still dont like particulate pollution...how bout we capture the co2 from manufacturing and use it to grow algae to turn into fuel to run the factory which produces co2 to grow the algae to make the fuel
the Germans i worked w/ at Siemens called it a "closed loop" system...this is while i was working on circuit breakers, but the concept transfers and scales...food is trash-trash is food.
it is all about efficiency and that includes material stream management-it always has.
a measure of the success of a "culture" is the result of these resource streams.
are you cold?
how much trash is blowing around in the street?
are you hungry?
you can eat dandelions.
we don't know how to use the tools around us (because we are overly specialized)