EMERGY & ENERGY SYSTEMS Session 7 Short Course for ECO Interns, EPA and Partners

Evaluating Information Learned Expert services Biodiversity Endangered species Antiquities Cultural icons and policy Aesthetics and other anthropocentric values

Information and Education AttainmentNumbers E6 Emergy/ Individual E16 sej/pers/yr Energy/ Individual E9 J/pers/yr Transformity E6 sej/J Preschool High school College grad Grad. school Public status Legacies

Information Inputs Labor –Transformity: level of education compared to US citizen if immigrant –Energy: pers-hrs x calories Experts –Transformity: level of education –Energy: pers-hrs x calories

Other Kinds of Information Policy –Show as appropriate interaction –Usually tracked as $$ (disaster payments, agricultural subsidies, etc.) Aesthetics –Use tank in diagram –Show components expected to influence –Not an actual table entry at this point in time

More Kinds of Information Genetics –Global empower x evolutionary time / # species: 1.26E25 sej/species Biodiversity and endangered species –Estimated from environmental process required to recreate One of a kind, Copies versus first –Requires higher energy and emergy to create, low emergy to copy Shared information –More resilient, slow turnover (paradigms, cultural mores) Comparison in Environmental Accounting, pg 224

More Kinds of Information Cultural evaluations, archeology –Open for discussion –Area for future research