Mia Lehrer will explore how nature-based solutions reshape our environmental interactions and transform urban challenges into opportunities for resilient development. She'll focus on research-based strategies to sequester carbon, reduce urban heat effects, enhance biodiversity, and cleanse and celebrate stormwater through urban wetlands. Highlighting projects like the Upper Los Angeles River & Tributaries Revitalization Plan, Vista Hermosa Natural Park, South Los Angeles Wetlands Park, Puente Hills Landfill Park, and others, she'll demonstrate how repurposing brownfields and revitalizing underutilized open spaces into ecological hubs significantly enhances community economic values, health, well-being, and pride.