Our Mission
According to UN Habitat, the urban built environment is responsible for 75% of the world’s global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. As those leading the planning, design and implementation of built spaces, we must advocate, educate and design for climate and nature positive outcomes that reach beyond carbon neutrality.
Climate Positive Design brings people together to reduce and remove greenhouse gas emissions from the atmosphere through the exterior built environment, while supporting biodiversity and healthy, equitable communities. We offer innovative thinking and create tools, guidance and resources to facilitate this collective endeavor.
Climate Positive Design Focus Areas
Advocacy
Collaborating with clients, colleagues, stakeholders and governments to accelerate positive global action through consultation, workshops and speaking engagements.
Education
Providing the tools, resources and guidance required to communicate and improve the various environmental impacts of our work as planners, designers and developers.
Design
Creating, collaborating and supporting projects that provide positive environmental and social impacts through thoughtful planning and design.
Meet the Team
Pamela Conrad
Founder + Executive Director
Pamela Conrad, PLA, ASLA, LEED AP, is an internationally recognized landscape architect, Faculty Lecturer at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design and Architecture 2030 Senior Fellow. Her passion for the environment is deeply rooted – from growing up on a farm in the mid-western United States to studying plant science and regenerative landscape architecture. Pamela’s 20-year career has focused on implementing carbon sequestering nature-based solutions in the built environment ranging from large scale habitat restoration to urban waterfront adaptation. She has been featured in the New York Times, Forbes, Bloomberg, TIME Magazine for Kids, Build Beyond Zero (2022), and on stage at the UN COP27 Climate Conference.
Pamela’s influential carbon research is elevating the net positive impacts of the exterior built environment. She focuses on finding solutions to the climate and biodiversity crises and planning for a resilient future as the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) Climate Action Plan Chair and International Federation of Landscape Architects Climate and Biodiversity Working Group Vice-Chair, including spearheading the Climate Action Commitment of net zero emissions by 2040 from 75,000+ professionals globally.
Pamela has received numerous awards including the Metropolis Planet Positive Award, Engineering News Record Top 25 Newsmakers, Architects Magazine R+D Award, USACE Award of Excellence, ASLA’s Award of Honor, AILA President’s Award and San Francisco Business Times Women of Influence Award.
Greg Barger
Technical Director
Greg Barger, PLA, ASLA, is a seasoned landscape architect with close to 20 years of experience in the field. His passion lies at the intersection of design, the environment, and construction, where he thrives on creating beautiful spaces of exceptional quality, functionality, and sustainability. As the Technical Director for Climate Positive Design, Greg takes the helm in overseeing crucial aspects like materials selection, constructability, and the technical implementation of Climate Positive Design strategies. Greg’s oversight has contributed to project recognition from the American Institute of Architects, Design-Build Institute of America, American Society of Landscape Architects and International Partnering Institute.
Throughout his career, Greg managed a diverse range of projects from vast wetland restoration efforts to developing sustainable green infrastructure and designing captivating public parks and plazas. His commitment to detail, constructability, and the thoughtful selection of materials allowed him to bring each project to life in harmony with its surroundings.
Greg's dedication to continuous learning keeps him abreast of the latest trends, technologies, and sustainable practices, ensuring that Climate Positive Design remains at the forefront of innovation. With a strong belief in the potential of landscapes to positively impact communities and the environment, Greg takes pride in contributing to the creation of vibrant and sustainable spaces that enrich the lives of people who interact with them.
Eustacia Brossart
Research Director
Eustacia Brossart, PLA, is a landscape architect with over 12 years of experience designing public, institutional, and commercial landscapes that interweave design, ecology, and community. She has traveled the world—translating her educational background in cinema production and art direction into a passion for creating dynamic landscapes. As Research Director, she continues to expand and enhance resources and tools available to exterior built environment practitioners. Eustacia was the recipient of the Patri Fellowship in Urban Design from SPUR San Francisco, Scott Traveling Fellowship, and Northern California and National Student Awards of Excellence from the American Society of Landscape Architects.
Eustacia’s work includes large technology company headquarters, university campuses, an indigenous cultural and educational center, prominent public and cultural spaces, urban waterfront resilience design, and a nature play space in an underserved neighborhood. Nature has always been her primary love, from a childhood spent camping in the American west, and she feels most at home wandering desert canyons.
Since joining Climate Positive Design in 2018, Eustacia has accumulated extensive experience analyzing and innovating site carbon footprint reductions and carbon sequestration potential. She is specifically interested in enabling designers to improve biodiversity, drought and flood resilience, circular water and nutrient systems, and health and equity benefits through beautiful, climate positive cities.
Collaborators
This initiative was made possible through collaboration with many talented and passionate individuals equally committed to designing for our future.
Architecture 2030
Ed Mazria
Vincent Martinez
Lisa Richmond
Kira Gould
Erin McDade
Jamie Jang
CMG Landscape Architecture
Kevin Conger
Chris Guillard
Willett Moss
Jamie Phillips
Rayna Deniord
Alexandra Zahn
Jamie Yousten
Kelsey Wakefield
Wesley Cogan
Kate Lenahan
Paulina Tran
Sasaki
Michael Grove
Chris Hardy
Steve Engler
Atelier Ten
Kristen diStefano
Prateek Jain
Landscape Architecture Foundation (LAF)
Barbara Deutsch
Lucinda Sanders (OLIN)
Laura Solano (MVVA)
The 2018-2019 Fellowship Cohort
Harvard Loeb Fellowship and 2023 Cohort
Martha Schwartz Partners (MSP)
Martha Schwartz
American Society of Landscape Architecture (ASLA)
Vaughn Rinner
Nancy Sommerville
Torey Carter-Conneen
Katie Riddle
Jared Green
Sarah Fitzgerald
Canadian Society of Landscape Architecture (CSLA) / International Federation of Landscape Architecture (IFLA)
Colleen Mercer Clarke
Hope Parnham (CSLA)
Kotchakorn Voraakhom (IFLA)
Australian Institute of Landscape Architects (AILA)
Martin O’Dea
Claire Martin
Landscape Institute
Dilraj Watson
Technology, Design + Graphics
Lauren Peters
Anne Donnard
Edan Weis
Tyler Maisano
Cameron Nimmo
Larry Lague
Topophyla
Nahal Sohbati
Eric Arneson
Nick Zaytsev
Maalka Inc.
Data Analysis
Antoinette Marty
Research Support
Deanna Lynn, University of Oregon
Amy Whitesides, Landscape Architecture Design Critic at Harvard GSD