Editor’s Note: This post is comprised of a couple dozen excerpts from the Introduction and Chapter One of the book. I selected them to provide a quick and easy way for the reader to get a good idea of our premise… the reinvention of capitalism and the evolution of consumerism, in order to avoid catastrophe […]
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by Bob Leonard Because it is. I’m not going to list all the human institutions and ecosystems that are cracking at the seams. You know what they are. There seems to be a common cause for these societal woes. In “Moving to a Finite Earth Economy” my co-author, David Houle, detailed a reinvention […]
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by Bob Leonard I make an effort to buy green. Not only because I want to use nature-friendly products, but because I felt I was voting with my dollars… that my purchases were influencing the manufacturers. I’ve learned that it isn’t as simple as that. The problem is that most of those products still […]
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by Bob Leonard “Entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are at the beginning of a mass extinction and all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth. How dare you!” – Greta Thunberg ‘Fairy tales of eternal economic growth’ are the root cause of our climate crisis and many […]
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