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 and the many organizations and projects which have spun out of it. Several iterations later we are still trying to get it right and perhaps we are beginning to.

Renascence was - and MG Taylor is - a push-pull venture. Alternatives to conventional ways of thinking and doing things are offered to the market of ideas and commerce. When one of these ideas is supported more energy and money is put in to it. When an idea is not supported, the idea is not given up - it is stored and reinvented when the time is appropriate. This involves listening to market feedback in a radically different way then most businesses do. The feedback is on the when and the how, and to some extent on the what - but not about the core idea itself 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 business and healthcare today. Many remain obscure and some under developed. None are forgotten.