E.F.Schumacher was a German statistician and economist who is best
known for his proposals for human-scale, decentralised and appropriate
technologies. His book “Small Is Beautiful: A Study of Economics as if
People Mattered” was ranked by The Times Literary Supplement as one of
the 100 most influential books published since World War II. In this
issue we have given a few of his quotable quotes.
Shri.N.Krishnamoorthy covers the topic of ‘Water Green’ by way of the
usual dialogue between Srimati Annapurna Duval, Shri Krish Phidal and
Professor Jnani Noval. In happenings section, we have covered training
programmes on Bio-pesticide preparation, Terrace Gardening, Ferro-cement
technology, Compressed Earth Blocks making, Traditional Siddha Varma
Bone setting Practices, Crop Residue Management and Networking etc.
In the wisdom section, C.Douglas Lummis explains us the real meaning
of ‘Prosper - According to Hope’, Majid Rahnema basically an Iranian
writes about ‘Voluntary Poverty’ based on age old moral principles of
simplicity and finally Dr.Vandana Shiva, World renowned Environmental
thinker says that ‘Man-made Ignorance’ is becoming a new source of
threat to life on this planet.
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