Peconic Land Trusts Kicks Off Its Third Annual Lecture Series At Bridge Gardens – Bridgehampton, NY – Hamptons.com

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• • Sunday, March 18: "Naturalistic Whole Property Design"

   

  Brine, principal landscape designer of Garden Large, and instructor at the New York Botanical Garden along with the New England Wild Flower Society, will expand upon an article he wrote for the American Horticultural Society’s "American Gardener" while focusing on the six-acre Brine Garden in Pawling, NY.

   

  Anne Raver featured the garden in the New York Times, and the recent book "Gardens of the Hudson Valley" compares Duncan to Russel Wright of Garrison, NY’s Manitoga.

   

  Discover how this designer finds inspiration in existing conditions and elicits ideas from the prevailing nature of a place.

Duncan Brine Instructor | New York Botanical Garden Seminar | Garden Large

• Discover a contextual approach to shaping landscape and garden space. A design method
   is outlined which bases decision-making on the characteristics of the site, not conventional
   style or structure. Topics include connecting spaces, the relationship between background and foreground, transparency, and framing views. The instructor illustrates his talk with images of his 6-acre naturalistic garden.

   

  Instructor: Duncan Brine

   

  Friday, February 24, 2012, 10am – 12pm
   

   

   

   

  

Botanists agree to loosen Latin’s grip – The Washington Post (via Ida Wye)

• Globally, scientists discover 2,000 new species per annum. As many as one in five of the world’s plant species have yet to be identified, and not until they are named and known to the scientific community can they can be protected and studied further. “You can’t talk about it until that point,” said James Miller, vice president for science at the New York Botanical Garden. “It’s not the end of knowing a species, it’s the beginning.”

Land trusts thrive despite, and because of, the Great Recession — High Country News

• The latest gains bring the total area protected by the nation’s land trusts to 47 million acres — more than twice the area covered by all of the national parks in the Lower 48 states.

• And in recent years, local land trusts have been "saving more land than is lost to development,"

• These trends put California, Colorado and Montana among the top five states nationwide in total private land conserved.

• Jon Christensen is the executive director of the Bill Lane Center for the American West at Stanford University; Jenny Rempel and Judee Burr are researchers at the Center.

UPNE – Integrated Landscaping: Lauren Chase-Rowell

• “A first-rate model for forward thinking landscapers everywhere. It’s time to bring nature back into our lives, and this book shows us how.”—Richard Louv, author, The Nature Principle and Last Child in the Woods

  “From initial design to plant choice to installation, this book will guide you in the creation of a beautiful, functional, and enriching landscape, regardless of the size of your property or budget.”—Douglas W. Tallamy, author, Bringing Nature Home

   

  A new way of thinking about landscaping home grounds and public spaces, Revised and Expanded

   

  Most landscape manuals describe a linear sequence of processes: design, plant selection, installation, and ongoing maintenance. Integrated Landscaping is different. It uses natural ecosystems as models, taking a nonlinear, holistic approach that addresses these processes simultaneously. Integrated Landscaping treats each site as a system of plant and animal communities, considering their interrelationships with each other and their environment.

   

  Click here for TABLE OF CONTENTS

• Brine Garden: Stream in fall
  

Exploring Humanity’s Place In the Journey of the Universe by : Yale Environment 360

• …There’s starting to be a sense now that  there’s a moral issue about degradation of the environment, that there is something here that’s larger than us, something that’s given birth to all life forms and sustains us. And if we degrade that, it’s to the degradation of future generations. So there’s an inter-generational ethic here. And there’s a new emerging ethic of responsibility to people in other parts of the world who are suffering from our actions with things like climate change, which is affecting people along coastal waters.So where is the moral force going to come from for inter-generational ethics or ethical responsibility for people in other parts of the world? It’s going to come from longer-range thinking, and that’s what the religions can contribute.

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