Energy-Wise Landscape Design
Sue Reed ’87, a registered landscape architect, has helped hundreds of homeowners create comfortable, beautiful, energy-efficient landscapes. In Energy-Wise Landscape Design, she shares tips, techniques and actions, gleaned from nearly 25 years experience, that will help homeowners, gardeners, landscape professionals and students save money, time and effort while making their landscapes more environmentally healthy and energy efficient. Many illustrations in the book are by Kate Dana ’07.
Edible Forest Gardens
This comprehensive two-volume book by Conway grad David Jacke ’84 constitutes an in-depth course in ecological garden design. Edible Forest Gardens is written in a passionate, clear, and engaging style, it integrates the vision and ecology of forest gardening with practical design, establishment, and management strategies.
Lens on Outdoor Learning
The outdoors is filled with rich learning experiences for young children. Packed with colorful photographs and detailed stories about children exploring and experiencing nature, Lens on Outdoor Learning, which was co-authored by Ginny Sullivan ’86, will inspire you to facilitate and encourage children’s learning as they spend time in nature. Each story describes how children naturally explore and create their own learning experiences outdoors. Using images, children’s dialogue and actions, you will see how the natural world supports joyful and meaningful learning that connects to the approaches to learning standards.
Designing Greenways:
Sustainable Landscapes for Nature and People
Designing greenways is a key to protecting landscapes, allowing wildlife to move freely, and finding appropriate ways to bring people into nature. This book, co-authored by Conway Director Paul Cawood Hellmund, brings together examples from ecology, conservation biology, aquatic ecology, and recreation design to illustrate how greenways function and add value to ecosystems and human communities alike. (Ok, Paul isn’t a Conway alum, but he tells us he feels like one after teaching at the school so long.)
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