CSLA Resource Library

The guide is designed to help landscape architecture firms of all sizes navigate the transition to zero emission offices more easily. It outlines more than 110 strategies landscape architecture firms can implement to reduce their business and project greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 50-65% by 2030 and achieve zero emissions by 2040. The guide provides best practice strategies relevant for firms that rent or own their offices. It offers firms ways to: Measure their carbon footprint, Develop a climate action plan to reduce emissions, and Take actions to reduce Scope 1, 2, and 3 emissions. 

"The ASLA Climate Action Committee and Corporate Member Committee curated more than 70 questions landscape architects can ask vendors and product manufacturers about:
Product: Carbon data, Low-carbon material content, Recycled material content, Hazardous material content, Biodiversity protections; Use of products in landscapes; Location of product manufacturing; Manufacturing facilities; 
Company operations; Equity programs; Advocacy efforts. There are also additional questions for plant and tree nurseries."

Designing with a Carbon Conscience v2: A web-based application to informplanning and urban design projects on potential carbon impacts. Sasaki Associates. 

To help address the climate crisis, Christopher developed the Carbon Conscience tool, which can be used by designers, planners, municipalities, and others to create spaces with reduced carbon impacts in mind. The tool builds on previous research as part of an effort to produce verifiable information that can be used in project planning and design phases to show how landscapes, architecture, and planning can work together toward a sustainable future. Presented at the Landscape Architecture Foundation's Innovation + Leadership Symposium on June 15, 2023.

Growing evidence supports the benefits of nature on mental health, highlighting the need for landscape architects' involvement. The diversity in the practice enables landscape architects to actively contribute to improving the health and well-being of Canadians by making natural spaces more accessible.

CCDI has developed a one-of-a-kind glossary of terms. This comprehensive glossary aims to provide a reference for anyone interested in terminology used within inclusion, diversity, equity, and accessibility (IDEA). It is our goal to create a comprehensive and accurate glossary, however there can be definitions that have evolved or have nuances that are missing. The nature of language is such that the meanings of words are often very subjective and based off context. If you notice something that should be added, updated, or removed while engaging with this glossary, please reach out to us at research@ccdi.ca.

By changing the way we practice by incorporating community-driven and participatory design principles into our work, we have the incredible opportunity to address social justice issues through landscape architecture and bridge the divide between what our profession has become and the communities we wish to serve. This webinar is follows up on the work and research of an LACF 2021 grant project, Co-Design Now! 

"The ASLA Climate Action Plan is rooted in three key goals and six key initiatives of IFLA Climate Action Commitment. 

Our Vision for 2040: All landscape architecture projects will simultaneously:  Achieve zero embodied and operational emissions and increase carbon sequestration; Provide significant economic  benefits in the form of measurable ecosystem services, health co-benefits, sequestration, and green jobs; Address climate injustices, empower communities, and increase equitable distribution of climate investments; and Restore ecosystems and increase and protect biodiversity. 

Goals Include: Practice: Scale Up Climate Positive Approaches; Equity: Empower Communities to Achieve Climate Justice; Advocacy: Build Coalitions for Climate Action"

This book/webpage assesses and illustrates innovative and practical worldwide measures for combating sea level rise from the profession of landscape architecture. The work explores how the appropriate mixture of integrated, multi-scalar flood protection mechanisms can reduce risks associated with flood events including sea level rise. Because sea level rise is a global issue, illustrative case studies performed from the United States, Korea, Australia, New Zealand, Thailand, Japan, China, and the Netherlands identify the structural (engineered), non-structural (nature-based), and hybrid mechanisms (mixed) used to combat sea level rise and increase flood resilience. Galen Newman, Zixu Qiao

The purpose of this Field Guide is to help landscape architecture professionals and students become better climate advocates individually, as well as through firms, public institutions, nonprofit organizations, community groups, and ASLA’s chapters. For each of the plan’s six key initiatives, you can explore key climate actions to take: On your own, With your firm / organization, And with your community

Co-design Now! is a map-based, spatialized resource - that highlights community groups, local initiatives, and grassroots organizations, all in one place. This project aims to amplify the work of community organizations and initiatives across Toronto’s Neighbourhood Improvement Areas to foster engagement between them and designers to strengthen the resiliency of placemaking and city-building practice. Through the process of crowdsourcing information on grassroots organizations and placemaking initiatives, we hope this resource will expand and deepen cross-disciplinary relationships and raise awareness for design as a vehicle for activism.

Colleen Mercer Clarke's Lecture at the University of Guelph on why nature plays an important role in our changing world, and what landscape architects can accomplish towards reducing emissions, sustaining nature, and improving well-being.