The world-renowned Robert Trent Jones II Golf Course Architects are coming to Lagoon Valley, designing an 18-hole championship course that will prioritize the natural landscape.

Our understanding of the elegant complexity of nature’s ecosystems remains a work-in-progress for humans, and we aren’t much beyond the starting blocks in that process of comprehension and appropriate response.  Humility and acknowledgment of our ignorance in that regard empowers us to work toward modifying our behaviors in ways that respect and honor the Earth’s natural systems. Our homes and communities are truly only as secure as the environment around us is secure.

Euclidian municipal zoning, or sprawl as it is commonly known, has flourished in America for almost a century. Empowered in 1926 by the U.S. Supreme Court in Village of Euclid v. Ambler Realty Co., the unfortunate result of that decision has been an American land development penchant for suburban, car-centric communities segregated from the essential open spaces, parks, recreational facilities, and good and services that residential neighborhoods need to be healthy.

The March issue of Comstock Magazine article “The Built Environment” discusses the topic of builders becoming more aware of how their practices affect the environment.

Article originally published to Green Prophet. To read the full article click here. Using green building codes that will go above Californian standards, Lagoon Valley says they

Conservation Communities, those that prioritize sustainability and the preservation of open space, cultural, historic, and agricultural resources, have begun to blossom in the US and

Reading more about the philosophies of sustainability is a start; here are some books he recommends.

The “live-work-play” community of Lagoon Valley, in the San Francisco Bay Area of California, is literally and figuratively breaking ground with sustainable development concepts rarely

Article originally published on Builder. To view the full article click here. After 20 years in the design and planning phase, a new conservation community

Article originally published on North Bay Business Journal. To read the full article click here. Construction has started on the long-awaited Lagoon Valley housing and