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e players
e “gameboard”
Health
metabolics
Health
indicators
Regional
environmental
players
Community
environmental
players
Texas Commission
on Environmental
Quality
El Paso County Water
Improvement
District
EL Paso City Depart-
ment of Public
Health
City of El Paso Green
Building Grant
Program
EL Paso County Parks
and Recreation
Joint Advisory
Committee for Air
Quality
Paso Del Norte
Watershed Council
El Paso Solar Energy
Association
USGBC Chihuahuan
Desert Chapter
El Paso Girl and Boy
Scouts
Sierra Club: El Paso
Regional Group
Home
neighborhood
region
city
Feedback
loop
Health
Indicators
Air
Air
Water
Food
Water
Industrial
ecology
monitor
Home
ecology
monitor
Soil health
City/region
health
dashboard
Home/neighbor-
hood health
dashboard
Dynamic
system limits
Dynamic
system limits
FIGURE 31.16
This health to currency feedback system picks up on the use of the Ashby diagram at two different levels within
the proposed game, one at the player level and the other at a game board representing the city region.
The true test of a currency system is the building of a credit system that rewards the
completion of air, water, food, energy, and material lifecycles at all scales of the city region
while also functioning with other systems of alternative currency such as carbon trading.
The new world of incentives, based on life cycle balancing, will be strange at first to
those of us entrenched in traditional currency systems that are not connected to an ecol-
ogy of all human endeavors. Again, this new frontier of concentric, interrelated cyclesstarts
with life cycle completion within the functioning of the household, then expands to the
neighborhood scale as a set of micro-businesses, and finally to the city—region. The latter
occurs in the form of large necklaces of industrial and non-industrial points of conversion
rewarded by reaching a state of plenitude and the resulting freedom of time. See Pearltrees
(Figure 31.17) an online tool used to explore linkages across ranges of topics.
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31.5.2 Solution Sets
Solution sets evolve from two types of investigation:
• Tracking ProtoPartners that relate to a given topic in a given ProtoSpace.
• Incorporating ideas and information cultivated from wide scale gaming into built
solutions. Orienting the solution sets around the identified indicator of health
ensures solution sets will make the greatest impact for our particular community.
Major global health issues as identified in the global health survey of the UN's
Millennium Report can be directly correlated to life cycle stages of the five ecoBalance
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