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Building a Sustainable Economy in a World of Finite Resources by Rob Dietz and Dan O’Neill

Building a Sustainable Economy in a World of Finite Resources by Rob Dietz and Dan O’Neill steadystate.org/enough-is-enough/. Roof: The goal of maximizing financial wealth and expanding the economy.

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Building a Sustainable Economy in a World of Finite Resources by Rob Dietz and Dan O’Neill

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  1. Building a Sustainable Economyin a World of Finite Resources by Rob Dietz and Dan O’Neill steadystate.org/enough-is-enough/

  2. Roof: The goal of maximizing financial wealth and expanding the economy. Structure: Policies and institutions that encourage more people, more profits, more debt, and more consumption. Foundation: The culture of more.

  3. Source: Global Footprint Network

  4. Technology’s Role Source: Sustainable Europe Research Institute

  5. Roof: goal of sustainable and equitable well-being Pillars: support structure of new policies and institutions Foundation: changing awareness from more to enough

  6. 4. Achieve fair income distribution 7. Change business practices 1. Use measures of real progress 5. Reform the financial system 2. Limit materials and energy 6. Secure meaningful jobs 3. Stabilize population

  7. Three Questions for Each Pillar What are we doing? What could we do instead? Where do we go from here?

  8. Solution 1: Use measures of real progress. Gross National Happiness

  9. Selection of Nations Ranked by Happy Planet Index Happy Life Years Happy Planet Index = Ecological Footprint

  10. Solution 2: Limit throughput of materials and energy.

  11. Herman Daly’s Three Operating Rules for a Sustainable Economy Renewables Extraction ≤ Regeneration Nonrenewables Substitution ≥ Depletion WastesEmissions ≤ Safe Absorption

  12. Solution 3: Stabilize population.

  13. Solution 4: Achieve fair distribution of income.

  14. Solution 5: Reform the financial system. TransamericaSan Francisco Bank of Amer.Atlanta JP Morg. ChaseHouston WTCNew York U.S. BankLos Angeles

  15. Solution 6: Secure meaningful jobs.

  16. Solution 7: Change business practices.

  17. Co-ops

  18. Economic Growth Picks Up So Why All the Gloom? Scotland Is Celebrating GDP Growth “Our top priority must be to do everything we can to grow our economy…”

  19. “Our top priority must be sustainable and equitable well-being—prosperity and justice for all.”

  20. Only a crisis—actual or perceived—produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around. That, I believe, is our basic function: to develop alternatives to existing policies, to keep them alive and available until the politically impossible becomes the politically inevitable.

  21. Ideas for Sparking Change Learn something. Say something. Do something. steadystate.org

  22. “Lucid, informed, andhighly constructive…” –Noam Chomsky “…the book we’ve all been waiting for.” –Kathleen Dean Moore “…will restore your hopein the future.” –Thom Hartmann steadystate.org/enough-is-enough/

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