Pascal Mittermaier
Eco-Business
Boston, MA, United States
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Past articles by Pascal:
Greener, greater cities
Efforts to green cities may overlook the fact that nature is the world's original infrastructure, and solutions like planting trees can help address the... → Read More
Rethinking the Right of Way
This week, as 1,000 regenerative design leaders from around the world come together in Seattle for the annual Living Future unConference, I am sharing my... → Read More
Undoing Miami's "Paved Paradise": An Interview with Meg Daly
I recently met Meg Daly, the visionary behind The Underline: a 10-mile long, nature-inspired cycle and pedestrian track that will run through the heart of Miami alongside US Route 1. Inspired by similar projects in New York City, Seoul and Austin, The Underline's 100 feet by 10 mile design, with 120 total acres of open space, will also incorporate green infrastructure systems to manage storm… → Read More
The Transformative Power of a Vacant Lot: An Interview with The Nature Conservancy's Francesca Gross
In Birmingham, Alabama, arguably one of the most historic cities in world, one community, is demonstrating how a little green can provide empowerment... → Read More
How Low-lying Cities Can Protect Themselves From Climate Change
Mixing manmade infrastructure with natural systems can protect cities from rising sea levels. → Read More
How Trees Make Cities Healthier
There is a simple action that municipal leaders can take to reduce both extreme heat and air pollution: plant more → Read More
Green City, Green Waters: An Interview with Howard Neukrug
Helping make Philadelphia become more resilient to climate change, and support its growth to become the greenest city in America. → Read More
Cities, Nature and the Leaders of Tomorrow
An interview with LEAF alum Orlando Raez on how we can support cities working to engage their citizens in environmental → Read More
Pascal Mittermaier
Pascal Mittermaier is the Global Managing Director for Cities at The Nature Conservancy. He leads a new team at the Conservancy focused on transforming how the world’s growing cities manage their natural resources. By mid-century roughly three out of every four people will live in a city. Pascal believes the Conservancy is uniquely positioned to help city leaders and stakeholders lead the world… → Read More
Cities, Nature and the Leaders of Tomorrow
Photo © Karine Aigner Orlando Raez has been working in city planning since 2004, but he's been thinking about environmental issues and the relationship between cities and nature for much longer. An early interest in nature led Orlando to apply to The Nature Conservancy's LEAF program (Leaders in Environmental Action for the Future), which provides paid summer internships for high school students… → Read More
Nature Can Help Cities Survive Extreme Heat
Urban heat islands are a very real, very threatening problem indeed, and nature is a very real solution. → Read More
Nature Can Help Cites Survive Extreme Heat
By Pascal Mittermaier and Bill Ulfelder As a "heat dome" has settled over much of the country this week, causing temperatures to rise to the triple digits, this summer's extreme heat is fast becoming deadly. Already, at least six people have died in the United States as a result of the ongoing heat wave, including a child in a car, a pre-teen who went hiking in extreme temperatures, and several… → Read More
Let’s Return Our Cities To The People Who Live There
Let's make sure cities are where people and nature thrive together—and where the benefits of this relationship are shared with → Read More
Cities and Nature in the Age of Urbanization
Cities have always been centers of innovation, and today, urban leaders are inspiring one another to new heights of sustainability. → Read More
Growing Greener in Mexico’s “City of the Mountains”
Bringing natural solutions into the urban center and helping Monterrey thrive as a modern city. → Read More
Solutions for Stormwater in Seattle
Rain gardens, urban trees and plants, greenways and other natural infrastructure can treat stormwater. → Read More
Stormwater Solutions: Investing in Nature and Communities
Funded by a stormwater retention credit market, Washington, D.C. will implement natural solutions like rain gardens and wetlands across the → Read More
Inspiring Tomorrow’s Environmental Leaders Today
Teaching younger generations how nature works around them and empowering individuals to make positive change in their communities. → Read More
As Seas Rise, Nature Can Protect Our Cities
Can these dire predictions motivate the urgent changes to our cities and societies that we need to thrive in a → Read More
One Billion Strong: Can Chinese Megacities Lead on Urban Conservation?
With more than a billion people and a growing economy, it’s inevitable that China will have a large environmental footprint. → Read More