Architecture Today and UK Architects Declare launched the world’s first Regenerative Architecture Index in March as a means of benchmarking architects on regenerative projects, policies, working practices and actions.

The deadline for entries is Wednesday 17th May 2024, submit your entry here.

The results will be published in September 2024 on the Architecture Today website and in a special issue of Architecture Today.

‘The Index is not a conventional awards programme – the focus is educational rather than competitive, with an evolving series of activities based on benchmarking, sharing experience and acknowledging challenges and mistakes.’ Michael Pawlyn

You can read an interview with URGE founder member Michael Pawlyn on Architecture Today here.

Last week a group of Swiss women won a landmark climate justice battle in the European Court of Human Rights (ECHR) in Strasbourg, France. The Court found Switzerland in violation of the European Convention on Human Rights for failing to implement sufficient measures to combat climate change.

The case was brought by the KlimaSeniorinnen (Senior Women for Climate Protection), a 2,400-strong association of Swiss women mostly in their 70s. They argued that their age and gender made them especially vulnerable to heatwaves linked to climate change. This is the ECHR’s first on global warming and sets a powerful president for like-minded activists in other countries to hold policymakers to account, and for governments across Europe to step up over the climate crisis!

Read more on this story here.

Sustainable Interior Design by Chloe Bullock published by RIBA.

‘There's information on how sustainable design contributes to health and wellbeing, promotes ecology and embraces the circular economy- all backed up by authoritative best practice guidance.’

Written to help designers and their clients find an approach that fits their values and ethics. The book is packed with innovative examples from around the world, alongside crucial guidance on the benefits of designing sustainably and regeneratively. Spanning from Seattle to Byron Bay it features 40 inspirational projects, exploring innovative spaces, products, materials and supply chains.

Chloe Bullock is an award winning interior designer and founding signatory of Interior Design Declares.

And finally we found it fascinating to listen to Nate speak to physicist Geoffrey West about his decades of work on metabolic scaling laws found in nature and how they also apply to humans and our economies.

Geoffrey discuss Kleiber’s law and how the scaling model also applies to humans, forests and cities. They debate whether humanity as a whole could learn from these scaling laws to adjust behaviors to be more aligned with the biophysical realities of energy and resource consumption. For the full conversation of Geoffrey West: "Metabolism and the Hidden Laws of Biology” listen here.

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