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The Doughnut Economy: A Framework for Thriving Within Planetary Boundaries
Environmental Economics

The Doughnut Economy: A Framework for Thriving Within Planetary Boundaries

How cities and businesses are using doughnut economics to redesign prosperity within ecological limits

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SustainabilityArchitect
7 min read
True Cost Accounting: Making Hidden Environmental and Social Costs Visible
Environmental Economics

True Cost Accounting: Making Hidden Environmental and Social Costs Visible

The economy's hidden subsidies from nature and society are becoming visible—and that visibility will reshape every economic decision.

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SustainabilityArchitect
6 min read
The Rebound Effect: Why Efficiency Gains Often Increase Rather Than Decrease Resource Use
Environmental Economics

The Rebound Effect: Why Efficiency Gains Often Increase Rather Than Decrease Resource Use

Efficiency improvements don't subtract from resource use—they lower prices and stimulate demand, often consuming their own savings.

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SustainabilityArchitect
7 min read
Ecosystem Services: The Economic Framework That Changed Environmental Policy
Environmental Economics

Ecosystem Services: The Economic Framework That Changed Environmental Policy

How translating nature into economic terms reshaped environmental governance—and what that translation cannot capture

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SustainabilityArchitect
7 min read
Payments for Ecosystem Services: When Markets Can and Cannot Protect Nature
Environmental Economics

Payments for Ecosystem Services: When Markets Can and Cannot Protect Nature

Market-based conservation succeeds under specific conditions—knowing when those conditions exist separates effective programs from expensive failures.

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SustainabilityArchitect
6 min read
Carbon Pricing's Dirty Secret: Why Market Mechanisms Alone Cannot Solve Climate Change
Environmental Economics

Carbon Pricing's Dirty Secret: Why Market Mechanisms Alone Cannot Solve Climate Change

Why three decades of carbon markets have failed to deliver transformation—and what integrated policy architectures can actually achieve

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SustainabilityArchitect
7 min read
The Steady-State Economy: How Economies Can Thrive Without Growing
Environmental Economics

The Steady-State Economy: How Economies Can Thrive Without Growing

Engineering prosperity within planetary boundaries through institutional redesign of the mechanisms that make perpetual growth appear necessary.

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SustainabilityArchitect
7 min read
Degrowth Is Not Recession: Understanding Planned Economic Contraction
Environmental Economics

Degrowth Is Not Recession: Understanding Planned Economic Contraction

Why intentional economic contraction differs fundamentally from recession—and why that distinction determines whether we face collapse or transformation

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SustainabilityArchitect
7 min read
Why GDP Growth Destroys the Planet: Designing Metrics That Actually Measure Prosperity
Environmental Economics

Why GDP Growth Destroys the Planet: Designing Metrics That Actually Measure Prosperity

Traditional economic metrics reward planetary destruction—natural capital accounting reveals the path to measuring genuine prosperity.

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SustainabilityArchitect
9 min read
Natural Capital Balance Sheets: Making Ecological Assets Visible to Economic Decision-Makers
Environmental Economics

Natural Capital Balance Sheets: Making Ecological Assets Visible to Economic Decision-Makers

Transform invisible ecological assets into strategic intelligence by integrating natural capital accounts into corporate balance sheets and investment decisions.

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SustainabilityArchitect
7 min read
Environmental Justice and Economic Design: Why Sustainability Fails Without Equity
Environmental Economics

Environmental Justice and Economic Design: Why Sustainability Fails Without Equity

Sustainability without equity simply redistributes environmental harm—true regeneration requires economic systems designed to expand benefits to those who have borne the greatest burdens.

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SustainabilityArchitect
8 min read
Biodiversity as Economic Infrastructure: Valuing What Markets Currently Ignore
Environmental Economics

Biodiversity as Economic Infrastructure: Valuing What Markets Currently Ignore

How species interactions and ecosystem complexity underpin economic stability—and why their destruction represents unhedgeable systematic risk to global markets

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SustainabilityArchitect
7 min read
The Circular Economy's Missing Piece: Why Material Loops Fail Without System Redesign
Environmental Economics

The Circular Economy's Missing Piece: Why Material Loops Fail Without System Redesign

Material loops fail not from insufficient recycling but from linear system architecture—true circularity requires redesigning how products, business models, and policy interact from inception.

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SustainabilityArchitect
7 min read
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