Towards a living infrastructure for LA

From Regenesis Seminars:

Cities occupy only two percent of the Earth’s surface, but they drive approximately 75% of global resource consumption and carbon emissions, creating cascading harmful impacts on the ecological systems that support them. There is a growing focus on discerning how cities can reduce these impacts–but what if we could do more? What if even very large urban systems could bring themselves back into alignment with natural ecological processes? What if cities could become positive contributors to the overall health of the planet?

For the past 3 years, Regenesis has been working in collaboration with regenerative practitioners at Spherical, in a process led by Accelerate Resilience LA that’s building on decades of work by TreePeople founder Andy Lipkis to bring about a complete rethinking of how Los Angeles approaches its water. Our aim? To develop living infrastructure for the city of Los Angeles–infrastructure that is both itself alive, and capable of supporting the processes of life.

Join Ben Haggard, Dawn Danby and David McConville for an exploration of this regenerative process-in-progress—digging into the concept of living infrastructure and how it has emerged in Los Angeles, the strategy that we’re developing towards this aim, and what that means for how we engage people on the ground in this work.