Integrated Revitalization: The Dominant Development Trend for the 21st Century

A key to sustainable development is its complete integration into economic development and the ability to be able to revive and restore ecosystems damaged by civilization so far, and profit by it in the present and future. The adage that the economy must follow the environment is no better exemplified in practice and experience than by this months National Capital Region World Future Society, Mr. Storm Cunningham. Storm Cunningham is Executive Director of the Revitalization Institute, the non-profit international society for community renewal and natural resource restoration. He is also CEO of Revitalization Strategies, Inc., the leading-edge firm providing custom integrated revitalization strategies for communities, counties, tribes, regions, and nations. Mr. Cunningham is thus in a unique position to perceive the trends, leaders, and technologies that are restoring our communities, our economies, and our planet...long before most others. He is the author of the seminal book on restorative development, The Restoration Economy. (www.RestorationEconomy.com; www.RevitilizationInstitute.org)

(PRWEB) February 16, 2005 -- Our growing world population has been pushing poorer people into high-risk areas like floodplains and volcano slopes, while people rich and poor are still concentrating development in coastal areas. The convergence of those trends with the increasing frequency and severity of natural disasters are forcing a need for better restorative development that leads to environmental and economically sustainable prosperity.

Restoration and revitalization in terms that make both economic and ecological sense is a core strategy of Mr. Storm Cunninghams practices.

Mr. Storm Cunningham is Executive Director of the Revitalization Institute, the non-profit international society for community renewal and natural resource restoration. He is also CEO of Revitalization Strategies, Inc., the leading-edge firm providing custom integrated revitalization strategies for communities, counties, tribes, regions, and nations. Mr. Cunningham is thus in a unique position to perceive the trends, leaders, and technologies that are restoring our communities, our economies, and our planet...long before most others. He is the author of the seminal book on restorative development, The Restoration Economy. (www.RestorationEconomy.com; www.RevitilizationInstitute.org)

Mr. Cunningham will discuss eight sectors of Restorative Development with a focus on the economic, not technical, implications. The eight sectors are: Ecosystem restoration, Watershed restoration, Fisheries restoration, Agricultural lands restoration, Brownfield remediation/redevelopment, Industrial sites, Infrastructure redesign, renovation and replacement, Heritage restoration, Catastrophe recovery.

See Mr. Cunningham discuss Integrated Revitalization: The Dominant Development Trend for the 21st Century " on February 17, 2005 from 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m., at the Embassy Suites Hotel, Chevy Chase Pavilion, Friendship Heights, Washington, D.C. To sign up, visit the National Capital Region World Future Society website at www.natcapwfs.org.

About National Capital Region World Future Society (NatCapWFS): Our organization is serving future interested and thinking citizens across the Maryland, Virginia, and the District of Columbia region. NatCapWFS is the center for ideas, within the Region, that studies, explores and shapes the future. NatCapWFS hosts monthly events open to the public. For event information, visit: www.natcapwfs.org.

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