ETH Alumna: President of the Charles River Conservancy honored with Olmsted Medal

(Charles River Conservancy, November 19, 2013)

Renata von Tscharner, founder and president of the Charles River Conservancy (CRC), received the 2013 Olmsted Medal from the American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA). The medal recognizes individuals, organizations, agencies, or programs outside the profession of landscape architecture for environmental leadership, vision, and stewardship. Established in 1990, one medal is awarded annually. Formally trained as an architect and urban designer at ETH Zurich, von Tscharner founded the Charles River Conservancy in 2000, a nonprofit organization dedicated to the stewardship, renewal, and enhancement of the urban parklands along the Charles River—from Boston Harbor to the Watertown Dam. Under her leadership, the Conservancy has enlisted more than 23,000 landscape volunteers who have contributed more than $1.5 million of donated labor to improve the health, safety, and beauty of the urban parklands along the Charles.