Small Is Looking More And More Beautiful

“Small Is Beautiful” has been a counterculture mantra – indeed, an important thread in American thought – ever since British economist E.F. Schumacher’s 1973 book of that title. Much further back than that if you count Henry David Thoreau.

In recent decades, many writers and deep thinkers have taken up the twin causes of living more communally and reducing human impact on the environment: Hazel Henderson, Lester Brown, Herman Daly, Wendell Berry, Jonathan Rowe, Sarah van Gelder, Duane Elgin, and Vicki Robin, among others.

Have they had much impact? Well, the Green Party is as irrelevant as ever, but “sustainability” has become at least the stated goal of the corporate world. Some sociologists say there now are upward of 150 million “cultural creatives” in North America and Europe – people with a more spiritual bent who espouse a “post-materialist” lifestyle.
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