Building A Sustainable Wellness Community With Steve Nygren

Care More Be Better: A Podcast For Sustainable Social Impact and Regeneration

Corinna Bellizzi

Science, Self-improvement, Documentary, Earth Sciences, Society & Culture, Education

5.0 • 22 Ratings

🗓️ 1 October 2025

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Integrating green spaces, agriculture, housing, and retail may be extremely challenging, but it is never impossible. Steve Nygren managed to pull this off by helping build Serenbe, a wellness community connected to nature on the edge of Atlanta. He joins Corinna Bellizzi to share how their responsibly developed, high-value community serves as a model for applying biophilic design in small and intentional ways, boosting regenerative practices everywhere.

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0:00.0	When you really stop, stop fighting, stop pushing back and actually come back, what do we all
0:06.1	unilantly care about?
0:07.9	Many times it's the same thing.
0:09.4	We might have different language.
0:11.0	We might have different political parties.
0:13.3	But actually, when you get to the basics, we all care about the same thing.
0:17.1	We want our loved ones to live in healthy places.
0:19.9	We want to be healthy. And how do we do that?
0:22.3	And we aren't asking that question enough today. We're just going along with what we have.
0:28.3	Welcome to Care More Be Better, a podcast for people like you who care about the social impact of
0:34.6	conscious companies and everyday heroes.
0:42.5	Hear inspiring stories from those who put people in planet before profit and personal gain.
0:47.3	You'll learn how you can make a difference, vote with your dollars, and get involved today.
0:50.1	Here's your host, Karina Belizei.
0:59.2	Welcome to Care More Be Better, a podcast for people like you who care about our planet and want to build a better world together.
1:13.6	As we get started, I have a quick update. Thanks to our partnership with forestplanet.org, we've planted more than 27,000 trees, one for every new subscriber to this podcast and our newsletter. If you haven't subscribed yet, I encourage you to visit care more be better.com, subscribe for our newsletter,
1:18.9	and make sure you're subscribed on whatever platform you're picking us up today. That could be
1:23.5	YouTube or an audio platform. Today I'm joined by Steve Nygren, the visionary founder of
1:29.4	Serenby, a pioneering wellness community just outside Atlanta that integrates green space,
1:35.8	agriculture, housing, and retail into a holistic model for living. Steve has spent decades
1:42.3	proving that sustainable community design isn't just possible.
1:46.6	It's the future of our health and our well-being. This October, Steve is releasing his first book.
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