Creating Sustainable Futures for Southwestern Cities: The ProtoCity Approach in the Ciudad Juarez, Mexico/El Paso, Texas Metroplex - Design with the Desert: Conservation and Sustainable Development - page 556

Wearable currency credit system from person

City

Facility

Person Group

Individual EcoBalance master chart Facility EcoBalance competing group analysis ulti-facility city EcoBalance selective

implementation diagram

Group EcoBalance member comparison

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e

f

w

a

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Persons A, B, C, D, E, and F with respective
role in group efficiencies

Groups I, II, and III with respective
engagement in resource balancing efforts

Air, water, food, energy, and materials with
respective implementations

Facilities N, E, S, and W with respective
employment of general EcoBalance
strategies

(b)

FIGURE 31.15 (continued)
(b) Life cycle balancing (ecoBalance) from individual to the city; one scale at a time with credits that accrue as group cooperation creates success at each subse-
quent scale.