Sustainability 2030
Regenerative Systems Sustainability (RSS) Center
Enabling Success
(site under development)
Welcome
Sustainability 2030 (S2030) is the umbrella title for a long-standing wide-ranging inquiry into authentic sustainability: what it is and how to produce it. S2030 answers the question: what would we do if we needed to be sustainable? It does this with independent, non-partisan planning and policy research.
S2030 has developed an accurate understanding of the sustainability challenge and the requirements for an effective response. It calls the perspective and approach “strategic regenerative (living) systems sustainability and planning.” It is now working on an implementation program. This understanding was forged as a side project over a career in urban and regional planning continuously asking the questions: is this the complete answer; would it produce authentic sustainability; if not, what else is needed?
S2030 will develop its work program focused on research, collaborations, and initiatives with catalytic potential to affect needed systems change on the critical path to sustainability success. This will include working at the intersection of the following three components of next-generation urban (& regional settlement) systems planning practice; (1) regenerative systems sustainability, (2) AI and GIS/geospatial systems analysis, simulation, and planning practice and tools, and (3) integrative practice and educational curriculum
Background
The inquiry into authentic sustainability and an effective response was influenced by the following areas of study and work over a career: environmental studies, ecosystemology, national development studies, economics, public policy research and analysis, environmental impact assessment and planning, strategic decision analysis, long range planning, urban design, planning analytics (including modern GIS) and urban systems simulation and various pro-bono roles and initiatives.
The formulation of RSS arose from work on urban sustainability and green planning and design innovation focused on land use and the built environment including: strategic sustgainability, biophilic city planning and design, regenerative design, regenerative community, biomimicry, ecologcial economics, natural capitalism, and others. The implication for sustainable (regenerative) city-regions, globally, including the economy, arose recently under the simple shorthand label of the Regenerative city (RC). This RSS approach applied to urban planning lead to the regenerative city and the regenerative built environment.
The Regenerative Systems Sustainability (The Center — RSS) provides a range of resources for others interested in learning and practicity regenerative systems sustainability and city planning. It monitors, advances, and supports the promising emerging response to society’s deepening sustainability predicament (winning some sustainability battles but losing the war) — the general regenerative systems sustainability approach and planning and designing the regenerative built environment (RBE) and city (RC).
As relevant, the Center also monitors the context of accelerating trends (climate warming and unsustainability) and deepening predicament (shrinking time frame for an effective response).
Explore the Center’s resources. Learn about the deepening predicament and the promising emerging approach. Begin shifting from a parts to a systems sustainability approach. Test it. Advance it. Share it. Contribute to success. Share your story. Be recognized as a regenerative sustainability pioneer.
NOTE: The Sustainability 2030 Initiative is adding a focus via the Regenerative Systems Sustainability Center (RSS Center) or simply the Center or the Sustainability Center. It will retain the existing domain name for now: sustainability2030.com. It may develop a subdomain for the Center in the future.