Are you up for the Living Building Challenge?

Professionals in the building and real estate industries are being encouraged to embrace the Living Building Challenge by imagining and creating “buildings that generate all of their own energy with renewable resources … a city block or a college campus that shares resources from building to building, growing food and functioning without a dependency on fossil fuel-based transportation … true sustainability in our homes, workplaces, neighborhoods, villages, towns and cities.”

Inspired by the International Living Building Institute (ilbi.org), the challenge goes out to all design professionals, contractors and building owners to create the foundation for a sustainable future in the fabric of all communities. The challenge is straightforward — it defines the most advanced measure of sustainability in the built environment possible today and acts to diminish the gap between current limits and ideal solutions.

San Diegans need only look north to Seattle to see the challenge met in a one-of-a-kind project.