Our Mission: Building capacity to create healthy environments
for all people and living systems in a dynamic future.
Areas of Focus
▸ Energy and climate change
▸ The water cycle
▸ Creating resilient communities
▸ Sustainable materials for a healthy built environment
▸ Measuring regenerative, equitable designs to provide sustainability for all
What is CSBR doing for our community?
- Identifying a path to a regenerative development future, addressing building challenges unique to the climate, topography, landscape and culture.
- Encouraging, assisting, and inspiring the design community, policymakers, and community development leaders to implement incremental steps between standard and regenerative levels, effecting positive change for all living systems.
- Aiding developers and their financial partners in seeing the value of implementing 21st Century Development strategies.
- Identifying economic and policy barriers to regenerative levels of development, and advocate for the alignment of civic policies with 21st Century Development principles.
- Inspiring other regions to develop standards of development in their communities.
View CSBR Projects
Featured Project: Building Enclosure/Building Science
Working with affordable housing developers and builders in Minneapolis, three houses of identical layout and different wall assemblies will be measured and compared with regard to speed of construction, cost of construction, airtightness, and energy use.
See projects like this and others linked below.