We see the same large scale structure, but we see additional small scale structure.

Let's go back to small scale, to farmers' markets, small bakeries and all that. Wonderful.

A small scale painting program for GNOME, the GNU Desktop

On an astronomical scale that's a very small black hole.

Or large scale fluctuations lifting the small ones even further.

We are still talking in terms of a small scale.

Sorry to be going back and forth from a large scale story to a small scale one.

And we need to think very dispassionately about the comparative advantages of small scale and large scale.

Then I thought, I will go to the Small Scale Industries

What about farming?

Principal industry farming.

Natural farming practitioner

Farming along Nature

Farming was hard.

Here you see it on a small scale the mothership has landed,

Well, our team has been looking at this on a global scale, using satellite data and ground based data kind of to track farming on a global scale.

You see these all over Haiti as well. They're small scale sugar mills.

And I found that industrial productivity can be achieved on a small scale.

It's not how I chose to view the universe at a small scale.

For the small TED team, this was a very hard concept to scale.

In that sense, they form a small scale model of a specific problem.

We're taking over now, doing work that ranges in scale from small scale repairs to major renovations and major facility expansions.

Some hunter gatherers who lived next to farming communities took up farming themselves.

As you can see, We Feel Fine collects very, very small scale personal stories.

I've developed a device that, on a very small scale, can produce these isotopes.

It ties in with small scale farmers in terms of no pesticides, no fertilizers.

Intensive farming is depleting soils.

Uh, when I started farming,

Farming was an energy bonanza.

The Road to Natural Farming

The difficulty in farming methods.

Learning at Natural Farming Workshop

Yoshikazu Kawaguchi Natural farming practitioner

I wouldn't say that gardening is better than farming, gardening is different from farming.

I was exposed to making and crafts and materials and invention on a small scale.

Chamber and the notion of chamber has to do with salons and small scale performances.

TED team is a very small team and this idea is very hard to scale.

There is damping mechanisms, say photon diffusion or sound waves. They raise small scale fluctuations.

We cannot just think that small scale is the solution to the world food problem.

The lack of available land in urban environments, coupled with growing interest in smaller scale farming means there is a market for vermicomposting.

This is Mr. Kawaguchi's Natural Farming method. Natural farming is not limited to growing rice.

Our farming has done the opposite.

Subsistence farming is drying up basically.

Let's go back to traditional farming.

Shortly before working on Natural Farming,