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Regenerative Sustainability and Timber Buildings
Martin Brown, Fairsnape, UKUK Living Building Challenge AmbassadorLiving Future Europe AdvisorVice Chair RESTORE EU Cost Action
Regenerative Sustainability Insights
RESTORE, EU Cost Action,
FutuREstorative,
Living Building Challenge,
Cuerden Valley Visitor Center, 1st LBC in UK/EU,
B R U N D T L A N D 1987
D O N O T H I N G T O D A Y T O C O M P R O M I S E T O M O R R O W ’ S G E N E R A T I O N
I P C C
2018 IPCC
We have 12 years to limit climate change catastrophe.
2019
Its worse, far worse than you could ever imagine.
What does 1.5 Deg C mean?
BUILT ENVIRONMENT THE 40% SECTOR
Solastalgia – mental or existential distress from environmental changeSourceSource: FutuREstorative 2016
Our Earth Was Once Green
B U S I N E S S A S U S U A L
S U S T A I N A B L E
R E G E N E R A T I V E
R E D U C I N G I M P A C T
P O S I T I V E G O O D
R E S T O R A T I V EG R E E N
Sources FutuREstorative
We no longer have the luxury of being less bad …
SUSTAINABILITY:
Limiting impact. Balance point where we give back as much as we take.
RESTORATIVE:
Returning social and ecological systems to a healthy state.
REGENERATIVE:
Enabling social and ecological systems to maintain a healthy state and to evolve.
Regenerative Sustainability
Its where …
… and where magic happens
@fairsnape
ECO.EGO. SEVA.
@fairsnape
Man’s tyrannical dominionover nature
Earth friendly actions to reduce our impact on the planet
Thinking, Designing, Making, as part of nature, not apart from
nature,
TREES. BILLIONS. BUILDINGS. TREES. BILLIONS
@fairsnape
Instead of a world that is merely a less bad version of the one we currently
have, we ask —
WHAT DOES GOOD LOOK LIKE?
IMAGINE IF EVERY ACT OF CONSTRUCTION MADE THE PLANET A BETTER PLACE
LIVING BUILDING
CHALLENGE
What does GOOD look
like?
CUERDEN VALLEY PARK VISITOR CENTER, PRESTON, UNITED KINGDOM.SEEKING LIVING CERTIFICATION
Biophilic Design … Connecting people with nature through the built environment:
T H E M A T E R I A L S W E B U I L D W I T H C A N A F F E C T O U R W E L L - B E I N G A S M U C H A S T H E F O O D W E E A T , T H E W A T E R W E D R I N K A N D T H E A I R T H A T W E B R E A T H
H E A L T H Y B U I L D I N G S N E T W O R K
@fairsnape
RED LIST
Taking Toxic Materials out of our buildings
A DECLARE LABEL ANSWERS THREE QUESTIONS:
Where does a product come from?
What is it made of?
Where does it go at the end of its life?
REMOVE FUGITIVE CARBON
INCREASE DURABLE CARBON
RESTORE LIVING CARBON
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REIMAGINE CARBON
Imagine if … building design, construction and MEP services education started with the ecological understanding of how a tree functions?
Connecting people with nature through the built environment.
The Center and Café, designed as nature, has helped increase footfall to the park 4 fold
“The more clearly we focus our attention on the wonders and realities of the universe about us, the less taste we shall have for destruction.”
~ Rachel Carson, Silent Spring
Regenerative Sustainability and Timber Buildings
Martin Brown, Fairsnape, UKUK Living Building Challenge AmbassadorLiving Future Europe AdvisorVice Chair RESTORE EU Cost Action