By Katie Tallo
“Ever bigger machines, entailing ever bigger concentrations of economic power and exerting ever greater violence against the environment, do not represent progress: they are a denial of wisdom. Wisdom demands a new orientation of science and technology towards the organic, the gentle, the non-violent, the elegant and beautiful.”
- E.F. Schumacher, Small is Beautiful: Economics As If People Mattered, 1973 London
What has happened to us? We’re all fixated on the most, the biggest, the best. We want bigger and better lives, but we end up settling instead for bigger TVs, bigger vehicles and bigger houses. We pave over natural wetlands to make room for our big suburban developments where we think maybe those... More...
