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

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

3. Information and Education AttainmentNumbers E6 Emergy/ Individual E16 sej/pers/yr Energy/ Individual E9 J/pers/yr Transformity E6 sej/J Preschool2343.43.88.9 High school839.43.824.6 College grad28 3.873.3 Grad. school61313.8343 Public status23933.81029 Legacies17853.82054

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

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