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In the short term, planning for abundant energy and limited matter might mean conservation and adaptive reuse of existing infrastructure, as well as putting energy and resources into recovering materials or otherwise diverting them from the waste stream. In the medium term, that means continuing research into ways to recover or recycle materials.

Finally, it doesn’t make sense to build out huge new systems intended to last for a long time if the technologies, the systems, and communities they are embedded in are all evolving rapidly. New systems should be smaller scale by default, rather than monolithic, providing opportunities to test-drive systems within particular communities and

The full plan, available from the Journal for Global Responsibility Web site,16

their true costs. 2. Foster genuine competition between different modes of transportation. 3. Emphasize sensible land use over actual physical mobility—a symptom of being in the wrong place.

renewable energy, forest protection, better management of soil and marine conservation, to name but a few.

Low2No and Helsinki Design Lab.

policies, industrial process emissions regulations, complementary power sector policies, renewable portfolio standards, building codes and appliance standards, fuel economy standards, better urban transport, vehicle electrification, and feebates, which was to say carbon taxes passed back through to consumers.