Journal
Stories of transformation
Making an Enchanted Forest with Dani Baker
Dani Baker is the owner of Cross Island Farm in New York. After spending long hours in her annual market garden, she turned to permaculture principals to help transform her property into a perennial edible food forest.
Big Change Through Not So Big Actions with Sarah Susanka
Sarah Susanka is an architect, prolific author, and visionary thinker credited with starting the tiny house movement. She’s changed the way huge amounts of people see the world, but she insists the way to create change is by thinking small and attending to the everyday challenges you see in front of you.
Bottom Up Solutions with Alison Sant
As the world looks for new ways for cities to adapt to climate change, design expert Alison Sant believes that potential solutions lie at the front lines and with the people most directly impacted.
From Street Lad to Biosphere-Inspired Entrepreneur with Dr. Vincent Walsh
Dr. Vincent Walsh is a designer and serial entrepreneur living and working in Manchester, England. He is inspired and fascinated by the biosphere's natural inclination toward circular systems and "upcycling"—taking components and creating from them something of equal or greater value.
Seeing Hope Differently with Aaron Fairchild
Aaron Fairchild has leveraged his own background in finance to lead the way in deep green housing development in the Pacific Northwest. He's applied pressure to the whole market, inspiring developers to make more sustainable housing in order to keep up.
Setting Inspirational Examples with Ben Falk
Ben Falk is one of the most prominent figures in the world of ecological design but he didn't always see that path as his future. At a young age, he was drawn toward acts of dramatic protest, like sleeping in trees. But eventually he had an epiphany: the best way to inspire change is not to yell at or shame people, but to show them a better way to live.
Creating a Better Concrete with Emily Majewski
Concrete, which is energy and emissions intensive, took over the world around 200 years ago. Emily Majewski thinks it's time for its reign to end. Experimenting in her backyard in Mexico, she created a new, environmentally-friendly building material made from biochar called Cast Carbon.
Driving Change Through Agriculture Investing with Chris Rawley
Agriculture is not a typical investment category that one may think about when they think of real estate investing. Yet if we are going to have more regenerative farmers, they are going to need access to capital. Harvest Returns is an online platform that connects small farmers and producers with agriculture-specific investors.
From Ecological Collapse to Thriving with Jesse McDougall
There is a utopic vision that farmers will put down their pesticides, herbicides, and other chemical cocktails conceived and peddled to eradicate pests and weeds in order to save the planet. However the challenge is that the land can become so degraded that once you go cold turkey and stop applying chemicals, everything seems to collapse around you.
The Five Stages of Transition with Don Hall
Transition or Transition Towns, is a movement that has been growing since 2005 across the globe. Community-led Transition groups focus on a low-carbon, socially just future with resilient communities, and active participation in society.
Acts of Restorative Kindness
Despite being named one of the top ten landscape designers of all time, Mary Reynolds describes herself as an ex-gardener. That’s because after years spent designing award-winning gardens and landscapes across the globe, Mary was tired of fighting nature back to fit into the mold in which she originally designed.
Biophilic Cities
Biophilia was first introduced as a term in 1973 by Erich Fromm in The Anatomy of Human Destructiveness, which put forth that biophilia is “the passionate love of life and all this is alive.” The term was later used by legendary biologist E.O. Wilson in his 1984 work Biophilia, in which he proposed that humans tend to focus on and affiliate with nature and other life-forms because of a genetic basis.
Conscious Design
The world we design for is the world we get. That's why we are excited to share this episode with you featuring designer Ian Peterman. Ian's firm specializes more in the products that we fill our homes with than the actual design of a property, but the underlying design philosophy is one and the same: creating environmentally and socially just products, brands, and companies.
The Regen Network with Gregory Landua
The cutting edge of regenerative technology is aligning market incentives with regenerative land stewardship. This is an area that Gregory Landua and his colleagues with the Regen Network have been pioneering since 2017 as they began asking questions of how to scale impact and help farmers and land managers switch to regenerative practices.
Net Zero Energy Affordable Housing with Sean Armstrong
The world is beginning to go through an electric revolution, and real estate is at the epicenter. Sean Armstrong, principal at Redwood Energy, happens to be one of the revolutionaries of this movement and has designed over 10,000 residences in more than 200 developments that are 100% all electric, Zero Net Energy with many of those being low-income affordable housing.
Pursuing Purpose and Service with Mark Voss
Passion, service, community, and curiosity are the threads that weave the story of Mark Voss. Mark is a consummate educator, farmer, and real estate professional residing in Madison, Wisconsin. He is the founder of Voss Organics and is a Latitude Change Agent.
Community-Based Finance with Eve Picker
Learn about Small Change, a real estate crowdfunding platform that both enables ordinary people to invest in transformative projects in their own communities, as well as supports local developers accomplish incremental development projects.
Intentional Communities with Cynthia Tina
From off-grid and sustainable agrihoods to urban ecovillages and income sharing communes, "intentional community" is quickly growing in popularity as a housing concept.
The Regenerative Practitioner with Pamela Mang
Do you feel like you have untapped potential to be an actor for positive change in this world? Then maybe you should consider becoming a Regenerative Practitioner. In this evocative and insightful interview, Pamela Mang of the Regenesis Institute for Regenerative Practice shares her story and how her life experiences shaped her understanding of the role that humans can have in the co-evolution of our planet where all life can thrive.
Regenerative Agriculture Financing with Dan Miller
Combining his background in the creation of one of the world's first crowdfunding platforms for real estate, Fundrise, with his passion for regenerative agriculture, Dan Miller set his sights on helping farmers and food producers get access to necessary financing. Steward now helps to decommodify food while giving people like you the ability to invest in their local food chain while earning a healthy return.