Workshop Series: The Art of Sustainable Living
Join us for an informative and empowering series of workshops to discuss and analyze sustainable living, and apply concepts to one’s own lifestyle.
Instructor: Richard T. Reep, LEED-AP
Workshops are offered as individual classes for $25, or enjoy the entire series for $125. Students will be provided valuable, practical information to integrate into their daily lives. Must pre-register as course is limited to 15 students.
Workshop 1: Introduction to Sustainable Living
Students will complete the workshop with critical thinking tools to analyze “green” claims and take steps towards making their own lifestyles more sustainable.
Workshop 2: Sustainable Land – Development Principles and Practices
Students will complete the workshop with tools to understand their property’s impact on the environment, their water useage, and ways to improve sustainability in these two key categories.
Workshop 3: Energy
Students will complete the workshop with ways to reduce energy useage, ways to capture lost energy being created by their residence, and innovative ways to generate energy for production.
Workshop 4: Building Materials and Indoor Air Quality
Students will complete the workshop with ways to understand their own shopping habits, how to increase recycled content in items they purchase, and how to improve their indoor air quality.
Workshop 5: Innovation in Sustainable Design
Students will complete the workshop with ways to analyze and discuss developers’ “green” claims, and how to properly apply innovative technologies to their own residences.
Workshop 6: Intentional Communities and Co-Housing
Students will complete the workshop with new ways to view their own neighborhood and community, and how to view shared space and shared resources, as well as shared production capabilities.
Students taking these workshops will gain an understanding of sustainability related to landscape, architecture, and interior design, both for their own residences and for their community.
Each workshop explores a different question, and the workshops can be taken individually or as an entire class series.