From the perspective of 28 years:

The Renascence Project started a process - a process it never “completed.” This period was iteration1 of what was to become the MG Taylor Corporation. Several iterations later we are still trying to get it right and perhaps we are beginning to.

Renascence - and MG Taylor - are push-pull ventures.They offer alternatives to conventional ways of thinking and doing things. When one of these ideas are supported they put more energy in to it. When an idea is not supported, the idea is not given up on - it is stored and reinvented when it seems appropriate. This involves listening to market feedback but in a radically different way then most businesses do. The feedback is on the when and the how, to some extent on the what - but not about the core idea unless real evidence shows it to be wrong or no longer necessary. Many ideas that Renascence pioneered are becoming commonplace in community development, architecture, the organic food community and healthcare. Many remain largely obscure and under developed.