The members of an ecosystem are interconnected in the vast network of relationships in which all life processes are interdependent and achieve stability through a diversity of linkages. At all scales of nature, we find living systems nesting within other living systems, each within its own boundary and limits. Looping responses cause interactions and changes in system behavior. In complex systems, feedback circuits are uncountable in number and unknowable in diversity of action. Creating order out of disorder.
Loops can slow or speed behaviors.
The constant flow of solar energy sustains life and drives ecological cycles, all organisms feed on flows of energy and resources, each species producing output that is food for other organisms. The unfolding of life, manifesting as development and learning at the individual level and as evolution at the species level, involves an interplay of creativity and mutual adaptation in which organism and environment coevolve. Sustainability Ecological communities regulate and organize themselves, maintaining a state of dynamic balance characterized by continual fluctuations. Flexibility, resilience and oscillations in light of a disruption. Developed by the Center for Ecoliteracy in collaboration with Interactive Learning Systems, and Gary Smith from the California State Department Of Education.