Ah, but we do have the grander visions of enclosure. "The economy is a wholly owned subsidiary of the environment, not the other way around." That's Earth Day founder Gaylord Nelson, from a few decades ago. But similar sentiments come from countless other sources, from Lakota "all our relations" to Amish sentiments toward technology, etc. Point is there are many, even just in the USA (which drives so much of this), peoples to ally with and sources to draw on in crafting a broader collective story (and thus practices and institutions) which place life's (including humans') needs at the center and economic "needs" in service to them, rather than the other way around.

+1 Changing the story - next-to-highest leverage point in Meadows' list of twelve leverage points in systems change.

Couldn't agree more. Project I've been involved with Decko (nee Wagn) includes a similar design principle aiming for a cumulative and gradual learning process to go from reader to editor to site/data builder to coder, however well it carries it off.