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The LDI seeks to demonstrate sustainable
decisions on two levels: the virtual, and the physical. At the virtual
level, it is currently engaged in research to build its electronic
information clearinghouse capabilities to connect people to regional
land based solutions and sustainability through effective
demonstration communicated electronically (CD, Internet). The LDI is
also developing its distribution network for electronic demonstration
by building regional, state, national and international partnerships,
and with these partners, developing proposals for electronic
demonstration.
On the physical, hands-on demonstration level, the LDI is developing
guidelines for, and seeking funding to create, a physical
demonstration facility, the LDI Landlab. LDI faculty are integrating
LDI-LandLab planning with University planning to build a Field Station
Environmental Education Center (FSEEC). The integrated FSEEC-LandLab
project includes program development for the LDI LandLab’s first phase
of green technology demonstration projects. It includes several
proposals for specific green technology demonstration projects. The
LDI is also pursuing funding for the construction of a field site
workstation as a test module for the integrated FSEEC-LandLab. This
proposal is to build the workstation as an open-building (designed to
be used on one field site and, in the future, disassembled at
reassembled at other field sites). The proposal includes design of the
workstation and its support systems as an integrated
water-wastewater-energy-landscape system. This system seeks to balance
site resources through resource-harvesting and waste-conversion.
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