> Date: Wed, 04 Mar 1998 00:19:33 -0500
> From: Brian Milani <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Green Alternatives to the MAI
>
> A new essay on alternatives to globalization and possible grassroots
> strategy:
>
> A Green Perspective on the MAI:
> Beyond Globalization:
> The Struggle to Redefine Wealth
>
> By Brian Milani, of the Eco-Materials Group, and Toronto's Metro
> Labour Education Centre, it is available on the EMG's Green Economics
> website at:
>
> http://www.web.net/~bmilani/MAI.htm
>
> >From the introduction:
> "Globalization is not simply increasing exploitation,
> inequality and injustice, but it is suppressing great
> and growing POTENTIALS for human development. Until
> the opposition to globalization puts equal emphasis on
> these positive potentials, it is doomed to failure.
> The alternative to globalism is not the old industrial
> Welfare State, but something completely new---more
> participatory, egalitarian, ecological, self-regulatory,
> and grounded in a radically different, more QUALITATIVE,
> notion of wealth."
>
> It is almost 7000 words, or 20 typewritten pages, and includes the
> following subsections:
>
> *Globalization and Crisis
> *Consumption and Planning
> *Quality and the Industrialization of Culture
> *Globalizing Waste
> *Countering Globalization: The Strategy of Design
> *Green Industry and Resource-Productivity
> *Money, End-Use and the New Wealth
> *Eco-Regulation and the MAI
> *Regeneration vs. the MAI
>
> Any and all feedback and discussion is welcome.
>
> Brian Milani
> ECO-MATERIALS GROUP "Information for Regeneration"
> EMG Homepage http://www.web.net/~emg
> Green Economics Website http://www.web.net/~bmilani
