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  • Wednesday & Thursday, September 22 & 23, 1:00 pm – 5:00 pm, and Friday, September 24, 8:00 – 12:30 pm – Plan it Native Landscape Conference, Online

    Deep Roots and its partners present the annual Plan It Native Landscapes Conference. This year’s event features live online content that can be accessed from anywhere, plus in-person Kansas City field trips for the best of both worlds! The conference takes place September 22-24, three half-days packed with interactive sessions, inspiring keynote speakers, and opportunities to connect with the native plant community.

    About Deep Roots

    Deep Roots is a not-for-profit organization comprised of multi-sector partners working to increase native plant landscapes. Our mission is to encourage the appreciation, conservation, and use of native plants in the heartland. Following in Olmsted’s footsteps, Deep Roots is an organization that focuses on the benefits of native landscape design and conservation while emphasizing the values of justice, equity, diversity, and inclusion. Native landscapes contribute to improving public health, smart urban planning, and much more! Deep Roots’ partners consist of small and large businesses, municipalities, state government agencies, parks departments, not-for-profit organizations and individuals. Partners collaborate to share resources, opportunities, and create synergy to plant more native species and provide education that results in more native landscapes. In 2019, Deep Roots created the Plan It Native Landscapes Conference to help increase the collective native plant expertise of the region. In 2020, more than 560 people from 40 states and 4 countries attended online.

    Plan It Native 2021

    Plan It Native provides education relevant to professionals (a minimum of 9 CEUs are available for landscape architects), native plant enthusiasts, and home gardeners. Whatever your experience with native plants, you will find resources to grow your knowledge. You’ll learn from speakers who understand your challenges and provide expert advice to help you advance.

    Plan It Native is organized into three tracks:
    • Design & Business – From formal to naturalistic, from the greenhouse to the retail counter to your front yard, these sessions will help you create more beautiful and beneficial projects.
    • Land Stewardship & Management – Sessions on the establishment, restoration, and management of native woodland, wetland, riparian, and prairie.
    • Policy & Communications – A new track for this year, these sessions will help you build awareness and action for native plants within your community.

    With daily keynote speakers, and a wealth of virtual networking opportunities, Plan It Native is far more than just a webinar! Along with 18 concurrent sessions in the three tracks, attendees will also enjoy keynote sessions from these notable experts:

    Nancy R. Lee, founder Social Marketing, Inc.
    Nancy Lee has more than 30 years of professional marketing experience, with special expertise in Social Marketing, the proven discipline for behavior change for social good.

    Wambui Ippolito, Horticulturist and Landscape Designer
    She is the 2021 Best in Show award winner at the Philadelphia Flower Show. She is the first Black woman ever to win and first solo female Major Exhibitor to do so.

    Dr. Peter Raven, President Emeritus, Missouri Botanical Gardens
    Author of numerous leading textbooks and several hundred scholarly articles, Dr. Raven has been a tireless champion of sustainability and biodiversity, earning him the plaudit of “Hero for the Planet” from Time.

  • Monday, March 23, 7:00 pm – 8:30 pm – China, Biodiversity, and the Global Environment

    China boasts not only the largest percentage of the world’s population (19%) but also one of the Earth’s richest, most diverse floras. Yet its economic rise as an industrial nation and its population density, with the associated environmental degradation, put this biodiversity at risk. Add in climate change and it is a recipe for disaster. Professor Peter Raven, a leading botanist, advocate for the conservation of biodiversity, and one of the co-editors of The Flora of China, a joint Chinese-American census of all the plants of China, is uniquely qualified to assess the consequences of over-population, industrial pollution, economic inequalities, and natural resource exploitation in China—consequences not limited to that country but affecting the entire global environment. In this Director’s Lecture Series talk on Monday, March 23, from 7 – 8:30 at the Arnold Arboretum, he will consider what it means for humanity to lose thousands of species to extinction, many before they are known or described by scientists. He’ll present his thoughts on reversing environmental degradation in China and around the globe and what is required to move all people toward an ethic of conservation and securing sustainability. Free, but registration required at http://my.arboretum.harvard.edu/Info.aspx?EventID=1.

  • Arnold Arboretum Director’s Lecture Series 2015

    Each year, Director William (Ned) Friedman and the Arnold Arboretum present the Director’s Lecture Series, featuring nationally recognized experts addressing an array of topics related to Earth’s biodiversity and evolutionary history, the environment, conservation biology, and key social issues associated with current science. Lectures take place in the Hunnewell Building Lecture Hall. Parking will be available in front of the building and along the Arborway. These free lectures become completely subscribed early, and right now, through December 15, Arboretum members may register online prior to general registration thereafter. Visit http://my.arboretum.harvard.edu/Info.aspx?EventID=1 to sign up.

    The schedule is as follows: On Monday, January 12, hear Ned Friedman himself discuss Mutants in Our Midst: Darwin, Horticulture, and Evolution. Photographer Rachel Sussman speaks on Monday, March 2 on The Oldest Living Things in the World, Peter Raven, PhD and President Emeritus of the Missouri Botanical Garden comes on Monday, March 23 to lecture on China, Biodiversity, and the Global Environment, and finally, on Monday April 20, hear Richard Lazarus, Howard and Katherine Aibel Professor of Law at Harvard University, who will discuss Environmental Lawlessness.