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Building Regenerative Communities: Meeting the Moment for the Path Ahead Join us for a virtual event to hear directly from the 2024 Regenerative Communities Program (RCP) Cohort and staff as they share their insights and lessons learned from participation in this program. This is an opportunity to learn, share experiences and engage in meaningful conversations that foster resilience and collaboration in our uncertain times. If you're a part of an organization or community that is thinking about how to build resilience, adapt or coordinate better for the future, come learn about how others have done this. Over the past six months, the RCP Cohort has applied community-driven, collaborative approaches to impactful projects across California, from fire-impacted Greenville to urban neighborhoods in the Bay Area, Sacramento, and Fresno—cultivating adaptation, resilience, and equity for regenerative futures. Virtual Event Details: Date: January 9, 2025 Time: 11:00 a.m. - 12:15 p.m. PT Register for the Event Here: https://lu.ma/fjgum1hi

We're grateful to Weldon and the Copper team for hosting the POWER group this past week, it was so great to see old and new faces and to cook on the future!

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How do we create communities that thrive, adapt, and grow? In our latest blog, we share highlights from the 2024 Regenerative Communities Program Cohort, whos members have been wrestling with this question. For six months, changemakers from across California grew their abilities to bring regenerative practices into their work, tackling critical issues like displacement and community-led development, while building connection to one another. Learn how their in-person gathering inspired fresh connections and renewed purpose for the journey ahead. Read their story: https://bit.ly/4ixzNFn #BuildItGreen #RegenerativeFutures #EquityAndResilience

Have you ever thought about becoming a housing developer, or wondered what it took to actually develop and build housing in your community? Join us for a FREE in-person introductory lecture on the transformative potential of small-scale development! This session will delve into the core concepts of Incremental Development, led by experienced faculty from Incremental Development Alliance You’ll gain insights into how small-scale projects—like townhomes, small-plexes, and ADUs—can address housing affordability and climate challenges while regenerating communities. Whether you’re a seasoned professional or just exploring the field, this lecture will help equip you with actionable knowledge to take the first step in shaping a more equitable and vibrant future. When: February 6, 2025 Time: 5:30–7:30 PM Where: Oakstop | 2323 Broadway, Oakland, CA 94612 About the Alameda County Small Developer Incubator: This innovative program champions small-scale residential projects—like townhomes, small-plexes, and ADUs—to tackle housing affordability and climate challenges. By fostering collaboration between independent developers and municipal staff, we’re building a shared vision of thriving, regenerative communities created by those who live there. Join us to take a first step towards exploring development in your community Learn More and Register Here: https://lu.ma/qhyd9ds5 hashtag #BuildItGreen #AlamedaCounty #SmallScaleDevelopment #HousingSolutions #FutureCommunities Ever thought about developing housing in your community? Take the first step!

Hope, Collaboration, and Thanks: A Message From Our Executive Director At Build It Green (BIG) it’s our firm belief that tapping into hope and optimism enables us and our partners to create homes and communities that are affordable, healthy, and equitable and where people and nature thrive together. We believe that collaboration – between advocates and builders, decision makers and innovators, and doers and thinkers of all types – is essential to making the visions fueled by hope and optimism reality. Working together, community stakeholders, including those from the most marginalized places in California, can lead and set aspirations for where they live and building practitioners can take the practical steps to bring those aspirations to life. We also recognize there are forces that make it hard to act upon hope and optimism and to create affordable, healthy homes and ecologically vital, socially equitable homes and places. Fear, distrust, and hyper individualism are ascendent in our politics and society right now. These forces drive people to turn inward and focus on scarcity and exclusion. For some BIG partners the ascendance of these forces is dispiriting and cause for rethinking strategies and tactics. For other partners, the impact is more existential; the ability of many Californians to live, work, thrive and contribute to the future of our communities is under threat. At BIG, we recognize this range of impacts on our partners and stand ready to be unwavering allies in the months and years ahead. Something else we believe in at BIG is giving thanks. So in this season we want to say thank you to all of our partners across California’s housing ecosystem. Your collective commitment to stand for nature, to advance voices too often left out of decision making, and to pursue practical approaches to make visions reality will, even as countervailing forces push against us, enable our state to show what is possible when we work together. We could not have a better network of partners! .   Be safe, be strong, and be joyful. We at BIG look forward to the work we will do together.   — Jeremy Madsen , Executive Director https://lnkd.in/gnjdzbMW

Missed our recent event? We’ve got you covered! Thank you to everyone who joined us for "Mix & Match: Building Housing Solutions One Card at a Time!" It was an inspiring session led by Ben Hoffman | Junior Designer, LMNOP Design Inc., and Janette Kim | Principal, All of the Above. Together, we explored how the Mix & Match Toolkit board game enables community members to accessibly envision and develop housing solutions tailored to their unique needs. Whether you attended live or couldn’t make it, we want to make sure you don’t miss out on these valuable insights! Check out the full recording and blog recap to dive deeper into the discussions and ideas shared. https://bit.ly/3CmiwOR #BuildItGreen #CommunityCenteredHousing #HousingSolutions #MixAndMatchToolkit #RegenerativeDevelopment

🌟 Event Reminder! 🌟 Hey everyone! Our interactive Mix & Match Toolkit session is coming up, and we can’t wait for you to join us as we explore approachable (and fun!) financial, legal, architectural, and governance strategies for creating community-centered housing. Whether you're a community member, government official, industry leader, or just interested in the topic, this session is for you! 📅 Date & Time: October 11, 2024, 12-1 PM PT 💻 Register Here: https://bit.ly/3YapFKT For the best experience, join us on a device with video capabilities to fully engage with the interactive elements of this 60-minute session, led by Ben Hoffman (Junior Designer, LMNOP Design Inc.) and Janette Kim (Principal, All of the Above). Looking forward to seeing you there! #BuildItGreen #HousingSolutions #CommunityDevelopment #AffordableHousing #RegenerativeDevelopment

Congratulations to the Terner Labs team on being named a recipient of the Innovation Fund 2024! This grant will help kick off the Builders Lab, a groundbreaking project at the forefront of housing innovation offering training, resources, and support to leaders in industrialized construction. By bringing these innovations to scale, Terner Labs is helping to drive industry-wide transformation, advance sustainable housing delivery and address systemic inequities across the country. #HousingInnovation #AffordableHomes #InnovationFund2024 #RegenerativeDevelopment #IndustrializedConstruction

We’re excited to unveil our refreshed brand, showcasing our next chapter of creating regenerative communities across California! Our journey started in 2005, coalescing pioneers in green building to help shape the residential sector. Since then, we’ve certified over 120,000 green homes, trained thousands of professionals, and contributed to groundbreaking green building codes. Now, we're embracing the future by focusing on regeneration — a holistic approach connecting people, communities, and nature. Check out our new website to see the full refresh, updates on our programs and read Executive Director Jeremy Madsen’s full letter on how we’re evolving to make regeneration California's norm! https://lnkd.in/gZMMj9d9 #BuildItGreen #Regeneration #BrandRefresh