LOCALb(For the community) HOUSEHOLDb(For Individualse)
Sustainable ideal is neomodern Variety in all things: the spice to life
Community: the democratic core Nature humanized yet revered
Regional-local-personal inter-dependency Local dependency and cooperation
Stewardship: development with nature Community betterment through social
harmony
Think locally: foster community spirit A ‘postmodernist’ household ethic
and action
Community alliance toward sustainability Husbandry: permaculture the ultimate
Purpose and design in development Impact avoidance in the Conduct of
life
Engage impact abatement assessment Life as art: art in life
Sustainability in policy and practice
Call the local political shots (subsidiarity) Quality before quantity
Integrated collective trust Honesty, affection, commitment
Strive for sustainability ideals Cooperation with competition
People–place harmony Foster community participation
Reciprocity: recognition of collective Rely on proven experience
worth
Attitude: everybody is useful Waste minimization and energy saving
Policy: energy reduction practices Self-servicing: minding, rosters,
crime-watch
Policy: avoid waste generation Pre-school benefit-link parenting
Treat waste accumulation as community
failure
Foster community independence Work =income; income =dignity;
work=dignity
Engage local know-how Budget for self-reliance
Avoid drudgery: promote labour- Sustainability practice: an alleviation of
intensiveness ennui
Eschew self-serving professionalism Integrate the informal economy
Police ‘common property’ regulations Barter and exchange
Establish information skills exchange Meet ecological debts
Enhancement through design excellencen Skirt the money system – legally
Impact defence: locally applied and Small is best – usually
apparent
Environment–Economics–Equity– Family-linked welfare support
Efficiency–Education
Eco-manage: Economics ecology Development of person, place,
development self-reliance
Locally correct is usually nationally good Self-sufficiency and household
sustainabilityo
Balance: harmony; respect for tradition Pre-schooling start: Self-reliance life
skills
Take decisions locally: ‘bottom up’ Eco-practice: care for the environment
(subsidiarity)
Employ and purchase locally ‘Bottom’ place to start: pre-schooling,
vegie patch
Low capital input for each workplace Respect ‘common property’ policies
Recognize: quality of habitat reflects Go for ‘next step’ technological
quality of life innovations
Priority: early school provisioning Participate in community government
excellence
Foster a community-exchange economy Beat consumer system: co-ops barter
exchangep
Notes
aThe Matrix suggests lines of approach
vertically (‘national’, ‘regional’, ‘local’, and
‘personal’: and horizontally (engaging
the available ‘powers’ and options for
‘actions’): applied in the pragmatic
pursuit of sustainable development
practices.b
The nub to planned effectiveness of
outcome across the nation-to-household
spectrum arises, within Anglo New
World nations, in two key within-nation
contexts, regional and local.c
Worthy postmodern outcomes result
from the use of powers coupled to
follow-up actions, not as a consequence
of the mere presence of statutes and reg-
ulations. The ethical theories and foun-
dation principles identified with these
powers and actions have been reviewed
in ch. 1.d
Regions as ‘communities of concern’
can be both lesser and greater than
‘administrative regions’. Thus there can
be identified: catchment regions, climatic
regions, metropolitan regions, urban
regions, tourist regions, shopping
regions, utilities service regions, social
service regions, transportation regions
and also the fortunate ‘growth regions’
and the less fortunate ‘economically
depressed regions’. See also ch. 4:
Growth Pattern Management.e
Individuals as political and economic
entities are the prime moving factor,‘pre-
senting’ as the major earning and spend-
ing (consumption and disposal) forces in
society. Individuals are also the centre
of proto-political power in society, and
their role in resource management and
in pursuit of sustainable development is
very significant. The key influencing
external input to individuals today is, of
course, television advertising, which
predicates the current style of conform-
ity for management practices and devel-
opment procedures.f
For a cross-reference connection refer
to ch. 1: box 1.2: New-age pragmatics.g
See also box 3.5: Sustainable co-
dependency earlier in this chapter.h
This expression is somewhat in line
with Paul Elkins ‘Conclusion’ in The Living
Economy(1986) thus national resource
accounting and adjusted national product
procedures; local revival of the local
economy, local financing initiatives, pro-
moting local public expenditure, and
affordable basic incomes; health policy
(but no mention of education!) and trade
policy, all in the direction of self-reliance.
Refer also to M. A. Lutz and K. Lux,
Humanistic Economics i (1988).
Akin to the four resources (finite,
renewable, heritage and freeflow)
detailed in box 3.2: Resources within
ecosystems (earlier in this chapter).