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{weblog_name} - What will drive tomorrow’s economy?
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Here is my dilemma: Today’s economic engine is fired by stuff. It is the production, manufacturing, and distribution of stuff that keeps our marketplace humming. That is what this economic downturn is reminding us. When we stop buying, the economy starts tanking. But to buy more stuff degrades the environment. More stuff equals more mining, more manufacturing, more housing, more land development, more stores, more driving, more shopping, more throwing away, more waste. To save the economy,  then, we have to buy more stuff. To buy more stuff, though, is to harm our world. Which forces the question: How do we break this cycle? If we wish to save the environment, ourselves, and our finances, what will drive tomorrow’s economy? There seem to be two possible solutions: (1) either we should make stuff more-efficiently, ie, more sustainably; or (2)… read more