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Symbiotic Relationships between Ecosytems, Industry, and Humanity
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Potentially Sustainable Sectors 

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Forest and Forest Products

Forest Products are renewable, mostly recyclable, biodegradable, and can be produced without loss of total forest biomass when produced using Responsible Sustainability processes 
Forests and Forest Industries
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Prairies and Agriculture

Food Production is vital to humanity and has lead to conversion of vast quantities of land to agricultural uses.  Responsibile Sustainability challenges the agriculture industry to not only increase yields but to do so while maintaining vital ecosystems and without additional land conversion.
Prairies and Agriculture
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Aquatics and fisheries

Worldwide fish consumption continues to grow even while the world's wild fisheries have long been declining. Worldwide policy agreements are central to maintaining healthy wild and commercial fisheries.  Understanding fishing pressures and other environmental impacts on aquatic ecosystems is a goal of Responsible Sustainability
Aquatics and Fisheries

Connections -  Environment, Industry, Humanity - Coming Together for Responsible Sustainability

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​Stable and Vibrant Ecosytems

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​Efficient and Productive Industry

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Happy and Healthy Families

How do we achieve Responsible Sustainability?   What Systems can achieve Responsible Sustainability?  Explore the potentially Sustainable Systems within these pages.
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In the Connections section - Explore global warming, population and political dynamics, education, racial, health, and economic disparities and how Potentially Sustainable Systems connect to and with these issues.
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Potentially Sustainable Sectors 

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Biomaterials and Transportation/Energy

The Oil Economy has fueled our technological growth and expansion since the mid 1800's but also has lead us to the precipice with global warming.   Biobased energy and materials are now making inroads and have the potential for sustainability.   Considerable effort is moving toward this transition but with considerable challenge to meet societal needs and built in industry inertia too.
Biomaterials and Transportation/Energy
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Earth/Minerals and mining

The earth at its core is a pretty big bunch of rocks with an incredible array of type and potential.   But unlike the biosphere most of the earth's minerals are not renewable.   Still, while all minerals can be altered, their basic elemental constituents, while in different forms, generally are not lost when we use them (with some notable exceptions such as Helium).  With care, correct policy, and ambition the mining and minerals industries can be solid contributors to a healthy circular economy of minerals if we work together.
Earth/Minerals and mining
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Natural ecosystems vs. Land Use and Life style choices

While many of the areas highlighted on this page involve big mega industries and investments, all involve to some degree individual actions and responsibility.  Most obvious among those is how we choose to live our individual lives and how we surround ourselves with home.   Do our choices work to support or extract from the environment?  How we and our local leadership build our home environments and our fledgling businesses has a huge impact on Responsible Sustainability when it involves 7+ billion choices.
Natural Ecosystems and Land Use and Life Style choices
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Parks and Tourism/Recreation

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NATURAL FIBERS and TEXTILES/CLOTHING

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Renewables and Energy/Power

Since the 1800's we have set aside beautiful oases of hope in our national parks and monuments, national and state forests, and other protected areas.   These have provided living laboratories for how nature can flourish and how mankind can both negatively and positively impact the earth's ecosystems.   Are they enough?   Can we protect them and continue to use them at the rate we do?  Should they be more physically connected?  Should they be eternally protected?   All are big and still unsettled questions, still challenging one of our most successful policy efforts ever.

Parks and Tourism/Recreation
Textiles are most commonly thought of as clothing for people though textiles are used in most major industrial processes and machinery also.  Originally all textiles were from natural plant and animal fibers used as is or with some processing.   With the advent of modern polymer chemistry many textiles today are based on synthetic chemicals.   While synthetics are usually not renewable, they are reusable and repurposable and do provide valued properties.   Through research a much more robust, renewable, circular, fair, and Responsibly Sustainable textile industry can be developed.
For nearly 200 years the fossil fuels oil and coal have been our primary source of energy.   These materials long ago have captured a portion of the suns impingent energy and stored it away.  We have unlocked that valued but troubled source with both good and bad results.  They are however not a renewable source.   Wind, Solar, Biomass, and other natural energy sources can and are being substituted.  Policy and the natural breakdown of the biomass elements of fossil fuels have provided advantages to its use.   Now it is time to drive the shift to renewables.   How do we support that best? 
Natural Fibers and Textiles/Clothing
Renewables and Energy/Power

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  • Home
    • ARS News and Features
  • About
    • Stewardship Stories
    • ARS Origins
  • Sustainable Systems
    • Forests and Forest Products
    • Prairies and Agriculture/Food Production
    • Aquatics and Fisheries
    • Connections >
      • Is there Enough?
      • Population Dynamics
      • Water, Soil, Air Quality
      • Political Dynamics
      • Climate Change
      • Education
      • Human And Societal Dynamics
    • Biomaterials and Transportation/Energy
    • Earth/Minerals and Mining
    • Natural Ecosytems vs. Life Styles Choices
    • Parks and Tourism/Recreation
    • Natural Fibers and Textiles/Clothing
    • Renewables and Energy/Power
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