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e health cycle
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W
-Water cycle
F
-Food cycle
M
-Material cycle
E
-Energy cycle
A
-Air cycle
FIGURE 31.18
Human health is our strategic focal point in this ProtoCity. Health is intimately involved with all cycles of life and
completion of cyclical events functions as the first order of prevention. (Note that the cycle of daily use sequence
of life cycle events is opposite to that of the proposed alternative currency credits cycle, i.e., the reward system.)
31.6 Planning the Juarez El Paso Metroplex
People don't change when they see the light,
They change when they feel the heat.
People don't believe it when they see it,
They see it when they believe it. 12
Human's responsibility to restore, rehabilitate, preserve, or even rebirth the cultural and
biological importance of the place where we reside is perhaps the most important plan-
etary function we may perform. Our ability to regenerate and repair through an openness
and resilience is how we might intervene to fulfill this lofty responsibility and assesses a
community's ability progress to the next stage in their development. If people do not see the
light, the essence of place might forever disappear.
So a reorientation of the mind is the key; the ability of our everyday existence to be
knowingly embedded with ecological thinking is imperative. Even the simplest routines
in the home or within other micro-economies, built around the life cycle management
of water, food, and energy, enables the continued expansion of the new economy by
supplying the products and processes that elevate life cycle balancing to commonplace
practice. There are obstacles; humans want to affect their habitat in a manner that is
seemingly expedient and self-gratifying in the short term with little regard for the
future. The mind, due to its evolutionary development, tries to outpace the very thing
that preserves it: the steady, gradual, constant sustaining capability of a stable ecology
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