Restoration Support is often needed to implement an new vision of how we can better integrate, rather than force our will upon our living ecosystems. Integrating systems focuses on fostering dynamic healthy relationships. This opportunity is often most pronounced after a major natural disaster like earthquakes, wildfires and hurricanes -- when nature speaks, we ought to listen.
In our highly compartmentalized and individualized world view, we have often forgotten how to live in balance with ourselves, each other, and with our living ecosystems. Cooperative Design and Planning is about setting appropriate and enforceable boundaries in contractual agreements.
At EcoShire we have been experimenting and testing alternative building techniques over the past decade as artistic installations.