The innovative DesignBuildUTAH program teaches architecture students design and building skills while working alongside the communities in the Navajo Nation to deliver needed affordable and sustainable homes.

Katie McCamant is an author, architect, and the co-creator of the term "cohousing"—a community of private homes clustered around shared communal spaces.

Daron Joffe, a.k.a. Farmer D, is a farmer, designer, and ambitious field-builder promoting the idea of agrihoods and conservation-focused land development. He believes in the "village" model, where housing development is clustered, while large swaths of surrounding land is conserved for nature and agriculture.

Peter Scialla is the CEO of the wellness real estate company Delos that uses science to drive innovation in the building industry for things such as clean indoor air and potable drinking water. They are the parent organization of the International WELL Building Institute.

David Rust is the founder and CEO of Sagra, an agro-tourism company that works with farms across the country. He believes that a trip to a regenerative farm can be a revelation for people, inspiring them to shift the way they shop, eat, and see the environment. 

Izumi is a practicing Buddhist and sees how the impacts that we make within our daily lives have impacts that go beyond ourselves. She sees the practice of inhabiting our homes as a spiritual endeavor where we must first transform ourselves before we can begin transforming the world.

How we can use engaging, playful community-based methods to design more safe, sustainable, and equitable neighborhoods and communities.

The Miyawaki Method is a unique approach to reforestation devised by Japanese botanist Akira Miyawaki. Author Hannah Lewis explains how tiny forests as small as six parking spaces grow quickly and are much more biodiverse than those planted by conventional methods.

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.

Dani Baker is the owner of Cross Island Farm in New York. After spending long hours in her annual market garden, she turned to permaculture principals to help transform her property into a perennial edible food forest.

Sarah Susanka is an architect, prolific author, and visionary thinker credited with starting the tiny house movement. She’s changed the way huge amounts of people see the world, but she insists the way to create change is by thinking small and attending to the everyday challenges you see in front of you.

As the world looks for new ways for cities to adapt to climate change, design expert Alison Sant believes that potential solutions lie at the front lines and with the people most directly impacted.

Dr. Vincent Walsh is a designer and serial entrepreneur living and working in Manchester, England. He is inspired and fascinated by the biosphere's natural inclination toward circular systems and "upcycling"—taking components and creating from them something of equal or greater value.

Aaron Fairchild has leveraged his own background in finance to lead the way in deep green housing development in the Pacific Northwest. He's applied pressure to the whole market, inspiring developers to make more sustainable housing in order to keep up.

Ben Falk is one of the most prominent figures in the world of ecological design but he didn't always see that path as his future. At a young age, he was drawn toward acts of dramatic protest, like sleeping in trees. But eventually he had an epiphany: the best way to inspire change is not to yell at or shame people, but to show them a better way to live.

Concrete, which is energy and emissions intensive, took over the world around 200 years ago. Emily Majewski thinks it's time for its reign to end. Experimenting in her backyard in Mexico, she created a new, environmentally-friendly building material made from biochar called Cast Carbon.

Agriculture is not a typical investment category that one may think about when they think of real estate investing. Yet if we are going to have more regenerative farmers, they are going to need access to capital. Harvest Returns is an online platform that connects small farmers and producers with agriculture-specific investors.

There is a utopic vision that farmers will put down their pesticides, herbicides, and other chemical cocktails conceived and peddled to eradicate pests and weeds in order to save the planet. However the challenge is that the land can become so degraded that once you go cold turkey and stop applying chemicals, everything seems to collapse around you.

Transition or Transition Towns, is a movement that has been growing since 2005 across the globe. Community-led Transition groups focus on a low-carbon, socially just future with resilient communities, and active participation in society.

Despite being named one of the top ten landscape designers of all time, Mary Reynolds describes herself as an ex-gardener. That’s because after years spent designing award-winning gardens and landscapes across the globe, Mary was tired of fighting nature back to fit into the mold in which she originally designed.