Navigating Environmental Product Data: A Guide for Landscape Architects, Specifiers, and Industry Partners - 1.0 PDH (LA CES/HSW)

Amy Syverson‑Shaffer is the Sustainability Lead at Landscape Forms, where she advances environmental stewardship and responsible manufacturing. With a background in landscape architecture, she brings a designer’s perspective to industry and collaborates across disciplines to drive meaningful change, She progresses the company's long-term sustainability roadmap through initiatives in product life cycle assessment, zero‑waste manufacturing, renewable energy, ecological restoration, and more. Amy serves on the ASLA Biodiversity and Climate Action Committee and the Landscape Architecture Foundation Board, frequently presenting on sustainability strategies. She was recently honored with ASLA’s Outstanding Service Award in recognition of exceptional leadership in sustainability and industry collaboration.

Meg Calkins, FASLA, FCELA, is a Professor of Landscape Architecture and Environmental Planning at NC State University. She has taught and written about resilient site design and construction for 27 years. Her current book is Details and Materials for Resilient Sites: A Climate Positive Approach (Routledge 2025). She is the author of Materials for Sustainable Sites (2008) and editor of the Sustainable Sites Handbook (2012). Meg has taken an active leadership role in development and implementation of SITES since 2003, and has served on the ASLA Climate and Biodiversity Committee since 2023. She currently serves on the LAF Board.

Sasha Anemone is a Senior Designer with SALT Landscape Architects, a Los Angeles based firm with a focus on local work, affording opportunities to develop nuanced regional design processes with practices and aesthetics rooted in community engagement. She seeks to create place-based design interventions that support social justice and climate equity. She is particularly passionate about increasing awareness of the climate impacts of landscape architecture, and developing tools for practitioners to evaluate and mitigate these harms. She serves on ASLA's National Climate Action Committee and has led decarbonization efforts at SALT.