Our vision for a regenerative built environment

Our goal is a future in which buildings, cities, and landscapes proactively contribute to climate restoration and have a positive impact on our planet and all its inhabitants. We stand for a profound systemic change: the transition to bio- and geo-based materials, circular construction, reuse of existing buildings, recycling, the restoration of biodiversity, and cities and landscapes as natural carbon sinks.

In order to re-entangle the built environment with the Earth's natural systems, we must:

Our mission is to transform buildings and human settlements from drivers of climate and societal crises into creative forces for systemic regeneration. Only a complete systemic overhaul of our built environment will prevent a global climate catastrophe.

The cities we live in today were formed using extractive and environmentally harmful methods. If we continue to build as we have, the environmental and social impacts will be devastating. Yet increased urbanization is inevitable: 1.6 billion people live in multidimensional poverty today, and by 2050, another 2.5 billion humans will need housing. Close to sixty percent of the buildings needed in the coming century have yet to be built, the majority in the Global South.

But changing the way we construct and approach the built environment also represents one of our best and greatest opportunities for systemic restoration: If built regeneratively, our cities can act as carbon sinks and create equitable development opportunities. We can do more than become climate neutral—we can be climate positive, create new value systems and promote equitable societies.