Satish Kumar, Visiting Fellow, writes about the need for the environmental movement to recognise the plight of animals and the importance of adding the rights of animals to the welfare of animals. read more…
Visiting Lecturer, Professor Patricia Shaw, writes about the many ways Holistic Science can be understood and developed. read more…
Jonathan Dawson, co-Head of Economics at Schumacher College writes about the growing wave of social innovation that foster generosity and sharing and the potential this has for the new economy. Read more…
Film-maker Nora Bateson talks about her film An Ecology of Mind, a portrait of her father Gregory Bateson, the celebrated anthropologist, philosopher, author, naturalist and systems theorist.
Tim Malnick, co-director of the MSc in Sustainability and Responsibility at Ashridge Business School writes about his forthcoming course here at the College and how it’s possible to find fulfilment and meaning in the workplace using a range of techniques including meditation.
Course Facilitator Emily Ryan provides an update on the Cultivating an Ecoliterate Worldview programme..
Visiting Lecturer Peter Reason, writes about the work of Gregory Bateson who is the subject of a new film An Ecology of Mind which is produced and directed by his daughter Nora Bateson.
Jean Boulton – Visiting Fellow at the Department of Social and Policy Science at the University of Bath, writes about the limitations of the mecanistic worldview and the importance of the ‘new’ post-modern views of science exemplified by evolutionary and complexity theory.
Stephan Harding, Head of Holistic Science at Schumacher College, further explores the idea of an animate Earth in a new film.
Julie Richardson, co-Head of Economics at Schumacher College writes about Forum for Future’s new Sustainable Economy Framework and the importance this places on an holistic and systemic approach to tackling the complex challenges of the 21st century.
Dr Joanna Brown, College Open Learning Manager and creator of the World Wide We (WWWe) Foundation, gives us an update on how the project is developing and how you can get involved.
Satish Kumar, Visiting Fellow, has kindly allowed us to reproduce his welcome to the January/February issue of Resurgence Magazine. In this article Satish discusses the importance of an economy which is embedded in the context of people and Nature.
Colin Tudge, Biologist and writer will teach on the new MSc Sustainable Horticulture and Food Production and talks to us about the future of food production and the importance of developing resilient and sustainable forms of farming in the face of increased population and
The Transition Network is one of the primary partners in our MA Economics for Transition. We ask Rob Hopkins, the co-founder of Transition and one of our visiting teachers, about the partnership itself and the wider economic goals of Transition.
Satish Kumar, Visiting Fellow, has kindly allowed us to reproduce his welcome to the November/December 2011 issue of Resurgence Magazine, where he outlines his understanding of ‘wellbeing’ and its importance for sustainability.
Emily Ryan, facilitator and co-designer of the new programme: Cultivating An Ecoliterate Worldview, Person, Place and Practice, talks about how this exciting course came into being.
Inga Page writes about the recent Schumacher festival which celebrated the centenary of EF Schumacher. Speakers at the weekend long event included Rob Hopkins, Satish Kumar, Polly Higgins and Diana Schumacher
Dr Joanna Brown who co-manages the College’s Open learning, was amongst the first cohort of students who graduated last year from the Devon School of Social Entrepreneurs programme. She writes about the path that took her to creating the World Wide We (WWWe) Foundation which is developing an exciting new Social Networking website to empower people all over the world who are working for social and environmental change.
Hari Pant, founder of the Himalayan Farm Project writes about his journey from a career in the military, to establishing a new farming initiative in the Lower Himalayas.
Charlie McConnell, Director of Schumacher College, writes about his involvement in the Dartington Land Use Review, and the possibilities that low carbon farming and land use will have for the Dartington Estate and the College.
Tim Malnick, co-director of the MSc in Sustainability and Responsibility at Ashridge Business School writes about the potential that the workplace has for transforming our lives – leading to greater awareness, deeper wisdom and wider benefit to the world.
Video: This week we were fortunate to talk with visiting teacher Ann Pettifor following her recent contribution to the short course Rethinking Finance:Good Servant, Bad Master.
Charlie McConnell, Director of Schumacher College, recaps his recent talk on E.F. Schumacher, after whom the College is named.
The long awaited Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) by the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) will drive a transformation in how homes, businesses and communities generate their heat. It is an ambitious initiative, the first of its kind in Europe, and the previous and current governments must be applauded for seeing it through.
DEFRA (Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs , UK), have recently released a report, Shaping our future: the joint ministerial and third sector Task Force on climate change, the environment and sustainable development. The report makes positive references to Schumacher College and our submission to the Task Force.
Bolivia, one of a handful of poor countries which openly opposed the deal in Copenhagen, has invited countries and non-governmental groups which want a much stronger climate deal to the World Conference of the People on Climate Change.
We could spend time wishing the agreement was stronger and the process different. But now, more than ever, we need to direct our activities… The failure at Copenhagen should galvanise us all to work for positive outcomes in new and creative ways.
Schumacher College and the Transition Network deliver a joint participatory session on Sustainable Living, Localism and Resilience to an audience of several hundred Klimaforum09 delegates.
An estimated 100,000 people marched through the streets of Copenhagen yesterday from Christiansborg Palace in the centre of the city to the Bella Centre, site of COP15.
Klimaforum09 has released a global climate declaration expressing the hopes, ideas, and visions of citizens groups and social movements from all corners of the planet.
The first week of the Copenhagen Climate Change Summit coincides with the UK governments pre-budget announcements. Meeting the challenge of the ‘triple crunch’ of the current financial, energy and environmental crises. News from the Green New Deal and Green Alliance.
Ahead of the Copenhagen Summit Survival international publishes a new report which reveals how tribal people, who have done the least to cause climate change, are being affected by attempts to stop it.
Kumi Naidoo (the new International Executive Director of Greenpeace) has been one of the leading proponents in forging a broader civil society alliance that embraces environmental, social justice and international development ngos. When Kumi talks we should listen.
In the lead up to December’s crucial climate conference in Copenhagen, The World Tonight (BBC) co-hosted a conference of experts with Royal Society and the Royal Institute for International Affairs at Chatham House.
Dr Stephan Harding, MSc Co-ordinator and Resident Ecologist, Schumacher College: This terrifying news highlights what many of us have know all along – that our maintream economy is putting ecosystems, and indeed the entire Earth, under great strain.
A global treaty to fight climate change will be postponed by at least six months and possibly a year or more, senior negotiators and politicians conceded today.
