Date: August 16th, 2005

The ecota of housing finance

16 August, 2005 (16:01) | Uncategorized |

A living ecosystem is comprised of five basic levels of object:
 

Terrain.  Physical features such as oceans, rivers, mountains.
Environment.  Temperature, rainfall, wind — external elements that sweep over the terrain.  This includes renewing sources of energy (sunlight, wind) and biological ingredients (oxygen, fertilizer, topsoil) essential to life.
Temporal cycles.  Cyclical changes in environment, recurring but locally unpredictable, [...]