Daily Drawdown 13: Urban Forests
Landscape and Urbanism
by Jason King
4y ago
This is the thirteenth in an ongoing series illustrating the relationship of Drawdown strategies to landscape architecture. For context, read the initial post here. My presentation for Grey to Green is right around the corner, so if you’re at the conference come check it out (Thursday, April 5th in Toronto), so this will be the last post on the Daily Drawdown series. The journey encompassed a couple of weeks worth of musings specifically on how landscape architecture intersects with climate change mitigation. This final post on urban forests rests at the heart of how landscape architecture, by ..read more
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Daily Drawdown 12: Smart Growth
Landscape and Urbanism
by Jason King
4y ago
This is the twelth in an ongoing series illustrating the relationship of Drawdown strategies to landscape architecture. For context, read the initial post here. As I alluded to in the post on Buildings & Cities, there are a number of secondary Drawdown strategies around ‘smart growth’ that have the ability to make a positive contribution to climate change mitigation. Many of these are related, both directly and indirectly, to work around landscape architecture, and larger urban design and planning efforts which is a specialization for many in the profession. Many of these focus around mobi ..read more
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Daily Drawdown 11: Materials
Landscape and Urbanism
by Jason King
4y ago
This is the eleventh in an ongoing series illustrating the relationship of Drawdown strategies to landscape architecture. For context, read the initial post here. The decisions about materials we use on projects have implications in a number of areas, including loss of biodiversity, the pollution produced during manufacturing, and the overall greenhouse gas emissions that are released when materials are installed. Drawdown provides a number of solutions that are directly relevant to landscape architecture. This is a much larger post that I’m able to address in too much detail, as the use, and ..read more
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Daily Drawdown 10: Lighting & Energy
Landscape and Urbanism
by Jason King
4y ago
This is the tenth in an ongoing series illustrating the relationship of Drawdown strategies to landscape architecture. For context, read the initial post here. Compared to buildings, the relative energy demands for landscape architecture projects are a fraction of the energy usage, and this often means we forget to fully address opportunities for both reduction of energy demand and exploration of energy generating potential. Overall, lighting uses up to 15% of global electricity, per Drawdown. The biggest opportunity in site is already well underway, a shift to LED Lighting, which has transfor ..read more
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Daily Drawdown 9: Water
Landscape and Urbanism
by Jason King
4y ago
This is the ninth in an ongoing series illustrating the relationship of Drawdown strategies to landscape architecture. For context, read the initial post here. Water is fundamental to discussions about climate change. Specifically the major shifts in water that will occur through global warming — droughts, extreme precipitation events, storm surge, and sea level rise, all are part of the daily dialogue of climate, a between extremes of too much water and not enough. While adaptation is important to reduce the impacts of these forces on society and ecosystems, it’s difficult sometimes to see th ..read more
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Daily Drawdown 8: Soils
Landscape and Urbanism
by Jason King
4y ago
This is the eighth in an ongoing series illustrating the relationship of Drawdown strategies to landscape architecture. For context, read the initial post here. Drawdown outlines a number of individual strategies, which allows areas to be isolated and the impacts. It’s also useful to think of those beneficial relationships, and how leveraging changes in one area can ripple through others and create mutually supporting systems. In this case, the overlapping benefits of Compost, the #60 ranked Drawdown solution, which is a well known, which can also be instrumental in supporting one of the top-r ..read more
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Daily Drawdown 7: Women & Girls
Landscape and Urbanism
by Jason King
4y ago
This is the seventh in an ongoing series illustrating the relationship of Drawdown strategies to landscape architecture. For context, read the initial post here. A segment of Drawdown solutions focus on a topic that is not directly about landscape architecture, while perhaps transcending disciplinary boundaries, and literally being one of the most important things to life. To being human. To our future. The connection how empowering Women & Girls, which in this context includes Education (#6), Family Planning (#7), and Women Smallholders in relation to agriculture (#62) are all strategies ..read more
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Daily Drawdown 6: Coastal Wetlands
Landscape and Urbanism
by Jason King
4y ago
This is the sixth in an ongoing series illustrating the relationship of Drawdown strategies to landscape architecture. For context, read the initial post here. There are a number of solutions mentioned in Drawdown that interface with the natural environment, and in doing so have a direct interface to landscape architecture. Coastal Wetlands are an important tool in both mitigation through their capture and sequestration of greenhouse gas emissions. The Drawdown focus is on the former, so this #52 ranked solution can reduce CO2 by 3.19 gigatons by 2050, and more importantly, protect 53.34 gigat ..read more
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Daily Drawdown 5: Buildings & Cities
Landscape and Urbanism
by Jason King
4y ago
This is the fifth in an ongoing series illustrating the relationship of Drawdown strategies to landscape architecture. For context, read the initial post here. Beyond looking at a specific strategy, in this post I wanted to focus on a specific sector that compiles what seems most relevant to landscape architecture – Buildings and Cities. This includes a range of strategies (see below) that cumulative have the ability to reduce CO2 emissions, in an optimum scenario, by over 100 gigatons by 2050. Not all of these are within the landscape architectural purview, but this sector does have the most ..read more
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Daily Drawdown 4: Perennial Biomass
Landscape and Urbanism
by Jason King
4y ago
This is the fourth in an ongoing series illustrating the relationship of Drawdown strategies to landscape architecture. For context, read the initial post here. One Drawdown subject that fascinated me when I started reading about it was Perennial Biomass, specifically being able to use landscape waste as fuel for combustion as energy production, or for conversion in biofuels like ethanol or biodiesel. As the #51 ranked solution, it would provide up to 3.33 gigatons of CO2 reduction by 2050, and has a relatively good cost-benefit ratio. While much of this is biomass is used by active cultivatio ..read more
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