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

Amy Syverson-Shaffer is passionate about connecting people to nature and to each other. Her past work as a landscape architect and in business development frames her collaborative approach to taking on big challenges. Today, she is lending her design acumen and contextual understanding to leading sustainability for the modern craft manufacturer, Landscape Forms. Since 2023, she’s served on the ASLA Biodiversity and Climate Action Committee, working to bridge between key efforts by Landscape Architects and their industry partner community. On any given day, you'll most likely find her working in the garden.

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.