Eco Currency

This is  blog style report that follows the process of the eco-currency project (below). It is a project for the Next Nature theme at the department of Industrial design at the Eindhoven University of Technology in The Netherlands. The three students that run this blog post about subject related articles, books or movies that they find interesting, but also use it to communicate research findings and opinions as the project progresses. Please feel free to think along and post remarks, we are glad to start a discussion on this complex topic.

The starting point of the ECO-Currency project is the hypothesis that an important factor in our current environmental crisis is the disconnect between the economical ecology and the environmental ecology. With the latter we mean the ecology of plants, trees, animals, and other organic material. Whereas the economical ecology is defined by our financial system of market, money, goods and other economical exchange. Our second working hypothesis states that we could address environmental issues by linking the economical sphere and the environmental sphere in a better way than that is is currently the case.

-project description by K. van Mensvoort