Architecture and urban design are in the throes of a green fever dream: Everywhere you look there are plans for "sustainable" buildings, futuristic eco-cities, even vertical aquaponic farms in the sky, each promising to redeem the ecologically sinful modern city and bring its inhabitants back into harmony with nature.
Miliband's wheeze is only the latest in a long line of attempts to bring economics into harmony with our environment, even if its complexity means is unlikely to come to pass any time soon.
"This has brought it back into attention".
Instead of adopting metric units, the United States tried to bring its system into closer harmony with the English, from which various deviations had developed; for example, the United States still used "Queen Anne's gallon" of 231 cubic inches, which the British had discarded in 1824.
He attempted to harmonize Buddhism with modern scientific and philosophical thought, and he tried to synthesize the teachings of the rival schools of Huayan (Kegon) and Tiantai to bring them into harmony with Weishi philosophy.
In the work of some photographers this uniformity might provoke tedium; in Strand's there is the powerful sense of an artist striving to bring reality into harmony with the purity of his vision.
No longer committed to Aristotle as a source for the truth (the truth was possessed by theology), the masters of arts did not try to bring Aristotle into harmony with other authoritative sources and felt free to expose rather than try to save Aristotle from holding what they took to be erroneous positions.
In Taiwan, commitment to bring legislation into harmony with the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights resulted in anti-sex work law being abolished in 2009 on the grounds that punishing commercial sexual transactions forces sex workers underground leaving them open to abuse.
