VNLA Newsletter Spring 2018

have built successful businesses speak about the great ca- reers available in a profession that makes a difference in healthier living outdoors, they will find the solution to labor shortage. Simply stating that "I can't find good people!" re- inforces that you will not find good people. As a profession, we must collectively believe that this is an exciting time with changes ahead that will create an even greater future. Here is one more strategy to consider: Find Someone to Speak Out for You - Just as I am doing today. For over 35 years, I have been part of the landscape profession, from mowing grass on a golf course as a teen, to years of selling and creating outdoor spaces for families, businesses and communities to now 25 years of training and inspiring professionals across North America. I have en- joyed watching people grow exceptional careers and suc- cessful businesses while making a positive impact on their communities, their families and one another's lives. What I would like to do today is encourage you to help us get young people and those still looking for meaningful careers en- gaged in this important profession that gets people outside and living healthier lives. If you know that person looking for a great career, email me and we will solve this problem and others that come our way together. BY JIM PALUCH Quotes "We cannot solve our problems with the same level of think- ing that created them" - Albert Einstein "It's so much easier to suggest solutions when you don't know too much about the problem." - Malcolm S. Forbes "Most people spend more time and energy going around problems than in trying to solve them." - Henry Ford "We are continually faced by great opportunities brilliantly disguised as insoluble problems." - Lee Iacocca "How you think about a problem is more important than the problem itself - so always think positively." - Norman Vin- cent Peale "One thing is sure. We have to do something. We have to do the best we know how at the moment . . . ; If it doesn't turn out right, we can modify it as we go along." - Franklin D.Roosevelt "You won't find a solution by saying there is no problem." - William Rotsler "The dogmas of the quiet past are inadequate to the stormy present. The occasion is piled high with difficulty, and we must rise with the occasion. As our case is new, so we must think anew and act anew." - Abraham Lincoln "Good management is the art of making problems so inter- esting and their solutions so constructive that everyone wants to get to work and deal with them." - Paul Hawken

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News - Chesapeake Bay Landscape Professional Training Update

The Chesapeake Bay Landscape Professional (CBLP) certification program is grateful for the ongoing part- nership with the VNLA and welcomes Jeff Howe, VCH and Level 2 certified CBLP Designer/Installer to our Steering Committee and Dr. Laurie Fox as a CBLP cer- tified trainer (CBLP-T). Since establishing the CBLP cer- tification program in 2015, VNLA board members and VCH's have contributed as technical advisors and through the certification process as certified CBLPs. The first cohort of 113 CBLPs helped us exceed our water quality impact goals for our original grant project funded by the National Fish and Wildlife, Campbell Foundation, Prince Charitable Trust, Virginia Environmental Endowment, Virginia De- partment of Game and Inland Fisheries Habitat Partners©, Maryland Sea Grant and the District of Columbia Depart- ment of the Environment. By CBLP reports of hands-on de- sign, installation or maintenance activities associated with conservation landscapes with native plants and stormwater best management practices (e.g. riparian buffers, permeable pavements, rain gardens, etc.), we estimate that Baywide, CBLP projects minimize stormwater runoff and reduce at least 775, 370, and 509,929 pounds in nitrogen, phosphorus and sediment annually from the Chesapeake Bay. Imagine the water quality impact that our expanding network of CBLPs are having on the health of our local waterways and throughout the Bay watershed.

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