Autopoiesis LLC

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Bullitt Center
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Autopoiesis LLC collaborated with Ecotrust on a groundbreaking study of the ecosystem services benefits of one of the world's most sustainable buildings, The Bullitt Center. Just a few of these benefits generate shared value equivalent to the incremental investment required for a Living Building.

Optimizing Urban Ecosystem Services: The Bullitt Center
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Economics of Change

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Autopoiesis LLC is part of a Bullitt Foundation and MacArthur Foundation supported research team working to catalyze the investment shift toward a restorative built environment. This long-term project is engaging appraisers, lenders, developers, and owners to build transparent, open source models of ecosystem service and social value creation in buildings, neighborhoods, and cities.

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Daily Journal of Commerce Article
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Tribal Renewable Energy

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Autopoiesis worked with a tribe to establish a Renewable Energy Development Authority to allow tribal ownership and economic benefit from solar, wind, biomass, and other renewable resources. We also helped secure federal seed funding for the Authority.

Open Source Conservation

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Autopoiesis LLC provided strategic planning for the Conservation Biology Institute on its Data Basin project, a leading open source platform for conservation data.

Living Economies

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We worked with a newly established Family Foundation to explore strategic directions around the support of Local Living Economies, Collaborative Consumption, Commons, and Green Collar Jobs.

Ecological Design

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Autopoiesis LLC Partner Stuart Cowan is the co-author of Ecological Design (Island Press 1996/2007), a visionary integration of ecology, complex systems, and design thinking. The book has been translated into 3 languages and widely used as a sustainable design textbook.

Ecological Forestry

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Autopoiesis LLC helped a leading rural Community Development Entity secure an $85 million allocation of federal New Markets Tax Credits, allowing hundreds of thousands of acres to be transitioned to FSC certified forestry while stabilizing rural communities.

Fruehauf House and Hai Shan Clinic

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We served as sustainable designer and project manager for the largest leichlehmbau (light-straw clay) structure in North America. The project was featured on the cover of Portland Spaces in 2009.

Powerpoint presentation on Fruehauf House
2012 True Nature Radio Interview: "Building in Harmony with Nature"

Community Finance

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We structured, sourced, and secured $4.5 million in tax-advantaged state bonds, community loans, and capital campaign donations, facilitating the renovation of an historically significant 1920s structure into a much-needed new wing of the Cedarwood Waldorf School.

One Planet Living

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Autopoiesis LLC worked with Sonoma Mountain Village and BioRegional North America on financing strategies for large-scale projects meeting the visionary One Planet Living standard - bringing ecological footprints of residents to a globally sustainable level.

Innovation Hub

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Autopoiesis LLC worked with the Left Bank Project on design concepts and strategy for this 70,000 s.f. renovation project resulting in an unparalleled hub of "craft, creativity, bikes, brewing, coffee, slow food, art, reuse, and community."

Courtyard Housing Competition

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Autopoiesis LLC Partners joined with Michael Mehaffy, Susan Ingham, Kyriakos Pontikis, and Eileen Tumlin from the Building Process Alliance in this entry for the international Portland Courtyard Housing Competition.

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Ecotone Community

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Autopoiesis LLC created a development proposal for a carbon neutral village cluster of 10 small homes surrounded by biodynamic agricultural land.

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  • Soil
  • Design for Life
  • Systems Transformation
  • Territorial Planning
  • Valle Sagrado Regnerativa
    • Water and Climate Symposium Sacred Valley of the Incas
  • Mycelium ~ Our Team
  • Mycelial Network
  • Nutrients ~ Resources
  • Connecting