b'A part per million is small. A microparticle of plastic is small. A virus is small. Fungi, bacteria, algae, protozoaall small. As are root hairs, drops of water and seeds. Compared to a backhoe or a shovel, a trowel is small. A decimal point is small. A zero may or may not be small. Thoreaus cabin was small. Four Season Farm is small. A star in the night sky is small. An inkling is small. A smile is small. As is a planet.Thinking small is not a relic of the 60s and 70s, but an essential tool for responding to todays crises.The pandemic has magnified the virtues of thinking small.Thinking small recognizes that 99.9% global and 0.1% localthat being not a precise economic calculation but an accurate expression of the dominant cultural gestaltputs us in a dangerous state of psycholog-ical, economic and ecological imbalance. Thinking small recognizes the value of decentralization, disintermedia-tion and diversity. Thinking small puts personal behavioral change back on the table, along with technological and political fixes. Thinking small is not so much a matter of forging widespread agreement on any particular appropriate technology or definition of appropriate scale, as it is a way of affirming that, confronted with vast, 28'