This thesis features some fairly explicit concerns, having to do with the technological and organizational potentials for resource conservation, benign materials, recycling and reuse, green markets, community development, regulation, etc. But there are some other strategic sub-themes that pervade the entire work. One is the role of information, knowledge and education in the value revolution that is intrinsic to ecoeconomic transformation. It is no accident that I began, after the introduction, with a chapter on knowledge and value. It is value that ultimately drives the economy, and a postindustrial economy is driven by radically different values than industrial capitalism. These values are closely connected to social and environmental need, to potentials for human and eco-development, and our appropriate place in the cosmos. The information