The Road Runner As Metaphor

From Not A Cornfield consultant, art writer and curator Janet Owen:

"On Friday September 30, Lauren Bon spoke...on a subject that fuels the NAC project - the need to apply principles of sustainability to cultural institutions. Proposing that traditional ‘building on a hill’ models will be superceded by organizations that take a sensitive approach to human and earth-based resources, embrace sustainable revenue generation, and ‘grow’ as and where needed, [Bon] offered the
Road Runner as example and metaphor for such organizations in Southern California. Not least because the roadrunner scavenges water from its own feces and is, consequently, able to survive independently in a desert terrain."