Rainwater Harvesting – An Advanced Discussion

Our very own force of nature, Pamela Berstler is a highly experienced landscape expert who co-founded and continues to manage G3, Green Gardens Group. G3 is an award-winning EPA WaterSenseTM Partner and Professional Certifying Organization that educates and certifies property owners, policymakers, and landscape professionals throughout the U.S. and Canada in irrigation and rainwater capture using the Watershed Approach to landscaping.

Pamela spent a decade working as a landscape contractor with her own bespoke design/build firm specializing in innovations for sustainable cities. She didn’t come to landscapes and agriculture through a direct route, as she first took a detour through a career in derivative securities trading and raising private equity for technology and media companies. Pamela is deeply committed to the reinvigoration of American entrepreneurship through regenerative land management and agriculture.

Pamela is a 2019 Climate Reality Leader and is the recipient of many awards including the National APLD Sustainability Award, EPA Certifying Professional Organization of the Year, and Garden Communicators Association Green Medal in Sustainability.

Pamela incubated a love of gardening turning 40-year-old compost on her grandfather's urban farm and with her hands in the soil cultivating her mother's beloved tomato patch. And while she once loved the fast live, she now is returning to her roots, sharing her passion for growing family farm economic value and rebuilding rural comunities. Pamela is happiest in a garden and in front of an audience talking about the power of gardens to heal the planet.

Rosalind has been working on climate advocacy since 2005,when they began volunteer work in the open space canyons and became interested in stormwater mitigation and carbon sequestration. Her background is in Biology — they received their PhD from the University of California, Irvine, in 1992 and went on to do postdoctoral research at the University of California, San Diego, and then spent several years teaching and leading student research at the University of San Diego.

She founded her first company, Building Green Futures, in 2007 and founded Catching H2O in 2016. From 2017 to the present, they have been co-owning and running Catching H2O with their long-time colleague and friend, Brook Sarson. Their work focuses on the design and installation of rainwater and greywater systems for water conservation and includes education and outreach.

The initial formation of Dwelling On Carbon in 2021 was for a blog about nature-based carbon sequestration solutions to the climate crisis. In January 2024, Dwelling On Carbon became a non-profit corporation that implemented holistic solutions and education. At this time, Rosalind ended her role as partner/owner of Catching H2O in order to focus on Dwelling On Carbon. They will continue to provide technical consulting for Catching H2O and hope to collaborate on grant-funded projects that include carbon and water.

When Rosalind isn’t working on Dwelling on Carbon, they are at the dojo pursuing aikido training (recently promoted to black belt) or out on their bicycle exploring local canyons and watersheds and doing bicycle fundraisers for climate awareness for Climate Ride.