Articles by Visiting Teachers

Biomimicry: New Directions in Sustainable Design

By Michael Pawlyn
Biomimicry is a rapidly developing discipline that finds inspiration in the startling solutions that natural organisms have evolved over the course of the last 3.6 billion years. Proponents of biomimicry contend that many of the solutions that we will need during the sustainability revolution are to be found in nature: super-efficient structures, high strength bio-degradable composites, self-cleaning surfaces, zero waste systems, low energy ways of creating fresh water and many others.

Systems Thinking in Practice

By Gunter Pauli
The time has come for us to start to make connections, to foresee linkages and understand that we are not living in a world where only “one thing” matters, but rather we inhabit a web of life where everything is connected.

Earth Jurisprudence

Ian Mason
Humility, generosity, patience and restraint are the four pillars on which Earth Jurisprudence is founded. They will be the principles at the heart of the transition to climate stability, biodiverse environments and resilient livelihoods.

Journey from the Mountain

Mary Aver
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Q: What’s in your wallet? A: Power...

Julia Hailes
Think green consumerism’s the latest thing? Well, we’ve been here before. Back in 1988, the million-selling Green Consumer Guide helped sweep aerosols off a thousand supermarket shelves. Then it all went a bit quiet. So what’s different this time round? And will it last? Julia Hailes, co-author of the original eco-shopper’s bible, has some answers

Food, Forests and Fuel : From False to Real Solutions for Climate Change

Dr. Vandana Shiva
December 3 – 14, 2007 will see more than 10,000 representatives of Government and civil society gather in Bali for a meeting of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change. This is the international treaty under which the Kyoto Protocol was negotiated. The Protocol expires in 2012, and Bali is supposed to begin negotiations on a post Kyoto framework.

Teaching Children About Sustainability

Caroline Walker, who taught (and cooked) for years at the Small School, Hartland and facilitated the first Roots of Learning course and wrote of her experiences.

Ecology and the Sacred

Marie Satrdeski
My Schumacher experience continues to fuel my desire for promoting ecological education in the school system…

Exploring Goethean Science

Natasha Myers
Why we need a new Science

Revisiting the roots of progressive learning

Dr Su-ming Khoo
Schumacher course: Economics for a Green World
Teachers: Martin Khor, Juliet Schor and Prasannan Parthasarathi
Course dates: July, 2005

A Buddhist Response to Global Development

Sulak Sivaraksa
Educated in the West, Sulak is a translator and Buddhist teacher
who brings Buddhist teachings to laypeople around the world.

World As Lover; World As Self

Joanna Macy
Joanna Macy discusses how seeing the world as oneself, or as a lover, transforms ordinary reality and provides a greater sense of purpose.

Ecopsychology

John Seed
In spite of the modern delusion of alienation, of separation from the living Earth, we humans are not aliens, we belong here…

Extract from The Spell of the Sensuous

David Abram
It was only after the publication of Descartes’ Meditations, in 1641, that material reality came to be commonly spoken of as a strictly mechanical realm…

Extract from The Web of Life

Fritjof Capra
As the century draws to a close, environmental concerns have become of paramount importance…

Denial and Demise

Sir John Whitmore
Capitalism is a flawed economic order that is palpably failing humanity. Is it curable?

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