ABSTRACT
When the goal of the construction – the building or the institution – changes, sometimes it is enough to just change the superstructure: move a wall, tile the floor, add a window; revise a law, tighten enforcement, subsidize a program. Other times entirely new structures are in order, a new foundation, a new set of norms and principles. A premise of this chapter is that the constructed institutions for material and energy use in modern industrial societies are not up to the task of living within our means, of global society functioning within global ecological constraints.
