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SERVICE AND FLOW ECONOMY. This calls for a fundamental change in the relationship between producer and consumer, a shift from an economy of goods and purchases to one of service and flow.

That calls for a profound shift in our metaphors: from ‘good is forward-and-up’ to ‘good is in-balance’. And it shifts the image of economic progress from endless GDP growth to thriving-in-balance in the Doughnut.

The global ‘Eco-City Movement’ and the work of eco-city pioneer Richard Register, who founded ‘Ecocity Builders’ in 1992, have helped to develop the ‘International Ecocity Framework and Standards (IEFS)’.

start moving taxes from things we want more of (for instance, labor) to things we want less of (pollution/resources).

Create huge wind and solar farms in suitable locations

David Fleming wrote, ‘If the mature market economy is to have a sequel … it will be the work, substantially, of imagination.’

Here, Richard Heinberg and his team at the Post-Carbon Institute return from their deep dives into economic trends and energy metrics to tell us “the Game is over” and we

in today’s full world, with its steady-state or contracting economy, this is unrealistic. And without aggregate growth, poverty reduction requires redistribution.