Carbon, Equity and Designer’s Responsibility – Field Lessons for Climate Positive Outcomes - 1.25 PDH (LA CES/HSW)
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As crafters of the built environment, we have a unique opportunity and responsibility to make the right design choices. In this interactive hands-on session, you'll learn about the intersection of Equity and Climate Positive Design. The team will demonstrate tools, share case studies, and discuss strategies to become net positive.
Learning objectives:
- Attain a better understanding of carbon initiatives and how they correlate to design equity.
- Acquire knowledge of embodied carbon in our everyday materials palettes, and develop quick adaptations to make choices that are climate-friendly.
- Through a visual demonstration of the Pathfinder tool, expand your knowledge and insight of greener design in your projects.
- Become a more responsible designer, with a deep awareness of the impact of product specifications on climate change and planet health.
Marieke Lacasse, FASLA, PLA, LEED AP BD+C
Principal
GGLO
Marieke’s leadership in multidisciplinary practice and landscape architecture has yielded significant, sustained impacts at local and national scales. Her commitment to promoting sustainability and ecological principles in dense environments has helped to create inherently social spaces that spark belonging and identity. She believes in the power of collaboration, emphasizing co-creation and design equity to ensure that built work reflects the unique character, values, and needs of a community. Marieke is an enthusiastic supporter of Climate Action and carbon drawdown in her work. She has served for three years on the ASLA Climate Action Committee, as well as for ten years at the chapter level. Additionally, she volunteers her time to support homeless and affordable housing, arts, and environmental non-profits.
Pamela Conrad, ASLA, PLA, LEED AP
Founder of Climate Positive Design, Lecturer at Harvard GSD, ASLA Climate & Biodiversity Fellow, 2024-2025
Climate Positive Design / Harvard Graduate School of Design
Pamela Conrad is an internationally recognized landscape architect and climate advocate. She is a senior fellow with Architecture 2030, and a 2023 Loeb Fellow and Faculty Lecturer at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. She founded Climate Positive Design to enable climate action by providing guidance and an app to support design teams in drawing down carbon while creating environmental, social, cultural, and economic co-benefits. She is a farm girl from Missouri, inspired by the richness and ingenuity of nature.
Jessie Templeton, AIA, LEED AP
Associate Architect, Embodied Carbon Specialist
GGLO Design
Jessie Templeton is an Architect and Researcher who focuses on carbon and equity in the built environment. She leads Embodied Carbon Research and Analysis efforts at GGLO Design where she facilitates Carbon accounting for all the firm’s projects on the road to a Climate Positive project portfolio by 2030. Jessie also co-leads the Design Equity Initiative, an effort to embed an equity lens in the project process, culminating in material choices, spaces and projects that strive for a more equitable built environment.
Jessie’s project experience includes LEED Platinum and Living Building Challenge Multi-Family, Affordable, and Mixed-Use urban projects.
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