How much more abuse from man can you stand?

A Roadmap for Natural Capitalism in this article, initially published in the Harvard Business Review and later revised into a book, the authors suggest that if we can begin to pay more attention to the whole than to the parts that make up the whole, we can find new solutions to older problems and find otherwise unknowable sources of economic value. Rather than a limit on profitable practice, here, sustainability is offered as a framework that allows one to locate "free energy" in any given system, market, corporation, etc.

Order From Rhythmic Entrainment and the Origin of Levels Through Dissipation philosopher John Collier and musician Mark Burch create a definition of "rhythmic entrainment" to describe the emergence of regular, predictable patterns within or between systems. Rhythmic entrainment realizes symmetries of energy, information, and matter by means of sharing, but the production of energy/information/matter also manifests in moments of symmetry-breaking. Collier and Burch offer this perspective to researchers in physics, chemistry, biology, measurement, and communication, and this survey is suggestive for growing sustainable communication ecologies in classrooms. Today, writers work with information so dense and ongoing in its generation and transformation that mathematical models of information production apply in the most mundane of everyday writing and communication acts. When writing becomes a practice of creating and breaking links, a lot of noise gets mixed into the signal, and we find ourselves immersed in a kairotic space-time comprised of information, where "not just meaningful distinctions," but "any distinctions"

take hold (Collier & Burch, 1998, p.2).

Operating Manual for Spaceship Earth Chapter 4 by Buckminster Fuller. Fuller says that "up to now we have been mis-using, abusing, and polluting this extraordinary chemical energy-interchanging system for successfully regenerating all life aboard our planetary spaceship"

mycoremediation Paul Stamets, author of Mycelium Running, describes the promise of mycorestoration, which includes using fungus to filter water, to enact ecoforestry policy, co-cultivation with food crops, to denature toxic wastes (including waste derived from the development of biological and chemical weapons), and much more.

Data Deluge Makes Scientific Method Obsolete does it though? In any event, "sustainable information practices" are under consideration now more than ever.

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