The Engineered Eco-system, a toolkit for sustainability

快速增长的人口、环境压力和不断增长的能源需求正在汇聚在一起，创造出一场灾难的前兆。到2050年，全球粮食产量需要增加70%，才能养活另外23亿人(经合组织-粮农组织农业展望2011-2020年)，所有这些新的人都将需要他们在世界上的资源份额。目前的大多数生产和消费方法，特别是在发达国家，是基于无限资源可获得性的假设，因此是浪费和环境不可持续的。对于这一日益迫近的危机，没有单一的解决方案，但我们相信，可以设计出现有技术和新兴技术的组合，提供一个可持续发展的工具包，可以结合、修改和扩展，以适应当地的挑战和需求；在世界任何地方提供能源生产、食品生产、养分保持和水资源保护。

Rapidly increasing populations, environmental pressures and rising energy demand are converging to create the precursors to a catastrophe. Global food production needs to increase by 70 percent by 2050 in order to feed an additional 2.3 billion people (OECD – FAO Agricultural Outlook 2011-2020), and all these new individuals will be requiring their share of the world’s resources.Most current production and consumption methods, particularly in the developed world, are based on the assumption of infinite resource availability, and are consequently wasteful and environmentally unsustainable.There is no single solution to this approaching crisis, however we believe that a combination of existing and emerging technologies can be devised that will provide a toolkit for sustainability that can be combined, modified and scaled to suit local challenges and needs; providing Energy Generation, Food Production, Nutrient Retention and Water Conservation anywhere in the World.