Green Work, Wealth & Community Development Work: how can we be of service? What needs to be done? Wealth: what is it? how is it created & shared? – Today!!!

Related Questions I What is greenwhat is sustainability? What is money, finance, democracy? Markets? Regulation? Development ?

Related Questions II What is community? How is change made? What is the relationship between opposition and alternatives?...between ecology & social justice? etc.

Context Structural crisis of the economic system. Long-held assumptions challenged. Issue of the POTENTIALS of economic development

Movement Context Rise of the Green Collar Jobs movement: Environmental Justice Movement 2.0

Key Theme: Redefining Wealth Phantom/Casino vs. Real Economy Quantitative: Money & Material Accumulation Qualitative: Well-being Regeneration

Work & the Real Economy What is work & its trajectory of evolution? What is Green Work? Whats a Job? How are jobs and work remunerated?

The Purpose of Social & Economic Change Reform? –mainstream view of sustainability as limiting excess –redistribution of (quantitative) wealth Restructuring / Revisioning? –reshaping the purpose of the economy –redefining as well as redistributing wealth

What is Green Work? Cleanup? Efficiency? Blue-collar? White-collar? Should all work be green?

Issues Raised the nature of work & green work the purpose & structure of economic life the role of money the role of human & environmental need the role of labour the role of business cutting-edge alternative perspectives

Whats the Real Economy? simply material production? Complicated by the rise of cultural production/consumption Raises questions about the purpose of production

My Perspective Green is Postindustrial –central role of culture to the economy Strategic importance of positive alternatives in making change Capitalism & patriarchy are based in scarcityand the suppression of human potential. Key movement strategies involve creating a Culture of Abundance, and directly meeting basic human needs. Social Justice: the core of an ecological economy Importance of work not simply jobs

A Green Economy-1 1.From products to services: culture-based production as People Production; focus on end-use & human need. 2.Ecosystem-based economy: decentralization, distribution, participation

A Green Economy-2 Substitutes human creativity for resources & energy: shift in labour/resources balance. –Human development should be the primary strategy for sustainability Eco-production: high eyes to acres ratio. Efficiency depends on participation.

Industrialism: The Divided Economy Invisible Visible Use-value Exchange-value Consumption Production People Things Unpaid Paid Women Men Informal Formal Private Public

Invisible Economy (1) Total Productive System of an Industrial Society (layer cake with icing) GNP-Monetized ½ of Cake Top two layers Non-Monetized Productive ½ of Cake Lower two layers GNP Private Sector Rests on GNP Public Sector Rests on Social Cooperative Love Economy Rests on Natures Layer Private Sector PublicSector underground economy Love Economy Mother Nature All rights reserved.Copyright© 1982 Hazel Henderson 2

The Economy in Loops

Related Issues Automation of blue-collar work. Degradation & outsourcing of blue- collar work: globalization. Undervaluing of Resources: labour- vs. resource-productivity Automation of white-collar work De-marketization of production & the Commons. A crisis of jobs or a Crisis of Remuneration? Is Fordist-era manufacturing the solution?

Remuneration & Qualitative Wealth Sever work and income? Wages: tied to certain kinds of production & markets. Public goods not so well served by markets. Economic insecurity: closely related to environmental destruction.