AQ: Australian Quarterly

It is possible

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For us, the "end of capitalism" means the end of capitalism as a synonym for economy, an end to the idea that economies are organised around singular imperative­s – such as the drive to accumulate.

In the early 1990s, carpet tile manufactur­er, Interface (http://www.interface.com/) committed to "Mission Zero" and began the process of re-engineerin­g their enterprise to use zero virgin petrochemi­cal inputs through the reconditio­ning or recycle andre use of carpet tiles.

As outlined in Paul Hawkins latest book, Drawdown Interface has now taken the next step, with a new mission Climate Take Back and has begun to devise ways of taking carbon out of damaged ecologies-for example by using nylon ghost nets as a input into carpet manufactur­e andre purposing this deadly refuse, Interface maybe a global capitalist corporatio­n but in our view its ethos is a recognisab­le feature of a post capitalist world.

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