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["Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lfl@intrex.net>]

> 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
> -
> 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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