Any system that taxes socially undesirable activities and products, and uses the money to support more desirable ones. For example, transportation taxes for gasoline or tolls often support public transportation that have less environmental impact and ease traffic congestion.
It relates to eco-efficiency (doing more with less) as originally defined by the World Business Council for Sustainable Development. Factor 10 / Factor X means doubling living stan...
The goal of being twice as productive with half the resources (materials and energy), leading to a factor 4 improvement in efficiency (2x2=4). Alternatively, practices which ar...
Anything that costs less to dispose of than it’s commercial worth. In many cases, these materials are the same being handled by manufacturers in the production of goods but because...