Learn how to design your landscape so it saves energy and contributes to a healthier environment. Join Sue Reed, a landscape architect with 23 years of experience in ecological design, at the Berkshire Botanical Garden in Stockbridge on Saturday, October 30, from 10 – 12, for a practical presentation that will help you: lower your home’s heating and cooling costs, minimize fuel used in your landscape construction, and consider maintenance and everyday living products and materials with lower embedded energy costs. Our landscapes are full of opportunities to reduce our consumption of energy. Most of them involve little or no cost, and some will actually save you money.

Sue Reed is a registered landscape architect who has helped hundreds of homeowners create comfortable, livable and beautiful landscapes that save energy. She has worked in western Massachusetts for nearly 25 years, including twelve years as an instructor at the Conway School of Landscape Design. Her new book, Energy-Wise Landscape Design, was published in April 2010 by New Society Publishers and her recent article, “Sustainable Landscape,” appears in Volume II of the new Encyclopedia of Sustainability from Berkshire Publishing.  The lecture will cost $20 for BBG members, $25 for non-members, and you may register online at www.berkshirebotanical.org, or call 413-298-3926.