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The renewable energy landscape: opporTuniTies, challenges and responsibiliTy

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panelists explore the landscape architect’s design agency within an evolving energy-delivery system as they illuminate the emerging landscape-design implications of decarbonized energy. Topics include spatial, social, ecological, and technical prec-edents, which together provide a critical foundation for understanding and shaping the energy debate.

1. learn about the socio-spatial implications of large–scale renewable electricity generation and energy storage.

2. develop an understanding for the ecological benefits and challenges surrounding renewable electricity generation.

3. discuss the relative merits of decentralized vs. centralized energy networks and the landscape implications of ‘smarter grids’.

4. explore recent precedents for poly-functional energy landscapes (urban and rural).

Concept sketch for generating energy by using piezoelectricity at Fresh Kills landscape, Staten Island New YorkCredit: Barker Freeman Design Office

LEARNING OBJECTIVES

OVERVIEw

The Renewable Energy Landscape:Opportunities, Challenges and Responsibility


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Concept sketch for decentralized energyCredit: NREL

1. introduction

2. what is the rationale for integrating renewable energy to meet the nation’s energy needs?

a. drivers creating the shift towards renewable energyb. state of renewable implementation at a national scalec. u.s. top states for cumulative renewable electricity installed capacity d. u.s. renewable electricity generation by technology

3. in what capacity can the landscape architect be integrated into a renewable energy venture?

a. defining the roles of advocate, facilitator, strategist, implementerb. expanding the definition of green infrastructure

c. identifying the energy, water and land nexus relationships for the requirements of each non-renewable and renewable energy source

4. how will renewables be integrated within the grid and support demand?a. Future potential for renewable energy technologies in the united statesb. what is decentralized energy?c. integrating renewable electricity on the gridd. Technical challenges in deploying renewable energy become opportunities

5. what is the business case for renewable energy? presentation of case studies.

PRESENTATION OUTLINE

asla 2015 annual MeeTing & expo

MICHELLE SLOVENSKY


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5. redefining human-spatial engagement: system design can decide outcomes in the realm of human experience. citizens climate lobbyworks to build relationships between citizens and decision-makers, expanding the brain trust for policy and facilitating an improved experience for human beings and for the planet.

a. Joe robertson will update us on the development of a new landscape for building political will, through local engagement, to accelerate the pace of transformational climate action

b. as new multi-stakeholder engagement platforms emerge, market applications for new technologies, design elements, and business practices, are being decided in tune with the needs expressed by stakeholders.

c. we are now living the paradigm shift, with participatory global governance structures and transition technologies coming together into an operational redesign of our civilization are being decided in tune with the needs expressed by stakeholders.

ASLA 2015 ANNUAL MEETING & ExPO

Solar Photovoltaic Arrays at NREL’s South Table Mountain Campus

Golden, ColoradoAugust 1, 2014

Concept sketch for decentralized energyCredit: NREL

Photo credit: Dennis Schroeder

JOSEPH ROBERSTON


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Southport Broadwater Parklands, Gold Coast, Australia

6. socio-spatial implications of renewable electricitya. energy / land nexusb. energy/carbon nexus i. implications of power density (watts per meter2) ii. land transformation needed to meet scenario goalsc. energy/energy nexus i. carbon profiles across renewable options ii. energy return on energy invested (eroi) across renewable energy options

7. exergy matching + feedback designa. energy/carbon nexusb. Feedback design

8. designing for power across scalesa. southport broadwater parklands – gold coast, australiab. Mary switzer building landscape renovation - washington dcc. pier 70 redevelopment - san Francisco, cad. Midwest energy vision 2035 – navy Mid-west region

RYAN BOUMA


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9. biomass creation on marginalized landscapes: precedent projects utilizing phytoremediation to remove and control contaminants

a. landfill leachate and phytoirrigation (poplar Farm) - riverbend landfill, McMinnville oregonb. waste water Treatment and phytoirrigation (poplar Farm) - woodburn waste water Treatment Facility, woodburn, oregonc. landfill evapotranspiration cap (willow Farm) - solvay waste beds, syracuse, nyd. agricultural phytobuffering (willow buffers)- prairie willow rings, agroforestry development centre, saskatchewan, canadae. More case studies documented in the following publication: phTyo:

principles and resources for site remediation and landscape design by Kate Kennen & niall Kirkwood. available for purchase at amazon.com

10. roundtable discussion

11. Questions


Photo taken in 2011 at the International Phytotechnologies Society Workshop by Kate Kennen and featured in publication: PHTYO: Principles and resources for site remediation and landscape design

KATE KENNEN


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parTicipanTs

Joseph robertson is global strategy director for the non-partisan non-profit citizens’ climate lobby. he is author of the book ‘building a green economy: on the econom-ics of carbon pricing & the Transition to clean, renewable Fuels’ and founder and president of geoversiv envision-ing (geoversiv.net) a research, design and media endeav-or that aims to discover and deploy the ingredients of a clean future of global abundance. he is an emeritus fac-ulty member of Villanova university’s center for energy

and environment education and editor of the spanish-language sustainability publication FuturismoVerde.net. he is director of the pathway to paris coalition: pathway-toparis.org.

ryan bouma is a landscape architect and urban de-signer with over 15 years experience in the design and planning of landscape infrastructure. a senior associate with aecoM, Mr. bouma leads public realm design and redevelopment efforts around the globe with emphasis on decarbonized energies and their landscape-enabled social, ecological and economic feedbacks. Mr. bouma’s

recent research at the harvard graduate school of design focused on landscapes of energy and the associated in-tersection of design, thermodynamics, policy and tech-nology.

Michelle slovensky, leed ap building design and construction, has 27 years of providing inter-disciplinary experience in energy/water management, green build-ing design/construction, natural resource planning /management, restoration ecology and capital planning. she understands how to design, manage, and cultivate resources that regenerate environments and optimize facility operations needs today while remaining flexible for future generations. Michelle’s leadership and innova-tion are broad reaching to a variety of local, regional, national and global projects. as the energy program Manager at nrel, Michelle provides strategic leadership and technical expertise for implementing presidential executive orders, energy management, high perfor-

mance buildings and green infrastructure, measuring/monitoring/program implementation for performance metrics, return on investment, and developing policies and strategies for the efficient use of energy, water, and material resources. as an agent of change, she has facilitated the adoption of campus wide behaviors and procedures to support sustainability goals. additionally she crafts tools and initiatives that support performance of campus operations and research demonstration through data collection, synthesis, advanced analytics and communication. she authored several publications on net-zero energy, landscape stewardship and integra-tion of sustainability in business operations.

Kate Kennen is the founder and president of offshoots, inc., a boston landscape architecture practice focused on productive planting techniques and phytotechnology consulting. her book ‘phyTo: principles of site remedia-tion and landscape design’ was published in 2015. Kate completed her undergraduate studies in landscape ar-chitecture at cornell university, and received her mas-ter’s degree with distinction from the harvard graduate

school of design. having spent her childhood at her fam-ily’s garden center in Massachusetts, Kate is well versed in the plants of the northeast. she currently teaches a research seminar in phytoremediation and plant-based technologies at the harvard gsd.

JOSEPH ROBERTSON, GLOBAL STRATEGY dIRECTOR CITIZENS CLIMATE LOBBY

RYAN BOUMA, ASLA, SENIOR ASSOCIATE AECOM

KATE KENNEN, ASLA, PRINCIPAL OffSHOOTS, INC.

MICHELLE SLOVENSKY, ASLA, ENERGY PROGRAM MANAGER the national renewable energy labratory (sustainable nrel)

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