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2025 Year In Review
Our report shows what these changemakers can achieve, featuring powerful stories of collective impact driven by our community. Check it out and support the movement!
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Your Support Powers the Global Regenerative Movement
Progress depends on thoughtful, values-driven individuals and communities who know a better world is possible. Your vital gift powers the long-term vision that turns inspiration into regenerative reality.
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Living Future (EIN #27-1791162) is a public charity recognized as tax-exempt under IRS Section 501(c)(3). Your donation is fully tax-deductible.
What Your Gift Does
Every gift helps us research science-based solutions, create regenerative tools, educate the AEC community, advocate for change, and turn bold ideas into real-world impact.
Here are some ways your donation transforms the built environment:
- Advancing healthy, sustainable, and equitable materials
- Improving K–12 learning environments
- Expanding access to regenerative design education
- Championing Just workplaces
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Impact Stories
Sonoma Academy
“In today’s techno-centric world, people spend more time looking down at devices versus connecting to their place. For Sonoma Academy, a high school on the outskirts of Santa Rosa, their goal was to have people look up and out, to create a campus heart, and to bring the school and community together through dining and making, all while celebrating the region’s beauty.”
Sonoma Academy, Beauty Imperative Statement
Unison
“A substation is an important building for our business but also for our community. It is critical for resilience. We wanted to show what was possible with this typology. We wanted to create something that can withstand earthquakes, is beautiful, and gives back to the community.”
Aryero Kothroulas,
Group Risk and Sustainability Manager, Unison
Monmade
“Monmade is a consultancy for developers and architects. We help elevate their work by sourcing things that are made in an equitable and sustainable way.”
Katie Chaible
Director, Monmade
Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library
“The team’s tireless efforts to connect the dots around recycling, including ongoing work with neighboring communities, may mean that by the time the project opens, the region’s recycling ecosystem will be far more robust than it is today.”
Jenn Carroll,
Manager of Sustainability, Theodore Roosevelt Presidential Library Foundation
Chesapeake Bay Foundation
“The Brock Environmental Center is our pebble in a pond. It has done more than any of us could have imagined at the time.”
Mary Tod Winchester
Retired Vice President for Administration, Chesapeake Bay Foundation
Architectural Nexus Sacramento
“We wanted to demonstrate that a renovated building could be a model for water effectiveness and integrate with its ecosystem.”
Erica McBride, LFA, Regenerative Operations Manager, Architectural Nexus
City of Bridges
Land Trust
“The Living Building model is ideal for our goals and aligns with our values. We are focused on the impacts on residents…This is not a one-off, everything we are doing here is replicable.”
Julie Nigro, Senior Real Estate Manager, City of Bridges Land Trust
More Impact Stories
Mona Nahm
While working with YA Studio, Nahm first encountered the International Living Future Institute. “I saw the flower growing out of the dirt as a reflection of myself,” she noted. “I am someone who grew with the resources around me.”
Richard Franko
The Louisiana Children’s Museum was uniquely designed for New Orleans’ City Park. “This would be a building and place that could only be on this site,” recalled Richard Franko, principal in charge of the project at Mithun.
Rita Trombin
“Rather than containing its learning environment within four walls, the Green School embraces nature and integrates with the outdoors,” according to Rita Trombin, an environmental psychologist who is a former staff member at the school.
Rex Hohlbein & Jenn Lafreniere
“We want to use design to create a path for everyone to get involved in ending homelessness,” Jenn Lafreniere, originator of the BLOCK Project, said in a TED Talk she delivered with Rex Hohlbein, the other originator who is also her father.