“Early in April, an international community of sustainability theorists and practitioners gathered in New York City at a special High Level Meeting at the United Nations… the larger purpose of the meeting was to articulate the elements of a new economic paradigm, and to issue a call to world leaders to adopt its fundamental precepts.”

—  Eric Zencey

Eric Zencey, " Toward a New Bretton Woods and a Sustainable Civilization http://steadystate.org/new-bretton-woods/," at steadystate.org, 2012.

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