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Can We Build Cities That Live in Balance With Nature? | Joshua Harrison

What if our cities could function more like living ecosystems?

Today’s guest is Joshua Harrison, co-founder and chief strategy officer of Leaf Island and Director of the Center for the Study of the Force Major at UC Santa Cruz.

For more than three decades, Joshua has worked at the intersection of ecology, systems thinking, design, and art, exploring how we can rethink the relationship between cities and the natural systems around them.

His central argument is that we’ve become too accustomed to thinking about the world in simple, disconnected systems. Instead, he believes we need to recognize…

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