"While resilience is certainly inherent in the 'deep structure' of landscapes, so are biodiversity, ecosystem feedback, redundancy, change, and ephemerality. Drawing on new- and urban-ecology studies, a regenerative framework not only admits these properties but seeks to enhance them."
"Bioretention systems use a combination of soil and plants to collect, detain, treat, and infiltrate runoff from roads, roofs, and other impervious surfaces. It is becoming apparent that plant health is one of the major drivers of increasing life-cycle costs, and that improper plant selection is partially to blame."
"It is time for the design community to come to terms with carbon and climate change—both the reality of our shared climate emergency and the very personal implications of the building industry’s role in perpetuating it."
"By increasing carbon sequestration and reducing carbon footprints, we can offset our project's footprint in a shorter amount of time."
"Our ability to evolve our culture distinguishes us from other species. Design and planning can then be viewed as adaptive mechanisms."
"To avoid...land degradation and promote land restoration, multifunctional use of land is needed within the boundaries of the soil-water system...The attainment of a balance between the economy, society, and the biosphere calls for a holistic approach."
"Well-designed green infrastructure solutions are resilient and cost-effective, requiring less maintenance than typical hardscape solutions."
"The Kresge Foundation found ASLA to be one of just nine organizations that have 'adopted a holistic approach' to educating their members and the public about climate change 'that includes adaptation, mitigation, and the explicit consideration of social justice.' "
"Equitable access to public spaces is central to our civic life and democracy...To protect our people and economy, cities instead need thoughtful, designed security solutions that balance the need for openness with the management of risk."
“One thing that we realized from the very beginning was that people are part of the ecology. People are part of the system. People are part of nature. There’s no dichotomy, no us and them, between nature and human beings...landscape architecture has this amazing capacity to really think about the world in a very comprehensive way.”
"The design of Shoemaker Green stems from a systems-based thinking that integrates natural systems (soils, plants, insects, birds and human beings) with man-made systems (building components and infrastructure) to function as a whole...a truly 'living system.' "
“As design students deeply invested in the future of the world’s landscapes and their ability to sustain life, we have come together from across the United States to call on the ASLA to strengthen its commitment to addressing the most serious challenge of our times.”