Mark Haubner, President of North Fork Environmental Council, is offering a 6-week workshop series on Nature-based Solutions (NbS). We hope you will join us for one or more of these informative, action-oriented programs. Admission is Free. The workshops may also be viewed live on YouTube, or you may join via Zoom (contact
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Part 3 in the series, combining two concepts, is titled: "Nature Cools / Slow the Flow."
It sounds so simple that we can use a dozen Nature-based Solutions to both reduce the costs and trouble of "managing" stormwater by increasing our soil organic matter; and by coupling these practices with thoughtful changes in design of our buildings, we can achieve healthier and more sponge-like soils. Using time-proven planting methods and using them for as much bare soil as possible, while expanding pollinator gardens to replace the monocrops of Modern Residential Turfgrass (“lawn”!), we can start to bring our bioregion’s temperatures down within one growing season.
These are profound and impactful changes made at the local and bioregional levels, and the participants in this workshop will discover and adopt a dozen ways to Slow the Flow and see that Nature Cools in their own communities. We will assess these techniques and decide on the social, economic and environmental applications for the greatest impact for your own situation.
Join climate science communicator, Mark Haubner, at the UUs of Southold meeting house at 6:00pm on Thursday, November 13, and get ready to pursue your own efforts in your particular area of interest.
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