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🌍📚 Exciting ACAN Events Happening Next Week: Register Now! 🚨 Keen to engage in stimulating climate discussions and deepen your expertise? We’ve got two amazing events coming up on Monday and Tuesday next week that you won’t want to miss! 📖 Event 1: Climate Literacy Book Club - Round 2! Ready to dive deeper into The Good Ancestor? Join Vincent, Mariana and Rebecca as they explore how we can shift to long-term thinking, with a sprinkle of Doughnut Economics and regenerative systems. 🗓 Monday, March 17th ⏰ 7pm GMT 💻 Online (Book via Eventbrite: https://lnkd.in/emusSGu5) Newcomers welcome - we’ll have a catch-up chat at the start! ♻️ Event 2: ACAN's Carbon Clinic - Data Collection & WLCA. Our next Carbon Clinic session is all about mastering "Data Collection Methods and Whole Life Cycle Assessment Inputs." Learn from experts Paridhi Goyal and Matthew Mapp about gathering the right data for accurate carbon assessments. A must-attend for anyone in sustainability! 🗓 Tuesday, March 18th ⏰ 6:30pm - 8:00pm GMT 💻 Online (Register via Eventbrite: https://lnkd.in/etpZvUEV) Don’t wait - secure your spot today and level up your climate action! 🌱 #ClimateAction #Sustainability #CarbonFootprint #ClimateLiteracy #DoughnutEconomics #EmbodiedCarbon #LifeCycleAssessment #SustainableDesign #GreenBuilding #CarbonNeutral #CircularEconomy #NetZero

AD's talented Student Ambassadors recently attended the BEF: Built Environment for the Future session to talk to networks of young professionals about the importance of the #RegenerativeArchitectureIndex with regard to supporting a paradigm shift towards regenerative architecture across the built environment sector. "CIBSE’s YEN group were looking for ideas on how to provide a platform for new thinking and information exchange. Amy and Anushka, Architect’s Declare student ambassadors, were able to show how AD has already begun to create just that. The Regenerative architecture Index was set up in partnership with Architecture Today to showcase those practices who championed three key regenerative principles: Become a good ancestor, Create a just space for people, and Co-evolve with nature." Enter the #RAI now and showcase the work your practice is doing to move towards regenerative practice! https://lnkd.in/dv2jKAJj

Great report from the Retrofit Policy Roundtable by #DontWasteBuildings highlighting the biggest obstacles to reducing carbon emissions and waste in the built environment sector, and thoughts on how to address them. #circulareconomy #climateaction #Retrofit

One of the great values of the #RegenerativeArchitectureIndex, which we're proud to have created with Architecture Today & launched last year, is the profile it gives architectural practices & other built environment designers among potential clients who are looking to make the positive difference the planetary emergency demands. The RAI gathers detailed and wide-ranging information from participants, demonstrating their track record and commitment to regenerative design. So it's wonderful to see the initiative shown by The The Wildheart Trust and its COO Lawrence Bates in exclusively specifying the RAI's 2025 entrants for expressions of interest in designing their exciting new development - The International School of Rewilding and Regenerative Agriculture. To be located on a 70-hectare site connected to the existing Wildheart Animal Sanctuary at Sandown on the Isle of Wight, this world-first will act as a global centre for practical and academic research and innovation in environmental sciences and engineering. The competition - open exclusively to participants in this year's RAI - will set out to identify an architect to work with Wildheart and ISoRaRA stakeholders and funders to develop initial design proposals but also to commit to a long-term partnership to monitor the project’s performance and the on-going relationship between wildlife, people, ecology and landscape and to develop and evolve the campus as required. More detail in this story from Architecture Today: Call for expressions of interest: The International School of Rewilding and Regenerative Agriculture https://lnkd.in/ewsptPH3 That story also has the link to the Regenerative Architecture Index and information on last year's participants: the deadline for this year's RAI entries is 16th May - with EoIs for the International School due soon after, by 23rd May.

At a time when fear-driven politics seems to be the new normal, it’s reassuring to step back and reflect on the collective progress we have made as professionals. The built environment sector and UK Architects Declare have campaigned relentlessly to drive positive action toward a hopeful future. (#BuildingBlocks manifesto) Having attended #FutureBuild last week, I’m buzzing with ideas on how the construction industry can support a positive transition in the UK. My top three takeaways: 1️⃣ Engaging with the new Circular Economy Task Force to ensure the built environment becomes a core part of the government's strategy for the Circular Economy over the next decade. Architects Declare will soon launch a campaign to gather signatories' feedback on policies and approaches to kick-start this transition—watch this space! 🚀 Huge thanks to Dr David Greenfield and Libby Peake from the #CircularEconomyTaskForce for speaking with myself, Julia Barfield, and Laura Baron from UK Architects Declare, we look forward to continuing the conversation. 2️⃣ Seizing the opportunity posed by the delivery of 1.5 million homes—by prioritising the reuse of existing buildings and promoting regenerative urban neighbourhoods that are low-carbon, nature-positive, and healthy. 💡 Check out the #DontWasteBuildings campaign—great insights from Will Hurst and Duncan Baker-Brown at FutureBuild! 🎤 Also fascinating to hear Yolande Barnes discuss real estate’s role in tackling the polycrisis by intensifying and enhancing quality of life in existing places. 3️⃣ Showcasing our success stories in regenerative design by participating in the Regenerative Architect Index (RAI), a collaboration between Architecture Today and UK Architects Declare. 🙌 A big thank you to everyone who stopped by the #RegenerativeArchitectureIndex stand at FutureBuild. If you haven’t yet, sign up to be part of the movement—link here! https://lnkd.in/eakNrfhK Let’s keep the momentum going. What are your thoughts on these initiatives?💬

CALLING ALL ARCHITECTS AND DESIGNERS: The Wildheart Trust is on a mission to create the world’s first International School of Rewilding and Regenerative Agriculture (ISoRaRA)! We need visionary architects to help bring it to life. Located in the heart of the Isle of Wight Biosphere, this groundbreaking initiative will serve as a global hub for environmental innovation, research, and education. Think: - Rewilding landscapes — the first UK site rewilded by European Elk - Regenerative architecture — low-impact structures that work with nature - A living laboratory — testing cutting-edge regenerative practices Working with Wildheart, we’re launching a limited design competition to find an architecture practice that shares a commitment to regenerative placemaking and ecological innovation. But there’s a twist: Only practices participating in the 2025 Regenerative Architecture Index (RAI) — a partnership between Architecture Today and UK Architects Declare — will be considered for the shortlist. This is your chance to create a campus that redefines the relationship between people, wildlife, and the land. Are you up for the challenge? Expressions of interest deadline: 23rd May 2025 Enter via the Regenerative Architecture Index to be considered. Use the link below for all further info ⬇️ https://lnkd.in/ewsptPH3 #RegenerativeArchitecture #Rewilding #SustainableDesign #ArchitectureCompetition #WildheartTrust #RewildTheFuture #isleofwight

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