Case Studies Of Sustainable Landscape Design Projects
Design For Human + Ecological Balance
Sustainably Built Home | 2022
+ Hillside Restoration / Drainage + Trees / Green Roof + Additional Housing Unit
BEFORE AFTER
LANDSCAPE DESIGN courtesy of RG | BASE MAP courtesy of HDB
DRAINAGE LAYER TREE LAYER CURATED PLANT SELECTION LISTS
Architects + Developers Work With Us
To Secure Greener Local Impact
We’ll Help You Take An Honest Inventory To:
√ Balance A Greener Budget
√ Gain More Relevance + Acceptance in Your Community
√ Secure Bottom Lines for BOTH Economy + Ecology
Design For Mountain Home | 2021
+ Native Plant Catalogue + Pergola, Hot Tub + 3 Tier Patio
3 TIERED OUTDOOR PATIO WITH ECO BEDS + PERGOLA
SLOPED HILLSIDE READY FOR RESTORATION
NATIVE SPECIES FOR OUTDOOR DECK + CONTINUOUS USE OF SPACE
CONCEPTS
NATIVE INTRODUCTIONS + CATALOGUE OF OVER 70 ON-SITE SPECIES
We Help You Transition Your Landscape Into
+ Multi-Benefit Layered-Use + Community Integrated + Regenerative Space
We catalogued over 70 different native trees, flowers, grasses, and medicinal ‘weeds’ already existing on the property, as well as offered a supplemental list from which they could choose when deciding to introduce new natives to their property.
For the steep sloped side yard, an area of wild grass and pine needles, we planted native species on countour and introduced a root based drip system, that would remove risk of excess surface water drainage.
To this slope we created a small walking path for meandering, engineered with water runoffs to maintain the integrity of the terrain.
From Maladapted Monoculture To ThrivingLow Maint Courtyard Ecosystem | 2018
LUXURY CONDO ASSOCIATION DOWNTOWN BOULDER
+ INTERIOR COURTYARD + EXTERIOR STREET BEDS + TREES FEATURED SECURELY ABOVE PARKING GARAGE
BEFORE AFTER AFTER
Work With Us
To Expand Your Local Relevance
We’ll Give You The 411 on Local Contextual Values + Answer Your Questions About:
(A) Refreshing + Updating Our Understanding of Our Relationship With Nature, in the spaces of Self, Land, Economy, Culture, and Planet.
(B) How To Expand Your Available Spectrum of Options For Socio-Eco Economic Balance, While Identifying Habitual Mainstream Narratives That Tend To Limit
(C) The Importance (and Right Timing) of Starting New Conversations In Support Of Listening + Offering Opportunities To Take Healthier Actions
IN WITH THE NEW We are grateful that the landscape industry has laid fertile groundwork for educating and demonstrating the value of native ecology and greener values for living with nature. From here, we’ll look at wat it now takes (a) to engage the necessary conversations within our current community, (b) to open doors to new solutions, and (c) to open the windows for the fresh air of understanding the intersection of a landscape “micro-climate’ with the regional ecology. This will offer a 'scale-able map of how, in the words of Chief Seattle and other native first peoples of Colorado, "Everything Is Connected”. What we are seeing happen in our yards, our community, and globally, is a collective recognition that what is needed in the property management and maintenance sector.
REAL CHANGE HAPPENS not just in marketing and concept, but deeply personally, at the level of interior values and core beliefs that set up our mostly auto-pilot (aka unconscious) habitual daily rituals and momentum from a level of where our survival-faith-and-power intersect. This is the level of identity, of tribe, and of ‘the world’ — it is our foundational perception of how our individual power meets our understanding of how we can introduce change to the groups we are in versus feeling ‘that’s just the way it is’. It is soverignty vs community. It is where balance is discovered on a spectrum between where “need meets greed creates a hierarchy” vs where “sovereignty supports the whole creates a scalable self-sustaining torus”. What this looks like, is more than just ‘sustainable’ or ‘green’ (washed), but is… truly grounded, able to regenerate because of alignment with nature’s built-in geometries (aka Regenerative Design). Geometries that are simple principles of nature and cosmos that are discovered by individuals regardless of geographic location, belief, faith, science, religion, culture, or time and space. Geometries are a simple way of understanding the balance of form and flow, creating our experience of beauty and balance that occur in nature and ecosystems, as well as in social systems, when in alignment with the torus, rather than one or another type of hierarchy, aka belief system trying to dominate rather than work synergistically with the others and the whole.
We invite you to explore and adopt a new way of taking perspective— to help redefine how how we live and grow in greater alignment — by taking into account the feminine way being in relationship with the land we steward to offset the resource-productivity masculine mindset that has become exploitative to humanity and to nature. We are a microcosm of nature, and we are aware of how our values and mindset needs to evolve. We have the chance to see now that, within us and all around us, is a mutually supportive ongoing relationship of integrated social, ecological, and technological economies. We hope you’ll join us as we explore more in the way of growing and balancing our livlihoods in response to the times in which we live, and as we continue to follow our inspiration to share ways of understanding, doing, and being with you from the leading edge.
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