Decarbonizing the Design Process: A Phase by Phase Approach for Landscape Architects - 1.0 PDH (LA CES/HSW)
Recorded On: 03/06/2025
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The ASLA guide Decarbonizing the Design Process offers a phase-by-phase structure to decarbonize design through big ideas, strategies, and best practices. This webinar will explore the guide, with its high-level approach that can be implemented regardless of project type, scope, and scale.
As landscape architects and design professionals, our decisions shape the built environment—and with it, our planet’s future. The built environment is responsible for 42 percent of global greenhouse gas emissions, making decarbonization a critical priority.
By integrating low-carbon strategies, addressing environmental impacts, and advocating for sustainable practices, we can lead the shift toward a more climate-positive future.
Join us to discover how thoughtful design choices at every phase can contribute to a more resilient and regenerative world.
Learning Objectives:
At the end of the course participants will be able to:
- Identify strategies to make intentional, informed, and low-carbon decisions at every design phase.
- Explore solutions for reducing emissions and increasing carbon sequestration within projects.
- Develop an understanding of how to integrate this guide into project workflow, as a design and advocacy tool.
Image Credit: 2020 Professional General Design Honor Award. Naval Cemetery Landscape, Brooklyn, NY. Nelson Byrd Woltz Landscape Architects / Max Touhey
Alejandra Hinojosa, Affil. ASLA
Senior Sustainability Specialist
LPA Design Studios
As Sustainability Specialist within LPA’s Sustainability + Applied Research (S+AR) Team, Alejandra is focused on process and progress. LPA Design Studios is a multidisciplinary firm that prioritizes an integrated approach to sustainability which allows Alejandra a unique window of opportunity to effect change at a project, discipline, and firm-wide level. Her passion for environmentalism fuels her capacity to advocate for solutions that drive decarbonization and consider the triple bottom line: people, planet, prosperity. Always thinking about how we can design our built environment to prioritize both our ecosystems and our neighbors.
Mariana Z. Ricker, ASLA, PLA
Associate Principal
SWA Group
Mariana is passionate about place-based, sustainable design. In her work as a licensed landscape architect, Mariana seeks to create a vibrant public realm, connect people to the environment, and develop targeted strategies to accomplish the project vision. At SWA, she leads a wide range of projects, from community parks to district-scale urban development and planning around the Bay Area and beyond. Mariana is committed to climate action and advancing sustainability efforts within her project work, professionally, and at a firm-wide level with SWA's Climate Action Plan. She is co-chair of ASLA’s National Climate Subcommittee and is an active ULI member.
Andrew W. Wickham, FASLA, PLA, LEED AP (Moderator)
Project Designer
LPA Design Studios
Andrew is a design leader at LPA, a national integrated design firm where he advances work at the intersection of built, cultural, and natural systems. His interest lies in how the blending of built and natural environments can enhance a user’s experience and reinforce values of equity, ecology, and curiosity. Andrew is a proven thinker and strategist, speaking at numerous conferences about the value of performative landscapes and human experience. In 2025, served as the Advocacy Lead for LA 2040: Climate and Biodiversity Action Plan and is co-chair of the Advocacy sub-committee of the Climate & Biodiversity Action Committee.
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