Rolling Raven, LLC
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About Us
The Company
Rolling Raven, LLC is a New Mexico based sustainable planning, consulting and design firm with offices in Abiquiu and Santa Fe. We offer Landscape Architecture, Planning and Green Building services to clients in public and private sectors and have been in Northern New Mexico since 1998. The company also offers landscape services to residential clients through our Fine Gardens division. Fine Gardens has been in existance since 1995 and is fully licensed and bonded.
Rolling Raven, LLC is a New Mexico based sustainable planning, consulting and design firm with offices in Abiquiu and Santa Fe. We offer Landscape Architecture, Planning and Green Building services to clients in public and private sectors and have been in Northern New Mexico since 1998. The company also offers landscape services to residential clients through our Fine Gardens division. Fine Gardens has been in existance since 1995 and is fully licensed and bonded.
The Purpose
Our purpose is to heal the relationship between nature and humanity. Without this relationship there is a disconnect between ourselves and life, a disconnect that keeps us from achieving our greatest potential, and prevents nature from prospering. This is the role sustainability plays - it is the new frame on which we weave a tapestry - the threads of nature and human.
| The Ravens |
 Rebecca R Smith (President) has been involved in sustainable development and sustainability issues for over 15 years. in early 1992 she developed an inovative model for decisionmaking and analysis for sustainability at the local level. She has since applied that work to the fields of Landscape Architecture and Green Building. Rebecca earned her BA in Psychology from the University of Tennessee (UT) and did her graduate research work at the University of Berkeley through UT earning a MSP (Master of Science in Planning). She also holds an AS in Engineering. She has worked as an industrial electrician, a materials analyst, a community garden organizer and an inspector at Levi's. Rebecca hails from East Tennessee in the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. |
 Karen M Butts (Vice-President) has been involved with the natural environment since she was a kid, growing up in Columbus, Ohio She graduated from Sarah Lawrence and earned an MS in Environemntal Edication and Conservation from NYU. Karen has been a landscape designer for the past 10 years, and is the green building and sustainable construction head of the company. Karen has worked as a raft guide, a bicycle tour guide a travel guide and an urban park ranger. She is the founder and previous owner of Out 4 Travel located in Berkeley, California. She serves as the volunteer coordinator for the Georgia O'Keefe Landscape Tour at Ghost Ranch in Abiquiu. |
