From artists in residences to community placemaking, Mel Meagher encourages us to think beyond the binary when approaching development.

Building healthy, sustainable, and non-toxic buildings using hemp with Jacob Waddell.

From urban food forests to the development of agrihoods, Scott Snodgrass infuses agriculture as a solution for thriving communities.

While we can design for circularity and closed loop systems, there isn’t such thing as a “Regenerative building.” That’s because regeneration is about evolution and aliveness. But does the rise of A.I. change this if buildings can learn?

As more individuals and businesses express a growing interest in embracing sustainability and regeneration, we often hear the question, "How can we achieve this?" This inquiry has its roots in my personal journey, which began several years ago when I found myself at a crossroads in my real estate career.

Landscaping is a multibillion dollar a year industry. It’s predicated upon fossil fuels, non-native ornamental plants, synthetic fertilizers, and heavy water use. For Georgia-based company Roots Down, they see this industry as ripe for change.

The way we build our homes is a mirror of our perceived relationship with nature. Our homes today are an embodiment of separation. The first step on a path of reconnection is to find nature and tune into the elements of sun, wind, and rain.

Regeneration isn’t siloed into any one particular industry. For businesses, it’s about adopting practices which improve and transforms the systems in which it operates. For entrepreneur Michael Don Ham, this happens to be in the arenas of tea and technology.

Farmer and technologist Dorn Cox believes we are living through extraordinary times when open source technology can be spread for little to no cost to help people revolutionize how we practice agriculture and steward land.

Charting the course to a regenerative economy is one of the most important work facing humanity. It requires a reimagining of energy, agriculture, design, finance, stewardship, and how we work.

When we shift our perspective from solving problems to harnessing potential, there is a real opportunity to create incredible change in the world.

The innovative DesignBuildUTAH program teaches architecture students design and building skills while working alongside the communities in the Navajo Nation to deliver needed affordable and sustainable homes.

Katie McCamant is an author, architect, and the co-creator of the term "cohousing"—a community of private homes clustered around shared communal spaces.

Daron Joffe, a.k.a. Farmer D, is a farmer, designer, and ambitious field-builder promoting the idea of agrihoods and conservation-focused land development. He believes in the "village" model, where housing development is clustered, while large swaths of surrounding land is conserved for nature and agriculture.

Peter Scialla is the CEO of the wellness real estate company Delos that uses science to drive innovation in the building industry for things such as clean indoor air and potable drinking water. They are the parent organization of the International WELL Building Institute.

David Rust is the founder and CEO of Sagra, an agro-tourism company that works with farms across the country. He believes that a trip to a regenerative farm can be a revelation for people, inspiring them to shift the way they shop, eat, and see the environment. 

Izumi is a practicing Buddhist and sees how the impacts that we make within our daily lives have impacts that go beyond ourselves. She sees the practice of inhabiting our homes as a spiritual endeavor where we must first transform ourselves before we can begin transforming the world.

How we can use engaging, playful community-based methods to design more safe, sustainable, and equitable neighborhoods and communities.

The Miyawaki Method is a unique approach to reforestation devised by Japanese botanist Akira Miyawaki. Author Hannah Lewis explains how tiny forests as small as six parking spaces grow quickly and are much more biodiverse than those planted by conventional methods.

People tend to think that affordability and sustainability are at odds with each other. Even new market-rate homes fall far short on sustainability metrics. Yet for Oregon architect turned developer Dylan Lamer, he is willing to show the way.