Kenneth Tappan- Living Machines

Eisenberg talks about living machines in his book the Ecology of Eden. He talks about John Todd's living machine in which he put all natural sources to purify sewage. Todd used all local plants and other living organisms to clean the water. He modeled his living machine after the salt marshes up north. Todd's living machine proved to work better than man's sewage plant and it was less costly. This instance showed me that nature has so much power, and that when we attempt to re create it in our own terms we can never match up to nature. After reading this i wonder why we do employ these techniques regularly. Maybe for technology the greatest inspiration can be right in front of us, maybe in our own back yards.