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No Island Is An Island: A Developer Shows How To Build With Nature Michael Sorkin
The barrier islands off the Carolina coast are at once fragile and protective. Home to an amazing diversity of environments, ranging from dunes to maritime forests to salt and freshwater wetlands, these islands serve as a habitat for a stunning range of ecosystems and a singular variety of species. Their beauty is compelling.
Revitalizing Our Economy by Restoring Our Built & Natural Environments Storm Cunningham
Throughout the ages, economies have been built primarily on developing new territories and exploiting virgin resources. Occasionally, long-lived city-states and countries built, farmed, and/or deforested all the way to their borders. When they were unable to expand into new territories via conquest or colonialism, they either withered away, or they switched from new development to restorative development. In other words, they stopped basing their economic growth on accumulating new resources, lands, cities, and structures, and started growing economically by restoring and revitalizing their existing resources, land, cities, and structures.
