ABSTRACT
Natural capitalism offers alternative solutions to the modern economic paradigm through some specific approaches: Buy time by using resources dramatically more productively. This approach proposes that humanity should continue to use the 'resources' to which we are accustomed, but by applying the virtues of natural capitalism we would reduce the needs through using less to begin with, re-using materials as many times as possible, and recycling materials after each use-cycle. A major reason for the apparent lack of action in addressing many of the problems being experienced in the Anthropocene age is an education system developed before the emergence of modern Anthropocene challenges. After spending many years almost exclusively focused on the economy, the time has come to refocus attention on the part of the planet that has suffered most. The first type of markets are those embedded in nature and society which place emphases on the meeting of people, exchanges between them, and a sharing of culture.
