"Our greatest contribution to a sustainable future is to create the conditions in which each person can achieve self actualization and thrive." Those words seeded the birth of "Growing Together for Your Children's Tomorrows." My big questions were. "What are those conditions? How do we create them?" The [sometimes annoying] nature of a polymath is to go deep, to investigate, to look for patterns and find places where they connect. Twelve years of cross-sector research showed that the way we build cities is the greatest threat to the health of both the person and the planet. Life after birth is the ongoing differentiation of a person, a process shaped by the relationships, exposures, and experiences in their daily lives. Focusing on the needs of children seven years and younger, the foundation years, I now work with urban parents to transform sensory deprived built-for-cars neighbourhoods into sensory enriched built-for-kids adventure places.
