Ignacio F. Bunster-Ossa is a Philadelphia-based award-winning landscape architect and urban designer. He is the author of "Reconsidering Ian McHarg: the Future re of Urban Ecology," "Of Leaves, Limbs, and Hope: A Portrait of Philadelphia's Urban Forest in Times of a Pandemic," and "ALFIE: Earth's Last Hope," a work of science fiction that examines the role of artificial intelligence in advancing environmentalism. He periodically teaches and lectures on landscape architecture in leading universities, nationally and internationally. He serves on academic and non-governmental advisory boards, such as the Ian L. McHarg Center for Urbanism and Ecology, and Nature Sacred, a non-profit organization devoted to the provision of nature-based public health.