continue mingling with other like-minded folks.

Register online through http://www.parkpass.org/

This program engages volunteers to patrol the James River and its tributaries and to take action to protect and restore the entire watershed.

Join the James River Green Building Council on February 25th, 2012 from 11-3:30pm for our first Green Films day, being hosted by the Byrd Theatre in Richmond, VA! Come view three different sustainable films for only a $5 donation! This series is open to the general public, professionals, students and anyone else interested in environmental issues.

• 11:00am-12:30pm, Blue Gold: World Water Wars
  Filmmaker Sam Bozzo examines the growing battle over control of the global water supply in the documentary Blue Gold: World Water Wars. The film examines how major corporations and financial institutions are buying up territories where large water supplies can be found, the fight to protect the Great Lakes, allegations that one of the world's most powerful political families is attempting to corner the market on water in Paraguay, and what ordinary citizens can do to keep the water supply free and shared fairly by all. Based on the book by Maude Barlow and Tony Clarke, Blue Gold: World Water Wars was an official selection at the 2009 Palm Springs International Film Festival.
• 12:45pm-1:35pm, Greenlit
  Movie people are legendarily liberal and left leaning, particularly when it comes to the environment. Greenlit puts their commitment to the test as filmmaker Miranda Bailey (executive producer of The Squid and the Whale) follows the production of The River Why, starring Zach Gilford (Friday Night Lights) as it attempts to keep an environmentally friendly set thanks to the supervision of a "green" consultant. What starts off with great enthusiasm quickly devolves in this insightful and hilarious film.
• 1:50pm-3:20pm, On Coal River
  Ed Wiley was a former miner who decided he'd had enough when he learned that contamination from Massey's mining projects was making water unsafe to drink at a local elementary school - a school attended by his granddaughter. Wiley became part of a local campaign to demand accountability from Massey and enforcement of environmental regulation, as well as a new school located a safe distance from the source of the pollution. Filmmakers Francine Cavanaugh and Adams Wood chronicle this battle between people, government and corporate interests in the documentary On Coal River, which was an official selection at the 2010 Silverdocs Documentary Film Festival.

Pre-registration and payment is preferred for this event! $5 in advance and at the door, please do not pre-register without payment!

Please register by Thursday, February 23rd. Refreshments will be available for purchase from the Byrd Theatre, located at 2908 West Cary Street  Richmond, VA 23221. The program for the day will start promptly at 11:00am, so please allow yourself  time for check-in and seating prior to the program start.

Register Today!

The James River Green Building Council has partnered with FEA to conduct web-based training to help you prepare for the LEED Green Associate test. 

The training is comprised of four 1-hour sessions, once a week, for 4 weeks starting on February 13th.  Watch at your desk over your lunch break  from 12:00-1:00 pm and get prepared! Miss a session? They will be recorded and posted online afterward for your review.  All are welcome, chapter members and non-members. This course has also been used by past participants to qualify you to sit for the exam.

LEED Green Associate Study Sessions

February 13th, 2012
Session #1:  Introduction to LEED, the Credentialing Program, and the LEED Online Process

• Gain a general understanding of what the various LEED rating systems are and their goals.
• Learn the basic application requirements and general exam content for the LEED credentialing system.
• Learn how to navigate the LEED Online process and LEED Online project resources.

February 20th, 2012
Session #2:  Project Site Factors & Water Management

• Learn how the location of a building and its surroundings can impact sustainability.
• Understand the connection between energy and your site location: your carbon footprint
• Identify water efficiency measures to improve water management.

February 27th, 2012
Session #3: Energy Impacts and Stakeholder Involvement in Innovation

• Understand the importance of energy conservation measures to achieve operational sustainability.
• Learn how to build a successful LEED project team.
• Learn how to use the triple bottom line approach to make project decisions.

March 5th, 2012
Session #4:  Project Materials and Project Surroundings

• Gain a general understanding of ongoing consumables, durable goods, and sustainable purchasing materials and the role they play in sustainability.
• Learn the importance of a waste stream audit and its elements.
• Understand the importance of indoor environmental quality.

The cost for this series is $180 for JRGBC Members and $200 for non-members.  Have more than one person seeking accreditation at your company? Each additional attendee you would like to receive a certificate of attendance is only $115!

Register Today!

***Note: You must log in to register for this event. Please click on the login screen from the homepage, then click on "Event Registration." Please follow the instructions on the homepage for purchasing an event. You may already have a profile, so please check by entering your primary e-mail address as the username and Password1 as the password. You will then be prompted to change your password. You may purchase additional tickets for other company employees by clicking "add guest""***