Episode 11- How can development be used to understand and sustain life?
The term “development” is generally applied to “adding value” to a place through building; most often this value is conceived in economic gains alone. What happens when we extend this idea of adding value to include the health of all living systems? Such a mindset explores how the economic engine driving building activities can also be leveraged into transforming and regenerating the health of all life in that place. This requires an understanding of the interrelationships and patterns of the living systems (human and “natural”) that are unique to each place on the planet.
Our guest, Joel Glanzburg, is an applied naturalist with Regenesis, a consulting firm that engages green design from a radically different perspective — one that explores how human building activities can and should be engines of positive evolutionary change for all living systems. Joel will discuss the art and science of how he comes to “know” a place and thereby discover its potential for sustaining life.
