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Because of symbiosis, ecosystems can sustain themselves almost indefinitely.

Jeremy Lent • What Does An Ecological Civilization Look Like?

slows resource depletion at one end of the value chain, lowers pollution at the other end, and provides a basis to increase worldwide employment with meaningful jobs.

Paul Hawken • Natural Capitalism

The most likely trajectory is Reform, where we respond to global crises but in an inadequate and piecemeal way that merely extends the curve outwards, to a greater or lesser extent. We manage to maintain our current civilisational pathway, with all its existing problems and inequalities, for some decades or possibly longer, but eventually hit an in

Roman Krznaric • The Good Ancestor: How to Think Long Term in a Short-Term World

New forms of architecture, infrastructure, and organisation will emerge from this, relying on a rebalanced relationship between participatory cultures and corporate interest, public sector and private sector, and the reinvigorated institutions of trusted government. It emphasises shared resources and civic relationships, yet recognises individual d... See more

Medium • 11: Post-traumatic urbanism and radical indigenism

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Commonland • The 4 Returns Framework | The 4 Returns Community Platform

scenarios, which we named Gray, Green, and Gaia. We crafted them as “news feeds from the future,” and included a guiding strategy document. Andrew: OK, let’s take it from the top. Gray? Gopal: Gray is more or less business as usual extrapolated out. It’s the mostly collapsitarian view of how the social and ecological implications of climate will pl

Andrew Boyd • I Want a Better Catastrophe: Navigating the Climate Crisis with Grief, Hope, and Gallows Humor

deciding to change an infrastructure already built takes immense social effort.

The Worldwatch Institute • State of the World 2013: Is Sustainability Still Possible?

Some of the tangible, interdisciplinary actions that take place in degrowth strategies include economic modelling, civic scenario planning, environmental justice lobbying, teaching and communications, care work, industry-level systems design, grassroots activism and so much more—all contributing to and occurring under new policy conditions.

good on you • Degrowth: The Future Fashion Could Choose

The major problem is that the sustainable scenario works well only as a boutique endeavor.