Journal
Stories of Transformation
From Landless Farmers to Agrihood Architects: Inside Convivial Foodscapes
Carmen and Tripp Eldridge of Convivial Foodscapes share hard-earned insights from designing, building, and operating farm enterprises inside large-scale residential communities.
Listening to Children: Mara Mintzer on Designing Cities for Belonging
What can children teach us about city design? Mara Mintzer of Growing Up Boulder explains how youth perspectives influence planning decisions and help create places where people of all ages belong.
From Soil to Sovereignty: Thomas Patton on the Vision Behind Lega Vera
Modern systems make life easier, but they also make it harder to see what sustains us. Thomas Patton is developing Lega Vera in Panama, a farm village that evolved from regenerative agriculture and a desire to live closer to soil, food, and responsibility.
Building Community in Portland, One Dinner at a Time
Change Agent Nathan Reimer created Portland, Oregon’s Building Community Dinners to cultivate connection, collaboration, and regenerative thinking by bringing diverse voices together to explore what’s possible across the city.
Financing Nature: Adam Davis on the Economics of Ecological Restoration
Can markets help heal the planet? Adam Davis of Ecosystem Investment Partners explains how mitigation banking channels private capital into ecological restoration, creating systems where regeneration and profitability advance together.
Building With the Forest: Amelia Baxter and WholeTrees Structures Radical Simplicity
WholeTrees transforms unmilled timber into engineered structures that unite beauty, carbon performance, and local economies—proving that the least-processed wood can build a regenerative, high-performance future.
Where Farming Meets Community: Inside the Middlebrook Agrihood
Steve Bruere shares how Middlebrook is redefining what’s possible when agriculture meets real estate development, creating a vibrant agrihood community rooted in farming, culture, and connection.
The Agrarian Future Is Here
What happens when a suburban mom plants a few tomatoes, gets a couple of chickens and her HOA threatens to shut it all down? For Judith Horvath, it sparked a radical transformation.
Geoship's Vision for Dome-Based Housing
Explore a bold reimagining of housing where affordability, resilience, and ecological design are no longer optional—they’re urgent.
Affordable, Sustainable Housing with Dylan Lamar
People tend to think that affordability and sustainability are at odds with each other. Even new market-rate homes fall far short on sustainability metrics. Yet for Oregon architect turned developer Dylan Lamer, he is willing to show the way.
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.
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.
The Regenerative Way with Emmanuel Pauwels
Imagine a deep ecological thinker that lives in the breathtaking Spanish Pyrenees in a 700 year old hand-built house that captures all of its own energy from the sun, harvests all the water it needs from the rain, and invites nature into the heart of the home. That is Emmanuel Pauwels.
Developing a Living Community with Matthew Grocoff
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.
Changing the Real Estate Industry with Craig Foley
In an ever changing and complex world, the real estate industry must change. The change needs to come from all levels: from designers and architects, builders and developers, planners and policy makers. This is especially true for real estate agents.
The Ecology School with Drew Dumsch
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.