In the preservation movement, (the best aspects of) cultural conservatism and environmental conservation meet. As I will touch on in Chapter VI, there are also a number of economic initiatives that attempt to influence production through the creation of consumer demand. These tie in with efforts to change the economic incentives and disincentives of the economy to encourage both conservation and the use of green materials. And many of these also connect to efforts for community economic development based on decentralized ecological production and construction. This thesis is the first attempt I know to synthesize these diverse elements into some cohesive pattern while raising questions about the nature of green building. As I will discuss later, extended producer responsibility (EPR) based on a life-cycle approach is the key to creating an ecological service-based economy. But EPR is ultimately a principle that is expressed very differently in manufacturing, in agriculture and in constructionand in different communities or sectors of the industry. It must also be expressed in regulatory modes that go beyond state command-and-control and are deeply embedded in a multitude of relationships between producers, suppliers, financiers, communities, consumers, retailers, and more. Changing forms of regulation are as much a topic of this dissertation as changing modes of production and construction. This thesis is an attempt therefore to suggest a vision and contribute to the theory of green building and to the newly emerging field of construction ecology. It attempts to survey what I feel to be key areas and initiatives in green building, manufacturing and regulation; and to examine its relationship of all this to green community economic development and green economics in general. This has, like my first book, both a