Synergia Ranch
I.E. began its ecological work, in 1969 on its first ‘challenge,’ a badly eroded 60-hectare ranch near Santa Fe, New Mexico. Synergy was a goal: creating systems where cooperating elements produce something which is greater than, and unpredicted by, the sum of the parts. So, the property was optimistically named Synergia Ranch. The group’s move to New Mexico coincided with the start of the modern environmental movement