Tim Jackson:  Prosperity without Growth

London School of Economics

New Economic Foundation's Great Transition Model (Large) 

Design philosophy:  Profound integration with natural capital where human capital is the most important component.

Concept:           NYC moves at wartime speed accelerating efforts to stop climate change

Create solutions rapidly advancing society’s ability to stabilize earth’s climate

Goal:                 Create critical paths toward stopping the climate crisis

Create an advanced community focused on social, civic, and technological innovation centered on the crisis

Safe environmental & personal transportation must prevail on all public space

Do a risk-benefit analysis detailing the risks of not stopping the accelerating crisis and the local and global benefits as New York society advances to meet the challenge.

Consider establishment a new labor union called something like The International Alliance of Net Zero Workers (IANZW) trained to rapidly deploy methods, means, apparatus, etc. and the social change necessary to accelerate emissions and environmental devastation reductions. As high achievers, they get full benefits ensuring high-quality lives.

(see:  RT @UT_BuiltEnv: TRILLION $ Growth Trends http://t.co/j5fiIqrU )

Consider rapid business model generation framework for front-end financing

Consider competition for New York City'sFirst Net-Zero Neighborhood

Consider X-Prize competitions developing net-zero mobility, building and retrofits, etc.

Frontload the initiative with low-cost social and civic change evaluations, plans, research, design and development skunk works

Initiate ongoing open source feasibility studies toward the goals of Net-Zero PlaNYC2020

Consider crowd source data mining for continuous improvement of quality-of-life while minimizing the cost-of-living, emissions, and material throughputs, captured with timely metrics

Consider a Center forSocio-Civic Innovation & Entrepreneurship

Consider a Center for International Climate Finance

Consider a Climate Change Media Center daily chronicling unfolding climate events and urgent efforts to stop complete devastation of the natural world that supports civilization. 

Consider a cutting-edge Center for Educational Geophysical Imperatives: open source solution-generating and educational collaboratives including MIT's OpenCourseware, the public school system, CUNY, Cooper Union, Columbia, NYU, national and international institutions.

Consider a Department of Energy Net-Zero Command Center on Governors Island (or the Brooklyn Navy Yard) for Energy Secretary Steven Chu coordinating major climate crisis initiatives.

Do a Poor People First campaign eradicating local poverty accelerating growth of human capital

Discover the critical paths for positively disruptive achievement

1.       Within one year, intensely engage 75% of New Yorkers to stop the climate change crisis

2.       Rapid and intense engagement of New York City business and industry including finance, media, think tanks, academies, governmental and non-governmental organizations

3.       Fundamental net-zero services

·         Transportation

·         Space Heating and Cooling

·         Food Supply

·         Waste Management

·         Infrastructure

·         Energy

·         Rapid Environmental Regeneration

Paradigm:  The residents of Eden had a very low cost-of-living with a very high quality-of-life.

The New York Metropolitan Region incorporates 20 million people and is central to one of the world’s largest economies.

We make our future.