Economic Biomimicry and Decentralization: the Lake Economy The service approach is a way of changing the economic rules to facilitate the development of more integrated and efficient closed-loop processesexpressed in Stahels comparison to lake ecosystems that cycle and recycle continually. Some of these forms of organizationlike eco-industrial parks where firms use each others byproducts to eliminate wasteare examples of what Benyus (1997) calls biomimicry.