After working with Metro Blooms this past growing season, I enjoyed working with young people, training them with the nuance of how to care for raingardens designed with tremendous native diversity.I'm thrilled the landscape industry has adopted more sustainable practices, including greater use of native plant diversity and recognition of the values of that diversity. Habitat for endangered pollinators is an important one.In 1989, I founded EnergyScapes to plan, transform and nurture more healthy, beautiful landscapes. We made a decision to close the company in 2016 due to the changing economy. Since 2019, I have begun a new venture growing trees best adapted to the coming climate disruption. Stay tuned for a species list and availability.These landscapes save energy at all phases: during construction we relied on more human power, we purchased local materials to reduce transport, we designed plantings that continue to reduce summer cooling and winter heating bills, as well as self-sustaining communities of native diversity that take less fuel to maintain. No mowing, blowing, fertilizer or pesticides required.I continue to write articles and give presentations on sustainable landscaping and how to apply these principles in residential to commercial settings including alternative, low-input lawns. Let me know if you would like to schedule my presentation, "The Lawn of the Future", for your group.Specialties: teaching how to plan, transform and nurture landscapes that heal us as they calm us with their beauty, with raingardens, permeable driving surfaces, and adding more habitat for threatened pollinators.Planning diversity and resilience for our changing climate.Teaching the wider goals of incorporating sustainability into our lifestyle, including our spirituality.