Kathleen Smith

In May 2019, the International Living Future Institute (ILFI) released the Living Building Challenge (LBC) 4.0, the latest version of the world’s most impactful green building standard. The release of the seven Petal Handbooks followed in 2020 as an online resource, clarifying program requirements, providing explanations and examples, and listing all published Exceptions for each Imperative.  Now, ILFI is pleased…

In May 2019, the International Living Future Institute (ILFI) released the Living Building Challenge (LBC) 4.0. This latest version of the world’s most impactful green building standard provides a vision for a new era in building and a framework to address the environmental and social challenges of our time. Now, ILFI is pleased to announce the release of the first…

Last year I had the pleasure to introduce our 2018 Living Building Challenge Heroes. In case you missed the event last year, here are seven spectacular individuals leading the way to a Living Future and each of their calls to action. Anjanette Green Anjanette has 17+ years of experience in Architecture and Design, advising on single and multi-attribute building and…