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Call to Action!
Learn more about your role in ASLA advocacy at the 2006 ASLA Annual Meeting & EXPO and 43rd IFLA World Congress.
The 2006 ASLA Annual Meeting & EXPO and 43rd IFLA World Congress includes an education session featuring strategies and examples on how landscape architects can have an impact on public policy at all levels of government. Call to Action: Transforming Red and Blue States to Green (Saturday, October 7 at 12:45 pm) features:
- Landscape architect G. Glenn Oder, ASLA, who serves in the Virginia House of Delegates and previously served on the Newport News Planning Commission. Delegate Oder will provide a legislator’s perspective on the need for landscape architectural expertise in the public policy debates.
- Craig Coronato, ASLA, who will discuss the effort to enact a practice act to regulate landscape architecture in Colorado. The licensure campaign has been a marathon effort, with legislative activity expected to continue in 2007. This case study will focus on the strategic lessons learned as the chapter worked for the most basic issue in the landscape architecture profession: licensure.
- Dale Jaeger, FASLA, who will provide perspectives from the Georgia battle to protect the right of landscape architects to practice stormwater management in that state. A proposed model ordinance would reserve these functions for professional engineers, but the Georgia chapter has been working to preserve this important area of landscape architectural practice, because even after licensure is enacted, it is essential that landscape architects remain vigilant in defense of the right to practice.
- The ASLA Advocacy Network, which will explain how landscape architects can help shape the political landscape through grassroots involvement at the state and federal level. It will allow landscape architects to speak with a united voice on issues that impact the profession and the world around us.
For more information, please contact Julia Lent, Director of Government Affairs, at jlent@asla.org.
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