An Ecological Economic Order

The collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics.

John Todd believes that a "new sustainable economic order can be established with ecologically based enterprises." Ecology as a basis for design, he says, "is the framework of this new economic order. It needs to be combined with a view according to which the earth is seen as a sentient being, a Gaian world view, and our obligations as humans are not just to ourselves but to all of life." Todd sketches some of the ideas and technologies developed by the New Alchemy Institute and Ocean Arks International, organizations that have made tangible progress—in soil recreation, water purification, resource recovery, etc.—toward reversing environmental degradation and restoring diversity in a sustainable ecological economic order.