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Practicing Plenitude: Finding wealth in an era of scarcity - A talk by Juliet Schor
10/06/2010 - 4:00pm - 5:30pm
The twin crises of economy and ecology demand a transformative set of solutions. In this lecture, Schor will lay out her vision for an ecologically-light economy based on small-scale production, re-skilling, new patterns of time use, local economic interdependence and an extension of the open-source model beyond software into hardware.
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