Focused on maximizing individual financial return, contemporary economics is more accurately known as ego-nomics. Finding our way to a viable human future will require the guidance of a true eco-nomics. Embrace biology and ecology as the disciplines most foundational to eco-nomics for an ecological civilization. Yet we rarely mention the people-power alternative, rooted in democratically self-managed communities and markets foundational to an ecological civilization. He is also the author of the white papers “Ecological Civilization” and “Eco-nomics for an Ecological Civilization.” Connect: Facebook Twitter/X