Rejuvenative technologies are behaviours and technologies that support, borrow from, utilise, work alongside or benefit from the Earth’s natural productive capacity. They may include recognised sustainable stewardship and production techniques, nature mimicking design, sustainable and net positive biological production, or the as yet emerging “lifelike” natural manufacture.
Our economy, our engineering and our technology must become both explicitly and inherently rejuvenative, to make a manifest contribution to the abundance, vitality and productive capacity of natural capital upon which they rely. Such an approach has a number of obvious benefits: READ MORE>>
By Katie Hyslop, Today, TheTyee.ca
What if a building wasn't just sustainable, but actually benefitted the environment? It's a lofty goal, but the University of British Columbia is trying to achieve it with the construction of what they believe will be the greenest building in North America.
Right now, the Centre for Interactive Research on Sustainability (CIRS) is a two-story shell of a building: there are no doors, the stairs are rough, and rebar and plywood are the main decor instead of office furniture and potted plants. But by the time it's completed this June, CIRS will be more than just a stylish campus building: it will meet both the LEED Platinum and Living Building Challenge standards, and give back more than it's taking in air, water and energy, upping the productivity and happiness of the people who inhabit it.
"The aspiration is for a regenerative building, essentially a building that can live within its footprint, what's available to it in terms of mass and energy flow on the site or within the site," says Alberto Cayuela, associate director of UBC's Sustainability Initiative, which is in charge of the CIRS project. READ MORE >>
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