Residential consumption represents nearly a quarter of North America’s total energy use, with the average homeowner spending thousands of dollars a year on power. Join landscape architect Sue Reed as she demonstrates—in her own design projects and many others across New England—the principles of designing landscapes to save on home heating and cooling costs. This talk also shows how to minimize fuel used in landscape construction, maintenance, and everyday living, and how to choose materials with lower embedded energy costs.

Reed is a registered landscape architect who has helped hundreds of homeowners create comfortable, livable, and beautiful energy-saving landscapes. She has worked in western Massachusetts for nearly 25 years, including twelve years as an instructor at the Conway School of Landscape Design. Her recent article, “Sustainable Landscape Design,” appears in Volume II of the new Encyclopedia of Sustainability. Her new book, Energy-Wise Landscape Design, will be available for purchase.

Fee: $15 members, $20 general public