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Humanity is racing with catastrophe. Total system collapse is a real possibility. The evidence of human impact on the planet is undeniable. Radioactive residue of atmospheric testing is now found in geologic deposits. Human releases of CO2 from fossil fuel combustion have changed atmospheric and oceanic chemistry. So let’s not kid ourselves: We face a daunting array of challenges driven by a still rapidly growing population, overuse of resources and the resulting pollution, loss of biodiversity and the declining availability of life support systems.
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The paragraphs above are excerpts from a forthcoming book, “A Finer Future is Possible”, by five members of the Club of Rome - Hunter Lovins, John Fullerton, Graeme Maxton, Stewart Wallis and Anders Wijkman - with Hunter Lovins as lead author. One of the objectives of the book is to try to respond to a most challenging question: “Is fundamental change possible without collapse?” The answer from the authors is a resounding Yes and below follows a brief overview of the contents of the book.
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Pope Francis. 2015. l.c., paragraph 217, there quoting his predecessor Pope Benedict XVI.
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Ibid., paragraph 207.
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Wolfensen (2013).
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Joel Salatin, Meet the Farmer, Parts 1–3, 29 April 2012, https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL6C0D6709117A0049
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Allan Savory, How to Green the World’s Deserts and Reverse Climate Change , TED, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpTHi7O66pI
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Spratt and Sutton (2008).
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A Landowner’s Guide to Carbon Sequestration Credits, Central Minnesota Sustainable Development Partnership, P 8 http://www.cinram.umn.edu/publications/landowners_guide1.5-1.pdf
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Adam Sacks , “Putting Carbon Back in the Ground – The Way Nature Does It,” http://www.climatecodered.org/2013/03/putting-carbon-back-into-ground-way.html
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Steffen (2015).
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Ashok Khosla emphasizes that much of DA’s impact results from the efforts of its vast network of partners who, strengthened by its capacity building and other supports, greatly multiply activity on the ground.
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https://ec.europa.eu/eip/agriculture/ en/content/eip-agri-workshop-building-new-biomass-supply-chains-bio-based-economy
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For reference on this and other Blue Economy examples go to webpages www.zeri.org and www.TheBlueEconomy.org. Readers can also get in touch by Twitter @MyBlueEconomy.
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Lovins and Rocky Mountain Institute (2011).
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Dezem and Quiroga (2016).
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Randall (2015).
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Gilding (2015).
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Carbon tracker and the Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environmen t at the LSE. http://www.carbontracker.org/report/unburnable-carbon-wasted-capital-and-stranded-assets/
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Capital Institute. July 19, 2011. The Big Choice. In The Future of Finance Blog, also referring to Carbon Tracker.
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Mark Z. Jacobson , Mark A. Delucchi, Zack A.F. Bauer, Savannah C. Goodman, William E. Chapman, Mary A. Cameron, Cedric Bozonnat, Liat Chobadi, Jenny R. Erwin, Simone N. Fobi, Owen K. Goldstrom, Sophie H. Harrison, Ted M. Kwasnik, Jonathan Lo, Jingyi Liu, Chun J. Yi, Sean B. Morris, Kevin R. Moy1, Patrick L. O’Neill, Stephanie Redfern, Robin Schucker, Mike A. Sontag, Jingfan Wang, Eric Weiner, Alex S. Yachanin Draft paper December 13 2015, 100% Clean and Renewable Wind, Water, and Sunlight (WWS) All Sector Energy Roadmaps for 139 Countries of the World, http://web.stanford.edu/group/efmh/jacobson/Articles/I/CountriesWWS.pdf
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Coady et al. (2015).
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Uphadhyay (2016).
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Ahmed (2016).
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IBM Research Launches Project “Green Horizon” to Help Chin a Deliver on Ambitious Energy and Environmental Goals, 7 Jan 2014, http://www-03.ibm.com/press/us/en/pressrelease/44202.wss
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“CHINA TO APPROVE OVER 17.8GW OF PV IN 2015, Bloomberg New Energy Finance, http://about.bnef.com/landing-pages/china-approve-17-8gw-pv-2015/
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“China 2050 High Renewable Energy Penetration Scenario and Roadmap Study” China National Renewable Energy Centre, http://www.rff.org/Documents/Events/150420-Zhongying-ChinaEnergyRoadmap-Slides.pdf
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“Renewable Energy and Jobs ,” International Renewable Energy Agency 2016, http://www.irena.org/DocumentDownloads/Publications/IRENA _RE_Jobs_Annual_Review_2016.pdf
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Seba (2014).
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Kim (2013).
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Tony Seba , 2012 How to Lose $40 Trillion, Tony Seba, http://tonyseba.com/how-to-lose-40-trillion/ By 2015 the IEA was saying that the number is $48 trillion by 2035. Either way it is a huge sum, which the IEA proposes be spend essentially entirely on oil, gas, coal and nuclear. https://www.iea.org/newsroomandevents/pressreleases/2014/june/world-needs-48-trillion-in-investment -to-meet-its-energy-needs-to-2035.html
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Ogg (2016).
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Se e also UNEP and International Resource Panel (2014).
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UNEP (2016), Food Systems and Natural Resources (2016).
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Koont (2009).
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Higgs (2014, pp. 12–13).
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SRI-Rice (2014).
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Uphoff (2008).
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The International Centre of Insect Physiology and Ecology (icipe) (2015).
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For example: Legado; Oxfam; International Institute for Environment and Development, see https://www.iied.org/partnerships-coalitions
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Gilgai Farms website. http://www.gilgaifarms.com.au/
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Kuipers (2015).
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Girardet (2014).
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WBGU (2016).
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Wolman (1965).
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Batty (2013).
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Hayashi et al. (2015).
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www.infosperber.ch/data/attachements/Girardet _Report.pdf
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Girardet, H., Regenerative Adelaide, Solutions Magazine, www.thesolutionsjournal.com/node/1153
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Gira rdet (2014) l.c.
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https://gofossilfree.org/commitments, accessed March 13, 2017.
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Carbon tracker Initiative (2017).
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By “North” we include Australia and New Zealand.
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Agarwa l and Na rain (1991).
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WBGU (2009).
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Thorndike (2017).
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Rockof f is quoted by Tartar (2016).
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Rockström et al. (2017).
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Fridolin Krausmann et al. 2017. Global socioeconomic material stocks rise 23-fold over the twentieth century and require half of annual resource use. 114 no. 8.
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The Club of Rome (2015).
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von Weizsäcker et al. (2009).
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Pyper (2012).
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RMI (2011).
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Newman and Kenworthy (1989).
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Newman and Kenworthy (2015).
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Frey and Kuo (2007).
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IEA (2013).
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Creutzig (2015).
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June 2012. “ICT s, the Internet and Sustainability : An Interview with Jim MacNeill”. IISD.
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“Tunis Commitment”. paragraph 13. http://www.itu.int/wsis/docs2/tunis/off/7.html
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“Geneva Declaration of Principles”. http://www.itu.int/wsis/docs/geneva/official/dop.html
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Stuchte y et al. (2016).
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l.c. pp. 187–198.
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Cordell et al. (1997).
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e.g. Jathan Sadowski. 22 June, 2016. Why Silicon Valley is embracing universal basic income.
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Turner (2016).
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The fraction of a bank’s debt that is tied to actual reserves (savings) is extremely low in developed countries (typically only 1 or 2%), having been cut drastically in the past 40 years—from levels closer to 20%.
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From manuscript for a forthcoming book; title and publisher not yet available.
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Sand ers (2006).
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McKinsey (2017).
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Adma ti and Hellwig (2013).
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Tekelova (2012).
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Benes and Kumhof (2012)
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Shaxson (2012).
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Henry (2012).
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OECD (2016).
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Zucman (2015).
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Jamaldeen (2016).
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Brown and Dugan (2002).
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Bowers (2014).
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West (2016a).
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See also West (2016b).
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Raworth (2017)
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Kate Raworth in a blog post on April 7, 2017, the day of the launch of her book.
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Maxton and Randers (2016).
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Eisler (2007).
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We quoted already Jathan Sadowski. 22 June, 2016. Why Silicon Valley is embracing universal basic income.
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International Resourc e Panel. 2014. Decoupling 2. Technologies, Opportunities and Policy Options. Nairobi: UNEP, see also Factor Five , l.c. Chapter 9: A long-term ecological tax reform.
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Höglund-Isaksson and Sterner (2009).
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We wish to thank Volker Jäger for a draft in German of this sub-chapter and Bodo E. Steiner for translating it into English. Editing responsibility rests with the book’s lead-authors and the editor.
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Garrett Hardin (1968).
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Attac is a social movement, active chiefly in Europe, and critical of neo-liberal globalization. The name came from the Fren ch Association pour la taxation des transactions financières pour l’aide aux citoyens.
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E.g. Kohn (1990).
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Felber, Gemeinwohl-Ökonomie 2012 (German edition): p. 107.
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Eisenstein, Charles: Ökonomie der Verbundenheit, Scorpio, Berlin, Munich, 2013. In Englisch: http://sacred-economics.com/about-the-book/
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Publicly available Document under Creative Commons for companies and auditors for self-assessment and the assessment of other companies, according to the criteria of the CGE Matrix. English version is here: https://old.ecogood.org/en/download/file/fid/556
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Felbe r (2012, p. 47).
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Mankiw (1998).
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Erdogan et al. (2016).
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The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in Iceland was worth 17.04 billion US dollars in 2014 viewed on May 11th, 2016 at http://www.tradingeconomics.com/iceland/gdp
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Giving USA : Americans Donated an Estimated $358.38 Billion to Charity in 2014; (June 29, 2015). Website viewed on May 13, 2016 at http://givingusa.org/giving-usa-2015-press-release-giving-usa-americans-donated-an-estimated-358-38-billion-to-charity-in-2014-highest-total-in-reports-60-year-history/
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Pledge (2010).
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Fulton et al. (2010).
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Piller et al. (2007).
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GuruFocus (2010).
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UN PRI (2013).
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Piketty (2015).
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GABV (2014).
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Extel/UKSIF SRI & Sustainability Survey 2015 https://www.extelsurveys.com/Panel_Pages/PanelPagesBriefings.aspx?FileName=Extel-UKSIF_SRI_Report_2015
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2014 Global Sustainable Investment Review by the Global Sustainable Investment Alliance. Viewed on May 14th, 2016 at http://www.gsi-alliance.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/GSIA_Review_download.pdf
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Bryce, J., & Drexler, M., & Noble, A. 2013. From the Margins to the Mainstream Assessment of the Impact Investment Sector and Opportunities to Engage Mainstream Investors. A report by the World Economic Forum Investors Industri es, in collaboration with Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu. Viewed May 16, 2016 from http://www3.weforum.org/docs/WEF_II_FromMarginsMainstream_Report_2013.pdf
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Fitzpatrick (2016).
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Hideki Takada and Rob Youngman. 2017. Can green bonds fuel the low-carbon transition ? See also OECD (2017).
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Moore et al. (2001).
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Blockchain , developed since 2008, is a distributed database based on the bitcoin protocol that maintains a continuously growing list of data records hardened against tampering and revision, even by its operators. Applications include crowdfunding, bitcoin transactions, supply chain auditing, and the sharing economy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Block_chain_%28database%29
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethereum – Ethereum is a cryptocurrency and a blockchain platform with smart contract functionality. It provides a decentralized virtual machine. Ethereum was proposed by Vitalik Buterin in late 2013 and the network went live on 30 July 2015.
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http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/r3-connects-11-banks-distributed-ledger-using-ethereum-microsoft -azure-1539044, Ian Allison, 2016-01-20.
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Kubiszewski (2014).
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Components of GPI, genuineprogress website (EU): https://genuineprogress.wordpress.com/the-components-of-gpi/
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Costanza et al. (2014a).
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Wealth Accounting and Valuation of Ecosystem Services (WAVES): https://www.wavespartnership.org/
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Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services (IPBES)2014: http://www.ipbes. net/; The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity (TEEB): – http://www.teebweb.org); and the Ecosystem Services Partnership (ESP): http://www.fsd.nl/esp
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Kaldor (2003); here: 585.
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Fan et al. (2014).
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Fukuyama (2001).
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Petra Kuenkel and Kristiane Schaefer: 2013. Shifting the way we co-create. How we can turn the challenges of sustainability into opportunities. The Collective Leadership Institute.
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Snowden and Boone (2007)
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Kuenkel (2016).
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Kuenkel et al. (2009).
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World Future Council Foundation (2014). Global Policy Action Plan . Incentives for a Sustainable Future. Braunschweig: Oeding Print. For more go to www. worldfuturecouncil.org or mail to the program’s coordinator, catherine.pearce@worldfuturecouncil.org
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Raskin (2016). Quote from p. 21.
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Ibid., pp. 84–87.
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More at http://www.desertec.org
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Gerhard Knies. 2016. Model of a Viable World for 11 Billion Humans and Future Generations. Typoscript.
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Gerhard Knie s. 2017. Proposal to create an Intergovernmental Panel on Habitability of Earth for Humanity, IPHEH, www.ViableWorld.net, Typoscript.
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http://www.gov.cn/zhengce/content/2015-11/17/content_10313.htm; Five cities are Hulun Buir in inner Mongolia, Huzhou in Zhejiang, Loudi in Huanan, Chishui in Gui Zhou, Yanan in Shaanxi.
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“Internet +” is a Chinese term since 2015, combining the Internet with any traditional business turning it into a new business model.
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Chinese Ministry of Environment , http://www.ocn.com.cn/chanjing/201602/bndbu19094535shtml
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“China Good Design”, Chap. 2.3 Yin Xiang Wei Ye: Immune Health exceeding Organic Cycle, Yi Heng Cheng, China Science and Technology Publishing House, in preparation.
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Gunter Pauli Blue Economy , a Report to the Club of Rome, translated into Chinese by Yi Heng Cheng, Fudan University Publishing House. 2009.
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Ernst von Weizsäcker, Karlson Hargroves et al. Factor 5, a Report to the Club of Rome, translated into Chinese by Yi Heng Cheng, Shanghai Century Publishing, 2010.
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William Mc Donough and Michael Braungart, “Cradle to Cradle ” translated into Chinese by 21 Century Agenda Management Company, Savage Culture Company Ltd., 2010.
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Michael Lettenmeier, Holger Rohn, Christa Liedtke, Friedrich Schmidt-Bleek,“Resource Productivity in 7 Steps” translated into Chinese and published by CTCI Foundation.
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Design Standards of Passive Low Energy Consuming Residential Buildings http://news.ces.cn/jianzhu/jianzhuzhengce/2016/01/05/98843_1.shtml
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“China Good Design - Green Low Carbon Innovation Design Case Study”, Chap. 2.1 Stone Paper: Innovation of Nothing to Replace Something, Yi Heng Cheng et al. (2016), China Science and Technology Press. 09.2016.
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Helliwell et al. (2016).
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Heitor Gurgulino de Souza et al., “Reflections”.
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Zucconi (2015).
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ISSC and UNESCO (2013).
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See http://www.rethinkeconomics.org/, http://reteacheconomics.org/, http://www.isipe.net/, http://www.cemus.uu.se/, http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/, a few initiatives that necessitate a rethinking of economic theory .
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J.W. Botkin, Mahdi Elmandjra, Mircea Malitza. 1979. No Limits to Learning. Bridging the Human Gap. Now as e-book at Elsevier Science Direct, 2014; CoR Schools contact: Eiken Prinz, Rosenstr.2, 20,095 Hamburg ; see also http://www.club-of-rome-schulen.org/
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