1. Building a Sustainable Economy in a World of Finite Resourcesby
Rob Dietz and Dan O’Neill
steadystate.org/enough-is-enough/

3. Roof: The goal of maximizing financial wealth and expanding the economy.
Structure: Policies and institutions that encourage more people, more profits, more debt, and more consumption.
Foundation: The culture of more.

4. Source: Global Footprint Network

6. Technology’s Role
Source: Sustainable Europe Research Institute

8. Roof: goal of sustainable and equitable well-being
Pillars: support structure of new policies and institutions
Foundation: changing awareness from more to enough

9. 4. Achieve fair income distribution
1. Use measures of real progress
7. Change business practices
5. Reform the financial system
2. Limit materials and energy
6. Secure meaningful jobs
3. Stabilize population

10. Three Questions for Each Pillar
What are we doing?
What could we do instead?
Where do we go from here?

11. Solution 1: Use measures of real progress.
Gross National Happiness

12. Selection of Nations Ranked by Happy Planet Index
Happy Life Years
Ecological Footprint
Ranking
Nation
HPI Score (out of a possible 100) 1.
Costa Rica
76.1 2.
Dominican Republic
71.8 3.
Jamaica
70.1 4.
Guatemala
68.4 5.
Vietnam
66.5 9.
Brazil
61.0
17.
Bhutan
58.5
20.
China
57.1
35.
India
53.0
51.
Germany
48.1
74.
United Kingdom
43.3
75.
Japan
106.
Russia
34.5
114.
United States
30.7
115.
Nigeria
30.3
143.
Zimbabwe
16.6

13. Solution 2: Limit throughput of materials and energy.

14. Herman Daly’s Three Operating Rules for a Sustainable Economy
Renewables
Extraction ≤ Regeneration
Nonrenewables
Substitution ≥ Depletion
Wastes Emissions ≤ Safe Absorption

15. Solution 3: Stabilize population.

16. Solution 4: Achieve fair distribution of income.

18. Solution 5: Reform the financial system. Transamerica San Francisco
Bank of Amer. Atlanta
JP Morg. Chase Houston
WTC New York
U.S. Bank Los Angeles

19. Solution 6: Secure meaningful jobs.

20. Solution 7: Change business practices.

21. Co-ops

25. Economic Growth Picks Up So Why All the Gloom?
Scotland Is Celebrating GDP Growth
“Our top priority must be to do everything we can to grow our economy…”

26. “Our top priority must be sustainable and equitable well-being—prosperity and justice for all.”

27. Only a crisis—actual or perceived—produces real change
Only a crisis—actual or perceived—produces real change. When that crisis occurs, the actions that are taken depend on the ideas that are lying around. That, I believe, is our basic function: to develop alternatives to existing policies, to keep them alive and available until the politically impossible becomes the politically inevitable.

28. Ideas for Sparking Change
Learn something.
Say something.
Do something.
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29. steadystate.org/enough-is-enough/
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–Noam Chomsky
“…the book we’ve all been waiting for.”
–Kathleen Dean Moore
“…will restore your hope in the future.”
–Thom Hartmann
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