The Local Food Summit in Denver, organized by the Mile High Business Alliance, was informative and great fun. But the strongest memory I took from it is of the woman who asked this question at the...
Without clear terminology, the eight industries of restorative development [natural: ecosystems, fisheries, farmlands, watersheds; built: brownfields, infrastructure, heritage, disaster/war] will...
In Chapter 3 of The Restoration Economy, Storm Cunningham provides a list of the ways in which the current “restoration economy” is unique: • This is the first time in history that the...
Storm Cunningham’s book The Restoration Economy has a good quote on just about every page, but I can’t possible fit them all in here. I did find a section of Chapter 2 that I wanted to...
In Chapter 1 of The Restoration Economy, Storm Cunningham discusses the 3 crises: Constraint, Corrosion, and Contamination. And then he discusses 3 myths that, he says, “cloud our perception of...
In Chapter 1, Storm Cunningham discusses three crises affecting the globe in the twenty-first century: 1. The Constraint Crisis: Simply put, we’re running out of room. We can’t continue...
Toward the end of the Introduction to The Restoration Economy, Storm Cunningham muses about his travels: As mentioned in the Preface, I’ve spent much of my last 20 years exploring our...
The only land in the city of Milwaukee zoned as farmland is the 2 acres on the northern outskirts on which Growing Power sits. It’s a poor neighborhood near housing projects. Executive director...
A 1995 survey of 51 U.S. universities revealed that 11 had graduate programs in restoration ecology (at that time, many European universities had undergraduate degrees in that subject, but not...
Industries that restore the built environment have far more in common with those restoring the natural environment than either group realizes. —Storm Cunningham, The Restoration Economy, p. ix