Ted Haffner

Chair of the Chicago Wilderness Alliance Climate Committee

Trained as a landscape architect, Ted is a thought leader on the intersections of functional landscape ecology, community resilience, and climate solutions and strategies. Blending thoughtful approach to design and strategic thinking, Ted works to analyze and connect the natural world to the built environment through the integration of innovative and contextually based best management practices, policy, and conservation ideology. A former employee of Openlands, Ted held dual roles as a Landscape Architect and Climate Fellow where he served as the Owner’s Representative for Openlands construction projects and headed climate change strategy implementation that focused on community resilience and nature-based solutions to mitigate climate change impacts such as heat and flooding. Prior to working at Openlands, Ted served as Senior Associate and Project Manager with Terry Guen Design Associates, a landscape architecture firm specializing in public and institutional landscape design.