The hummingbird is the improbable bird of flight. This nimble creature has the unique ability to adapt and move rapidly in an ever-changing environment. As we are beyond the tipping point of planetary collapse, designers and architects cannot be complacent bystanders to the realities we will face. Our professions needs to react and design to our known future by becoming the hummingbird in todays’ society.

We need to create a north-star of sustainable living in a post-extraction society. This was the original desire of Worldchanging when it began in 2003. For a decade it documented the ever evolving solutions to climate change. In 2023 we have transformed from sharing news to creating and empowering. ideas and solutions.

Small is Beautiful.

Regenerative Living. Maintain and Restore

Sustainable architecture has reached a strange tipping point. we have entered the Moore's Law of Sustainability - where technology is moving at such a speed that our ideals of a 'sustaining' world are being usurped by technological solutions to it. The built environment isn't about how high we can pierce the sky but how deeply we can transform communities. True sustainability is created when design is a tool for equity and stitching together communities - ideally within both the natural and built environments