As will be pointed out in the General Session, sustainability, as currently practiced, is primarily an exercise in efficiency, i.e., with LEED we are attempting to slow down the damage. We must do better. Instead of doing less damage to the environment, it is necessary to shift our worldview to one that asks how we can participate with the environment using the health of ecological systems of our places as the basis for design and moving us beyond sustaining the environment to one that regenerates its health as well as our own.
    Learning objectives:

• Explain the meaning of regenerative design and demonstrate the expansion of practice beyond sustainability and restoration as typically understood, demonstrating the difference between technological and living system design
• Summarize how regenerative design is used as a process to place buildings and communities in relationship to the natural systems that support them
• Compare a current practice model to that of a regenerative approach and reframe your perception of the artificial boundaries we have placed between cultural and natural systems