It's late and I'm fading here, so I'm just going to pick at one point right now:

The point in discussing economic democracy in this context is to suggest systems in which people, at the local level (the level at which ecosystem impacts are felt), can be empowered to adapt human society to the preservation of ecosystem resilience

The whole problem at the moment is precisely that local acts are having global consequences.

I don't believe that local action is sufficient (if that's what you're suggesting): we need an appropriate "hierarchy" of decision making. And by hierarchy I don't really mean hierarchy. Hierarchy of networks or something.