Ultimately people and governments must recognize that green development is a consistent and holistic body of development principles quite different from conventional industrial development. At some point, governments need to consciously apply these principles to create more self-reliant bioregional economies. But even before such change of mind by government, much can be done, since so many green alternatives can be implemented directly without prior control of the state. Not only this, butas I discussed in chapters VI and VIIeven new forms of civil society-based regulation can be implemented without control of the state. Rules changes implemented by the state are eventually necessary, but the primary task is establishing a spectrum of grassroots activities and enterprises, while distilling the practical values of ecological values through the spectrum of sustainability indicators. The next general task is a developmental vision, a general understanding of potentials, even if it cannot be a rigid blueprint. From the vision, coupled with an appreciation of the barriers to it, strategy emerges. And