Remediate, Restore, Rebuild, Reinhabit

Since its inception in 2005, the Noyo Headlands Unified Design group has advocated for a planful and creative transformation of the Noyo Headlands on the Mendocino Coast in a manner that nurtures the environmental health of our planet and strengthens the social and economic fabric of our community, demonstrating how we can create a thriving future for all. Development of the northern Mendocino Coast was based on an extraordinarily rich extraction economy. Lumber and fish were plentiful and then they weren't. Both industries are still viable, but now they need to be carefully nurtured. Is there a way for the Coastal communities to survive and thrive?

Clean it up.

Georgia Pacific and the Department of Toxic Substances Control have been addressing the contamination left by over a century of mill activity on the mill site. It emphasizes the need for an open, participatory remediation process, respecting the industrial and pre-industrial histories of the site

NHUDG advocates taking a cautionary approach to the cleanup. considering innovative cleanup approaches.
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Bertschi School Living Science Building Seattle

Let's do it right

ReBuild discusses key principles of ecological design and green building. After
introducing the basic concept of ecological design, it applies it to five elements of building
and infrastructure: energy, food, stormwater, water, and wastewater. 
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​http://living-future.org/ilfi_This is the best group NHUDG has found applying the highest standards.

Heal the land.

The potential of 400 acres of ocean bluff between Fort Bragg and the ocean presents opportunities for ecological restoration and stewardship. We have the knowledge to restore the soils, historic waterways, plant communities, and wildlife.

Honor the past. Celebrate the future.

Sound ecologically beneficial technology can inform an economic development strategy. Regional and local transportation linkages that can created with the site. Green building design can permeate the master plan of the site. We can agree that  qualities such as health and happiness for a community and restoration of a planet as well as profit have value. We can mourn the loss of the boom economy of a past era or we can embrace a new economy for the future.