ASLA Oregon is establishing a committee to focus on Climate Action for our local chapter. In 2022 we partnered with the Washington and Alaska Chapters for a webinar ‘Restitching Communities with Landscapes: Climate Justice Strategies in the Pacific Northwest’. We are building on this work and provide a platform for our local landscape architecture community to learn and lead on climate with a specific focus on Oregon-specific issues.

We are looking for practitioners, educators, and students from across Oregon to join this group. The committee will reflect the key issues and opportunities and set the agenda for on-going activities around climate action including educational events and resources.

We will also select from the group a Climate Action Committee Chair, which will be a new member of ExCom that will regularly report on the group to the larger leadership of the chapter.

We will be connecting these state-wide activities to other regional collaborations in the North Pacific Region, and the larger ASLA National Climate Action Committee, and the soon to be released Climate Action Plan which will be unveiled at the Annual meeting in San Francisco on November 12 th . The overall goals of the committee are to:

 Inspire action toward the adoption of climate positive design

 Coordinate with ASLA national and regional chairs on climate action

 Connection point for regional networking around climate issues

 Provide education and outreach about landscape architecture and the climate

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Please contact Jason King presidentelect@aslaoregon.org if you are interested in joining the committee, and we will convene regular committee meetings starting in December 2022.