Climate Positive Design: LA CES Quiz

Quiz for 1 CEU (HSW)

Thank you for viewing the Landscape Architecture Foundation's webinar "Climate Positive Design with Pamela Conrad."

In order to receive a Professional Development Hour (PDH) through the Landscape Architecture Continuing Education System (LA CES), please complete the following 10-question quiz and provide your name and email at the end of the quiz.

You will receive your score after you submit the quiz; attendees scoring 75% or higher will receive 1.0 PDH. Those who do not will be given an opportunity to re-take it. Certificates will be emailed within 2 weeks.

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* 1. What is the Climate Positive Design Challenge?

A carbon market for landscape architecture projects

An exact target for years to carbon positive applicable to any type of landscape project

A call to get to positive on all projects as soon as possible by reducing carbon footprints and increasing sequestration in designed spaces

A function on Pathfinder that limits how much carbon it allows you to enter in a project

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* 2. What does "climate positive" mean?

The burning of fossil fuels

Going beyond carbon neutral and sequestering more greenhouse gas emissions than embodied or produced over the lifecycle of a project

The process of creating energy through natural methods such as solar or wind power

A call to action for those outside the landscape architecture discipline to join the movement to reduce their carbon footprint

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* 3. What is the suggested target years to carbon positive for streetscapes and plazas within the Climate Positive Design Challenge?

1 year

10 years

20 years

50 years

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* 4. If all projects were designed to meet the Climate Positive Design targets, by 2030 they could sequester more CO2 than emitted, getting to “positive” and helping...

avoid the 1.5 degrees C of warming predicted by the IPCC

the fossil fuel companies by giving them time to transition to biofuels

buildings save costs on air conditioning and other cooling expenses after 2030

farmers because less carbon means forests won’t have the ability to encroach on farmland

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* 5. According to the Climate Positive Design Challenge, how much carbon could potentially be sequestered by 2050 if landscape architects were to answer the Challenge?

10 tons

1 million tons

1 gigaton

50 gigatons

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* 6. How can the Pathfinder tool be used (select all that apply)?

To get specific material, design and maintenance recommendations for how to get to climate positive sooner

To design projects to remove more carbon from the atmosphere than they emit

To understand what architects are doing to address the climate crisis

To compare your project’s years to climate positive to other projects in Pathfinder’s database

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* 7. In order to achieve Climate Positive targets, it is always necessary to make drastic changes to a site’s design.

True

False

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* 8. What are some ways that a project can make changes to get to climate positive faster (select all that apply)?

Add more trees

Convert lawn and concrete to shrubs

Recommend electric or hand-powered equipment for maintenance

Add features that attract wealthy users

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* 9. The embodied carbon and sequestration data behind the Pathfinder comes from these two primary sources:

Embodied Carbon: GaBi, Sequestration: National Forest Foundation

Embodied Carbon: Athena Impact Estimator, Sequestration: US Forest Service

Embodied Carbon: Tally, Sequestration: International Forest Organization

Embodied Carbon: Green Building Council, Sequestration: ESRI

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* 10. What organizations are advisory partners of the initiative (select all that apply)?

Landscape Architecture Foundation (LAF)

American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA)

International Federation of Landscape Architects (IFLA)

Canadian Society of Landscape Architects (CSLA)

Landscape Architecture Canada Foundation (LACF)

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