About Regenerative Sustainability 2030

A SYSTEMS DESIGN INNOVATION INITIATIVE ADVANCING SUCCESS IN TIME WITH REGENERATIVE SYSTEMS SUSTAINABILITY PLANNING.

RS2030 is a systems design innovation initiative embracing the whole challenge of sustainability success in response to our ineffective response to date and fast-approaching systems tipping points of irreversible change.

As part of this decade’s intensifying global response, RS2030 deepens accurate understanding of the challenge and requirements for an effective response. It launches and contributes to critical initiatives.

RS2030 advances and promotes shifting to the emerging regenerative systems approach to sustainability. It is the only approach that can solve the twin problems of accelerating climate change and unsustainability quickly enough — and at only the price of climate change alone.

It also creates a regenerative ecological circular economy, which is the essential foundation for sustainability.

RS2030’s approach includes hardening the built environment and economy against the increasing destruction of an increasingly hostile environment during the 100+ years of climate mitigation and recalibration.

RS2030 draws on a global body of work developed over the past 50 years and its own contributions. It works at the confluence of regenerative sustainability, systems simulation planning technology, and an expanding global GIS infrastructure. Together, they hold the promise of scaling sustainability at the velocity needed for success.

In particular, RS2030 applies this approach to urban and regional planning as regenerative urbanism and regionalism. This approach uses the connection between the built environment and the economy to transform urban planning and design from delivering “nice-to-have” aesthetic value to “must-have” economic value. Doing so creates the regenerative urban-regional metabolism and economies of sustainability.

RS2030’s work program answers three strategic questions:

  1. What do we need to do?

  2. Are we doing it?

  3. How do we bridge the gap?

Because time is of the essence, RS2030’s Work Program formulates the shortest path to sustainability success. To do so, it uses the Regenerative Region Demonstration Project — with its goal of sufficient progress by 2030 to ensure success — as the foil to illuminate the agenda of next-step issues needing attention.

RS2030 then addresses these next-step problems in the appropriate part of its work program of innovation, training, and services as follows:

  • Demonstration

  • Training

  • Research

  • Publications

  • Information

  • Advisory Services

Please explore RS2030’s approach and offerings, engage, and make your contribution to our collective bid for global sustainability success.

Regenerative Sustainability 2030 is the public interest sole proprietorship of Scott Edmondson, AICP, a business form which maximizes the independence, flexibility, and creativity needed for success.

Partners on various initiatives include Charles M. Kelley Jr., AIA, LEED BD+C, NCARB of Green Urban Design (GUD).