Cities and communities around the world are taking up the challenge of sustainability.  At the same time, the field of sustainability has been evolving.  Architects, planners, and governing bodies are increasingly aware of the current limitations of sustainability practice:

•Piecemeal approaches create higher costs, sub-optimal results and even unintended negative consequences, while failing to address systemic issues.

•Overemphasis on one-size-fits-all technologies, goals and indicators can adversely impact the cultural and ecological fabric of local communities.

•Focusing on reductions in environmental and social problems fails to address the need to reverse existing damage, and creates artificial ceilings to creative potential.

Regenerative Communities take sustainability to the next level by working on the performance of whole systems.

Sustainable Communities work on reducing their negative impact by decreasing greenhouse gas emissions and reducing environmental footprint.

Regenerative Communities work on being engines of positive evolutionary change—creating net benefit to natural, cultural and economic systems.

Sustainable Communities use universal principles, benchmarks and best practices to create guidelines and policy for shaping sustainable practices and behavior.

Regenerative Communities use their unique identity and vocation as compass and touchstone for coalescing the community, inspiring new possibilities for partnering human and natural systems, and growing a future of greater abundance and creativity.

Sustainable Communities work to correct the patterns of the past that create unsustainable practices today, focusing on solving problems, often with emphasis on expert dependent techno-centric approaches.

Regenerative Communities provide enduring value because they embrace and adapt to change—the people involved understand how community and place work as a whole, and see their role in maintaining the integrity of that whole.

Regenerative Communities Group (RCG) is a collaborative partnership of companies at the vanguard of sustainability practice.  We help new communities articulate, and existing communities rediscover, their unique regenerative potential. We bring a broad and deep range of technologies, processes and experience to help manifest that potential in

•place-based regenerative economies,

•developmental educational and civic processes

•regenerative land and resource use.