Chris Smaje’s Vision of a Post-Capitalist Eco-Localism that Works
The unwinding of global commerce and carbon energy supplies will send shock waves through most sectors of life, says Smaje. In his book, he focuses mostly on the likely changes in agriculture, land ownership and use, livelihoods, household and family life, and politics, as seen through the eyes of ordinary people.
I am an author, activist, blogger and consultant who spends a lot of time exploring the commons as a new paradigm of economics, politics and culture. I’ve been on this trail for about twenty years, working with a variety of international and domestic partners. In 2010, I co-founded the Commons Strategies Group, a consulting project that works to promote the commons internationally. More recently, I have become Director of the Reinventing the Commons Program at the Schumacher Center for a New Economics, based in Great Barrington, Massachusetts.