Nine Principles for Designing Living Machines

Nine Principles for The Design of Living Machine
Adapted from From Eco-cities to Living Machnes: Principles of Ecological Design Nancy Jack Todd and John Todd 


 * 1) Microbial Communities
 * 2) Photosynthetic Communities
 * 3) Linked Ecosystems and the Law of the Minimum
 * 4) Pulsed Exchanges
 * 5) Nutrient and Micronutrient Reseviors
 * 6) Geological Diversity and Mineral Complexity
 * 7) Steep Gradients
 * 8) Phylogenetic Diversity
 * 9) The Microcosm as Tiny Mirror image of the Macrocosm