Natural Competitive Advantage of Bioregions

{Editor's Note: This is the eighth in a weekly series of articles by experts in sustainable business originally published in the "GreenMoney Journal."}

By Spencer B. Beebe

PORTLAND, Oregon, October 1, 2007 (ENS) - In the decades ahead, in the face of global warming, increasing energy prices, and a growing global disparity between rich and poor, bioregions have a natural competitive advantage.

Everything is changing in the face of global warming. The industrial economy is an artifact of cheap oil. There will be a transition from an industrial to an ecological economy. It will either be very chaotic and destructive to human systems, especially the poorest of the poor, or it might be a social evolution to a healthier, more equitable and more reliably prosperous knowledge-based economy.

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