From the Ground Up! Summit

Pamela Berstler
Last Update May 11, 2024
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About This Course

The From the Ground Up! Soil and Water Resiliency for Future Generations Summit was held at the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California’s board room in Los Angeles, CA on August 23, 2023.  If you missed this Special Event crafted around the role of soil health in creating climate-resilient landscapes and nature-based solutions for the benefit of future generations, or you want to revisit the day, join us now in the virtual world.

This event was sponsored by the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California and produced by the Council for Watershed Health and Green Gardens Group (G3), with financial support from Accelerate Resilience LA (ARLA).

Special thanks go to our speakers including:

Keynote, Jane Davidson#FutureGen: Lessons from a Small Country – Jane Davidson is the author of #futuregen: Lessons from a Small Country, the story of why Wales was the first country in the world to introduce legislation to protect future generations. Jane currently serves as Chair of the Wales Net Zero 2035 and is Pro Vice-Chancellor Emeritus at the University of Wales Trinity Saint David. From 2000 – 2011, Jane was Minister for Education, then Minister for Environment, Sustainability in the Welsh Government, where she proposed legislation to make sustainability the central organising principle; the Wellbeing of Future Generations (Wales) Act came into law in 2015.

Mitchell Pavao-Zuckerman, PhD.Here Comes the Rain Again: Nurturing Resilience Through Multifunctional Nature-Based Solutions – Dr. Pavao-Zuckerman leads the University of Maryland Urban and Built Environment Sustainability Lab that links ecology, design, policy, and technologies and uses a co-productive research approach to provide solutions to address urban environmental challenges and foster adaptation and resilience to climate change.

Anne LaForti – Soil Health for a Cooler City – Anne LaForti a soil health expert with a Master’s in Biomimicry from Arizona State University. She is a project manager at Biomimicry 3.8, supporting nature-based innovation in the built environment through “Project Positive”. Anne is deeply interested in soil science, microbiomes, mycology, rainwater catchment, urban and regenerative agriculture, and growing nutrient-dense foods.

Brent Bucknum – Interdisciplinary Evidence-based Urban Ecosytem Adaptation – Brent Bucknum is the founder of Hyphae Design Laboratory, an ecological design and civil engineering firm dedicated to bridging the gap between architecture, environmental art and applied biological research. Hyphae has worked on a diverse range of projects from affordable housing water studies, to living roof design, greywater system design, environmental sensor-based public art installations, rural sanitation in developing countries, and ultra-green data centers.

Learning Objectives

How enlightened policy centered on healthy living soil and keeping in mind the impacts on future generations can support the implementation of nature-based solutions to create climate-resilient landscapes, enhance biodiversity, reverse aridification, mitigate flooding and erosion, and restore water cycles in urban environments.

Material Includes

  • Video of the entire Summit
  • Background papers on nature-based solutions
  • Links to Speakers' websites for more information

Target Audience

  • Land management and environmental/climate-oriented professionals
  • Policy makers and watershed/water regulators
  • Commercial and residential property owners and interested public

Curriculum

1 Lesson5h

From the Ground Up! Summit Video in Chapters

We recorded the entire day so you can relive the experience or enjoy it all for the first time. The video has chapters that allow you to move forward or back through the various speakers and topics.
From the Ground Up! Summit Video4:37:15

Your Instructors

Pamela Berstler

CEO, G3 Green Gardens Group

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Our very own force of nature, Pamela Berstler is a highly experienced landscape expert who co-founded and continues to manage G3, Green Gardens Group. G3 is an award-winning EPA WaterSenseTM Partner and Professional Certifying Organization that educates and certifies property owners, policymakers, and landscape professionals throughout the U.S. and Canada in irrigation and rainwater capture using the Watershed Approach to landscaping.

Pamela spent a decade working as a landscape contractor with her own bespoke design/build firm specializing in innovations for sustainable cities. She didn’t come to landscapes and agriculture through a direct route, as she first took a detour through a career in derivative securities trading and raising private equity for technology and media companies. Pamela is deeply committed to the reinvigoration of American entrepreneurship through regenerative land management and agriculture.

Pamela is a 2019 Climate Reality Leader and is the recipient of many awards including the National APLD Sustainability Award, EPA Certifying Professional Organization of the Year, and Garden Communicators Association Green Medal in Sustainability.

Pamela incubated a love of gardening turning 40-year-old compost on her grandfather's urban farm and with her hands in the soil cultivating her mother's beloved tomato patch. And while she once loved the fast live, she now is returning to her roots, sharing her passion for growing family farm economic value and rebuilding rural comunities. Pamela is happiest in a garden and in front of an audience talking about the power of gardens to heal the planet.

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Free
Level
Intermediate
Duration 5 hours
Modules
1 lecture
Language
English

Material Includes

  • Video of the entire Summit
  • Background papers on nature-based solutions
  • Links to Speakers' websites for more information
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