When the Living Building Challenge was launched in the early 2000’s many people thought that it was impossible. And in many places illegal. Two decades later developers, architects, contractors, and visionaries are pushing the envelope and designing entire communities based upon the aspirational and rigorous Living Building guidelines.

For twenty-two years The Ecology School has been teaching people how to tune into and read the pattern language of nature. The school aims to transform how people think about science, food, the environment, and themselves through joyful, hands-on learning for all ages.

We are facing truly global issues in the 21st century that are causing people to raise the alarm to design differently. Amira Ayoub from Cairo, Egypt is one of those people. Amira is USGBC LEED & WELL Faculty, a Living Future and Fitwel Ambassador, and is is the founder of the Living Future Cairo Collaborative and was also awarded as a Living Future Hero for 2019.

Bill Reed, AIA, LEED, of the Regenesis Group is a global pioneer of regenerative development—an approach to land use, community development, and the built environment that has defined the leading edge of sustainability. He has been an outspoken advocate that is committed to proving that human activity can be a source of health and regeneration, rather than destruction and degradation.

Jason McLennan calls himself a "professional troublemaker." For his entire career Jason has been pushing the boundaries on what is possible in the built environment. To him, sustainable and regenerative design shouldn't be something we need to have a label for — it should just be the way.