The Regenerative Real Estate Podcast

Place is unique. It defines and shapes culture, food, architecture, and communities. On this episode of The Regenerative Real Estate Podcast, Ryan Wallace, the founder and CEO of The Solar Village Company , talks about how the places we've lived shapes our lives. This is a fascinating episode that gets into climate change adaptation, migration, building triple-bottom-line companies, net-zero...

Well into our way into the era of the Anthropocene, the defining work of the 21st century will be on revitalizing and regenerating land and habitat. Humans have altered, sculpted, and impacted every ecosystem on the planet. What once was will no longer be. That's why the work of revitalizing ecosystems is harder than rocket science. There is no mechanical solution to working with systems that...

The construction industry does not have a sterling reputation when it comes to sustainability. In fact, some studies show that the construction sector contributes to 23% of air pollution, 50% of climate change, 40% of drink water pollution, and 50% of landfill waste. There is an organization, however, that is pushing the industry forward to meet pressing 21st century challenges by adopting regener...

Did you ever have fantasies about living in a tree house when you were a kid? If so, you're not alone. Meet Django Kroner, the founder of the company Canopy Crew out of the Red River Gorge in Kentucky. Django had a dream to be a professional rock climber, and to make it work financially he worked in the construction industry for a timber frame builder. He was living out of a tent at the time,...

Matt Daigle is the founder of Rise , an online authority in sustainable home improvement. It all started when Matt and his wife decided to renovate their home. After spending six figures remodeling the property, he had failed to lower the property's utility bills. That's when he set his sights on learning what it really takes to build with sustainability in mind. Along the way Matt saw t...

On this episode, Amira Ayoub, an architect out of Cairo, Egypt talks about her passion to change the world and create a resilient future for her kids and future generations. She is an architect that specializes in biophilic and regenerative design.  Amira is USGBC® LEED & WELL Faculty™,  a Living Future and Fitwel Ambassador, and has designed the first Fitwel and Living Building Challenge proj...

Sheila Alston is part wellness professional, part real estate agent. She deeply cares about people's health and well-being and sees an emerging trend of people infusing wellness into their personal spaces. For Sheila, she knows that the environments that we live and work in are critical for our success and well-being. Through her work with clients in San Diego as both a designer and an agent,...

In this episode, host Neal Collins interviews Natalia Szyk-Trocha, the creator behind popular YouTube channel Savagaya . Natalia talks about how she overcame her fear of putting herself out there and her lack of video editing skills to go on to produce beautiful videos that showcase sustainable properties around the world. Natalia is an architect by training, however after working in the industry...

Bill Reed is an internationally recognized planning consultant, design process facilitator, lecturer, teacher, and author in sustainability and regeneration. He has been a leading figure in the green building movement as a founding Board of Director of the US Green Building Council and one of the co-founders of the LEED Green Building Rating System. His work and that of Regenesis has been to pione...

Many people dream of creating a new kind of community. One that is both sustainable and beautiful. A place where they can raise their kids, connect with neighbors, yet still rejuvenate in nature. Most of these dreams remain just that. On this episode Steven Nygren, the visionary and developer, shares his story about creating the community of his dreams. A place outside of Atlanta called Serenbe. T...

Oliver Ogden has set out to tell stories. His medium was through film and photography. That is until he found that stories about sustainability, resilience, and stewardship were being told in different ways. He became enamored with natural building and is now founder of Placecraft Design & Build. Oliver sees natural building as a building method that can provide sustainable solutions in a worl...

Will and Terry Kosloski had made a home on Vancouver Island in British Columbia. They had a garden, were active in the outdoors, and involved in the community. But they had a dream. A dream to get closer to the land—to connect, to listen, and to restore and regenerate, In this episode of The Regenerative Real Estate Podcast, Will recounts the story of selling their belongings and heading out on a...

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. Jason is the principal of McLennan Design and is considered one of the world’s most influential...

Water is one of life's most precious resources, yet abuse and mismanage it. That's not surprising because we have created a system and society that divorces ourselves from where we get our water. We take for granted the potable water in our sinks, and are ignorant about where it goes after it flows into our drains. On this episode, Laura Allen of Greywater Action helps to demystify greyw...

Martin Brown is a sustainability provocateur and regenerative practitioner that combines decades worth of construction background to help advance the built environment by looking holistically at practices that restore, revitalize, and offers hope. Martin is a Living Future Ambassador out of the U.K. and is the founder of Fairsnape. His company does consultancy and advocacy work for regenerative su...

Carol Sanford is consistently recognized thought leader that works side by side with Fortune 500 and new economy executives to design and lead systemic business change and design. She is a leading voice in the Regenerative movement and has authored many award-winning books on the subject. On this episode of The Regenerative Real Estate Podcast, Carol goes in depth about how to develop awareness an...

In this episode of The Regenerative Real Estate Podcast, Al Tozer of Tozer Design comes on to talk about his experience of blending ecology with architecture. Al and his firm are credited as designing the world's first Living Building Certified residence, which is an incredible feat as the first mover and shaker to take on such a rigorous challenge. We talk about Al's experience in the r...

Mark Shepard is widely known as an agroforestry and permaculture expert that is the CEO of Agriculture Restoration Development and the owner of New Forest Farm, a commercial-scale perennial agricultural system that uses the oak savanna as an ecological model. In this fascinating talk, Mark gets into the real estate side of things and how he has been successful at improving degraded real estate thr...

Austin Tunnell is an emerging developer that designs and builds stunning, community-oriented, and masonry framed homes. His work extends from pocket neighborhoods to custom homes with his sights on more urban infill guided by a new urbanism philosophy. Austin decided at an early age that being a CPA at a big four accounting firm was not the path for him. He quit his job and began getting immersed...

Sonja Bochart is an inspirational thought-leader with 20 years of experience creating meaningful and healthy spaces in the built environment. She is an avid speaker, facilitator, leader, and writer. Her design work promotes thoughtfulness and leading-edge innovations of holistic design with a focus on human health and wellness. This is an incredibly moving episode that will make you walk away feel...

Amanda Sturgeon is an award-winning architect, author, speaker, and thought-leader in the regenerative design space. She is an expert in biophilic design and her work helps to connect the thought that people are nature are part of one living system. She is now setting her sights on to how to make regenerative design mainstream with large-scale project integration. ——————— The Regenerative Real Est...

Paula Baker-Laporte is an author, architect, and visionary. She has been named one of the top 10 green architects in the US and is a principal at EcoNest Architecture.  When Paula found herself getting chronically ill she discovered that it was her home that was the cause. She then went on to integrate non-toxic building materials into her work in order to help her and others with chemical sensiti...

Eli Spevak has been developing affordable housing communities in Oregon for over 20 years, starting as a volunteer construction supervisor with Habitat for Humanity. In 2006, he launched Orange Splot, LLC to build new models of community-oriented, affordable, green housing development – ideally within an easy bike ride of his house. Eli was awarded a Loeb Fellowship in Advanced Environmental Studi...

In 2005 Jake Fry left his carpentry job building luxury homes in Vancouver BC to chase a dream of building small structures tucked away in people’s backyards and on alleys. Since then Jake and his firm Smallworks Studios has gone on to build over 300 laneway houses (also known as accessory dwelling units) and is arguably one of the most prolific design/builders of beautifully designed and meticulo...

Dr. Michael Mehaffy is an urbanist, architectural theorist, urban philosopher, researcher, educator, and executive director of Sustasis Foundation. He is a prolific figure that is working to promote  regenerative communities by looking at how planning and development work can connect suburbs and cities to work together. ——————— The Regenerative Real Estate Podcast is an independent show exploring...