by Angela Darby The Challenge’s origin within North America’s property development and urban planning context has significant implications for the advocacy tool’s relevance across other national contexts. To contribute to…
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The Living Building Challenge™ is a building certification program, advocacy tool and philosophy that defines the most advanced measure of sustainability in the built environment possible today and acts to rapidly diminish…
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Ready to rise above the greenwash? Declare your product and stake your claim in the transparent materials economy. Consumers are demanding a new kind of information about the products they buy.…
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In response to the growing need for sustainability solutions that move across industries and scales and better address the social and environmental crises humanity now faces, the International Living Future…
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Imagine products designed and constructed to function as elegantly and efficiently as anything found in the natural world: a material thing that is informed by biomimicry and biophilia; manufactured by…
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The Living Community Challenge is an exciting new program of the International Living Future Institute that helps planners and developers rethink how they design their community-scale projects, providing certification at…
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At the UnConference in Portland, the International Living Future Institute launched Living Building Challenge 3.0, which represents an important step forward in our program’s evolution. So what's new in 3.0? RESILIENCY
There is…
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