Comments on: Is There a Green Upside to the Economic Meltdown?

By: Ed Delhagen

Ed Delhagen — Fri, 24 Oct 2008 10:34:17 +0000

America is always inventing. Not satisfied with the limits of either capitalism or socialism, we have invented what I call “CAPUNISM”. This is the best of both worlds: privatized profits on the way up for the few, socialized losses on the way down. And we exported it all over the world where many others fundamentally embrace the invention.
To me, the answer lies in localizing investment into small scale, patient systems where community values take root. Wall Street will always be the home of speculation: let it be that way. But for the rest of us, let’s create networks of community investment vehicles that allow the people to put an end to Capunism once and for all. As people pull their money from the runaway, casino economy and place it where our collective resources can build the kind of world we envision, the old system will lose its power over us.

By: Ed Reid

Ed Reid — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 02:13:20 +0000

There were many who for a variety of reasons did not see de-industrialization coming or happening, or did not care about it, or did not know what to do about it.
What can we do to promote the vision, concern, and know-how necessary to not just re-industrialize but to green-industrialize America?

By: Keith Farnish

Keith Farnish — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 10:05:01 +0000

Of course there is a green upside: less flying, less driving, less heating and air-conditioning,, less buying of pointless crap; more people deciding to grow their own food, make their own stuff and take their money out of a system that has to keep expanding to exist.
Brilliant!