Three months ago, I found myself standing in what used to be a concrete plaza in downtown Portland, watching city workers install this pop-up forest installation. I know this sounds…
I was scrolling through one of those parenting forums at 2am last week (don’t judge – my son had strep and wasn’t sleeping), when I came across this incredible story…
# What I Learned About the Regenerative Design Process After Accidentally Killing My Yard So this is going to sound ridiculous, but my obsession with regenerative design started because I…
Okay, so I get this question a lot on my blog – people want to know where they can get officially trained in biophilic design. Like, is there some fancy…
Okay, so I’ve been getting DMs asking about regenerative design PDFs pretty much daily lately, and I totally understand why. When you’re trying to figure out how to make your…
I was scrolling through urban planning Twitter last week when I saw a thread that made me stop mid-scroll: a landscape architect talking about a housing development in Portland where…
I fell down this rabbit hole about regenerative building design after seeing some absolutely mind-blowing Instagram posts from people living in homes that literally improved the land around them. I…
I was dropping my friend Sarah’s daughter off at school last month when I accidentally took a wrong turn and ended up in the basement hallway of Roosevelt Elementary. Honestly?…
My wife and I don’t travel as much as we used to – the mobility issues and my own arthritis make it more complicated than it once was. But when…
# When Buildings Actually Give Back – My Journey Into Regenerative Design I stumbled across this concept totally by accident. Last summer, I was procrastinating on weekend data entry work…
I never thought I’d become the kind of person who gets excited about stripping wallpaper, but here we are. Last month I was helping our neighbors with their 1920s bungalow…
You know that feeling when you walk into a space and your whole body just… relaxes? I experienced this so powerfully last month when I took my daughter to a…
Over the past few years, I’ve been following some remarkable building projects around the world that integrate natural elements in ways I never imagined possible. After spending decades thinking about…
Three months ago, I found myself standing in a 1920s bank lobby in Portland, watching restoration specialists carefully remove dropped ceiling tiles to reveal original coffered plasterwork that hadn’t seen…
I’ve been tracking my home office productivity metrics for years now, and one pattern kept nagging at me: my best work days consistently happened when I spent time on my…