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Rethinking Impact at Scale

Josie Plaut February 14, 2021

These days, a lot of folks are talking about scaling up impact. Typically, the idea is to take a good thing (or more accurately, a less bad thing) that we are doing and do it faster/bigger/better/more. Unfortunately, our do good/less …

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Three Keys to Abundant Design

Josie Plaut February 17, 2020

Hint: Designing for less bad won’t get us there. Aiming for abundant design requires seeing and working in new ways that are largely unfamiliar, challenging — but oh so worth it! If we want to realize abundance, we can’t get there …

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Regenerative Development: The journey begins within

Josie Plaut January 08, 2019

Our communities and natural systems have the need, now more than ever, to be able to adapt, evolve, and thrive. That is what regenerative development is all about – developing the potential for people to play contributive, beneficial roles as …

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Discovering the Essence of Fort Collins Through Story of Place

Josie Plaut December 04, 2017

By Josie Plaut Fort Collins anticipates 100,000 new community members in the next 15 years. Who will we become? There are growing concerns about losing what makes this place special.  For better or worse, people have discovered that living in …

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