How is the green movement changing the practice of landscape architecture?
Len Hopper: For landscape architects, sustainability arguably arose as an issue over 100 years ago, though of course they would not have used that term then. There are so many people now saying their practices are green—architects, engineers, everybody’s green now. But it’s not a competition—we all have to realize that we all have roles to play in being sustainable. As landscape architects, we look at ourselves as people who have been practicing this way for quite some time. It’s an ethic, something we believe in, and something that our training prepares us for.
