After Blue Sky Ranch's loss - a Sustainable Living community
The Cedar Fire of October
2003 was the largest wildfire in California history, burning nearly
275,000 acres and taking 14 lives and nearly 2,300 residences. It
is from the ashes of this tragedy that Blue Sky Ranch has emerged,
promoting the practice of Regenerative Design not only to allow the
surrounding ecosystem to revitalize itself but for the community
to assist as a participant in its development. It is our intention
that the solutions for healing incorporated here at Blue Sky Ranch
benefit the inhabitants of both the natural and built environments.
Regenerative Design functions like a living organism, specifically
adapted to a place and able to draw requirements for energy and water
from the surrounding sun, wind and rain. Its inspiration is from
nature; the beautiful terrain, landscape and flowers that surround
the architecture.
Sustainability as currently
practiced is primarily an exercise in efficiency. With Regenerative
Design we do better. By using the health of the surrounding ecological
system as the basis for design, we move beyond sustaining the environment
to regenerating its health as well as our own.
Blue Sky
Ranch Sustainable Living/ Regenerative Design Goals:
-Move beyond sustainable
design to Regenerative Design.
Participate with the environment to regenerate
its health.
-Move beyond a technological
design to a living system design.
Adopt the ecological system basis of design.
-Place building and communities
in relationship to the natural systems that support them.
Eliminate boundaries between cultural and natural
systems.
-Study and imitate nature’s
designs and processes.
Take inspiration from nature to solve human problems.
-Promote the health and
well being of all inhabitants of the ecosystem.
Create beautiful architecture that inspires us
to dream.
Blue Sky
Ranch's working practices on each Regenerative
Design project:
-Use environmentally
sound building practices.
-Use alternative building
materials to promote safety in a high risk fire area.
-Use landscaping in a
way to reduce a high risk fire area.
-Always find new ways
to live harmoniously with the environment.
Meet our
Blue Sky Ranch Green Living designer:.
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"www.RegenerativeHomes.com
was created to promote the goals, philosophy, design guides and
ideals of regenerative planning. I practice this in the current
and future building projects at Blue Sky Ranch"
Stephen J. Bolling
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These
are some of the Blue Sky Ranch projects that are already completed:
We recycled an entire house as our North Mesa dwelling:
Along with a cozy guest cottage, we purchased a 1,750 square foot
ranch style house which was cut into two pieces and moved from San
Diego to its new location at Blue Sky Ranch.
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