Financial Support Provided
Friends of the North Kingstown Free Library
March 29, 2025
What Is Sustainable
Landscaping?
Suzannah MacDonald is currently the owner of Staghorn Gardening and an adjunct faculty of Sustainability at Southern New Hampshire University. Suzannah has worked in agriculture and horticulture since 2012 and received a Master's in Environmental Science in resource management from Antioch University New England. As a North Kingstown resident, Suzannah practices the art of home garden sustainability to achieve greater resiliency in our local neighborhoods.
What is Sustainable Landscaping?
"What does it mean to have a sustainable landscape? How can you best support the conservation of resources and increase pollinator habitat all while maintaining the recreational use of your yard in a changing environment? This lecture will discuss basic Sustainable Landscape concepts that can be applied and adapted to residential properties to mitigate flooding, drought, and support biodiverse habitats in our community."
May 1, 2025
The Insurance Climate
Matt Gendron is the General Counsel & Chief of Regulatory Compliance for the Rhode Island Division of Insurance and has focused his last ten years on the regulation of insurance companies.
In recent years, as climate risks are increasing, insurance premiums have also been increasing. How are those two topics related and what are insurers doing to address the increased risks of climate change? Are there steps consumers can take to help both reduce their vulnerabilities to climate change and to mitigate future insurance rate increases? This talk will discuss the basics of how insurers derive their rates, what major factors can influence those rates, what newer tools insurers are utilizing, and how consumers can both prepare themselves for climate impacts and become better insurance risks.
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