The Regenerative Real Estate Podcast

Neal Collins

Featuring stories from leaders who are pushing culture toward a more resilient future, this show explores the frontlines of transformation—where real estate, land stewardship, community, and regenerative thinking intersect.  Hosted by Neal Collins, each episode spotlights the innovators, designers, developers, and changemakers who are reimagining how we live and relate to place.

  1. Building With Whole Trees: Rethinking Timber With Amelia Baxter

    30 SEPT.

    Building With Whole Trees: Rethinking Timber With Amelia Baxter

    What if we could build with trees without milling them into straight, uniform boards? On this episode, Neal Collins is joined by Amelia Baxter, co-founder and CEO of WholeTrees Structures, a company reimagining timber construction by using unmilled, round timber as structural elements in buildings. Together, they explore how WholeTrees transforms the often overlooked “cull trees,” trees that would otherwise be removed as excess byproducts, from well-managed forests into beautiful, durable building components. The conversation goes beyond architecture and design to touch on stewardship, entrepreneurship, and how to invest for sector-wide growth of bio-based and natural building materials. From the fascinating origin story of the company, the technology and systems that they have developed that has allowed them to scale internationally, to the investment and growth path the company is on, this is a great story that invites us to reconsider how and what we build with.  ———————- This podcast isn’t just about ideas—it’s about action. From these conversations, two organizations have emerged to bring regenerative real estate to life: Latitude Regenerative Real Estate is the world’s first regenerative-focused real estate brokerage, dedicated to aligning values-driven buyers and sellers. With a strong presence in the Pacific Northwest and Great Lakes regions, Latitude also supports purpose-driven developments across North America through strategic marketing and branding services. If you're looking to buy, sell, or amplify a regenerative project, Latitude is your trusted partner. Hamlet Capital is an investment and development firm committed to building resilient communities rooted in working farms. If you’re developing an agrihood or conservation community, we’d love to hear from you. Together, we can turn visionary ideas into thriving, place-based investments.

    1 h 3 min
  2. Billions for Nature: How Private Capital Is Funding Ecological Restoration with Adam Davis

    19 AOÛT

    Billions for Nature: How Private Capital Is Funding Ecological Restoration with Adam Davis

    Across every continent, degraded landscapes tell a sobering story: wetlands drained, forests cleared, tidal flats diminished. The tragedy isn’t that humanity lacks the knowledge to restore them—we know how to bring these ecosystems back. The real challenge lies in how to finance restoration at scale. In this episode we sit down with Adam Davis, co-founder of Ecosystem Investment Partners, a firm that has channeled over a billion of dollars into restoring ecosystems. The discussion dives into the world of mitigation banking, a financial mechanism that has unlocked private capital for large-scale ecological restoration. For many, it’s an unfamiliar concept, but as Adam explains, it has become a powerful tool for revitalizing degraded landscapes. ———————- This podcast isn’t just about ideas—it’s about action. From these conversations, two organizations have emerged to bring regenerative real estate to life: Latitude Regenerative Real Estate is the world’s first regenerative-focused real estate brokerage, dedicated to aligning values-driven buyers and sellers. With a strong presence in the Pacific Northwest and Great Lakes regions, Latitude also supports purpose-driven developments across North America through strategic marketing and branding services. If you're looking to buy, sell, or amplify a regenerative project, Latitude is your trusted partner. Hamlet Capital is an investment and development firm committed to building resilient communities rooted in working farms. If you’re developing an agrihood or conservation community, we’d love to hear from you. Together, we can turn visionary ideas into thriving, place-based investments.

    1 h 6 min
  3. Changing Finance By Financing Change: Jasper van Brakel on Regenerative Investing

    4 AOÛT

    Changing Finance By Financing Change: Jasper van Brakel on Regenerative Investing

    Jasper van Brakel is on a mission to regenerate the world with the power of finance and business  As CEO of RSF Social Finance, he leads one of the most innovative financial institutions redefining how capital can serve life—not just profit. In this episode, Jasper shares how his journey through the early days of finance and impact investing led him to the frontlines of the regenerative finance movement. He unpacks RSF’s bold embrace of the term “regenerative,” and the framework they’ve built to evaluate whether a business is truly healing people, planet, and place—by its very existence. We dive into: Why the type of capital matters as much as the investment itselfHow RSF is using fixed income and Donor Advised Funds to unlock high-impact opportunitiesWhat medium-return, deeply regenerative investing really looks like in actionIf you’ve ever asked, “How can my money do more good?”—this conversation is for you. ———————- This podcast isn’t just about ideas—it’s about action. From these conversations, two organizations have emerged to bring regenerative real estate to life: Latitude Regenerative Real Estate is the world’s first regenerative-focused real estate brokerage, dedicated to aligning values-driven buyers and sellers. With a strong presence in the Pacific Northwest and Great Lakes regions, Latitude also supports purpose-driven developments across North America through strategic marketing and branding services. If you're looking to buy, sell, or amplify a regenerative project, Latitude is your trusted partner. Hamlet Capital is an investment and development firm committed to building resilient communities rooted in working farms. If you’re developing an agrihood or conservation community, we’d love to hear from you. Together, we can turn visionary ideas into thriving, place-based investments.

    53 min
  4. Unlocking Abundance: How Rob Avis and 5th World Are Revolutionizing Site Planning

    23 JUIL.

    Unlocking Abundance: How Rob Avis and 5th World Are Revolutionizing Site Planning

    Rob Avis—designer, educator, and founder of 5th World—is using cutting-edge technology to transform how we design resilient and abundant landscapes. In this episode, Rob shares how his journey from petroleum engineer to permaculture leader inspired the creation of 5th World, a company that merges data intelligence with ecological design. After working with thousands of students and designing hundreds of properties, Rob saw a major challenge: critical site data—such as climate patterns, property timeline scans, ecosystem services, topography, soils, hydrology, solar exposure, and zoning—was expensive and difficult to access. With 5th World, that information, which once cost tens of thousands of dollars, is now available at a fraction of the price. This conversation explores: Why poor site planning can lead to costly mistakes and long-term problems.How data-driven insights can unlock better design decisions and regenerative lifestyles.The path to creating landscapes that are resilient, abundant, and regenerative.Rob’s vision for bringing ecological design into the mainstream. ———————- This podcast isn’t just about ideas—it’s about action. From these conversations, two organizations have emerged to bring regenerative real estate to life: Latitude Regenerative Real Estate is the world’s first regenerative-focused real estate brokerage, dedicated to aligning values-driven buyers and sellers. With a strong presence in the Pacific Northwest and Great Lakes regions, Latitude also supports purpose-driven developments across North America through strategic marketing and branding services. If you're looking to buy, sell, or amplify a regenerative project, Latitude is your trusted partner. Hamlet Capital is an investment and development firm committed to building resilient communities rooted in working farms. If you’re developing an agrihood or conservation community, we’d love to hear from you. Together, we can turn visionary ideas into thriving, place-based investments.

    58 min
  5. Designing for Abundance: A Permaculture Vision with Penny Livingston

    2 JUIL.

    Designing for Abundance: A Permaculture Vision with Penny Livingston

    What if the future of real estate was rooted in regeneration, not extraction? In this episode of The Regenerative Real Estate Podcast, Neal sits down with legendary permaculture designer Penny Livingston, whose work has spanned continents and inspired a generation of land stewards, builders, and community weavers. Penny shares her journey from conventional landscape design to studying under permaculture co-founder Bill Mollison—and how that shift redefined not just her profession, but her entire worldview. Together, they explore: What it means to design human environments with nature, not against itHow permaculture principles can inform development at every scaleThe power of whole-systems thinking in real estate, architecture, and communityA moving story from her work with the Ketchwa people of PeruWhy regenerative design doesn’t just sustain—it creates overflowing abundanceThis is a conversation that goes far beyond gardens and green roofs. It’s a reminder that how we design our places is how we design our future. ———————- This podcast isn’t just about ideas—it’s about action. From these conversations, two organizations have emerged to bring regenerative real estate to life: Latitude Regenerative Real Estate is the world’s first regenerative-focused real estate brokerage, dedicated to aligning values-driven buyers and sellers. With a strong presence in the Pacific Northwest and Great Lakes regions, Latitude also supports purpose-driven developments across North America through strategic marketing and branding services. If you're looking to buy, sell, or amplify a regenerative project, Latitude is your trusted partner. Hamlet Capital is an investment and development firm committed to building resilient communities rooted in working farms. If you’re developing an agrihood or conservation community, we’d love to hear from you. Together, we can turn visionary ideas into thriving, place-based investments.

    56 min
  6. Where Farming Meets Community: Inside the Middlebrook Agrihood with Steve Bruere

    12 JUIN

    Where Farming Meets Community: Inside the Middlebrook Agrihood with Steve Bruere

    For years, we’ve seen the rising demand: people looking for more than just a home. They want community. They want connection. They want to live where food, farming, and stewardship are part of daily life. But while the vision for agrihoods has gained attention, real-world examples that fully integrate regenerative agriculture, diverse housing, and a true sense of place are still few and far between. In this episode, Neal sits down with Steve Bruere, President of Peoples Company — one of the nation’s leading agricultural brokerages — to explore both the current state of regenerative agriculture and what it actually takes to bring one of these communities to life. Steve isn't just advising from the sidelines — he’s developing Middlebrook, a 540-acre agrihood outside of Des Moines, Iowa that blends working farmland, residential neighborhoods, and vibrant mixed-use spaces. With a 20-acre organic farm at its core, Middlebrook represents a compelling look at where agriculture and placemaking intersect. We dive into the shifts happening across the ag industry, the unique opportunities (and challenges) of building agricultural communities, and why projects like Middlebrook may just be the blueprint for a new kind of living. ———————- This podcast isn’t just about ideas—it’s about action. From these conversations, two organizations have emerged to bring regenerative real estate to life: Latitude Regenerative Real Estate is the world’s first regenerative-focused real estate brokerage, dedicated to aligning values-driven buyers and sellers. With a strong presence in the Pacific Northwest and Great Lakes regions, Latitude also supports purpose-driven developments across North America through strategic marketing and branding services. If you're looking to buy, sell, or amplify a regenerative project, Latitude is your trusted partner. Hamlet Capital is an investment and development firm committed to building resilient communities rooted in working farms. If you’re developing an agrihood or conservation community, we’d love to hear from you. Together, we can turn visionary ideas into thriving, place-based investments.

    52 min
  7. The Agrarian Future Is Here: Judith Horvath on creating homesteads and compelling agricultural communities

    22 MAI

    The Agrarian Future Is Here: Judith Horvath on creating homesteads and compelling agricultural communities

    What if the future of housing isn’t high-rises or cul-de-sacs—but homesteads, gardens, and walkable villages where food is grown just steps from your door? In this episode Neal sits down with Judith Horvath of Fair Hill Farm—a former corporate professional turned agroecologist who’s helping reimagine how we live, grow, and build community. Judith’s journey began humbly with a few backyard chickens and tomato plants—but after facing resistance from her suburban HOA, she chose to go all in. Trading suburban restrictions for rural freedom, she and her family embarked on a bold journey into homesteading, permaculture, and regenerative land design. Now, more than a decade later, Judith is not just growing food—she’s part of a modern back-to-the-land movement. From backyard transformations to agri-centered community planning, her work helps people reconnect with the land and each other in deeply nourishing ways. Tune in to hear her powerful story, lessons learned from the land, and her vision for an agrarian future that brings resilience, health, and connection back into our homes and neighborhoods. ———————- This podcast isn’t just about ideas—it’s about action. From these conversations, two organizations have emerged to bring regenerative real estate to life: Latitude Regenerative Real Estate is the world’s first regenerative-focused real estate brokerage, dedicated to aligning values-driven buyers and sellers. With a strong presence in the Pacific Northwest and Great Lakes regions, Latitude also supports purpose-driven developments across North America through strategic marketing and branding services. If you're looking to buy, sell, or amplify a regenerative project, Latitude is your trusted partner. Hamlet Capital is an investment and development firm committed to building resilient communities rooted in working farms. If you’re developing an agrihood or conservation community, we’d love to hear from you. Together, we can turn visionary ideas into thriving, place-based investments.

    51 min

  8. 7 MAI

    Building a New Model: Geoship's Vision for Dome-Based Housing with Micha Mikailian

    In this episode, Neal sits down with Micha Mikailian, CEO of Geoship, to explore a bold attempt to reimagine housing at a time when affordability, resilience, and ecological design are more urgent than ever. Geoship is reviving Buckminster Fuller’s iconic geodesic dome—not as a nostalgic throwback, but as a scalable, bioceramic solution to today's housing and climate crises. But this episode goes deeper than domes. Neal and Micha unpack the organizational model behind Geoship, how the company is being built around community, and why its mission is resonating so strongly before a single unit has even shipped. Whether you’re dome-curious, dome-skeptical, or somewhere in between, this is a rich conversation about architecture, systems change, and what it takes to build new models in a world that’s desperate for them. ———————- This podcast isn’t just about ideas—it’s about action. From these conversations, two organizations have emerged to bring regenerative real estate to life: Latitude Regenerative Real Estate is the world’s first regenerative-focused real estate brokerage, dedicated to aligning values-driven buyers and sellers. With a strong presence in the Pacific Northwest and Great Lakes regions, Latitude also supports purpose-driven developments across North America through strategic marketing and branding services. If you're looking to buy, sell, or amplify a regenerative project, Latitude is your trusted partner. Hamlet Capital is an investment and development firm committed to building resilient communities rooted in working farms. If you’re developing an agrihood or conservation community, we’d love to hear from you. Together, we can turn visionary ideas into thriving, place-based investments.

    54 min
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Featuring stories from leaders who are pushing culture toward a more resilient future, this show explores the frontlines of transformation—where real estate, land stewardship, community, and regenerative thinking intersect.  Hosted by Neal Collins, each episode spotlights the innovators, designers, developers, and changemakers who are reimagining how we live and relate to place.

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  • Création
    Neal Collins
  • Années d’activité
    2020 - 2025
  • Épisodes
    124
  • Classification
    Tous publics
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    © 2025 The Regenerative Real Estate Podcast
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