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BARRY DRAYCOTT, Tech Terra Environmental

 

Session: The Four Laws of Ecology

DESCRIPTION:  This talk will help landscapers understand both the positive and negative impacts of our actions in such a way that can guide you to make decisions that have positive results in your businesses while improving our health and customer satisfaction.

Discussion Points:

  • Everything is connected to everything else. There is one ecosphere for all living organisms and what affects one, affects all.
  • Everything must go somewhere. There is no “waste” in nature and there is no “away” to which things can be thrown.
  • Nature knows best. Humankind has fashioned technology to improve upon nature, but such change in a natural system is, says Commoner, “likely to be detrimental to that system”
  • There is no such thing as a free lunch. Exploitation of nature will inevitably involve the conversion of resources from useful to useless forms.