Associations
Landesign is actively involved in several trade and community organizations which provides them with current information regarding their industry as well as the community.
PLANET, the Professional Landcare Network, is an international association serving lawn care professionals, landscape management contractors, design/build/installation professionals, and interior plantscapers. PLANET provides its members with a good business foundation to help them evaluate, plan, and better manage their companies. Member firms have direct access to marketing tools, industry specific business publications, updates on legislative issues, and networking opportunities that can assist them in becoming more profitable.
PLANET emerged on January 1, 2005, when the Associated Landscape Contractors of America (ALCA) and the Professional Lawn Care Association of America (PLCAA) joined forces to become a more encompassing network of green industry professionals.
PLCAA, organized in 1979, was the premier global trade association for residential and commercial lawn care professionals.
ALCA, founded in 1961, was the premier global trade association for landscape maintenance, installation, and design/build contractors and interiorscapers.
PLANET develops and maintains active programs for approximately 3,500 member firms in the areas of business management, government affairs, public relations, technical assistance, safety and insurance, education, and interindustry relations with other facets of the green industry.
USGBC
The U.S. Green Building Council is a 501(c)(3) non-profit community of leaders working to make green buildings available to everyone within a generation. This is the place to:
» Certify your green building
» Join USGBC as an organization
» Join a chapter as an individual
» Sign up for courses and workshops
» Purchase LEED Reference Guides
» Learn about Greenbuild
» Sign up for e-newsletters
» Become a LEED AP or Green Associate
» Explore green building research
California Landscape Contractors Association
A group of landscape contractors and Associate members from the San Francisco Bay Area Chapter decided in 1972 to form a CLCA chapter from the Golden Gate Bridge to the Oregon border. Dave Dorward, Phil Wyatt, Francisco Peccorini, Bud Fellenberg, and Bill Davidson were instrumental in the creation of North Coast Chapter. Of the many Associate members involved, Phil Wyatt and his company still actively support the chapter.
The chapter has the distinction of hosting the first Certified Landscape Technician test. On October 15, 1983, a “dry run” involving six landscape contractors and employees was conducted on a Santa Rosa farm. Today certification in construction, maintenance, and irrigation means as much as it did then -- an increase in professionalism and the assurance of trained, qualified personnel.
Cal Poly San Luis Obispo Alumni Association
The Cal Poly Alumni Association has been fostering “Mustang Pride” since its original inception in 1907. Today, over 12,000 Alumni Association members and over 117,000 alumni help the University maintain its standing as the best public, largely undergraduate university in the West as rated by U.S. News & World Report for 14 consecutive years (1992-2006).
North Coast Builders Exchange
The North Coast Builders Exchange - is a member-operated, not-for-profit association serving the Construction Industry in the California North Coast area (primarily Sonoma, Mendocino, and Lake Counties). One of hundreds of independently organized Builders Exchanges throughout the United States and Canada, NCBE serves its over 1800 member firms from the NCBE Headquarters office in Santa Rosa, California.
Pesticide Applications Professional Association
(PAPA)
The Pesticide Applicators Professional Association is a California non-profit, public benefit corporation which is dedicated to providing Continuing Education and to the implementation of safe and effective pest control techniques.
Sonoma County Alliance
The Alliance is a coalition of business, agriculture, labor and individuals organized to protect private property rights, to encourage a healthy economy, to maintain a sound environment, and to promote a responsive political process.
Take Back Our Community is a County-wide program sponsored by the Sonoma County Alliance. SCA Community representative groups have a strong interest in ridding our streets and neighborhoods of violent criminals and gang members through a monetary reward fund to assist local law enforcement and the District Attorney’s Office to bring such individuals to justice.