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Small is Beautiful and Faithful: The Vision of E. F. Schumacher

A little over a century ago, on August 16, 1911, the great visionary economist E. F. Schumacher was born in the German city of Bonn. An icon of the early Green movement, few people seem to know that Schumacher’s vision was inspired by the great papal encyclicals of Leo XIII and Pius XI or that [...]

Plato Yes, Radical Environmentalism No

By Lee Cheek|2015-05-19T23:10:19-05:00July 23rd, 2012|Categories: Books, Classics, Environmentalism, Lee Cheek, Plato|

Eco-Republic:What the Ancients Can Teach Us about Ethics, Virtue, and Sustainable Living by Melissa Lane In this provocative and accessible reflection on the potential contributions of Platonic political thought to the resolution of contemporary environmental problems, Lane (Princeton) attempts to craft “an intuitive and imaginative model inspired by the ancients” (p. 6). As a work in [...]