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“start small, define growth, and keep learning.”
Paul Jarvis • Company Of One: Why Staying Small Is the Next Big Thing for Business
given by Aldo Leopold in his essay, “The Land Ethic”
Christopher Alexander • A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction (Center for Environmental Structure Series)
“sustainable growth has to be focused on a. functionality not a product,” and that “the next major step toward sustainable growth is to improve the value of our products and services per unit of natural resources employed”—that
Paul Hawken • Natural Capitalism
the battle for quality is won or lost at the small scale
Jan Gehl • Life Between Buildings: Using Public Space
Local, human-scale economies and food systems that honor the “triple bottom line”: people, planet, and profits.
Bill Plotkin • Nature and the Human Soul: Cultivating Wholeness and Community in a Fragmented World
that a vast machinery using electricity, water-power, petrol, and so on, might reduce the work imposed on each of us to a minimum. It might, but it would also reduce our control to a minimum. We should ourselves become parts of a machine, even if the machine only used those parts once a week. The machine would be our master; for the machine would
... See moreG. K. Chesterton • The G. K. Chesterton Collection [50 Books]
That all urban development has been locked into path dependency on an economic concern now millennia out-of-date is surely a cause of unimaginable waste and inefficiency.