Last Thursday was Blog Action Day: Climate Change. Thousands of bloggers from around the world, across countries and across topics, took a day to blog about climate change. It was a profound example of the power of collected action — nearly 32,000 posts reached an estimated 17 million people. But as I was skimming through…
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Bigger Isn’t Better
Farming is not adapted to large-scale operations because of the following reasons: Farming is concerned with plants and animals that live, grow, and die. – “Ancient” agricultural textbook (Cornell University, 1942) Social systems are not adapted to large-scale operations, because social systems are concerned with humans that live, grow, and die. Part of the problem…
