Environmental Engineering Reference
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Flows
Information
Currency
Energy
Material
Indicators
Public
health
Super-
structure
Education
Environment
sustainability
Governance
Employment
Stages of development ladder
Anticipatory
Worldly
Surviving
Maturing
Antagonistic
Accepting
Experimental
Systemic
Reactive
Responsive
Empowering
Evolutionary
Revolutionary
Adaptive
Learning
Memic
FIGURE 31.4
Development Ladder helps assess the current status of a community and its potential for development by track-
ing four essential flows in one or more indicator categories.
2.
Currency:
The strategic flow of money through the city/region. This flow includes
the strategic placement of available dollars to improve specific triggers for change.
Innovative financing that supports ecosystem services, community health, and
life cycle connected businesses are particularly important.
3.
Energy:
The energy flow, like the material flow, needs to be understood from
an ecoBalancing
™
standpoint through localized sourcing, processing, use and
re-sourcing. Energy flow must be worked with at every level of society so that
codes, investment, design, and engineering become fail safe due to scalar life cycle
redundancy from home to neighborhood to region.
4.
Materials:
Similar to the flow of energy, the flow of materials (physical, biological,
mineral, chemical, etc.) becomes a significant area of a localized creativity so that
it is not only sourced within the region but is also combined into sophisticated
chemical processes. For example, aluminum and magnesium compounds derived
through solar electrolysis from the briny ground water. The extracted compounds
not only have metallic and cementitious physical properties but when combined
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