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Beyond Development: An Evening with Dr. Vandana Shiva

Tuesday February 12, 2013

An evening of challenging ideas and inspiration with Dr. Vandana Shiva, who is teaching on the Schumacher course Beyond Development: creating diverse paths to wealth and wellbeing.

The Earth Talks: Concert by David Rothenberg - “Bird, Whale, Bug”

Wednesday February 6, 2013

Clarinetist David Rothenberg plays music inspired by the melodies and rhythms of nature, from birds, and insects to whales, water and the wind. Read more…

Rupert Sheldrake: The Science Delusion

Wednesday January 23, 2013

Rupert Sheldrake shares evidence from his latest ground-breaking new book The Science Delusion and explores the implications of his radical discoveries for both science and society.

John Perkins: What wrecked our economy and how to fix it

Wednesday May 23, 2012

John Perkins talks about how we can create a world that will “make our children proud of us.”

Alan Watson Featherstone: A Million Trees and Counting - The Journey to Restore the Caledonian Forest

Tuesday April 17, 2012

Alan Watson Featherstone, tells the story of the journey to restore the Caledonian Forest.

Isabel Carlisle: Unlearning in India - a journey towards the ecological self

Wednesday March 28, 2012

Isabel Carlisle talks about her recent learning journey to India to visit centres such as Bija Vidyapeeth, Barefoot College and Shikshantar in Udaipur.

Amit Goswami: The Science of Quantum Consciousness

Wednesday February 29, 2012

Amit Goswami shows how the perspective of quantum physics can give us a scientific ground for a new spirituality based on consciousness.

Chris Clarke: Quantum Theory and Consciousness

Wednesday February 15, 2012

Chris Clarke explores the connection between quantum theory and consciousness.

Tim Crabtree: Local Initiatives to Build a New Economy

Wednesday February 8, 2012

Tim Crabtree talks about the many local, community-based projects he is involved with which are building the foundations for a new economy.

Nigel Topping: Don’t blame the Hammer!

Wednesday February 1, 2012

Nigel Topping reflects on the strengths and weaknesses of global capitalism and explores the possibility of creating a new ‘Wisdom Capitalism’ that heals rather than destroys.

Mary Mellor: Bringing Economics Down to Earth

Wednesday January 25, 2012

Mary Mellor, a leading figure in developing alternative models of money, finance and economic development, outlines how we could use money to create an economy that meets our needs.

Jonathan Dawson: Returning to Source - The Role of Social Innovation in The Great Transition

Wednesday January 11, 2012

Jonathan Dawson, co-Head of Economics at Schumacher College, gives a hopeful account of the diversity of innovative movements that are contributing towards social transformation.

Bill McKibben: Saving the Planet from the Bottom Up!

Wednesday October 5, 2011

Bill McKibben talks about the importance of activism to meet the environmental problems we face today.

Jonathan Dawson: The Global Ecovillage Experience

Wednesday September 28, 2011

Jonathan Dawson, co-Head of Economics at Schumacher College, talks about his involvement in the Global Ecovillage Network.

Kate Pickett & Richard Wilkinson: The Big Idea - Why Equality is Better for Everyone

Saturday September 24, 2011

Kate Pickett & Richard Wilkinson, authors of The Spirit Level, make the case for why we all do better when we’re equal.

Ann Pettifor

Monday July 11, 2011

Ann Pettifor on the current European financial crisis and the new MA in Economics for Transition at Schumacher College.

David Orr: Ecoliteracy and Ecological Education

Thursday June 30, 2011

David Orr discusses the importance of Ecoliteracy and the value of Ecological Education.

David Orr: The Oberlin Project

Wednesday June 29, 2011

David Orr talks about the US-based Oberlin Project and how it can inspire communities in the UK to work collaboratively with other groups to create a greener future.

Iain McGilchrist: Things Are Not What They Seem

Wednesday May 18, 2011

Iain McGilchrist suggests that the bipartite structure of the brain helps us to understand why the world so often seems paradoxical, and why we so often end up achieving the opposite of what we intend.

Rob Hopkins: Recipes for Resilience

Friday May 6, 2011

Rob Hopkins explains how doing transition is like baking a cake.

Deepak Chopra : Physical Healing, Emotional Wellbeing

Thursday May 5, 2011

Deepak Chopra talks about how we can be liberated from stress, burn out, depression, immune dysfunction, relationship pressures and other emotional and physical illnesses.

Deepak Chopra: Rabindranath Tagore's Relevance for the Future of Spirituality and of Humanity

Thursday May 5, 2011

Deepak Chopra argues that Rabindranath Tagore’s contribution to our understanding of spirituality is deeply needed to repair our soul and heal our planet.

Mary-Jayne Rust: Ecopsychology - Shadow and Transformation

Wednesday March 16, 2011

Mary-Jayne Rust talks about the importance of facing the personal and collective shadow of the ecological crisis. In a dark time the eye begins to see.

Dave Key: Applied Ecopsychology

Wednesday March 9, 2011

Dave Key presents the WWF Natural Change Project as a successful case study of applied Ecopsychology.

Aruna and Bunker Roy: Two Approaches for Transformative Development

Wednesday February 16, 2011

Aruna Roy is a recipient of Magsaysay award – valued as the Asian Nobel prize – for community leadership and international understanding. Sanjit “Bunker” Roy is an Indian social entrepreneur who, in 1972, established the Social Work and Research Centre, now known as the Barefoot College.

Allan Kaplan: Reading the nature of process from a process of nature

Wednesday February 9, 2011

Allan Kaplan talks about Facilitation as the art of anticipation.

Robert Chambers: Development - What the Professionals Miss

Wednesday February 2, 2011

Robert Chambers is a research associate at the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex and author of the influential book, Rural Development: Putting the Last First

Gunter Pauli: Bhutan and the Blue Economy

Wednesday January 19, 2011

Gunter Pauli presents fascinating examples of new innovations and business models that can offer simple solutions to many global challenges.

Jean Boulton: Complexity as Worldview

Wednesday January 12, 2011

Jean Boulton makes the link between Complexity Theory, Buddhism and Taoism and shows what a worldview based on the learnings from Complexity Theory could look like.

Hardin Tibbs: Global Cultural Development

Thursday January 6, 2011

Hardin Tibbs is a specialist in strategic thinking. In this talk he explores future prospects for the global system.

Radio Schumacher Series - Autumn 2010

Thursday September 30, 2010

A series of interviews and stories recounting the unique experience of day-to-day life at Schumacher College.

This is Ecocide: An Interview with Polly Higgins

Thursday September 30, 2010

Polly Higgins is a lawyer who has dedicated her life to one client – the Earth.

Carolyn Steel: Why is food vital to a sustainable society?

Wednesday September 15, 2010

Carolyn Steel, author of ‘Hungry City’, explores the relationships between food and cities. Can food production be central to town life and urban planning?

Rhamis Kent: Permaculture and Society - The Case of Detroit

Tuesday July 20, 2010

Rhamis Kent tells the story of the urban agriculture movement in Detroit to illustrate the role of permaculture in the transformation of post-industrial urban America.

Sean Kelly: Five Principles of Integral Ecology

Wednesday June 23, 2010

Sean Kelly presents five principles to place human existence into a holistic, ecological context.

Helena Norberg Hodge: Towards an Economics of Happiness

Wednesday June 16, 2010

Helena Norberg-Hodge talks about the growing worldwide movement for economic localization.

Fritjof Capra: Learning from Leonardo

Wednesday May 19, 2010

Fritjof Capra outlines the lessons we can learn from Leonardo da Vinci’s scientific approach. “In my view, what we need today is exactly the kind of science that Leonardo da Vinci outlined 500 years ago.”

Vandana Shiva: Biotechnology and World Food Supplies

Wednesday March 3, 2010

Vandana Shiva explains the science of biotechnology (genetic engineering), and the dangers it poses to the world’s food supplies.

Ranyl Rhydwen: Current Environmental Changes and Implications

Thursday February 25, 2010

Part 2 of this 2 part lecture series explores the human impact on the earth’s climate in the past, present and future.

Ranyl Rhydwen: Climate Systems and Interactions

Wednesday February 24, 2010

This is part 1 of a 2 part lecture series which outlines the basic concepts for understanding climate change.

Philip Franses : Complexity and Emergence in our Economic System

Wednesday February 10, 2010

Philip Franses talks about Complexity and Emergence in our Economic system.

Tim Kasser: A Revolution of Values

Wednesday February 3, 2010

Tim Kasser presents his compelling psychological research on materialism and its alternatives.

Ravi Ravindra: Science and Spirituality

Wednesday January 20, 2010

Ravi Ravindra poses the question: “What is God that we are mindful of him?”

Bernadette Brady: The Idea of Soul – From Egypt to Hillman

Wednesday January 13, 2010

Bernadette Brady explores the Idea of Soul and shows how our personal beliefs around Soul reveal our attitude to life on Earth.

Elisabet Sahtouris: Living Better on a Hotter Planet

Wednesday January 6, 2010

Dr. Elisabet Sahtouris shows how insights from evolutionary biology can lead us to a better future on an ever changing planet.

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