{"id":13,"date":"2009-03-23T11:09:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-23T11:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/blog\/six-principles-for-a-sustainable-australia\/"},"modified":"2009-03-23T11:09:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-23T11:09:00","slug":"six-principles-for-a-sustainable-australia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/?p=13","title":{"rendered":"Six Principles for a Sustainable Australia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a onblur=\"try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}\" href=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_1yi19FVf0u0\/ScfU7gL8ayI\/AAAAAAAAARk\/FixE3eRobjk\/s1600-h\/barney_foran.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 98px; height: 129px;\" src=\"http:\/\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/_1yi19FVf0u0\/ScfU7gL8ayI\/AAAAAAAAARk\/FixE3eRobjk\/s200\/barney_foran.jpg\" alt=\"\" id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5316452003851561762\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>My friend, Jerry Holtaway brought to my attention an interesting fellow, Barney Foran, an economist presently a visiting fellow with the Centre for Research and Environmental Studies (CRES) at the Australian National University in Canberra. Professor Foran calls out six principles essential to building a sustainable Australia. They are:<\/p>\n<p>Stabilising human population number and age structure;<br \/>reducing the use of the grand global elements;<br \/>basing economy and society on flows rather than stocks;<br \/>shortening the supply chain;<br \/>engineering society for durability and resilience;<br \/>and developing a new economics where taxes tell the truth.<\/p>\n<p>Jerry also pointed out a very interesting project, the Australian Conservation Foundation&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.acfonline.org.au\/consumptionatlas\/\">Interactive Consumption Atlas<\/a>, &#8220;a really excellent example of making the ecologically invisible visible in a compelling way.&#8221;<\/p>\n<div class=\"blogger-post-footer\">Visit earthsayers.tv and become a sustainability advocate.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My friend, Jerry Holtaway brought to my attention an interesting fellow, Barney Foran, an economist presently a visiting fellow with the Centre for Research and Environmental Studies (CRES) at the Australian National University in Canberra. Professor Foran calls out six principles essential to building a sustainable Australia. They are: Stabilising human population number and age [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[13,11,12],"class_list":["post-13","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-australia","tag-barney-foran","tag-sustainability-economics-sustainable-development-earthsayers-earth-day-planet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/earthsayers.tv\/sustainabilityadvocate\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}