The team had the pleasure of meeting Jonathon Gross, one half of the writers behind this paper on CPP cultural ecology; ‘Creating the Environment: The cultural eco-systems of Creative People and Places’. As a CPP organisation, we feel it’s important to consider our place in the community, and how we achieve impact in the places that we serve. This paper examines some of the deeper questions we could consider to broaden our understanding of our place and our own ecology’s value.