Green Features

…Selection and Design The building site was chosen to protect existing vegetation, minimize earth moving, and make the most of solar heating and cooling design. South-facing orientation allows for a…

What is Therapeutic Horticulture?

…practitioners may possess the skills to design the garden themselves and others may work with a trained landscape designer to make their vision a reality. Therapeutic gardens are designed to…

Jenny Elder Fitch Memorial Lectures

…author, conservationist, and professor of entomology and wildlife ecology, University of Delaware Rick Darke, landscape design consultant, author, and photographer The Living Landscape: Designing for Beauty and Biodiversity in the…

Online Certificate in Therapeutic Horticulture

…counselors, substance use disorder counselors, K-12 educators, college educators, educators of exceptional children, public garden professionals, urban planning designers, and landscape designers/architects. To explore whether this course is right for…

Curb Appeal

…by LIFT Environmental Design and project management by UNC Facilities Services: Planning and Design. Thanks also to Design Dimension for creating the lettering design and Myatt Landscaping for the construction!…

AEC

Design Green Building Rating System: a third-party certification program and the nationally accepted benchmark for the design, construction, and operation of high-performance green buildings. Accessibility At the Allen Education Center,…

William Chambers Coker

…Southeast, not only in an academic sense, but also for purposes of landscape design. Other topics of inquiry included bryophytes, filmy ferns, the teaching of science, and the biography of…