Pathfinder 3.0: A Climate and Nature Positive Tool for Sites and Infrastructure
Recorded On: 05/05/2025
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Our world is grappling with complex challenges, including climate change, biodiversity loss, and socioeconomic inequality. Those who plan, design, and engineer our communities and ecosystems play a pivotal role in shaping solutions that promote future resilience.
This webinar explores tangible approaches to addressing these crises, including the use of Pathfinder 3.0—a free online tool for measuring the performance of sites and infrastructure. The session provides tools and guidance for integrating ecological, social, and economic benefits into projects while contributing to global efforts to combat climate and biodiversity challenges.
This webinar is designed as a demonstration of the Pathfinder tool - therefore this course is ineligible for continuing education approval through the Landscape Architecture Continuing Education System (LA CES).
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.
Sarah Fitzgerald, ASLA (Moderator)
Landscape Designer
SWA Group
Sarah is passionate about leveraging landscape design to better address the climate crisis, and advocates for the necessity of landscape architects’ voices in shaping environmental policies, Her research and project work foregrounds embodied carbon, low-impact development (LID), and sustainable design solutions that are sensitive to their ecological and social contexts. She is an active volunteer with ASLA and was a co-author of the recent ASLA Climate Action Plan.
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