How Regenerative Design Grew the Desert Botanical Garden; An article with gbd Magazine

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Quote from the article by Justin Stephenson:
“The deeper idea, in Salenger’s framing, is regenerative development, a far wider view of where and how we build than regenerative design alone…

The premise is that any organization, whether commercial, governmental, or nonprofit, has its own internal living system, and that the goal of every living system, natural or human-made, is to grow and evolve over time by producing more energy than it consumes. A healthy permaculture plot is the natural model—a complex web of reciprocal exchanges that, understood properly, becomes more productive the longer it runs. An institution can work the same way. So can a design firm. coLAB Studio was itself formed as a living system of complementary parts that exchange energy, ideas, talent, and economics; 180 Degrees grew from small projects and a small internal community into a firm capable of building a campus like this one, energized by its employees and by collaborators like coLAB along the way.”