Hi Rosalinda, yes, I think personally that steady-state is compatible with p2p and sustainability outcomes and I personally prefer this conceptualisation to degrowth, have you contacted CASSE (they have a good website) about your question; they have a series of briefs, one of them is about the 'trophic principle', which may be related to a new type of trade accounts; I assume they have the collaborative nature of scientific communities .. otherwise, Hazel and Rosalinda are experts in green markets and I think they may have a better answer, perhaps you could have a look at my 'green metrics' tag here, http://www.delicious.com/mbauwens/P2P-Metrics+P2P-Ecology ; http://www.delicious.com/mbauwens/P2P-Metrics+P2P-Sustainability Have you looked into Mark Whitaker's commodity ecology, http://p2pfoundation.net/Commodity_Ecology ; and the human/civic balance sheet approach explained here: http://www.phibetaiota.net/2011/07/reference-integrity-at-scale-free-online-... I keep track of ecological economics here at http://p2pfoundation.net/Category:Ecology Sorry that I can't give you a more precise answer, but I copy your query to our mailing list, and perhaps others have other info, Michel On Sat, Jul 23, 2011 at 3:00 PM, Janet Hawtin <[email protected]> wrote:

Hi Michel

I am not sure whether they are congruent with the p2p thinking but do think that steady state economies hold some hope for good ecological outcomes. do you know how open or community collaborative they are and whether there is such a thing as a steady state stock exchange yet and how it differs from a usual stock exchange. i assume there must be steady stteness between countries and regions and that it must be expressed as a different flavour of trade? just wondered if you had any thoughts in this area.

cheers

janet

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