[ACT] Brown Bag Lunch Series

[Jared Liu]

Brown Bag Lunch Series

Live Online Event

Thursday, September 20, 2007
1:00- 2:00pm EDT

Session:  Getting Into Greenroofs

Trainers: Katrin Scholz-Barth, Katrin Scholz-Barth Consulting  
(Washington, DC)
		   Ed Snodgrass, Green Roof Plants/Emory Knoll Farms, (Jessup, MD)

About the series:
The Brown Bag Lunch Series is a monthly webcast held at the lunch  
hour.  The overall goal is to create informal training opportunities  
for local urban and community forestry organizations.


The series is geared to mainly serve the needs of volunteer  
organizations and community groups.  While the webcasts are open to  
all, the content is most likely to be of interest to practitioners  
who work directly with the public, volunteers, or youth.


The trainings leverage local successes by amplifying to a larger  
audience the model organizations' methods, materials, and approaches.  
Sessions are planned to last no more than one hour, with two  
presenters speaking on the same topic from slightly different  
perspectives, each for 10-15 minutes, followed by 10-15 minutes of  
questions and answers.


The Brown Bag Lunch Series is made possible through support from:






Description:
Greenroofing offers an attractive alternative to the barren deserts  
of tar, gravel, and asphalt usually seen from urban windows.  They  
can capture and evaporate up to 100 percent of rainwater in their  
space, making them ideal for urban settings in which high-density  
development offers few opportunities for rainwater to percolate into  
the soil during storms.  In addition, greenroofs offer triple-bottom  
line savigns by paying back in energy efficiency, environmental  
health, and profitability.

Brown Bag attendees will learn:
Greenroof benefits- dollars and sense
Start-to-finish site assessment
Competitive/cost-effective and insured design and installation
Ongoing consultation, maintenance, and support
Plant selection
Current work with universities and research projects
Katrin Scholz-Barth is one of the nationally recognized, preeminent  
experts in greenroof technology, which she has helped to establish in  
the United States.  Her work demonstrates that greenroofs are an  
integral and functional building element that protects watersheds  
while increasing biodiversity and quality of life in urban areas.

Ed Snodgrass, a horticultural consultant, owns and operates Green  
Roof Plants, an arm of Emory Knoll Farms, a leading supplier of  
plants and plant expertise for extensive green roof systems.  They  
offer a high level of service in selecting the optimal plants for  
each installation, and have worked in nineteen states, the District  
of Columbia, and Canada.

Register for the webcast or go to:

http://actrees.org/site/stories/getting_into_greenroofs.php


Next session: October 18, 2007- Organizing Workprograms for High  
School Students.


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