# MAINFRANK > We test, seed and grow regenerative ideas. Public Ghost content for AI and LLM tooling. Use `/llms-full.txt` for consolidated page and post context. Append `.md` to any post or page URL to get the content in Markdown (for example, `/example-post.md`). ## Pages - [Agroforestry Furniture Collection](https://www.mainfrank.com/agroforestry-furniture.md) - Objects / With Mark Tuckey / 2024 - [Bay Road: Private Client Dashboard](https://www.mainfrank.com/bay-road-private-client-dashboard.md) - [Byproduct](https://www.mainfrank.com/byproduct.md) - Materials R&D / Incubating - [Circular Solutions for Zero-Waste Sets in Film Productions](https://www.mainfrank.com/circular-solutions-for-zero-waste-sets-in-film-productions.md) - Zero-waste consultancy / 2025 - [Enquiry](https://www.mainfrank.com/enquiry.md) - Thinking about a project? Contact and location 1. *Name 2. *Email 3. Phone (optional) 4. *Where is the project? Suburb or town, and country. 5. How did you hear about us? ...2 The project 6. *What kind of project is it? 7. *Roughly what size? 8. *Do you have the site? 9. Has any work been done on t… - [Flourish](https://www.mainfrank.com/flourish.md) - Public art / City of Melbourne / Completed 2025 - [Green School Bali: Biomimicry for Regenerative Design Lab](https://www.mainfrank.com/green-school-bird-lab.md) - Learning lab / Sibang Kaja, Bali / with IBUKU / In progress - [Green School Chair](https://www.mainfrank.com/green-school-chair.md) - Object / With BYO Living / In progress - [Hawley Beach: Private Client Dashboard](https://www.mainfrank.com/hawley-beach-client-dashboard.md) - [Information](https://www.mainfrank.com/information.md) - Practice, people and record - [Intergenerational Cottage](https://www.mainfrank.com/intergenerational-cottage.md) - Australian families are increasingly choosing to live together in multi-generational configurations. Whether the cause is convenience, necessity, or a choice to combat the rootlessness of modern life, we see this as a shift away from the nuclear family and toward more intentional modes of living. T… - [Lia's House](https://www.mainfrank.com/lias-butterfly-house.md) - Ecosystem house / With Joost Bakker / 2024 - [Library](https://www.mainfrank.com/library.md) - What the practice is built on - [MENO:ZERO Nursery](https://www.mainfrank.com/meno-zero-nursery.md) - Architecture / In progress - [MENO:ZERO](https://www.mainfrank.com/meno-zero.md) - Gili Meno, Lombok / Alive - [Shelly House](https://www.mainfrank.com/shelly-house.md) - Home, adaptive reuse / 2023 - [Shop](https://www.mainfrank.com/shop.md) - Objects and prints - [Stand Trees](https://www.mainfrank.com/stand-trees.md) - Agroforestry marketplace / Incubating - [The Making of Material Documentary](https://www.mainfrank.com/the-making-of-material.md) - Documentary / With Mark Tuckey & Grace Moore / 2025 - [Testing, seeding, growing](https://www.mainfrank.com/tsg.md) ## Posts - [Why we build with agricultural residues](https://www.mainfrank.com/notes/why-we-build-with-agricultural-residues.md) - The construction sector is responsible for 39% of global greenhouse gas emissions (King and Magwood, 2022). A growing number of practices respond to this by specifying timber. The logic is straightforward: trees absorb carbon, wood stores it in the building, and the forest regrows. We think the log… - [Strawboard: Replacing Burning with Housing](https://www.mainfrank.com/notes/strawboard-manufacturing-reducing-straw-burning-pollution-and-replacing-harmful-building-products-in-se-asia.md) - Every year, globally, we sequester the entire world's transport emissions in the byproducts of five crops: wheat and cereal straw, rice straw, sugarcane bagasse, corn stover and coconut husks[1]. Most of it gets burned in the field. Meanwhile we've lost roughly one third of the world's forests, hal… - [Can Farmers Grow the Building Materials of the Future?](https://www.mainfrank.com/notes/can-farmers-grow-the-building-materials-of-the-future.md) - Lecture / Urbanity-26 - [HIA Future Homes Forum Keynote](https://www.mainfrank.com/notes/hia-future-homes-forum.md) - Lecture / with Joost Bakker - [Regenerative Approaches to Practice](https://www.mainfrank.com/notes/regenerative-approaches-to-practice.md) - 2025 / RMIT University - [How the World Really Works - Vaclav Smil](https://www.mainfrank.com/notes/how-the-world-really-works-vaclav-smil.md) - Core thesis Modern civilization runs on four material pillars: cement, steel, plastics, and ammonia. All four require fossil fuels not merely as energy but as feedstock. Energy transitions are generational (decades, not electoral cycles), and anyone who claims otherwise has not run the numbers on t… - [demolition waste as a standing supply of building materials](https://www.mainfrank.com/notes/demolition-waste-as-a-standing-supply-of-building-materials.md) - Spoils - [Thinking in Systems](https://www.mainfrank.com/notes/book-thinking-in-systems.md) - Donella Meadows, 2008 - [Design with Nature](https://www.mainfrank.com/notes/book-design-with-nature.md) - Ian McHarg, 1969 - [A platform for supporting the growth of agroforestry as a timber industry in Australia](https://www.mainfrank.com/notes/tsg-agroforestry-furniture-a-platform-for-supporting-the-growth-of-agroforestry-as-a.md) - Seeding / Agroforestry Furniture - [Material Worlds, Robin Boyd Foundation](https://www.mainfrank.com/notes/test.md) - Frank Burridge & Bronwen Main - [Drawdown](https://www.mainfrank.com/notes/book-drawdown.md) - Paul Hawken, 2017 - [Agroforestry Furniture](https://www.mainfrank.com/notes/shop-agroforestry-furniture.md) - Timber grown on farms / Sold through Mark Tuckey - [Build Beyond Zero](https://www.mainfrank.com/notes/book-build-beyond-zero.md) - Bruce King and Chris Magwood, 2022 - [Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet](https://www.mainfrank.com/notes/book-arts-of-living-on-a-damaged-planet.md) - Anna Tsing and others, 2017 - [The Blue Economy](https://www.mainfrank.com/notes/book-the-blue-economy.md) - Gunter Pauli, 2010 - [Bullshit Jobs](https://www.mainfrank.com/notes/book-bullshit-jobs.md) - David Graeber, 2018 - [Designing Regenerative Cultures](https://www.mainfrank.com/notes/book-designing-regenerative-cultures.md) - Daniel Christian Wahl, 2016 - [The One-Straw Revolution](https://www.mainfrank.com/notes/book-the-one-straw-revolution.md) - Masanobu Fukuoka, 1975 - [The Ignorant Schoolmaster](https://www.mainfrank.com/notes/book-the-ignorant-schoolmaster.md) - Jacques Rancière, 1991 - [The Green Imperative](https://www.mainfrank.com/notes/book-the-green-imperative.md) - Victor Papanek, 1995 - [Humanitarian Architecture](https://www.mainfrank.com/notes/book-humanitarian-architecture.md) - Esther Charlesworth, 2014 - [Antifragile](https://www.mainfrank.com/notes/book-antifragile.md) - Nassim Taleb, 2012 - [School buildings are not puff pastry](https://www.mainfrank.com/notes/school-buildings-are-not-puff-pastry.md) - Letters / Frank Burridge - [What is Regenerative Architecture](https://www.mainfrank.com/notes/what-is-regenerative-architecture.md) - Letters / Frank Burridge - [Mainstays](https://www.mainfrank.com/notes/mainstays.md) - Green Magazine / Kath Dolan - [Sustainability Snacks](https://www.mainfrank.com/notes/sustainability-snacks.md) - Australian Institute of Architects - [Navigating the Landscape: Insights into Site and Context](https://www.mainfrank.com/notes/monash-university-2025-navigating-the-landscape-insights-into-site-and-context.md) - Lecture at Monash University / Bronwen Main - [The Second Ecology: Ecosystems Above the City](https://www.mainfrank.com/notes/the-second-ecology-ecosystems-above-the-city.md) - Archigram Melbourne / Darcy Jane Resch - [How might our classrooms support the next generation of green leaders?](https://www.mainfrank.com/notes/how-might-our-classrooms-support-the-next-generation-of-green-leaders-by-shifting-from-extraction-to-regeneration-from-separation-to-synergy-and-from-human-centered-design-to-life-cente.md) - Letters / Frank Burridge / - [No fences for wildlife](https://www.mainfrank.com/notes/tsg-shelly-house-fences-down-as-a-suburban-habit.md) - Seeding / Shelly House ## Optional - [RSS Feed](https://www.mainfrank.com/notes/rss/) - [Sitemap](https://www.mainfrank.com/sitemap.xml) - [Full content of pages and posts](https://www.mainfrank.com/llms-full.txt)