ReGen Village
We want to make it easy, convenient and accessible to choose a sustainable lifestyle off the grid
THE NETHERLANDS OPENING: 2018
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eGen Villages is a tech-integrated real estate development company that’s creating a new kind of wellness community – a regenerative model for ecocommunities with self-sustaining energy and food. The first community is being developed in Almere, The Netherlands, with 300 homes, and other developments are also being considered in Sweden, Denmark, Norway, Germany and Belgium. ReGen raises investment from wealth funds looking to divest from fossil fuels and then partners with local municipalities to develop the communities.
JAMES EHRLICH, REGEN
“ReGen Villages is engineering and facilitating the development of off-grid, integrated and resilient neighbourhoods that power and feed self-reliant families around the world,” says founder James Ehrlich. “It’s all about applied technology. We’re simply applying already existing technologies into an integrated community design, providing clean energy, water and food right off your doorstep.”
The idea for the communities is to address the challenges of a growing population, increasing urbanisation, scarcity of resources and the growing global food crisis – as well as reducing global CO2 emissions and reducing burdens on municipal and national governments. It also wants to create a sense of community, reconnect people with nature and consumption with production and restore
biodiversity to the surrounding landscapes. “We like to think of ReGen as the Tesla of ecovillages,” says Ehrlich. “We want to make it easy, convenient and accessible to choose a sustainable lifestyle off the grid.” A community centre will include space for yoga, meditation and other wellness curriculum, and Erlich says there could be opportunities for spas to be part of the community.