question.) The biggest challenge is putting in place forms of political-economic participation and planning that can allow people to debate and define their vision, a vision that will actually be put in place. One means of refining the vision and values that constitute qualitative wealth are indicators. There are many kinds of themsome very objective and some quite subjectivebut they all have a crucial role in returning money to a status of a means of exchange rather than being the be-all and end-all of economic life. These indicators include indexes that measure and monitor resource flows in the economy; life cycle assessment (or LCA) that facilitates full-cost accounting for products and processes; and Sustainable Community Indicators (SCI) that synthesize vast amounts of information with the expressed priorities of specific communities. In subsequent chapters discussing building materials in ecological construction, I will look at the specific role of various kinds of indicators in exploring possibilities for a service economy in building. I will also look at policy, regulatory and fiscal tools (like tax shifting) that can be employed to incorporate full costs into market prices, thereby redirecting the profit motive to some extent.