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  • From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lfl@intrex.net>
  • To: pcplantdb@lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [pcplantdb] synthesis[21][9.19.04]
  • Date: Mon, 20 Sep 2004 23:20:06 -0700

Stephanie Gerson wrote:

-I’m going to initiate a thread dedicated to “ecosystem information engineering,” the branch of Industrial Ecology I was referring to. Just to give you an appetizer:
Industrial Ecology and Ecological Engineering
Opportunities for Symbiosis
David R. Tilley
In The Journal of Industrial Ecology
Volume 7, Issue 2 / Spring 2003
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The first symbiotic area, ecosystem engineering for byproduct recovery, is defined as the design, creation, and management of living ecosystems (e.g., forests, wetlands) that utilize the by-products of industrial systems. Examples of this exist, including constructed wetlands for lead

recovery and phyto-mining of nickel tailings. The second symbiotic focus is entitled “ecosystem analogues for industrial ecology,” which fits with a founding principle of IE to strive to have industry emulate the energy efficiencies and material cycles of natural ecosystems. This
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For starters, thinking about the Carbon Cycle and practical application and use of recycled livestock manures and quarry rock dusts on farmland, a new form of agriculture is suggested, more efficient, a food/fiber production system that emulates and ultimately is in sync with Nature. An array of futuristic natural farming methodologies that allow soil to evolve, undisturbed, into a living system that hosts an increasingly diverse array of organisms that contributes to its tilth and fertility and its ability to promote robust plant growth while remaining a resilient system able to maintain and enhance its productivity through future applications of soil amendments of all sorts.

focal area quantifies the ecological analogy and exploits the tremendous library of design alternatives that nature has developed over thousands of years to deal with varied resource situations. The third focal area is termed “ecosystem information engineering.” The means by which living ecosystems have created robust knowledge systems and information cycles should be understood in terms useful for managing current society’s information explosion. As industrial society evolves toward the information society, holistic models are needed that account for the available energy and material resources required to operate effective information ecosystems, such as service industries.


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