SoCal Gas Pro Series – Fire-Ready Landscapes: What We are Doing Now
About This Course
“Fire-Ready Landscapes: What We are Doing Now,” hosted by Southern California Gas Company in collaboration with The Metropolitan Water District of Southern California. For thousands of years fires have played an essential role in California’s natural ecosystems. Modern commercial and HOA landscapes must adapt to the realities of hotter, more powerful fire events encroaching ever more frequently on human developments both at the wildland-urban interface and at the city core. This webinar addresses practical steps professional landscapers can take to reduce a landscape’s vulnerability to fire.
Topics include:
Observations from recent CA fires
Overview of Zone Zero regulations
Plant selection/placement and proper irrigation
Recommendations for fire-wise materials and building techniques
Dealing with “toxic” landscapes
Fire-wise maintenance practices
Join instructor Pamela Berstler for this exploration.
Sponsored by SoCalGas / The Metropolitan Water District
Learning Objectives
Material Includes
- Video of presentation
- Links to resources and research papers
- Certificate of Completion
Target Audience
- Landscape Professionals
Curriculum
Video – Firescaping: Reducing the Vulnerability
Video – Fire-Ready Landscapes: What We are Doing Now2:21:37
Video – Demonstration of Fire Effects on Home
Resources for Further Thought
Certificate of Completion
Your Instructors
Pamela Berstler
CEO, G3 Green Gardens Group
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.
Material Includes
- Video of presentation
- Links to resources and research papers
- Certificate of Completion
