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next, to generate exponential (resource) growth.

Luis M. A. Bettencourt • Introduction to Urban Science: Evidence and Theory of Cities as Complex Systems

deficiency in business operations cannot be corrected simply by assigning monetary values to natural capital, for three reasons. First, many of the services we receive from living systems have no known substitutes at any price;

Paul Hawken • Natural Capitalism

To date, however, the market for maintaining and improving forests is extremely limited. It consists primarily of two parts: a timber market for industrial usage (paper, construction) and a nascent market in carbon offsets. In the latter, forest owners receive payments with a view towards the carbon captured by their trees. This market has suffered... See more

Albert Wenger • SilviaTerra | Union Square Ventures

Most analysts of capitalism, following nineteenth- and twentieth-century leads, have ignored the formation of “raw” materials, taking them for granted as capitalist resources. Yet these materials have their own genealogies of production outside the capitalist purview, and our recent awareness that capitalism is destroying Earth’s livability makes... See more

Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing • Salvage Accumulation, or the Structural Effects of Capitalist…

Investment in social capital and strong economic ties among people make up the third principle, and they make possible the successful management of ecological commons through collective efforts and shared ownership.

Juliet B. Schor • True Wealth: How and Why Millions of Americans Are Creating a Time-Rich,Ecologically Light,Small-Scale, High-Satisfaction Economy

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Avni Patel Thompson and • 27 cards

The thermodynamic revolution in economics also suggests a different conceptual slicing of human productive activity, an alternative to the triumvirate of land, labor, and capital that is offered by neoclassical theory. All economic value is produced by intelligence operating on matter using energy. Capital—the tools and equipment we use to increase

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

Germany could not do the same: its demand is more than 20 times the Danish total, and the country must maintain a sufficient reserve capacity that could be activated when new renewables are dormant.[74] In 2019, Germany generated 577 terawatt-hours of electricity, less than 5 percent more than in 2000—but its installed generating capacity expanded