Designing the Green Economy: The Postindustrial Alternative to Corporate GlobalizationDesigning the Green Economy explores realistically, and in detail, the worldOs enormous potential for human and ecological regeneration. It also explains why this potential has been suppressed or distorted by industrial institutions_thus creating economic crisis, growing inequality, and environmental destruction. The first half of the book looks at the challenge ecological change has represented to capitalism, as well as capitalismOs repressive response: the waste economy, as expressed in postwar Fordist capitalism and current trends toward a globalized economy. But today Othe great divideO between waste and green economies can be narrowed by emerging legal, institutional, and market approaches to production and environmentalism. In Part II, Milani explores the practical and theoretical implications of fully unleashing these new productive forces to create community-based ecological economies. Milani argues that neither sustainability, social justice nor economic stability can be secured without comprehensive redesign of the economy along ecological principles. It looks at key sectors of the economy_including manufacturing, energy, and money and finance_to illustrate how this redesign can, and is, taking place through both incremental grassroots initiatives and transformative politics. |
Contents
Beyond Materialism The Postindustrial Redefinition of Wealth | xxiii |
Industrialism and Quantitative Development | 1 |
Crisis and Waste Fordism and the Effluent Society | 17 |
FORDIST CAPITALISM AND THE REINTEGRATION OF POLITICS AND ECONOMICS | 19 |
KEYNESIANISM DEBT AND THE PAPER ECONOMY | 21 |
THE WASTE ECONOMY | 24 |
THE MILITARYINDUSTRIAL COMPLEX | 25 |
THE AUTOSUBURB COMPLEX | 26 |
POWER MONEY AND BUILTFORM | 108 |
STRATEGIC OPPORTUNITIES IN THE BUILTENVIRONMENT | 110 |
Transformative Energy The SoftEnergy Path | 113 |
DECENTRALIZATION INTEGRATION AND THE LANDSCAPE | 117 |
RENEWABLE ENERGY AND DISTRIBUTED GENERATION | 119 |
ENDUSE AND DEMATERIALIZATION | 122 |
COMPETITION FOR WHAT? | 124 |
THE GREEN MUNICIPAL UTILITY | 126 |
OIL AND MATERIALS | 27 |
FORDISM AND ALIENATED LABOR | 28 |
PostFordism Casino Capitalism and the Production of Illth | 31 |
THE DECLINE OF MASS CONSUMPTION | 32 |
FROM INFLATION TO AUSTERITY | 34 |
BUILDING THE CASINO | 37 |
TECHNOLOGY AND MEGABYTE MONEY | 40 |
DEBT ILLTH AND POWER | 42 |
THE GEOGRAPHY OF DISEMPOWERMENT | 44 |
MCWORK IN THE GLOBAL ECONOMY | 47 |
THE CANCER STAGE OF CAPITALISM | 52 |
New Productive Forces and Emerging Human Potentials | 55 |
PROGRESS AGAINST NATURE | 58 |
INDIVIDUATION DEVELOPMENT AND GENDER | 59 |
RATIONALISM AND ALIENATION | 61 |
POSTINDUSTRIAL PERCEPTION | 64 |
MASS CONSUMPTION AS PEOPLEPRODUCTION | 66 |
PROSUMPTION AND THE RESURGENCE OF THE INFORMAL ECONOMY | 67 |
ECOLOGY AS A PRODUCTIVE FORCE | 70 |
DEMATERIALIZATION AND LABOR | 72 |
The New Ecology of Politics | 75 |
WORKINGCLASS AUTONOMY AND CULTURAL PRODUCTION | 76 |
POLITICS AND THE WITHERING AWAY OF THE LEFT | 78 |
NEW SOCIAL MOVEMENTS AND THE REDEFINITION OF WEALTH | 80 |
THREE MOVEMENTS | 82 |
THE ECOLOGICAL SERVICE ECONOMY | 84 |
Designing the Green Economy | 87 |
EcoDesign Principles of the Green Economy | 89 |
The Ecological Space of Flows The BuiltEnvironment | 95 |
THE CENTRALITY OF THE LANDSCAPE | 100 |
ECOLOGICAL INFILL AND PATTERNS OF ECODEVELOPMENT | 105 |
GREEN BUILDING | 106 |
ELEMENTS OF GREEN ENERGY STRATEGY | 128 |
Living in DeMaterial World Manufacturing Resource Use and Media | 131 |
SCALE CRAFT AND COMMUNITY | 134 |
THE NEW INDUSTRIAL ECOSTRUCTURE | 136 |
THE CLOSEDLOOP ECONOMY | 139 |
PRODUCT DESIGN AND PRODUCT STEWARDSHIP | 143 |
BENIGN MATERIALS AND THE CARBOHYDRATE ECONOMY | 146 |
COMMUNITY CONSUMERISM AND SHARING | 149 |
ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY AND THE INFORMATION ECONOMY | 152 |
GAIAS NERVOUS SYSTEM | 154 |
TrueValue Software Regenerative Money and Finance | 159 |
GOING LOCAL | 162 |
MONEY AS INFORMATION | 164 |
STORING VALUE IN COMMUNITY | 165 |
MONEY VALUE AND PRODUCTION | 168 |
VITAL SIGNS OF REAL WEALTH | 170 |
REGENERATIVE FINANCE AND COMMUNITY SELFREGULATION | 174 |
The State and Beyond Postindustrial Forms of Regulation | 181 |
GREEN COMMUNITY SELFREGULATION | 183 |
SCALE AND ACCOUNTABILITY | 184 |
PARTICIPATORY PLANNING AND GREEN MUNICIPALISM | 186 |
NEW RULES AND REGULATION | 189 |
DESIGNING MARKETS FOR REGENERATIVE EXCHANGE | 191 |
ECOLOGICAL TAX REFORM | 193 |
KNOWLEDGE AND SELFREGULATION | 196 |
PLANETARY TRANSFORMATION | 198 |
BUSINESS LABOR AND THE STATE | 200 |
ECONOMIC CONVERSION AND REVOLUTIONARY STRATEGY | 203 |
Works Cited | 207 |
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account-money activities alternatives basic bioregional building capital capitalist Casino cog-labor commodity-money community currencies corporate costs create creation crucial cultural debt decentralized democracy dependence direct democracy Divided Economy domination dustrial eco-industrial park eco-production ecological economic development ecosystem efficiency end-use environment environmental exploitation focus Fordist forms global grassroots Green City green economy green municipal growing growth human development Illth important increasingly individual industrial ecology industrial economy informal economy infrastructure integrated investment labor major manufacturing markets materials means ment monetary money systems nature needs nomic organization pattern languages Paul Hawken people-production percent planning political possible post-Fordism postindustrial potential product stewardship productive forces programs recycling regenerative relationships role scarcity sector self-regulation self-reliance simply social movements society solar store of value strategy structure tion trade transformation unions use-value utilities Waste Economy wealth workers