TY - BOOK AU - Milani,Brian TI - Designing the green economy: the postindustrial alternative to corporate globalization SN - 9780847691906 U1 - 338.9 PY - 2000/// CY - Lanham, etc. PB - Rowman & Littlefield Publishers KW - Sustainable development KW - Environmental economics KW - Competition, International N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Foreword / Thomas Berry -- Introduction: Dimensions of Green Economics -- Pt. 1. Beyond materialism: the post-industrial redefinition of wealth -- Ch. 1. Industrialism and Quantitative Development -- Ch. 2. Crisis & Waste: Fordism & the Effluent Society -- Ch. 3. Post-Fordism: Casino Capitalism & the Production of Illth -- Ch. 4. New Productive Forces & Emerging Human Potentials -- Ch. 5. The New Ecology of Politics -- Ch. 6. Eco-Design: Principles of the Green Economy -- Pt. 2. Designing the green economy -- Ch. 7. The Ecological Space of Flows: The Built-Environment -- Ch. 8. Transformative Energy: the Soft Energy Path -- Ch. 9. Living in De-Material World: Manufacturing, Resource -- Ch. 10. True Value Software: Regenerative Money & Finance -- Ch. 11. The State and Beyond: Post-Industrial Forms of Regulation N2 - Designing the Green Economy looks at the ecological economy as a stage of human development, as real postindustrialism. The author argues that new productive forces based in human cultural development have redefined the nature of wealth — from quantitative to qualitative. Real development can now only be defined in terms of individual, community and ecological regeneration’¢Î— and yet these growing potentials have been increasing suppressed or distorted by industrial institutions over the last century. Archaic definitions of wealth — as money and material — threaten to destroy the planet and what remains of human community, creating crisis, inequality and environmental destruction. The author argues that real social change today involves not just opposing exploitation and injustice, but implementing social and ecological alternatives which directly target human development and ecological regeneration. Postindustrial social movement strategy involves a fundamental shift in focus from opposition to alternatives. These alternatives must inextricably involve individual/spiritual change, community development, and ecological renewal ER -