TREEconomist

We featured the World Future Energy Summit which wraps up today. So now it’s time to head to Davos, Switzerland for the World Economic Forum from today through 27 January. Their blog features a conundrum that will certainly not be resolved during this weekend’s forum. The issue at hand is the conflict between both economic growth and sustainability. Can both coexist? I often wonder after living in Ireland for the past year and then visit my Indiana hometown to discover what used to be fertile corn fields lining a country road now ravaged by wildfire development.

Where does it end? How is it that policy allows for unchecked development by big box retailers and large scale road works? It’s easy to understand how sustainability is sacrificed when there is virtually limitless tax increment financing and public money being used for the private, rather than public good. Let me know your thoughts in the comments…