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

See also

• Living machines