ASLA:
The Biodiversity Primer – Designing for Net-Positive Biodiversity Impacts

Learn how to address the biodiversity crisis and make a net-positive impact on biodiversity in each landscape architecture project. Leaders of the ASLA Climate & Biodiversity Action Committee Subcommittee on Biodiversity will explain how to use the ASLA Biodiversity Primer, a popular resource that was developed to support the ASLA Climate & Biodiversity Action Plan.

Learning objectives:

• Upon completion, participants will have language and statistics to use in dialogue with clients and collaborators, to frame the important role that the design profession has in addressing the biodiversity crisis. 
• Be able to identify the factors that influence the potential for biodiversity net-positive impacts on a site.  
• Understand the variety of scales that biodiversity can be applied in planning and design efforts.