Resources
By Amy Nelson
Websites
THE go-to resource for all things Living Building Challenge is the International Living Future Institute. The ILFI website provides highly detailed, but digestible LBC essentials (handbooks, guides, tracking tables, terms and definitions, and much more) and all of its other programs and initiatives.
The Frick Environmental Center
Living Building at Georgia Tech
Living Future Institute Australia
Living Future Institute Europe
R.W. Kern Center at Hampshire College
Select Publications by Featured Experts
The Philosophy of Sustainable Design, by Jason McLennan
The Ecological Engineer, by David Macaulay and Jason McLennan
Zugunruhe: The Inner Migration to Profound Environmental Change, by Jason McLennan (Mary Adam Thomas, collaborator)
Transformational Thought: Radical Ideas to Remake the Built Environment, by Jason McLennan
Transformational Thought II: More Radical Ideas to Remake the Built Environment, by Jason McLennan
The Northwest Greenhome Primer, by Kathleen Smith and Kathleen O’Brien
Rebuilding Community in America: Housing for Ecological Living, Personal Empowerment, and the New Extended Family, by Kathleen Smith
Smith, Kathleen. “Building Zero Energy Up to Scale.” Multifamily Executive Magazine May 2018
Cowed: The Hidden Impact of 93 Million Cows on America’s Health, Economy, Politics, Culture, and Environment, by Denis Hayes and Gail Boyer Hayes
Rays of Hope: The Transition to a Post-Petroleum World, by Denis Hayes
The Official Earth Day Guide to Planet Repair, by Denis Hayes
Draper, Sara and Anne Rogers. “We Are Made For This: The Opportunity of Regenerative Design in Higher Education.” Trim Tab August 2018
