Neal Collins is the co-founder of [Latitude]( http://www.chooselatitude.com) —a regenerative focused real estate sales, consulting, and development firm that works across North America.

His background in business development, leadership, project design, and communications spans the US, Europe, and Asia. During his career he has worked with individuals, private companies, intergovernmental organizations, and non-profits. Neal’s passion is to cultivate ideas, individuals, and organizations to help make a positive change in the world

How do we create entire communities where humans live in reciprocity with their natural surrounding?

Living Future Ambassador Neal Collins about the Living Community Challenge, a framework for master planning, design, and construction put forth by the International Living Future Institute.

A Living Community is rooted in place and adapted to its climate and site. These communites harvest their own energy and have closed-loop water cycles. The design encourages a symbiotic relationship between people and all aspects of the built environment.

Learn about 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.

- Desgined using multipurpose elements.

- Regenerative spaces for people and natural ecosystems

- Places that are walkable, bike-able, and have affordable public transportation.

LEED (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) is an internationally recognized green building certification system, providing third-party verification that a building or community was designed and built using strategies aimed at improving performance across all the metrics that matter most: energy savings, water ..

https://www.bu.edu/sustainability/what-were-doing/green-buildings/leed/

"irgendwie nicht genug"

7 petals of LCC https://living-future.org/lcc/

• https://living-future.org/lcc/place-petal/
• https://living-future.org/lcc/water-petal/
• https://living-future.org/lcc/beauty-petal/

Examples

• Bullit Center Seattle https://bullittcenter.org/
• "not grid tied" water etc.
• totally empty in the moment

• Desert Rain House http://desertrainhouse.com/
• https://theecologyschool.org/
• Teach Kids and Studenzs abour systems thinking

From Chat: Australian examples: https://www.balancedearth.co/all-projects