Meg Whitmer is an earthcare professional who has cultivated her lifelong passion for the natural world into her practice of Deep Ecology. Her commitment to environmental stewardship, education, conservation, and community service inform her legacy work, which she cultivates as part of her Third Act. (ThirdAct.org) Working with families and communities as a guide toward climate-positive living, her goal is to weave positive earth-friendly practices into the fabric of her life and the lives of everyone she touches.
As a professional landscape architect for over four decades, MW created a body of award-winning projects throughout Florida. She was also commissioned to design gardens in Jackson Hole Wyoming and Durham, North Carolina. Noteworthy projects include Cheeca Lodge in the Florida Keys, Heathcote Botanical Gardens, Florida Botanical Gardens, and McKee Botanical Garden, a sensory garden for the Lighthouse for the Visually Impaired and Blind, a participatory ecoart installation spanning 3 coastal Florida counties, and living shorelines on both Florida coasts.
Known for her collaborative approach, Meg’s work is a participatory process of improving the intersections between the natural and built environments. Making natural outdoor spaces and ecosystems accessible to everyone is particularly important to her deep ecology practice.
Cultivating community engagement through volunteer service is her ‘legacy work.’ Leading by example, Meg’s legacy projects include participatory ecoart installations, community and school gardens, food forest master plans and coastal resilience plans.
