Pamela Berstler is a sustainable exterior designer and landscape water conservation expert who has designed award-winning eco-restorative residential projects throughout the United States. Pamela currently devotes the majority of her time speaking with and educating a wide variety of audiences on landscape water conservation and the role of media in fostering sustainable landscape design.
Growing up in suburban Pennsylvania, Pamela's first memories are of turning compost and working with her grandfather in his completely organic one-acre "Victory" garden. However, Pamela's love of nature and gardening had to endure a decade-long suppression while she built a career as a New York-based investment banker, and later as a Los Angeles-based television and digital media consultant. When she and her husband survived the radical renovation of their West Los Angeles property, Pamela's new career as a licensed landscape contractor and exterior designer emerged from the drama.
In 1997, Pamela founded FLOWER to the PEOPLE, Inc., an exterior design and outdoor lifestyle firm dedicated to promoting the principles of sustainable design, with practices in Los Angeles, CA and Falmouth, MA. Pamela's work focuses on creating natural outdoor living environments that embrace water and energy efficiencies, native habitat, organic maintenance protocols, recycled and local materials, and fair labor practices.
In addition to maintaining her private design practice, Pamela is a founder of G3, The Green Gardens Group, an organization devoted to educating homeowners, design professionals, and the surrounding community in the latest eco-restorative landscape techniques and promoting the principles of low-impact development. G3 is focused on changing the paradigm of the BEAUTIFUL landscape from the water and resource-guzzling gardens of today to the climate and place-appropriate sustainable ideal of tomorrow through education and community activism.
Pamela received her MBA in Entertainment Management from The Anderson School at UCLA and her BA in Psychology from The University of Pennsylvania. She is a contributing member of the California Landscape
Contractors Association (CLCA) and Association of Professional Landscape Designers (APLD) Speakers Bureau.
Pamela shares her life and design practice with her partner and husband, Alex Stevens.
