As we transition from the old Wall Street economy to a new green Main Street economy, we must develop strategies to create good jobs and meaningful livelihoods for all.

As it becomes increasingly clear that GDP is a deeply flawed measurement tool, alternative ways to measure our economy must be developed to ensure we’re measuring what we truly care about.

In the face of more Wall Street crashes, we must develop a response that moves us away from unaccountable concentrations of economic power and toward an accountable market-based money/banking/financial services system supportive of economic justice, sustainability, and democracy.

“Economic growth as we have known it is over and done with…There are now fundamental barriers to ongoing economic expansion and the world is colliding with those barriers.” – Richard Heinberg, The End of Growth

A life serving New Economy requires the support of a New Economics rooted in both science and values in order to provide the institutional models and policy tools essential to implementation.

The money driven economy on which we presently depend on is destroying Earth’s capacity to sustain life. However, it is not sufficient merely to end the harm that our suicide Economy inflicts on the planet. Our future depends on replacing our destructive system we have with a living economy.

This NET discussion presents an agenda for ending Wall Street’s disastrous experiment and creating community-based, publicly accountable money and banking system responsive to the needs and opportunities of the U.S. in the 21st century.