Jason F. McLennan

Mohawk Group was excited to collaborate with Jason McLennan who is considered one of the world’s most influential individuals in the field of architecture and the green building movement today. He is the recipient of the prestigious Buckminster Fuller Prize (the planet’s top prize for socially responsible design). Jason has been called the ‘Steve Jobs’ of the green building industry,…

Editor’s note: Enjoy this excerpt of an article written by ILFI founder and board member Jason F. McLennan. You can find a link to the entire article at the bottom of the page. Just because a machine can do a job better than a person, should we let it? People have been asking this question since the term “Artificial Intelligence”…

Editor’s Note: We’re excited to share an excerpt of the article titled “Humanity’s Grand Design Assignment: 5 Big Things to Save Life as We Know It”, written by ILFI’s founder and current board member Jason F. McLennan. You can read the full article, as well as McLennan Design’s quarterly magazine, Love + Regeneration, here. Article by Jason F. McLennan, with…

A Special Invitation Editor’s note: This is a guest post by Jason F. McLennan, Founder of the International Living Future Institute and the Living Building Challenge. Jason is a keynote at this year’s Living Future Unconference, now online around the world for the first time in history. In this post, Jason shares how he is #SustainingHope during this crisis and…

Editor’s note: This article is republished with permission from Love + Regeneration, a publication from the regenerative design practice McLennan Design. The Over Consumption of Water Since 2015, the world has watched Cape Town, South Africa’s four million residents live with the reality of water scarcity and its experts adjust predictions of when Day Zero – the day when taps…

Editor’s note: This article is republished with permission from Love + Regeneration, a new publication from regenerative design practice McLennan Design. Our bodies crave nature – of this we are sure. We are all familiar with the innately restorative effects of a deep breath of fresh air. We bring fragrant bouquets into our homes, hoping to waft the scents of nature…

Editor’s Note: In past issues of Trim Tab, Jason F. McLennan and Bill Reed have collaborated on two articles that focused on the subject of regenerative design (Regenerating the Whole and Falling in Love with Life) Introduction In our past articles we introduced aspects of the different thinking required to engage in the practice of living system development or regeneration;…

  The End of the Internal Combustion Engine and the rapidly approaching Fossil-Fuel-Free World  A couple years ago, I began to discuss the idea that the end of the internal combustion era was finally in sight, along with the overall rapid decline of a fossil fuel– driven world.  I think some folks felt it was a premature pronouncement—yet in more…

Every generation has a tendency to consider its way of living to be normal—the way it always was, how it will continue and how it should be. We are self-centered that way, which makes some sense because our patterns of behavior make up our entire direct context. History lessons sometimes seem abstract, and the future hasn’t happened yet. We know…