With the resources generated from validating the basic economy and the ecosystem, the ECOVA-fund will also be able to finance an ecocoupons system. That system will be a subsidy for the recovery and the long-term conservation of the planetary ecosystem, in contrast with the annual global government support of one trillion dollar to the oil and car industry, which James Martin correctly calls a 'devastate the planet' tax.

These ecocoupons that people all over the world will receive (- for example on a monthly or an annual basis - ) will be a sort of complementary money system with an official value, but only usable for specific purposes such as:

* the payment of energy-saving measures in houses;

* the purchase and installation of renewable energy systems for the private house;

* investment in group projects for renewable energy supplies in for example apartment buildings, residential quarters, ecovillages, etc…;

* investment in small- or large-scale projects for the production of renewable energy;

* the purchase of green power from official energy suppliers (this possibility will gradually grow according to the increasing amount of green power);

* the purchase of super-low-emission and zero-emission vehicles;

* the construction of passive houses, earthships, ecovillages, etc…

The financial value of the ECOVA-ecocoupons will each time be adapted to the local circumstances in which they will be used, so that they will give an equivalent advantage to people all over the world.

Combined with a worldwide ECOVA-investment program for green energy, this ECOVA-ecocoupon system could make of renewable energy already on a relatively short-term the primary global energy source. This also implies enormous opportunities for (normal) investments. Besides, this renewable energy sector can generate worldwide a lot of new employment for quite a while, and will therefore create more prosperity for many people all over the world.

Together the ECOVA social security system and the ECOVA-ecocoupon system will constitute a sort of global basic income, that will have an equivalent positive effect on the wealth of people all over the world. It will be a conversion of all the unpaid basic-economic contributions of people into social security and access to renewable energy. This will constitute a solid basis for the only economy with a future at planetary level: a sustainable global economy which creates sufficient prosperity for all people on Earth, a global economy which grows, but within the carrying capacity of the ecosystem.

That economy will release people and society from unhealthy social and economic pressure and tensions, and it will create a far more relaxed world community.

Because this ECOVA-program implies an enormous alternative investment and financial encouragement in developing a sustainable global economy, it could be linked to an impactful ecotax system that will strongly discourage environmental pollution and polluting production. It is obvious that ecotaxes in the long run will become rare because the ECOVA validation system will be a permanent incentive for non-pollution. It is even so that when this principle of validation would be applied in other fields of society (direct validation of the formal care sector, social sector, governing bodies,…), taxes would become superfluous. Because of this, tax departments could be transformed into validation departments, what probably will provoke positive connotations in most people's heads ...

Author and Copyright: Rafaël Staelens, Belgium