Women Landscape Architects Take the Lead on Climate Action (Part 1)

When thinking about climate change, many of us focus on the looming environmental impacts — sea level rise, increased intensity of storms and floods, rising temperatures. And landscape architects are increasingly creating solutions to those “ecological, technical problems,” said Elizabeth Meyer, FASLA, professor of landscape architecture at the University of Virginia, during the kick-off of Courageous by Design, a day-long conference organized by The Cultural Landscape Foundation (TCLF) in New York City comprised entirely of women speakers.