A Green New Deal

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A Green New Deal
Redefining economic development for the 21st
Century
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Systemic Crisis

• a transition to Qualitative development
• an issue not just of destructiveness but of the
  suppression of positive potentials
• interconnectedness of social environmental.
• issues of appropriate Production, Consumption,
  Exchange Regulation
• critical/oppositional approaches necessary, but
  positive vision essential.

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Historical Perspective-1

• Not simply a matter of correcting the excesses
  deregulation of post-1980 capitalism
• Not simply a matter of restoring postwar
  manufacturing or regulation.

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Historical Perspective-2Unleashing Potentials

• Possibilities suppressed after the Great
  Depression
• Capacities subordinated at the beginning of class
  society / civilization
• ...in a new context of planetary integration,
  individuation information commons.

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Basic Elements

• Direct focus on human environmental need.
• can this be capitalistic?
• Human ecological scale biomimicry
• Transformation of both markets the state
• Creating a Culture of Abundance
• new forms of economic security
• Supporting all-round human Creativity
• Defending the Commons (old new)
• Redefining ownership to support stewardship and
  participation.
• Community the nexus for all the above

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Transforming Markets the State

• Social environmental values are being
  structured into markets FSC wood, LEED building,
  LFP food
• New enterprise networks changing the balance of
  competition cooperation
• Decentralized forms of regulation 3rd party
  certification, social finance, etc.
• Indicator systems to guide design

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Transforming Markets the State-2

• New rules in tune with eco-processes
• EPR redefining ownership to support stewardship,
  justice participation.
• changing the DNA of the firm
• the Stakeholder Corporation B Corp
• Localization accountability
• Social- eco- accounting

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Affirming Abundance

• New forms of economic security community
  currencies, basic incomes, etc.
• Undercutting monetary scarcity the end of
  debt-based money
• Valuation of all social and environmental assets.
• Free culture (as in free speech not free beer)
  trade recipes not cookies

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Business in Transformation

• needs to reorient to the needs of community and
  planet in its goals and means.
• needs to expand its moral and legal status to
  include its workers and all stakeholders affected
  by its actions.
• needs to support positive business activity in
  every community.
• special difficulties of small business in the
  existing economy.
• need for a fundamental shift in economic
  resources from the Wal-Marts to the Small-Marts.

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Labour in Transformation

• needs to reorient to the nature of wealth, not
  just its distribution.
• needs to acknowledge productive activity
  everywhere non-cash economy, etc.
• needs to defend community worker interests
  everywhere marginalized communities, etc.
• needs to recover defend the quality of work
  lifecraft, etc.
• needs to support the democratization of work life
• co-ops, etc.
• needs to support regenerative small business
  while defending worker interests.

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Education Change

• Learning intrinsic to postindustrial production
  and exchange.
• What is the appropriate relationship between
  schools and adult education?
• Not simply about inequality, but about new forms
  of production.
• Activism increasingly involves knowledge of
  production food, energy, building, craft,
  manufacturing, information, self-development.
• New combination of theory practice the
  apprenticeship model

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Insurmountable Opportunities

• The future aint what is used to be. (Y.
  Berra)
• Opportunities for marginalized groups to leapfrog
  via eco-literacy.
• Pressures to narrow the struggle
• Dangers of falling into new market mentality or
  narrow jobs preoccupation.
• Old-line c.e.d. and labour organization needs to
  be reformed.
• NGOs also need to adapt.
• Possibilities for creative combination of
  for-profit initiatives for non-profit goals NGO
  independence

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Endless Questions

• How do we work together as movements and diverse
  communities?
• How do we financially support our efforts in the
  transition?
• How do we build participatory valuation systems
  into planning?
• DeCarlo how do we navigate a Just Transition
  from brown to regenerative production?
• How do we accomplish the whole range of
  educational tasks necessary?

Power to the Imagination!