ABSTRACT
This chapter expresses that the university is implicated in seven ecosystems. The seven ecosystems include knowledge ecology, social institutions, persons, economy, learning, culture and natural environment. Knowledge takes on ecological characteristics through its powers to extend the wellbeing of the world. Generally, social institutions are exemplified by powerful market-oriented corporations and by public-sector institutions. Human subjectivity has attracted the attention of philosophers and social theorists for more than 200 years. The modern economy is really a set of interrelated economies, public and private, and large-scale and micro-scale. The idea of the learning ecology is potent for the university, for the idea fills out at two levels. The university is implicated in the total learning ecology of the wider society and is implicated in the learning ecology of each individual. The ecological university's concerns far transcend the natural environment and matters of 'sustainability'.
