
ASLA and its Climate & Biodiversity Action Committee have developed a new hub that brings together environmental product data from landscape architecture product manufacturers and material suppliers in the U.S. and worldwide.
The freely-accessible resource enables landscape architects to find products and materials with:
- Environmental Product Declarations (EPDs)
- Life Cycle Assessments (LCAs)
- Eco-Label certifications (Forest Stewardship Council, etc)
It also includes industry-wide EPDs developed by associations representing manufacturers and suppliers. Industry-wide EPDs set baselines for product categories, such as bricks or pre-cast concrete.
“Products and materials make up more than 75 percent of greenhouse gas emissions from landscape architecture projects. They also have impacts on biodiversity and air and water quality. We need to look at environmental product data so we can be more aware of the impacts of what we specify and speed up our efforts to track and cut our emissions,” said Aida Curtis, FASLA, PLA, Chair, ASLA Climate & Biodiversity Action Committee.
“We applaud the product manufacturers and suppliers that have invested in providing EPDs and other product data to landscape architects. The entire landscape architecture community benefits from transparent, third-party verified product data – it enables us to achieve our collective climate and biodiversity goals faster,” said ASLA President Kona Gray, FASLA, PLA.
The resource will be updated on a rolling, monthly basis. Current ASLA Corporate Members and current and past ASLA Conference sponsors, EXPO exhibitors, and Landscape Architecture Magazine advertisers can submit their product data. The ASLA Corporate Member Committee is providing support to landscape architecture product manufacturers and suppliers that have questions on how to provide new data.
The hub also outlines other primary sources of EPDs and product data.
Landscape architects and product manufacturers can learn more about environmental product data through a resource released last year – Navigating Environmental Product Data: A Guide for Landscape Architects, Specifiers, and Industry Partners.

The guide was developed by Amy Syverson-Shaffer, ASLA, Landscape Forms and Sasha Anemone, ASLA, Salt Landscape Architects.
It outlines how EPDs and other environmental reporting can be used to understand the environmental impacts of landscape materials and products and make decisions to reduce those impacts.