Sustainability and Green Strategies

[Brian Falcon]

Hi all,

Is anyone incorporating sustainable or regenerative strategies in your business practices or into your projects?  If so I'd love to keep a dialog going with like-minded folks.  I'm an architect with a long standing passion for sustainable and now regenerative design, and I incorporate that with my W2 gig, but interested to see what anyone else is doing with their properties.  Knowing that aside from new builds, approaches may be limited to materials selection (targeting local and low/zero VOC materials), green cleaning products and potentially incorporating low maintenance landscaping (natives, xeriscaping, polycultures to mimic nature so they don't need regular trimming/maintenance), what else have you seen/used?  I know that depending on location/state, adding solar may be a cost effective way to add a revenue stream and support renewables (due to the multiple revenue streams they can generate), but from a design/construction side there needs to be analysis, and the building would need proper orientation and clearance from trees.  Thanks, I appreciate any comments!

Brian