Love + Regeneration
Our Quarterly Publication
Love + Regeneration is the quarterly publication produced by McLennan Design for those who want to engage with ideas and conversations around a truly regenerative, living future. Picking a title for this publication proved challenging, as there were many ideas and issues we wanted to cover, but we kept coming back to these two words – love because it drives everything we do and regeneration because this is our goal, to show that it is possible to design buildings and communities that help make the world a better, healthier place for all life.
Throughout every issue, we plan to publish feature stories that describe ideas that can reshape some aspects of society, case studies on our projects and those of others we admire, news from our global practice and other edifying information on topics ranging from astonishing species to aspirational poetry. Over time we will expand to add contributions from our primary collaborators – other engineers, architects and sustainability thinkers – to round out each issue.
We hope this publication acts as a resource and inspiration to our friends engaged in the work of building a regenerative world.
News and Events
McLennan Design Forms Strategic Partnership with Biohabitats
Both Biohabitats and McLennan Design look to nature's principles for guidance in design and in defining success. With our focus on the built environment and Biohabitats' expertise in the natural systems that exist in and around it, this partnership has the...
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Heron Hall 100th Project Worldwide to Achieve Living Building Challenge Certification
"This is more than just a home for Jason and his family. This is yet another story showcasing how Living Buildings are creating resiliency at all scales. Being the first residential Living certified building in our home state is significant - an...
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Interiors + Sources Interviews Jason F. McLennan: the Best Kind of Troublemaker
It’s all part of a theory of change to use transparency as a tool. Giving structure and platforms for transparency creates consistency in definitions and terms and a way to showcase it. Each [label] is a tool for transparency. Jenna Lippin interviews Jason F. McLennan...
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Nightingale Awards’ Best of Competition Winner, Mohawk Group’s and McLennan Design’s Lichen Collection, featured by Healthcare Design
Healthcare Design’s Nightingale Awards presented Mohawk Group and McLennan Design with the 2017 Best of Competition award for their collaboration on the modular plank carpeting Lichen Collection. Editor in Chief of Healthcare Design magazine, Jennifer...
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Mohawk Group’s Lichen line by McLennan Design Captures Best of Competition at the Healthcare Design Expo & Conference
Mohawk Group’s Lichen line by McLennan Design captured two prestigious Nightingale Awards at the Healthcare Design Expo & Conference: best of competition and gold in the carpet category. Held at the Gaylord Palms Resort & Convention Center in Orlando, Nov....
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McLennan Design Receives 2017 FSC Leadership Award
The Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), the world’s leading forest certification system, announced its 2017 FSC Leadership Awards in a celebration at Greenbuild. Recognizing enduring commitment to forest conservation, the award shines a light on people,...
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Heron Hall is Featured as Architectural Record’s House of the Month
Heron Hall is featured this month as Architectural Record's "House of the Month." Designing a house can be difficult. But designing your own can be especially challenging. This was the case for Jason McLennan and Heron Hall, the house on Bainbridge Island,...
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Workshop: Personal Transformation for Regenerative Design
December 18th and March 1st: Are you a green champion in the building industry yet struggling to have larger impact in your firm and your market? Are you feeling beat up and frustrated? No more waiting for permission to do your best work and leverage the change in the...
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Workshop: Bringing Regenerative Design to Your Practice
November 30th and February 1st: Are you struggling to make your architecture, construction, or engineering practice more deeply green? Are you finding barriers to change with your staff, partners, or clients? There is growing interest in Living Buildings, Net Zero,...
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Mohawk’s McLennan Design lichen-inspired carpet awarded the Living Product Challenge Petal Certification!
We are thrilled to announce that Mohawk has received the first Living Product Challenge Petal Certification for a flooring product with the Lichen Carpet Collection! Congratulations to Mohawk for leading the pack in healthy building materials! We can’t wait to see the...
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Lichen Carpet Collection wins Best of NeoCon Gold Award
We're excited to announce that The Lichen Collection, a collaboration between McLennan Design and Mohawk Group, has won a Best of NeoCon 2017 Gold award. The Lichen Collection is a new modular plank carpet system resulting from innovations that merge leading concepts...
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Heron Hall Gets Featured in the Latest Issue of The Seattle Times, Pacific Northwest Magazine
Heron Hall just got a full feature article in the latest issue of The Seattle Times! Check it out to get a more in depth glimpse of the project, how it started, the vision behind it, and all the unique characteristics of this beautiful home! We're thrilled to be able...
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How Green Building Can Support Sustainable Forestry: Jason F. McLennan on upcoming panel in Seattle
The Pacific Northwest has long been a leader in the green building movement and is home to the most productive forest ecosystem in the world. In spite of a strong forest ethic in the region and a desire to lead by example, we have struggled to incorporate the products...
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“Living Buildings” Increase Property Values | Real Wealth Network interview with Jason F. McLennan
One of the very first podcasts on iTunes, The Real Wealth Show is hosted by Kathy Fettke – the Co-Founder of Real Wealth Network and an expert real estate investor. Jason F. McLennan was a guest on the Real Wealth Network and talked about how “Living Buildings” are...
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Forbes Magazine & Jason McLennan: How Changing Our Built Environment Can Save The Planet
…whether it’s buildings, materials, products, or community systems, I try to aim for the ideal and use inspiration rather than guilt to bring others along. That, in turn, helps identify the real barriers to change, and then I look for as long of a stick as I can to...
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A Better Use of Space: McLennan Design’s Living Community vision for a Co-Housing Village at Antioch College Featured in Latest Issue from The Chronicle of Higher Education
A BETTER USE OF SPACE | THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION We are excited about our partnership with Antioch College, in Yellow Springs, Ohio, to help design a Living Community Village based on cohousing principles. The Chronicle of Higher Education just published an...
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Interview with Construction Dive: Tackling the new world of ultra-sustainable construction
LEED may be the uncontested leader among green building standards worldwide, but an increasing number of project teams are looking to go further to improve the environmental impact of their buildings. Enter the Living Building Challenge, which was founded in 2006 by...
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The Future is Here: Circular Economies and the 2016 Living Product Expo
The same week Uber launched its first fleet of driverless cars in Pittsburgh, the International Living Future Institute (ILFI) held its second annual Living Product Expo in the Steel City. It was a week of both coming together to envision a better, healthier future...
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