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Human Scale, or, dealing with our emergent psychopath

mark | October 8, 2011

A couple of thoughts collided at the Schumacher centenary research day I attended yesterday (the festival goes on all this weekend in Bristol). This collision, looking at the various tactics of the sustainability/ethical trade movements through the concept of ‘human-scale’ systems, is about the challenge of engaging with collective, aggregated effects on the individual, personal level. [...]

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