"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."
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Eric Zencey, "Toward a New Bretton Woods and a Sustainable Civilization," at steadystate.org, 2012.
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Eric Zencey
(1953–July 1, 2019) was an American environmental writer
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