have put their (non-monetary) values in command and actually worked to shape their work, their technology and the built-environments to reflect those values. Questions of consumption, end-use and voluntary simplicity have been intimately connected with concerns of production. Questions of technology have also been inextricably intertwined with respect for indigenous and traditional cultures, and the need for a sensible and regenerative combining of old and new, tradition and innovation, vernacular and scientific. These questions of value, of want and need, are actually strategic economic development questions that are central to transformation of materials use in the entire economy. In the next chapter, I will look more specifically at questions of consumption that can be driving forces in economic transformation.