Making Redevelopment a Net-Plus for the Environment

New Jersey Future

Redevelopment Forum March 9, 2012

Robert Freudenberg, NJ Director, Regional Plan Association

Regenerative Design

• Define

• Visualize

• Redevelopment

• Envision

Defining Regenerative Design

Evolving

Defining Regenerative Design

Maximizes integration

between built and natural systems

Defining Regenerative Design

Community = living system

Defining Regenerative Design

Restore/add value

Visualize regenerative design

Courtesy: Ecological LLC

Vizualize regenerative design

The Willow School – Gladstone, NJ Back to Nature, Natural Systems International, Ford, Farewell, Mills & Gatsch

• Salvaged/recycled materials

• Solar panels

• Locally harvested wood furniture

• Native plantings

• Constructed wetland treats waste

• Rainwater collection & use

conventional

conventional

“green”

“green”

regenerative

…the past

Warren County Cultural & Heritage Commission

the future…

Flintenbreite constructed wetland

Envision regenerative design

• Highlands

• Pinelands

• Coastal Areas

• Brownfields

• Parks

• Redevelopment everywhere

Envision regenerative design

Courtesy redkabbage.com