Living Community Challenge Basics

Living Future is no longer accepting new registrations for the Living Community Challenge 1.2. While LCC 1.2 provides a valuable framework for addressing design decisions at the community scale, the standard is in need of important updates and maintenance. Community scale projects should still use LCC as a visioning tool, but if they wish to pursue certification, please contact us at lbc.support@living-future.org. We can provide alternative certification paths, including individual building certification, multiple building certification, and volume certification.

As Connected as a Forest Ecosystem

Invest in the future of your community by using regenerative design strategies in your next project.

Design For The Future

With the Living Community Challenge framework you can create communities that are:

• Healthy for all elements of life
• Nurturing and generous places that promote healthy lifestyles for everyone
• Net Positive with respect to water and energy. Living Communities generate their own energy and capture and treat all the water they need.
• Designed using multipurpose elements. Nothing has only a single purpose; everything has multiple benefits to the community and environment
• Regenerative spaces for people and natural ecosystems
• Places that are walkable, bike-able, and have affordable public transportation.

The Living Community Challenge Has Two Rules

1. All Imperatives are mandatory.
2. Certification is based on actual, rather than modeled or anticipated, performance.

Performance Areas (Petals) & Imperatives

The Living Community Challenge is organized into seven performance areas (Petals). Each performance area has a number of more detailed requirements (Imperatives).

Place Petal

Restoring a healthy interrelationship with nature.

Water Petal

Creating developments that operate within the water balance of a given place and climate.

Energy Petal

Relying only on current solar income.

Health & Happiness Petal

Creating environments that optimize physical and psychological health and well being.

Materials Petal

Endorsing products that are safe for all species through time.

Equity Petal

Supporting a just and equitable world.

Beauty Petal

Celebrating plans that purpose transformative change.

Summary Matrix

SCALE JUMPING
A term used to describe going outside the limits of the community boundary for better solutions. Scale Jumping will be considered beyond the community, based on project scale, occupancy, and energy demand on a case-by-case basis.

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