"More and more designers and builders are realizing that...solutions to the real problems of development continue to elude us. Today’s green projects conserve energy, reduce wastes, and improve the quality of life. Yet these improvements only slow the degradation of planetary ecosystems. ...Development, with its high impacts on the planet, needs to become a source of ecological health."
Revitalist Magazine article, 2006
"Regenerative Design is grounded in...the belief that, as a part of a larger order, we humans must act in harmony with those larger patterns. When we do so, our designs become instruments for enabling the whole of a place to move to a richer and healthier expression of life. And in turn, a healthier whole grows the viability and vitality of the part (be it a river restoration or a housing development). By seeing the ultimate aim of all our work as the regeneration and evolution of increasingly vital, viable and inspiriting places, we not only create extraordinary designs, we become more fully human.”
Design Intelligence article, 2001
Regenesis Firm Profile
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Yellow Springs News—Regenesis aims for distinct local identity
"In order to move forward, according to Regenesis consultant Ben Haggard, a community must look back and let its ecological and cultural identity inform its goals for the future."
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Regenerative Development
"Regenerative development conceptualizes projects as engines of positive or evolutionary change for the systems into which they are built...Learning how to apply a regenerative approach begins not with a change of techniques but rather with a change of mind—a new way of thinking about how we plan, design, construct, and operate our built environment."
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Voices of the Land - Fox Haven Report Excerpts
"In the following pages Fox Haven speaks to us of her dreams and of her losses and invites us to join in the ongoing dance of creation, neither as a caretaker nor a master but as a participating partner. Her voice is more than a literary device. It is symbolic of a profound shift in perspective that is occurringÑthe emergence of an ecological model of reality. At a time when our relationship with our planet seems increasingly destructive, this model holds out new hope for understanding how we can harmonize human activities with the continuing regeneration of life on our planet even as we continue to develop our potential as humans."
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Looking to Nature for a New Economic Model—the Commonwork System
"The Commonwork offers a pattern for consciously growing a model of regenerative relationship between people and place. It can help Fox Haven grow in a way that integrates people and place into a "healthy ecosystem" that is continually "self-creating, self-managing and self-regenerating through reciprocal relationships among its parts and with its larger environment."
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