This book focuses on seeing how justice, equality, diversity and inclusion (JEDI) presently shows in existing spaces, how to retrofit existing spaces to improve JEDI through green design, as well as design new green spaces with a focus on JEDI. JEDI for gender, race, culture, age, and ability show in public and private site design, more so in their lack of equality in green design.

The effects of JEDI show in the lack of:

-- healthy food and agriculture.

-- green spaces in areas of people with lower economic means.

-- community green design in redlined areas.

-- community green design in areas of hi ratio of immigrants.

-- green design in areas with a dominance of people who are BIPOC.

-- green design affects the health of people with lower incomes.

-- easy access for people to waterfronts and other public comforts.

-- access to public recreational design.

-- ease of access for people who have different abilities for mobility, seeing and reading English.

Addressing JEDI can be designed directly into sites as integral in the design process (not as an afterthought or gesture), through retrofitting existing sites as well as for new site design. Exploring healthy approaches to the important topic of equality is an important step in acknowledging the lack of JEDI and exploring designs for improved inclusion. This involves listening to people; and creatively exploring design for diversity and inclusion for gender, race, culture, age, ability; and economic range.

This book gives readers a way to not only understand JEDI in greening but also to understand how to develop inclusive approaches to design. The two basic site types in this book are- existing spaces which greening design is applied to afterwards; and upcoming spaces which greening design can be built into the space. The first type of retrofitting greening into existing space can also be combined with the second type of space (new designs). There are examples of both types throughout the book.

Stevie Famulari, Gds is an artist, author, researcher, green design specialist, founder and principal of Engaging Green, and professor of Landscape Architecture and Horticulture. She has been a professor at the University of New Mexico (UNM), North Dakota State University (NDSU), SUNY Farmingdale, and the University of Cincinnati (UC). She guest lectures at Harvard University, Northeastern University, University of Minnesota, University of Cincinnati, and U.C. Berkeley. She is a keynote speaker, receives numerous awards, and shares information to help numerous people experience greening in new and unique ways.

This is Stevie’s fourth book. Her first book, Green Up! Sustainable Design Solutions for Healthier Work and Living Environments, explores unique greening solutions and practices that help create a lifestyle shift, improving the health of living and working spaces for its occupants from an individual, business, ecological, and profitable perspective. Her second book, Designing Green Spaces for Health, Using Plants to Reduce the Spread of Airborne Viruses, focuses on using plants in spatial design to reduce the infectiousness of viruses in different working and living spaces. It presents strategies for interior and exterior green designs with plants that are likely effective for flu virus tolerance and reduction of infectiousness. Her third book, Ways of Greening, Using Plants and Gardens for Healthy Work and Living Surroundings, explores designs that rethink work and living spaces with healthy green designs focusing on adding 10% of living green design per square foot to interior and exterior sites. Through the illustrations, designs, photos, and text, readers can understand and apply greening to their spaces.

Her installation Engaging Urban Greening was installed at the Smithsonian Museum in Washington D.C. Over 1,400 seeded paper pieces (colorful papers embedded with a wildflower seed mix) were given to the public during the installation. People from D.C., New York, Michigan, Maryland, Florida, California, Oregon, Nigeria, Melbourne Australia, India, Yorkshire England, and South Korea added green to their community by planting their seeded papers in the soil- creating their living artwork.

Mx. Famulari’s designs and design research explore the relationship, extension, and application of green designs and public art to other diverse fields to create healthy spaces for living and working. Time, change, and engaging in the process are some of the continuing themes in her works. Defying traditions as well as celebrating ecological processes, using community and individual stories of sites are themes she is widely recognized for. With the applied art of green design combined with the science of phytoremediation, her works have aesthetic beauty as well as healing properties for both people and the environs.

Her work in greening designs, research, and education can be seen nationally and internationally and includes: green walls; planted roofs; green office designs, green remediation designs for interior and exterior applications; designs for the EPA in Colorado; Ghost Ranch Visitor Center for the Georgia O’Keefe Museum in Abiquiu, New Mexico; developing green design and policies on the UNM campus; flood control design for the Red River in North Dakota.

Lectures, presentations, and exhibitions of her work include the Cincinnati Art Museum, Plains Art Museum, San Diego Museum, Minnesota Erosion Control Association (MECA), Engineering Mechanics Institute, University of Minnesota, (UMN), NDSU, American Society of Landscape Architecture (ASLA), and the American Institute of Architecture (AIA) and numerous galleries. Awards of Stevie Famulari’s works and community leadership include the Environs Leadership Award from MECA, Community Service Award from The Arts Partnership (TAP), selected for Team USA for the Festival Du Voyageur, Art in Public Places in New Mexico, New York State Floral Industry (NYSFI), Long Island Nursery and Landscape Association (LINLA), and NMEH Award for New Mexico Symphony Orchestra.

Stevie Famulari’s phytoremediation database of hundreds of plants that clean the air, soil, and water of contaminants is used by the EPA, courses at Harvard Graduate School of Design, International Phytoremediation Society, landscape architecture and engineering firms, and administrative agencies. Based on her second book, Stevie also created a database of plants for reducing airborne viruses. She has been an investigator for grants that explore water remediation design for oil drilling and fracking processes, improving air quality, remediation design for communities, and interior greening applications.

Her designs and design research explore the relationship, extension, and application of green designs to other diverse fields. She received her graduate degree in Landscape Architecture (MLA) from the State University of New York (SUNY) ESF with a concentration in Fine Arts from Syracuse University. Her undergraduate degree is in Fine Arts (BFA) from NYU.

Stevie Famulari’s work has appeared in hundreds of books, magazines, newspapers, and television programs, including Smithsonian Magazine, Food Network Challenges & Specials, Oakland Tribune, World Entertainmxnt News Network, The Oprah Winfrey Show, Travel Channel, Good Morning America, CBS Early Morning News, Washington Post, The Post Standard, Trust for Public Land, Boston Herald, Berkeley Daily Planet, Santa Fe Reporter, and Star Tribune.