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more "modern" societies overlook -- like the other chemicals that go down the sink -- which will play a definite role in anything applied toward water re-use and recycling.

Over all, I believe that learning to look at, develop and fund whole systems instead of discrete items may help illustrate how things tie together in ways that planners and the public don't often remember when designing their "designer" homes or communities.

Never, never brave me, nor my fury tempt:
   Downey wings, but wroth they beat
Tempest even in reason's seat.

by GreyHawk on Sun Feb 17th, 2008 at 12:46:57 PM EST
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You are right, but we do it here (France, Germany, Netherlands)!
There are no urban design contests that goes without it (with a finished works to 20 years and 50 years plan)!

Er... Don't get at me on homes and communities <LOL>

"What can I do, What can I write, Against the fall of Night". A.E. Housman

by margouillat (hemidactylus(dot)frenatus(at)wanadoo(dot)fr) on Sun Feb 17th, 2008 at 01:01:37 PM EST
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Some areas of the US still have a degree of wisdom, but I wish we'd not gone so hog-wild into stripping off so damn much of the wisdom our forefathers brought...

Unfortunately, we now have developed a culture that distinctly lacks a lot intelligence simply due to the development of a "land of abundance" mentality coupled with rampant consumerism.

:/

Never, never brave me, nor my fury tempt:
   Downey wings, but wroth they beat
Tempest even in reason's seat.

by GreyHawk on Sun Feb 17th, 2008 at 01:26:58 PM EST
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