Eco-capitalist
Eco-capitalism is an emerging controversial school of thought in the green movement. Its central idea is that Capital should be used to save the Earth. It would include the use of eco-friendly business models and economic policies. It would also include any environmental policy with an intended positive economic return. An example is rules against overfishing to allow stocks to replenish for future fishing.
Eco-capitalism uses economic logic to solve environmental problems, and increase the efficiency of environmental policies. It advocates for the use of eco-friendly business models and fiscal policies. It seeks creative policy instruments to resolve environmental problems where public goods are difficult to protect. see:tragedy of the commons
Emissions trading is well known example of how the profit incentive can be used to to solve pollution problems.
Examples of eco-friendly business models
- The privatization of eco protection e.g. http://www.sustainablebusiness.com/
- Green Business Consultant (Jim Harris, leader of the Green Party of Canada)
- environmental entrepreneurism
- Natural_Capitalism eco-options; eco-arbitrage; eco-secondary markets (Lovins)
- ecopreneur "entrepreneurs using business tools to preserve open space, develop wildlife habitat, save endangered species, and generally improve environmental quality"
See also
Other Sources
- Chapple, Stephen (2001) Confessions of an Eco-Redneck: Or how I Learned to Gut-Shoot Trout and Save the Wilderness at the Same Time ISBN 0641542925 Perseus Publishing - September 2001
- Comolet, A. (1991). The Ecological Renewal. From Eco-Utopia to Eco-Capitalism Le Renouveau ecologique. De l'eco-utopie a l'eco-capitalisme. Futuribles, 157(Sept.), 41-54.
- Sarkar, Saral (1999) Eco-Socialism Or Eco-Capitalism? : A Critical Analysis of Humanity's Fundamental Choices by Saral Sarkar 1999
