Living Future

🎉 The wait is over! 🎉 Registration is NOW OPEN for Living Future 2025! 🌍✨ Join us for a transformative experience as we accelerate regenerative action and lead the way toward a just, climate-resilient, and nature-positive future. This year’s theme: Accelerating Regenerative Action 🔹 Be part of bold collaborations. 🔹 Celebrate advances in the regenerative design movement. 🔹 Scale innovative solutions for climate, health, equity, and nature. Secure your spot now and be part of the movement driving real change!  👉 Register today: https://bit.ly/4gxOzv8 #LivingFuture2025 #RegenerativeDesign #ClimateAction #Sustainability #FutureForward #LivingFuture #LF25

📢 Join us for the webinar: Transforming the Built Environment Through Circularity! Connect with experts from Mohawk Group for an exciting conversation about transitioning from a linear economy to a circular one in the built environment. Learn about key circularity principles, real-world case studies, and how to create lasting sustainability solutions in design and construction. ✨ Special Member Appreciation Week Offer! As a token of our appreciation, all attendees will receive a FREE Living Future Professional Membership. ✨ You’ll also earn 1 LU (AIA, IDCEC, USGBC) for attending! Date: Friday, November 1st Time: 11am PT / 2pm ET Register here: https://lu.ma/xirx3csh 🔗 Register now and transform your approach to sustainability!

Australia’s first Zero Carbon Certified building is a landmark for regenerative office retrofits.  “Chadstone Place is a sustainability showcase that demonstrates the possibilities when an owner and tenant partner to create a net zero workplace. Importantly, it also highlights that the greenest buildings can be the ones that already exist.” said David Waldren the National Head of Design for Vicinity, the building’s owner.  Vicinity collaborated closely on the project with their tenant Officeworks who has a target to use 100% renewable energy by 2025 and net zero emissions by 2030. Chadstone Place demonstrates marked progress toward those goals with its 440kW photovoltaic array and ILFI Zero Carbon Certification which “means 100% of its carbon has been assessed and addressed, demonstrating actual decarbonisation.” explained the CEO of Living Future Institute of Australia, Laura Hamilton-O’Hara. Please join us in congratulating the full project team on this pioneering achievement! Read more here: https://bit.ly/3XYrFEp #zerocarbon #retrofits #firsts #netzero

It is pretty exciting to see the momentum building around the idea of #regeneration and #regenerativebuilding. This event at climate week with Holcim and Systemiq Ltd. was a great indication of our progress! We must move towards regenerative practices and not just less bad ones!

We're excited to share our 2023 Impact Report, a testament to our dedication to advancing socially just, culturally rich, and ecologically restorative communities. This report highlights the incredible strides made by our team and our global community of professionals, advocates, and volunteers. Together, we've made significant progress, and we remain committed to shaping a future we all deserve. At the heart of our work are frameworks that challenge the status quo and redefine what's possible. The Living Building Challenge continues to set the bar for regenerative design, inspiring projects worldwide. Our other programs—Living Product Challenge, Zero Carbon, Zero Energy certifications, and the Declare and Just labels—further drive innovation across industries. Our theory of change is simple: prove that regenerative buildings, products, and practices are not only possible but scalable. These successes will drive the widespread change needed to build a better future. Explore the full report and join us in pushing these boundaries even further! View the report here: https://bit.ly/4eA8urT Support our mission here: https://lnkd.in/gCrbzhnV #LivingFutureImpactReport, #RegenerativeBuildings, #LivingBuildingChallenge, #ZeroCarbon,  #ZeroEnergy, #EnvironmentalInnovation, #SocialJustice, #GreenBuilding, #SustainableDevelopment, #ClimateAction, #CircularEconomy, #DeclareLabel, #JustLabel

We’re delighted to announce that our keynote speaker for the 2024 Affordable Housing Summit will be designer, urbanist, and spatial justice activist Liz Ogbu!  From designing shelters for immigrant day laborers in the U.S. to a water and health social enterprise for low-income Kenyans, Liz has a long history of working with communities in need to leverage the power of design to catalyze community healing and foster environments that support people’s capacity to thrive. Join us for this virtual event and hear from Liz as she shares her insights on creating a regenerative future for all.  The Summit takes place online, October 24 & 25, 2024 from 8AM–12PM PT. Sign up now at: https://bit.ly/4g4RTxx

Congregations are confronting what to do with their sacred structures as attendance declines in a challenging economy. At the Future of Church Property conference—organized by Princeton Theological Seminary—real estate experts "reimagined the future for church buildings." Our CEO Lindsay Baker spoke to the attendees about how to apply regenerative design principles to churches as an opportunity to leverage funding that is available and align with the values of the congregation. “Young people are really motivated by climate action and thoughtful community engagement,” said Baker. Sometimes simply “greening” old buildings can show prospective churchgoers that a congregation shares their values. Baker suggested improving the health profile of churches while shrinking their impact on the environment by using nontoxic flooring materials, increasing ventilation, replacing oil or gas with electric heat pumps and installing solar panels for power and shade.  Read the full article here: https://bit.ly/47Xh4yj #regenerativebuilding #church #climateaction

📣 Interior designers, your impact matters! Join us on October 30th for the "Simplifying Circularity in Interior Design" free member webinar. Learn how to reduce carbon emissions and enhance sustainability through circular design strategies. This CEU webinar features speakers from Interface and Envirotech Office exploring the opportunity interior designers have to create positive spaces for their clients by relying on circular economy principles for material selection, vendor partnership, and even integrated design collaboration. The presentation will demonstrate how multiple approaches to extending the life of our products and the materials that make them can have a positive impact on both the interior and natural environments. Join us online on October 30th at 10 AM PT / 1 PM ET to learn how to simplify circularity in interior design: https://lu.ma/iwwnduhx #circularity #materials #embodiedcarbon #regenerativebuilding

What does it feel like to be at the Living Future Conference?  Here is what Beverly McAuley, the Senior Director of Sustainability & Education at Moore and Giles felt at Living Future 24. “The overall vibe I am getting from this whole conference is collaboration” says Beverly “there is hope and we need to act…it’s been inspirational” Join us at Living Future 25 in Portland, OR, from May 6-8, 2025, and be part of accelerating regenerative action. Don’t wait—Early Bird pricing is available now at: livingfutureconference.org #LivingFuture2025 #RegenerativeBuildings #ClimateAction #Sustainability #FutureForward #LivingFuture #LF25

🎉 Congratulations to the organizations that earned their #JustLabel in September! Below are a few of this month’s Just labeled organizations: Bailey Edward Design • EHDD • Energy Opportunities • Green Badger • HLW • Substance Architecture, LLC The Just label is a powerful transparency tool for organizations committed to #SocialJustice and #OrganizationalEquity. By reporting on a comprehensive set of organizational and employee indicators, these organizations showcase their accountability and measure their performance across six key categories. Joining the Just movement means becoming part of a vibrant community dedicated to understanding the complexity and interconnectedness of our world and its impact on the human and employee experience. These organizations take responsibility for their actions and impacts, uphold the highest ethical standards, and champion transparency and vulnerability as core principles in their operations. Welcome to our growing community and movement! 🌍 #JustLabel #SocialJustice #Equity #BecomeAJustOrganization Learn more here: https://lnkd.in/gyaJQaU Bailey Edward EHDD Green Badger HLW Substance Architecture