BUILD A PARTNERSHIP WITH NEIGHBORING INDUSTRIES
This may be called industrial symbiosis these days.
A recent example will be that of Denmark, an industrial network between a pharmaceutical company, energy company, oil company, nearby farms and local government. They share energy and industrial "waste". In the natural order, "waste" for somebody is always "food" for somebody else, which can be said "Waste for Food". In this case starch waste became fertilizer, surplus energy became energy source, and water disposal became water resource.
The same but smaller cycle was realized in the Edo period between the urban area and surrounding regions. Food was made in the agricultural area, brought to central Edo, consumed, and the sewage was used as fetrilizer. Also clothing was made in the region, and after disposal, burnt to ash and again used to grow new materials. The cycle was four seasons, or one year.
2 comments:
Thanks for the interesting post. Resilience thinking also promotes the use of networks as way to strengthen socio-natural systems from unforseen disturbances.
I'm hoping that my own village of Otaki can begin finding ways to broaden their social and ecological networks. See more at In the Pines
This is a very interesting discussion that you brought up here! I believe there are many isolated villages in the rural areas that have less social connections with "outside" world, resulting in weak industry and also ecology (since social activities are even more connected to nature in the countryside). Will see if there are better examples to overcome the issue.
And if anyone knows a good example, please do post up!
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