Environmental sustainability workshop to promote sustainable design, living for educators, designers, non-profit leaders, school officials April 17

Using sustainable design and native plants in landscaping, and implementing sustainable living, will be the topics of an Educational and Sustainable Design Workshop sponsored University of Richmond's School of Professional and Continuing Studies on April 17.

Warren Byrd Jr., co-founder of award-winning Nelson Bryd Woltz Landscape Architects, will speak on landscape design. A walking tour of sustainable and natural areas led by the U.S. Green Buildings Council Students group along with University of Richmond biology and geography professors and a panel discussion featuring area environmental education and sustainability experts will follow.

The workshop will conclude with a lecture by sustainable living experts Douglas Tallamy, professor and chair of entomology and wildlife ecology at the University of Delaware, and Audubon Medal-winner Richard Louv, author of “The Nature Principle: Reconnecting to Life in a Virtual Age,” “Saving Our Children from Nature-Deficit Disorder” and six other books.

The workshop takes place at the Robins School of Business, Queally Hall, from 10 a.m.-4 p.m. Cost is $50, and online registration is required at tinyurl.com/SNworkshop. The lecture by Tallamy and Louv is free and open to the public, but online registration is required at tinyurl.com/SNlectureregister.

The Sustainability and Nature Symposium is organized by the university’s Environmental Stewardship and Sustainable Design Program, in collaboration with the Office of Sustainability, University of Richmond School of Law’s Robert R. Merhige Jr. Center for Environmental Studies, The Steward School, Virginia Environmental Endowment, and student groups Green UR and U.S. Green Building Council Students.

For more information, contact Cary Jamieson at 804-287-1946 or cjamieson@richmond.edu, or visit spcs.richmond.edu/professional/sustainability/symposium/index.html.