ABSTRACT
This chapter serves as a bridge between community and culture-based, as well as knowledge and life-based economies, it proffer the concept of Industrial Ecology as an overarching philosophy for economic regeneration. This could be then a sustainable way forward for weak and emerging economies such as Zimbabwe's seeking to extricate themselves from the vices of a liberalising and globalising economic environment. For sustainability, the industrial ecologies need to respect the sustainability of the biological and natural environments, as indeed renowned Zimbabwean architect Mick Pearce has done. The chapter concludes by proposing yet another model for the transformative renewal that takes place at various levels of organisation starting with the self and ending with the global society itself. This model is very similar to Lessem and Schieffer's Integral Worlds approach. It works best when the rhythms of a community of people are underpinned by a philosophical value system to which they all subscribe; in case Ubuntu/Unhu.
