The Trust for Sustainable Development is an inter-disciplinary group of professionals committed to envisioning, designing and building sustainable communities (towns and buildings). A small core staff works full-time at the Trust in research, education and project pre-development. During project development, the Trust partners with respected industry professionals, consultants, institutions and neighboring residents and stakeholders.
The founder of the Trust, David Butterfield, is the President of this international development company. Mr. Butterfield has guided his team through a cutting-edge process combining in-depth scientific, economic, social and financial analysis with extensive public and government consultation, making him one of the world's prominent experts in "sustainable community" technology.
The Trust has planned, designed, financed and built several highly successful projects ranging from brownfield re-development to sustainable New Towns. For example, the Trust oversaw the creation of an urban prototype for sustainable communities, which has been executed in the award-winning Community of Civano in Tucson, Arizona. The Trust recently completed an award winning mixed-use, sustainable building called Shoal Point on a brownfield site in Victoria, British Columbia, and is in the construction and development stage of the first neighborhood at The Villages of Loreto Bay, a sustainable community in Baja California Sur (South), Mexico.