Commodity Ecology

Launched to provide a parallel information service connected with _Toward a Bioregional State, the book; this parallel blog is the commentary, your questions and my answers, on technological and material science news from around the world related to the issues of sustainability and unsustainability and how to institutionalize it in particular watersheds anywhere in the world, in a running muse on various issues of concern or inspiration.

Sunday, June 3, 2007

OLD INTRODUCTION: Two Institutions Required in Every Watershed: Commodity Ecology and Civic Democratic Institutions

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[Go to the main front page for updated introduction. In December 2009, I formalized additional commodity ecology categories in an update. Wi...
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1. Textiles

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2. Dyes/colorants

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(murex, cochineal, synthetic chemicals, derived organic coal based chemicals)
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3. Building materials/Tool construction

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Soup's on. You'll be eating it, and your children will be eating it--and all species will be eating it--unless you find a novel reci...
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4. Metals

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(just another building material, though so different in the social creation implications--wastes and toxicities--that it requires its own se...
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5. Garbage/Garbage disposal

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(compost, wastewater treatment (graywater, other kinds of waste water), ruminant foraging, etc.) Eben Bayer: Are mushrooms the new pl...
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6. Soils/Dirt/Hydroponics

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Living soil is the basis of food security and thus sustainability. The basis of good, living soil is the mycelium that helps generate the hu...
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7. Drugs/Medicines

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Apricot Seeds Coconut Oil, Very High in Lauric Fatty Acid Which Has Many Health Uses "Black Seed:" Nigella Sativa; canc...
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Mark
A very down to earth* kind of guy. I'm an environmental sociologist interested in establishing material and organizational sustainability worldwide. I'm always looking for interesting materials/technologies, inspiring ideas, or institutional examples of sustainability to inspire others to recognize their choices now. To be fatalistic about an unsustainable world is a sign of a captive mind, given all our options. *(If "earth" is defined in a planetary sense, concerning comparative historical knowledge and interest in the past 10,000 years or so anywhere...) See both blogs.
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