{"id":21108,"key":"Societal_ecology","title":"Societal ecology","latest":{"id":1206129,"timestamp":"2025-11-27T19:34:14Z"},"content_model":"wikitext","license":{"url":"https://www.appropedia.org/Appropedia:Copyrights","title":"CC-BY-SA-4.0"},"source":"[[File:Water lilies in a stream at the Greenwich Peninsula Ecology Park - geograph.org.uk - 3777648.jpg|thumb]]\n\nSocietal ecology is an idea for a more general term, equivalent to [[industrial ecology]] but not limited to industry.\n\nThis page asks for alternative terms, and will promote the use of the most suitable term. Can you think of a better term? (A [http://www.google.com/search?q=%22societal+ecology%22 search for the term] suggests it might be easily confused with \"social ecology\"{{W|social ecology}}\n\n== Industrial ecology and non-industrial contexts ==\n\nIndustrial ecology and [[industrial symbiosis]] refer to a philosophy of integrated design where there is no waste, but every material and energy exchange. However, the term \"industrial\" seems to exclude key examples of this philosophy, such as composting toilets, home [[biogas]] systems and [[permaculture]] gardens.\n\n{{Page data\n| license = CC-BY-SA-3.0\n| keywords = Energy efficiency, Environmental philosophy, Industrial ecology, Material flow, Sustainability, Waste management, Industry\n}}\n\n[[Category:Energy efficiency]]\n[[Category:Environmental philosophy]]\n[[Category:Sustainability]]\n[[Category:Waste management]]\n[[Category:Industry]]"}