Living Machines Conference (fwd)

Gabriel Hegyes (ghegyes@nalusda.gov)
Fri, 3 Sep 1993 09:23:44 -0400 (EDT)

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Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1993 23:50:50 -0400 (EDT)
From: Larry London <london@sunsite.unc.edu>
To: sustag-public@twosocks.ces.ncsu.edu
Subject: Living Machines Conference

Date: Thu, 2 Sep 93 14:58:00 -0400
From: glenn.mcknight@canrem.com (Glenn Mcknight)
Message-Id: <60.869.5225.0N18307E@canrem.com>
Organization: CRS Online (Toronto, Ontario)
Subject: Living Machines Conference

NOTICE TO MEDIA

The Coalition for a Green Economic Recovery will hold a conference October 1 to
3, l993 to discuss and promote the economic andenvironmental advantages of
living machines. Living machines are, simplistically, engineered water
ecosystems which use natur
al elements such as sunlight, plants and animals to break down toxins,
concentrate metals and treat organic material in sewage and waste water.
Living machines can be part of clean, simple, economical and environmentally
viable solutions to a number of problems. They offer less costly alternatives
for municipalities planning to spend billions of taxpayers; dollars on
expansions and new sewage a
nd water treatmen systems. They do not use chlorine