Ecological Genius

The ecological concept of genius evokes the former concept of “ vegetable genius ”, that it includes. The ecological genius is explicitly broader because it is likely to use all the alive process implying the flora, fauna, as well as the pedological processes , biogéochimques, etc to set up the installations (urban, agricultural, hydraulic, forestry, etc) integrated into the environment where one used before more readily the Béton, the Palplanche S and the Civil engineering.

History

The ecological concept of genius was launched to France by Philippe Lagauterie in the years 1980. August 1st

Principles and techniques

The ecological genius draws part of the ecological capacity of Résilience from the ecosystem S, by decreasing very strongly the taking away on the natural resources, as well as the ecological Empreinte and energetics of installations thus conceived. Recently, with the concept of vegetable Walls, or Fifteenth target HQE, it tends to interest the architects and interior designers, and either only the developers of roads or banks.

Examples

The plantation of plants with vast systems racinaires is used by the developers for the durable restoration of degraded grounds, the stabilization of slopes, Berge S, Dune S or littoral.

The herbivores such as Horses, Ovine S, ass S or Bovine S, or the Casto R or the dash can be used for management restauratoire, respectively of open prairials or wet mediums.

The bacteria, can be used in the processes of Dépollution in particular to treat the pumpings out of mines with heavy metals (bacteria chimiolithotrophes) or the oil slicks (bacteria organorophes).

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