You are working for Colorado Green Builders, a company in Boulder, Colorado, specializing in sustainable building. You are part of a project team that is supervising the design and construction of a visitor's center in the Rocky Mountain National Park. The goal is to build the visitor's center so that it is self-sufficient. That means it should use no outside resources, if possible, including energy, water, and waste systems. Your manager, Amanda Karlson, suggests that you meet with your team to plan this project.

Meet as a team and brainstorm the general categories of resources you need to build the visitor's center so that it is self-sufficient. Consider everything typically found in a public building.

Review the resource categories and make a master list.

For each category, brainstorm ways to provide the resource without depending on outside systems. For example, if you have a food category, you could create a garden and greenhouse to provide fruits and vegetables without depending on outside suppliers.

Review the ideas your team generated, and then use convergent thinking techniques to edit the list. Your goal is to identify all the resources a visitor's center needs using systems that are fairly easy to set up and maintain and are not too expensive.