“The younger bracket of people, the demographic that is coming into power…they may actually have more practical impact on this whole issue than all of us aging idealists, the ex-hippies who didn't believe in cars and so on.” Kim Sorvig
We hear a somewhat controversial perspective on managing fire risk around homes and properties. We discuss a compelling solution: transitional landscape from human habitation to transitional spaces and then into forest.
Our guest, Kim Sorvig, is a research associate professor at the University of New Mexico and a George Pearl fellow, which is an honor given to professionals whose work encourages discourse and positive change in architecture, planning, and historic preservation.
Read an excerpt from Sustainable Landscape Construction, Third Edition, Principle 2: Heal Injured Soils and Sites: Restore Forests and Coexist with Wildfire
Winter 2024Read the companion article here.We know that the tree canopy plays a huge part in climate resilience. Urban centers are often the sites...
“I don't want to beat people over the head and say, you must conserve all of your water in a bucket, and this is...
Read the companion article here. “On all scales, at a time when nature biodiversity is facing enormous challenges because of urbanization and climate change,...
