Eco-capitalism

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Eco-capitalism is the view that capital exists in nature as "natural capital" (ecosystems that have ecological yield) on which all wealth depends, and therefore, market-based government policy instruments (such as cap and trade systems) should be used to resolve environmental problems.

The term "Blue Greens" is often applied to those who espouse eco-capitalism.^{[citation needed]} This can either be greens who accept or favor free market principles to achieve environmental aims or conservatives or liberals who espouse Green policies or, more generally, environmental concerns. The term should be contrasted with Red Greens.

Eco-capitalist monetary and administrative reforms

• Full cost accounting for ecological harms done by subsidies
• Genuine Progress Indicators as basis of monetary reform
• Pollution credits to encourage businesses to adopt anti-pollution technologies

See also

• Business model
• Ecotax
• Ecological economics
• Free-market environmentalism
• Green economics
• Green libertarianism
• Tragedy of the commons
• Tragedy of the anticommons
• Enviro-Capitalists: Doing Good While Doing Well

Further reading

• Chapple, Stephen (2001) Confessions of an Eco-Redneck: Or how I Learned to Gut-Shoot Trout and Save the Wilderness at the Same Time. Perseus Publishing. ISBN 0-641-54292-5
• Comolet, A. (1991) "Le Renouveau ecologique. De l'eco-utopie a l'eco-capitalisme" [The Ecological Renewal. From Eco-Utopia to Eco-Capitalism], Futuribles, 157(Sept.), 41-54.
• d'Humières, Patrick (2010) Le développement durable va-t-il tuer le capitalisme? Editions Maxima
• Lovins, Amory B & Hunter L (1997) Factor Four. Doubling Wealth - Halving Resource Use, with Ernst von Weizacker. Earthscan Publications Ltd, London
• Sarkar, Saral (1999) Eco-Socialism Or Eco-Capitalism? A Critical Analysis of Humanity's Fundamental Choices
• Porritt, Jonathon (2005, revised 2007) Capitalism: As if the World Matters. Earthscan Publications Ltd, London. ISBN 978-1-84407-193-7

External links

• Official website of the Center for Informed Decision Making (CIDM)
• Website of the Book Natural Capitalism
• RMI.org Rocky Mountain Institute official website
• Eco Friendly Companies, official website of the Eco Companies Directory
• Ecocapitalisme.org by Patrick d'Humières
• Beyond "Green Capitalism", an article on the eco-capitalist movement by Richard Wallis on Monthly Review