Building an Eco-Economy

Recall our discussion of Economic Strategies for Sustainability

1. Sachs on livelihood rights and sectoral sustainability
2. Brown depicts an eco-economy
3. Montague explains sustainability and ecological economics: development supplants physical growth
4. Hayes defines the key moves within an alchemy relegating economics to means serving nature and humanity

Economic globalization already creates controversy

The anti-globalization movement, an example of a Double Movement, has stalled the formation of globalization institutions such as the WTO and modified the IMF Structural Adjustment mandates.

Brown explains the foundation of an eco-economy

Brown in his chapter 13 addresses an underlying theme: defining an eco-economy, an economy embedded within nature.

An example of sustainable business: Ray Anderson, Interface Carpeting.

Ray Anderson has provided leadership in promoting a successful and sustainable corporation. Listen to what he has to say.

Karl Polanyi offers a reconstruction of a substantive economy.

Polanyi identified economic sectors that can provide the basis for reconstruction of economic life. Each culture and bioregion will generate an economy based on its own circumstances. Thus, diversity, local-control, democratic participation, and conservation can go forward simultaneously.

I collected a partial inventory of green business web sites

I collected these a while ago for use in my MBA course, Business and the Environment. There are countless sites and a thriving sustainability movement in the business sector.