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Strategies For Change

The Conference Planning Group attempted to integrate many different trends in society in its definition of the problem and its vision of solutions. Change is possible and necessary in at least the following areas:

• Household consumption patterns
• Business and institutional consumption patterns
• Business production and distribution patterns
• The culture of advertising and television/the commercialization of schools and public space
• The built environment
• Economic and tax policies
• Patterns of work

Conference participants divided into small groups addressing each of these themes. They discussed work-in-progress and the possibility for additional work and collaboration in each of these inter-connected areas.

The following sections summarize some especially thought provoking discussions.