conserver economy

10 Trends that Will Keep the Green Economy Growing

Glenn Croston — Wed, 27 May 2009 04:07:43 -0400

There is no saying what the business world will do the in short term, but these long term trends are a good bet to keep growing the green business world in the years ahead:

1. Oil will cost more

Six Strategies to Thrive in the Conserver Economy

Glenn Croston — Sun, 10 May 2009 12:30:38 -0400

The latest economic numbers are in, and it looks like the economy may be bottoming out but has a long way to go before reaching anything like normal. It may be years before we see a return to where the economy was, if ever, driving the shift from the consumer economy to the conserver economy in which people are saving more, wasting less, and thinking of the long term.

Growing Legs to Leap to the Next Opportunity

Glenn Croston — Sun, 19 Apr 2009 01:59:35 -0400

In recent weeks I’ve been watching tadpoles in a small pool in a drying creekbed. The tadpoles are small but they tell a big story. The pool they’re in lies in a canyon surrounded by trees and grasses. It has been another dry year in San Diego, and the surrounding hills are already turning from green to brown. As the small creek stopped flowing, the pool started to shrink, slowly at first and then more rapidly. <

We’re Not in Kansas Anymore, and We’re Not Going Back

Glenn Croston — Sun, 15 Mar 2009 04:41:45 -0400

Much was made of the stock market rally this week, with the Dow bouncing up 9%, and other economic news emerging that was viewed as positive. Having a little good news is refreshing, to be sure, even if the good news is really just news that wasn’t as bad as you thought it would be. It seems some of the big banks are not as bad off as we thought they were, although their problems are still immense, and the credit rating of GE only got knocked down a single notch instead of sinking further.

The Transition from Consumer Economy to Conserver Economy

Glenn Croston — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 01:42:22 -0500

When I was growing up my Mom would tell us about her childhood in the Great Depression growing up on a farm, about driving to town with some chickens to sell and eggs to trade for an ice cream cone. They did not feel deprived, but lived simply because they had to. They were not hungry and all of their needs were cared for, but they were not shopping for sport or distraction. They wasted little, with every resource used and reused. When som