A Canadian-born builder, entrepreneur, and self-taught designer, Thomson heads the Center of
Regenerative Design & Collaboration, or CRDC, which he founded in 2010 as a volunteer-based beach clean-up program.
The Permaculture city:
Regenerative design for urban, suburban, and town resilience
GOALS SHIFT TO Rather than earlier framings of "do no harm,"
REGENERATIVE DESIGN more explicit emphasis has been placed on
regenerative design.
This new
regenerative design replaces GIS previous technology for driving StarFire SG1024 printheads.
Much of today's discussion of
regenerative design owes a debt to the work of the late John T.
Another example of a broader definition of sustainability is the concept of
regenerative design; that is, designing a built environment that is not only compatible with, but also helps to restore the indigenous natural environment.
Ned Conwell is up to his elbows in the stuff, both as a farmer and as a teacher: He uses as much as he can make at Blue House Farm, a produce and flower farm he co-owns in Pescadero, California, and he also teaches composting at the
Regenerative Design Institute, located up the coast in Bolinas.
For this new edition he has added more foundational material regarding the rationales for green building, including ethics, as well as material on the next generation of ratings tools, the integrated design process, the principles of
regenerative design, and a number of case studies of recent buildings based on principles of green building.
And with new research leading to technology breakthroughs, it's an appropriate time to strive for buildings that incorporate
regenerative design as well.
Elliott, an assistant professor of design and environmental analysis, who was brought here three years ago to pioneer a program in what's variously termed sustainable, ecological, green, or
regenerative design, knows it's about time.
The concept of
regenerative design (Siebenaller: "Sustaining Lifelong Connections") refers to: