Our Exo-metabolism
Everybody has to work for a living. From the most primitive bacterium, to his cousin the investment banker, every living organism has to dissipate energy to build and maintain its complex molecular structure. “Do...
Category: Natural Systems
Engineered Evolution
If evolution were an epic novel, I suggest that it would be divided into three books, a trilogy. Each book begins with one of the three greatest evolutionary innovations. Book One begins with the...
Thin Blue Line
The astronaut orbiting Earth sees a thin blue line on the planet’s horizon, separating our Earth from the blackness of space. This blue line is our atmosphere, just a few kilometers of nitrogen, oxygen,...
What is Econosystemics? Revisited.
Every time someone asks me what econosystemics is, I find I tell it a little differently. I guess that’s the honest mark of an evolving paradigm; it gets a little clearer the more you...
Why Gregor is Wrong on Nuclear Energy
When it comes to commenting on the world energy situation, Gregor MacDonald stands out as exceptional. If you haven’t been following Gregor.US, you should put that on your regular reading list — especially if...
The Value Loop Economy
World population growth and rapid economic development in the less developed countries has put inexorable pressure on the value-chain economy. Over the past 40 years we have recognized that we are exhausting our fossil fuels, mines, soils, forests, and fisheries. The value chain economy is dyin
Turtles all the way down…
Every “thing” we can name is a system, containing components which interact. And of course, every component is a thing and thus another system, containing another level of components.
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