Welcome to Sustainability Success
The 21st century finds us out of time for actions not connected to results; we now need to focus exclusively on the critical path to success.
Sustainability 2030 (S2030) forges an accurate understanding of the challenge and the requirements for an effective response. It also undertakes initiatives to advance success.
S2030 advances a promising effective alternative response to business and sustainability as usual: regenerative systems sustainability (RSS) arising from 25+ years of innovation in green planning, design, and sustainability.
It addresses the source of accelerating unsustainability & climate change: (1) the design of our economy’s materials and processes; (2) our response that mitigates instead of eliminates impacts by design in ways that expand production in nature and the economy. RSS shifts from parts to systems sustainability.
Applied to cities, RSS becomes the Regenerative City focused initially on the point of greatest leverage: creating the regenerative built environment (RBE). Doing so simultaneously creates the urban metabolism of sustainability AND the regenerative, circular, ecologic economy that is the basis for sustainability success.
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Understanding
Success begins with an accurate understanding of the challenge and the requirements for an effective response.
Initiatives
Sustainability 2030 advances understanding and practice in collaboration with other leading-edge organizations and initiatives.
About
Sustainability 2030 is the sole proprietorship of Scott Edmondson, AICP, a professional planner. It is an umbrella for his independent research, development, and initiatives.
