Rethinking the Economy

[Part 3 of the Beyond the Underpants Gnomes series, a response to Bill McKibben]
Imagine if McKibben had decided to use the same move — vigils and other protests — but did it on the Corporate Accountability Board. Here’s how it might have played out.
Nine months before Copenhagen, 350.org would’ve said, f**k Copenhagen [...]

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[Part 2 of the Beyond the Underpants Gnomes series, a response to Bill McKibben]
If you want to win the social justice game, first you have to figure out where you’re going to play.
Enviro groups do a lot at the local and state level, and they also go after individual corporations. But the [...]

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[Part 1 of the Beyond the Underpants Gnomes series, a response to Bill McKibben]
After I beat up on Bill McKibben, I felt a little bad. Ripping somebody for not having real strategy is kind of lame if you don’t have one yourself. So, the next few posts are my quick & [...]

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In a recent Nation article, Bill McKibben reviews Al Gore’s new book, Our Choice. McKibben likes the book, but he’s got one major problem with it:
Gore, I think, has reasonably answered … the good-faith (as opposed to talk-radio) objections of anyone wondering if the world really could exist without fossil fuels. The [...]

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Now that I’ve used Getting Green Done to flesh out part of my argument, here’s the latest version of my framework.
The conventional economic framework, a.k.a. Econ 101, says the economy can be broken into 3 layers:

People are calculators: they rationally pursue their self-interest given near perfect information about the world
Organizations are calculators
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[Part 3 of the Getting Green Done book review]
In Getting Green Done, Schendler makes a confession: a lot of enviros drive him batshit.
As Aspen Skiing Company’s Executive Director of Sustainability, Schendler sometimes gets calls like this:
“I wanted to talk with you about your season passes. Is there a way to recycle [...]

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