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Newsletter: December 2007
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Wishing you all a very happy winter season and a positive new year!
Really 18 people in the kitchen is a maximum but we wanted as many of us present as possible to wish you well in 2008.
Welcome to all those signed up to the newsletter recently, including from the Be the Change conference in London, where we joined the proceeding through a video link up.
Here are bite sized pieces of news for you, including an article from Vandana Shiva, the reprint of Gaia’s Kitchen and our new programme of Open evenings. Something for everyone – local to global.
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New economics think tank at Schumacher College
24 of the top economic, development and sustainability specialists from around the world met at Schumacher College for a weekend think tank in November to discuss the future of global economics, ecology and equity. This specialist group was looking at the components of a new economic system and practical ways of starting the process of change.
Contributors included a wide range of influential thinkers from around the world such as Juliet Schor (author of The Overworked American), Bernard Lietaer (Research Fellow at the Center for Sustainable Resources of the University of California at Berkeley), Vandana Shiva (author and activist and founder of the Research Foundation for Science, Technology and Ecology), Manfred Max Neef (author of From the Outside Looking in: Experiences in Barefoot Economics).
We will publish the exciting results of the think tank as soon as possible. Additionally, the group plans to meet again next year and review work undertaken in the interim.
For courses relating to think tank subjects please see: Can the Earth Survive Capitalism?: Exploring economic models and Development: What next?
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Food, Forests and Fuel : From False to Real Solutions for the Climate Change
Article by 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. Read this article.
Vandana Shiva will be teaching on the short course Development: What Next? and as a contributing speaker, alongside Satish Kumar (pictured here), at our seminar in London in March Cultures of Sustainability: Reflections from Schumacher College
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Reprint of Gaia’s Kitchen
In 2001 Gaia’s Kitchen, by Schumacher College Chef, Julia Ponsonby won the Gourmand World Cookbook Award for best vegetarian cookbook. For those of you who have been waiting for a copy, you have a treat in store – the book is currently being prepared for reprint. Due to the book’s rarity, the price on the Internet for a second hand copy is currently nearly three times the original price of £12.99. Participants often cite the food and their experiences in the kitchen as one of the highlights of their experience here. The kitchen is a real focus for the ideals of transformative learning. You learn by doing and you are both the master and apprentice at the same time. The cookbook therefore is much more than an aide memoire for those that have been at the College and want to recreate their favourite recipe. Read more about this.
Open EveningsWe are delighted to tell you that dates for the ever popular open evenings are now on our website for the new year. Here are the first three. But see the website for more Marjorie Kelly, 8pm Wednesday January 9, 2008 @ Schumacher College Peter Barnes, 8pm Wednesday January 16, 2008 @ Schumacher College Ezio Manzini, 8pm Wednesday February 6, 2008 @ Schumacher College Applications are now being accepted for MScApplications are now being accepted for 2008 entry of The Masters in Holistic Science. For fee information and details of how to apply click here. New to Schumacher College?If you have been passed this email by a friend or colleague and want to receive the newsletter yourself in future, please do sign-up by visiting www.schumachercollege.org.uk |
Programme 2008 – courses open for booking
Can the Earth Survive Capitalism? Exploring sustainable economic models
7 – 18 January, 2008
Designing for Sustainability: Systems, ethics & beauty
4 – 22 February, 2008
Roots of Learning: Educating for community and sustainability
25 – 29 February, 2008
Development: What Next?
3 – 20 March, 2008
Tackling Climate Change at Home
7 – 11 April, 2008
Inspired Leadership: Seeing organisations as living systems
21 – 25 April, 2008
Reconnecting with Nature as Healer
5 – 16 May, 2008
Creating Nature: Art in the landscape
26 May – 6 June, 2008
Soul of Science
16 – 27 June, 2008
Sacred Activism
14 – 25 July, 2008
MSc in Holistic Science
Starting September 2008
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