Regenerative Sustainability 2030
Understanding Publications The White Paper
Resources: Regenerative Urbanism
Regenerative Region SF Demo Regenerative City Symposium Regenerative Ukraine
Mission Team Partners History
Regenerative Sustainability 2030

Review Sustainability 2030’s invitation to success, mission, and approach below.

Invitation to Sustainability Success

Regenerative Sustainability 2030 invites you to explore the emerging innovation of regenerative systems sustainability (the general case) and regenerative city and urbanism (applied to urban planning).

  • Listen to the Regenerative City Symposium (1.5 hrs), Sept. 2024.

  • Read the Regenerative City, Part 2, ( or the PDF with more detailed footnotes, 55 pp) of the APA International Divsion’s Ukraine Rebuilding Action Group (URAG) Environmental Sustainability Planning Guidelines and listen to the summary (20 mins.), Mar. 2024.

  • Review the Resources Page for Regenerative Urbanism & the Systems Thinking Panel at the American Planning Association’s Sustainable Communities Division Climate Change Symposium, 2023

    • Listen to the presentation, “Applying Systems Thinking Yields Regenerative Urbanism - A Platform for Inventing Sustainability Success,” Pre-recording (20 mins) and skim through the Slide Deck PDF, 2023.

  • Read the white paper (13 pp); watch the recording (15 mins), 2022.

  • Send us your thoughts (scott-e@sustainability2030.com).

Understand how, regenerative systems sustainability:

  • is the antidote to the compounding twin, intertwined problems of climate change and unsustainability;

  • reframes the necessary climate change solution FROM simple GHG elimination TO GHG elimination PLUS accelerated global economic sustainability development by creating the regenerative global economy of inclusive prosperity that does not kill the planet or humans as doing so simultaneously mitigates climate change;

  • applied to urban planning illuminates how planning, designing, and building the “green” built environment creates the local sustainability economy needed for sustainability success, has been undervalued in practice to date, and has therefore been under produced by a factor of 10+;

  • and how it is also the best defense against the increasingly inhospitable environmental and economic conditions that will intensify during the 100-year-long-plus climate recalibration period of mitigation success.

Mission

RS2030 is an innovation initiative advancing success with regenerative systems sustainability planning.

It is time to shift our approach from parts sustainability to living systems sustainability, and scale it quickly enough for success within the short time remaining.

“Our challenge is to make the world work for 100 percent of humanity, in the shortest possible time, through spontaneous cooperation without ecological offense or the disadvantage of anyone.” (Buckminster Fuller, First World Game, 1961).

Explore RS2030’s approach and offerings, engage, and make your contribution to our collective bid for global sustainability success.

Approach

“Regenerative systems sustainability is the only approach that will simultaneously reverse the twin, intertwined challenges of climate change and unsustainability. Applied to urban and regional planning, it becomes regenerative urbanism and regionalism. This approach will establish the spatial economic basis for inclusive global prosperity. Applied to business and the economy, it will complete the transition to our new regenerative ecological economy. Fortunately, it is also the best defense against the increasingly inhospitable environmental and economic conditions that will intensify during the 100-year-long-plus period of climate success recalibration.” (Regenerative Urbanism - A synopsis, 2022).

Einstein once said: “If I were given only one hour to save the planet, i would spend 59 minutes defining the problem and one minute resolving it.”

Humanity is now at 59 minutes and 10 seconds. We have 50 seconds left to resolve the problem and save the planet (ourselves). Fortunately, leading thinkers, scientists, and range of practitioners have figured it out. The innovation is underway. Humanity now knows what to do and how to do it. We simply need to do it quickly and at scale. However, most people do not understand this point as the innovation and knowledge is mostly invisible.

As a result, RS2030’s approach is to reveal this existing knowledge and the innovation that continues to produce it so that we can all engage and act in concert to create a new era of inclusive regenerative abundance, prosperity, and success in time for the planet and people. Its secondary mission is enabling and contributing to the continuing innovation necessary to bridge the gap to success in time.

Explore RS2030’s approach and offerings, engage, become inspired, and make your contribution to our collective bid for global sustainability success.

Scott Edmondson, AICP, ISSP-SA

For more information, go to TEAM (for Bios) and Partners pages, and skim through the website more generally.