Ecological Economics

Ecological Economics, also known as Classical Political Economics, The Law of Rent, Resource Rent, or Geonomics, is a philosophy and economic theory that follows from the belief that although everyone owns what they create; land, and everything else supplied by nature, belongs equally to all humanity. Ecological Economists advocate a Single Tax, a Land Value Tax, also known as a Resource Rent.
Early Proponents included John Locke, William Penn, Benjamin Franklin, Adam Smith, Thomas Paine, Thomas Jefferson, David Ricardo, John Stuart Mill, Herbert Spencer, Leo Tolstoy, Mark Twain, Henry George, William Ogilvie, Clarence Darrow, David Lloyd George, Sun Yat-sen, Sir Winston Churchill, Walter Burley Griffin, to mention of few.

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Petition 277: Release of compactor garbage truck leachate on city

October 8, 2009 I am sending this information to you so you can understand one of the major causes of illness in North American cities and towns. In1938 we began to use compactor garbage trucks in North America. The problem is: *  These compactor garbage trucks were not...

What is Geonomics?

Systems theory tells us that those at the margins of a system are the first to see a new truth and introduce it to the masses at the center.
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Professor Tim Flannery recently posed a provocative question:
"Sometime this century, after 4 billion years, some of Earth’s regulatory systems will pass from control through evolution by natural selection, to control by human intelligence. Will humanity rise to the challenge?"

Tim Flannery

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