Ecological adaptation

- how?

Ecological systems are our best models for sustainable systems (Bob Costanza 1991)

Basic principles for sustainability

First lesson, 2.2 billion years ago:

You can not be dependent on a finite storage of exergy

Second lesson, 400 million years ago:

What is good for the ecosystem is good for you

• Folke Günther's homepage
• On sustainability
  • Basic principles,
  • Ethics for survival
  • The ancient lessons
  • Storage and flow, the crucial difference
  • Agriculture and sustainability
  • • The sustainable agriculture
    • Phosphorus: basis for survival
    • The balanced agriculture
      • The doubly balanced agriculture
    • Articles on agriculture and sustainability
  • Global warming and the way out (on production)
    • Simple charring, pictures
      • Description
  • A step forward: Ruralisation
  • • Ruralisation: The opposite to urbanisation
    • Different dimensions of sustainability
    • Urban and Rurik comparison
  • Permaculture
  • • Ruralisation;Permaculture on the grand scale
• Fossil fuels?
  • The Peak
  • Fossil fuel problems
  • Energy use at family level
  • The cheap oil
  • The "fair" price of oil
  • Carrying capacity without fossil fuels
  • The loss of the Gulf stream
  • The Rabbit Limit
  • Game theory
  • What you can do to reduce impact
  • Development for post-fossil ages
    • SASC, the Self Accumulating Solar Collector
    • SECWE, the Solar Energy Converting Work Engine
    • SECWE type II, the Biomass to Food Converter
• Thermodynamics
  • Exergy
  • Exergy consumption
  • Entropy, a misused concept
  • Ecosystem and thermodynamics
• General ecology
  • The regeneratve cycle
    • Ppt presentation on complex systems
  • The Holon
    • Holarchies, an organisational concept
  • Storage and flow, the crucial difference
  • The HEAP effect
  • The importance of Phosphorus
  • View of Nature (introduction to Deep Ecology)
    • Ppt presentation
  • Dissertation cover
  • Important terms
• Human ecology
  • The MIFSLA attitude
  • The HEAP trap
  • Linear flows
  • Being useful
    • Permaculture
    • Ppt presentation on environmental ethics
  • The balanced agriculture
    • The doubly balanced agriculture
  • Ruralisation
    • Ruralisation: The opposite to urbanisation
    • Different dimensions of sustainability
    • Urban and Rurik comparison
  • Courses
    • Ecology and physics
    • Thermodynamics and ecosystems
    • IT distance courses
      (Mostly in Swedish)
      • Recycling
      • Ecology and physics
      • The gaia theory
• Waste water and source separation
  • The current MIFSLA system
  • Source separating toilets
    • Urine
    • Faeces
    • Greywater
  • Wetpark, the principles
    • Background
    • A highschool wetpark
      • Results-Bacterials
      • Results-Nutrients
      • Results-BOD
      • Construction
    • A household wetpark
      • Construction
  • The folkewall
    • Standard stones
    • Concrete sandwich
      • In Ljugarn, Gotland
    • From tires
      • In Addis Ababa
  • The double-cycle system
    • On Gotland
      • The building process
    • In Almeria, Spain
      • The first cycle
      • The second cycle
      • The top tank
      • The garden walls and pool purification
• Storm water purification
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