New Year, New Systems Thinking: Suburbitat, with Jim Tolstrup

As we continue our new year, we’re once again gaining elevation and new, growing thinking. We’re in conversation with Jim Tolstrup, Executive Director of the High Plains Environmental Center in Loveland, Colorado, where, by development design, they caringly cultivate Suburbitat. Suburbitat is a land ethic, a mindset, and a book that all hold a vision of a built environment where suburbia and native ecosystems exist side by side and intertwined. It is magical in all seasons! And, we can all take notes. Join us! Cultivating Place now has a donate button! We thank you for listening over the years, and we hope you'll continue to support Cultivating Place. We can't thank you enough for making it possible for this young program to grow and engage in even more conversations like these. The show is available as a podcast on SoundCloud and iTunes. To read more and for many more photos, please visit

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New Year, New Systems Thinking: Suburbitat, with Jim Tolstrup is an episode from Cultivating Place by Jennifer Jewell / Cultivating Place.

This episode is 00:59:23 long.

This episode was published on Jan 8, 2026.

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