Ideas & Insights

Explore our books, publications, articles, and video mini-docs—insights and provocations that reflect our work, culture, and commitment to regenerative design, helping shape a future that heals and inspires.

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Love & Regeneration Journal

Design That Heals and Inspires
A collection of thoughts, stories, and reflections on designing places, products, and experiences that nurture people, enrich daily life, and leave the world better than we found it. Explore current and past issues—our evolving library of regenerative thinking, case studies, and design explorations.

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Spring 2026

Sports & Sustainability

This issue explores the intersection of sports and design, highlighting standout Perkins&Will athletic projects such as Northeastern University’s Multipurpose Athletic Facility. It also reflects on the Climate Pledge and the creation of the GOAL system, a framework for the continuous improvement of sports environments. Alongside these features are thoughtful contributions from our team, including Josh Fisher’s exploration of his passion for skating and Johanna Collins’ application of biomimicry in practice. On a lighter note, the issue concludes with a short personal piece, “My Life in Gastronomy,” offering a more reflective look at food and experience.

Enjoy the issue, and share comments please – we enjoy hearing from those that read our magazine!

—- Jason F. McLennan

Books by Jason F. McLennan

Exploring regenerative design, sustainable innovation, and the ideas shaping a better-built world.

Voices & Visions

Exploring regeneration through design, imagination, and action—showing how architecture and regenerative thinking can foster stewardship, bring ideas to life, and shape vibrant, healthy, and inspiring places to live, work, and play.

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Our Philosophy in Action

Design for Regeneration

Using the Living Building Challenge as a framework for architecture, planning, and products is at the heart of what we do. This video offers a brief look at who we are and how we approach design.

McLennan Design was founded with a clear purpose: to make meaningful, positive change in the world through deep green, regenerative design. We exist to be change agents, using design and consulting as tools to transform the places and communities we touch.

Imagination + Regeneration

From 2006-2019 Regenerative Architect Jason F. McLennan has had speeches recorded during his saga of trying to build his dream of the Living Building Challenge. Each video follows a theme that’s been recurring over the years in a compilation to provoke deep thinking about what it looks like to build the world in a regenerative way.

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Design+ Regeneration

Design + Regeneration is a series of case studies of current, past and present work that Jason F. McLennan and his team at McLennan design have created with their wonderful clients.

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Conversation + Regeneration

Conversations + Regeneration is a series featuring Jason F. McLennan’s interviews with prominent architects, environmentalists, activists and humanitarians over the years of developing the Living Building Challenge and the International Future Institute. Some of these influential figures are internationally renowned for the work they’ve done and directly impacted the Living Building Challenge and Jason’s Work.

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Transformation + Regeneration

Transformation + Regeneration is a series features Jason F. McLennan’s essays in a visual format which explores notions of change in a thought-provoking and realistic manner. With the global climate change crisis changing every single day, the nature of nature is evolving so quickly that we as humans have to be able to adapt before damage we’re making is irreversible. Join Jason as he narrates some of his past essay work to prompt the population to be “An Agent of Regeneration” to save the future of this fragile planet.

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Jason F. Mclennan

This Channel features content directly created by architect, environmentalist and creator of the Living Building Challenge, Jason F. McLennan. Jason is a self proclaimed troublemaker and staunch supporter that we have to act now to preserve the future of this planet we live on.

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