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Invitation to Tour the Commons

David Bollier is Director of the Schumacher Center’s Reinventing the Commons Program. Together with American and international colleagues, Bollier explores why specific commons work so well, what challenges they must overcome, and how to grow the Commonsverse.

A Legacy Advocating for Small Communities

One of the Schumacher Center’s most trusted friends passed away on Solstice Eve. A historian, a journalist, an activist, a prolific writer, a quiet but authentic visionary, David Boyle was ever the champion of small communities and local economies. David Boyle was the author of books on social change, politics, and the future. He was editor of publications including Town & Country Planning,…

 
 
 

“Since there is now increasing evidence of environmental deterioration, particularly in living nature, the entire outlook and methodology of economics is being called into question. The study of economics is too narrow and too fragmentary to lead to valid insights, unless complemented and completed by a study of meta-economics.”

– E. F. Schumacher, Small is Beautiful