Please Note; If you wish to obtain your LA CES CEU Credit, you must provide your license number below, then complete this live class in its entirety and pass a quiz. Once your attendance is recorded and the quiz is completed and passed, your results will be uploaded to the LA CES website.

For those Landscape Architects that are not members of LA CES, then you will receive a certificate of completion and you will be able to send this to your chapter/association for credit.

Webinar Information
The ultimate lowdown on resiliency theory, this webinar will illustrate the importance of disturbance as a creative force in the natural and built environment, from meadows to cities. After a brief intro to the history of sustainable development and the emergence of the field of landscape ecology, you will be introduced to the five identifiable traits of resilient systems. This knowledge will arm you to assess resiliency and build resilient landscapes, neighborhoods, and urban systems.

Learning Objectives

1. Understand the history of sustainable development.
2. Recognize the traits of a resilient built or natural system.
3. Implement a resilient design process on various scales.

Mary Adelaide Scipioni
Pebble-stream Landscape Architecture

Mary is a licensed landscape architect practicing in the Finger Lakes Region of New York under the name, Pebble-stream. She has over thirty-five years of design experience and has worked in NYC, Milan, Italy, and in Western Massachusetts. Mary has taught landscape architecture, design history, and urban planning at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Mount Holyoke College, Rochester Institute of Technology, and Hampshire College. Mary’s public service includes the Planning Board and Comprehensive Planning Committee in Amherst, MA, and the Architectural Review Board in Brighton, New York. She has conducted research on stormwater management and stream corridor restoration, landscape ecology processes, and resiliency. Mary has presented at conferences, continuing education sessions, and symposia in the Northeast US. She writes on the Medium.com platform and has a publication within Medium called theLANDSCAPE. Among other titles, Mary has published Your Rad Garden: Freedom, Purpose, and Meaning in Your Backyard.