Press
CBC Radio
Spark with Nora Young “Rural Futures”
Ben Falk on modern-day homesteading: planning self-sustaining plots of land to both live and work on.
Landscape Architecture Magazine “Post-Oil Groceries”
A look at WSD’s landscape design philosophy through several case studies: a nonprofit farm research site, a semester school campus, and a town common of the future.
Fast Company
“Promised Land”
Whole Systems Design transforms landscapes into low-cost, productive spaces. Will your corporate campus be next?
New York Times “Beyond Fossil Fuels | Can we build a brighter shade of green?”
Regenerative landscapes by WSD pair well with energy-efficient buildings: in this case, a passivehaus being built in Vermont.
TedxSIT
“Homestead Resiliency, Food Systems Regeneration”
WSD’s research farm is focused on a resilient lifestyle approach starting at the home base, and the most adaptive strategies for dealing with the Current Situation.
Inhabit: A Permaculture Perspective
Inhabit is a feature-length documentary introducing permaculture: a design method that offers an ecological lens for solving issues related to agriculture, economics, and governance.
Resilience “Becoming resilient in an ever-changing world”
An excerpt from The Resilient Farm and Homestead, this article highlights five focal points, plus key planning and questions to ask when developing resilience.
UTNE Reader “Future Farmers: Preparing the land for a post-peak oil society”
Ben Falk discussing the “window” of time we have to utilize abundant resources to install sustainable systems for the future.
How This Works Podcast by Skipper Chong Wilson
Ben Falk chats with Skipper on this episode of How This Works about the difference between design focused on sustainability and regeneration, how important context is to solving design problems, backcountry trips as a foundational relationship with his work, and more.