The household ecosystem
Our larger household Planet Earth

We can take a lesson or two from nature. In nature, everything is part of a cycle. Fully developed ecosytems operate on a very efficient principle: waste=food. One organism's waste is another organism's food or home. The most mature ecosystems produce minimal waste with as small an input of food as possible.

We transfer our waste from our small "household ecosystem" to the larger environment, but most of our waste doesn't become food for our larger ecosystem household: planet earth. Hazardous and other wastes tend to remain outside of the waste-to-food cycle, at best taking up space, at worst, damaging the health of people, plants, animals, and the environment.

What would happen if we each ran our household like a small ecosystem that is directly connected to the larger global ecosystem? What if we ask ourselves before buying, "will this item be used again or be returned to nature after I am through with it?"

The Composting Food Chain


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