http://schumachercollege.org.uk/ http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/ Thu, 23 Feb 2012 04:18:31 CET Chris Clarke explores the connection between quantum theory and consciousness.

]]> http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/community/chris-clarke-quantum-theory-and-consciousness-an-exploration Wednesday, 15 February 2012 8:30pm http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/community/chris-clarke-quantum-theory-and-consciousness-an-exploration 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.

]]> http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/community/open-evening-nigel-topping Wednesday, 01 February 2012 8:06pm http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/community/open-evening-nigel-topping 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.

]]> http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/community/open-evening-mary-mellor-bringing-economics-down-to-earth Wednesday, 25 January 2012 8:26pm http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/community/open-evening-mary-mellor-bringing-economics-down-to-earth 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.

]]> http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/community/open-evening-jonathan-dawson-social-enterprise-2 Wednesday, 11 January 2012 8:16pm http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/community/open-evening-jonathan-dawson-social-enterprise-2 Bill McKibben talks about the importance of activism to meet the environmental problems we face today.

]]> http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/community/open-evening-bill-mckibben-saving-the-planet-from-the-bottom-up Wednesday, 05 October 2011 9:16pm http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/community/open-evening-bill-mckibben-saving-the-planet-from-the-bottom-up Jonathan Dawson, co-Head of Economics at Schumacher College, talks about his involvement in the Global Ecovillage Network.

]]> http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/community/open-evening-the-global-ecovillage-experience-with-jonathan-dawson Wednesday, 28 September 2011 10:12am http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/community/open-evening-the-global-ecovillage-experience-with-jonathan-dawson Kate Pickett & Richard Wilkinson, authors of The Spirit Level, make the case for why we all do better when we’re equal.

]]> http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/community/kate-pickett-richard-wilkinson-the-big-idea-why-equality-is-better-for-everyone Saturday, 24 September 2011 11:46am http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/community/kate-pickett-richard-wilkinson-the-big-idea-why-equality-is-better-for-everyone Ann Pettifor on the current European financial crisis and the new MA in Economics for Transition at Schumacher College.

]]> http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/community/ann-pettifor Monday, 11 July 2011 4:30pm http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/community/ann-pettifor David Orr discusses the importance of Ecoliteracy and the value of Ecological Education.

]]> http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/community/david-orr-ecoliteracy-and-ecological-education Thursday, 30 June 2011 12:53pm http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/community/david-orr-ecoliteracy-and-ecological-education 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.

]]> http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/community/open-evening-with-david-orr Wednesday, 29 June 2011 9:00am http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/community/open-evening-with-david-orr 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.

]]> http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/community/things-are-not-what-they-seem Wednesday, 18 May 2011 9:00pm http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/community/things-are-not-what-they-seem Rob Hopkins explains how doing transition is like baking a cake.

]]> http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/community/rob-hopkins-recipes-for-resilience Friday, 06 May 2011 10:53am http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/community/rob-hopkins-recipes-for-resilience Deepak Chopra talks about how we can be liberated from stress, burn out, depression, immune dysfunction, relationship pressures and other emotional and physical illnesses.

]]> http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/community/deepak-chopra-physical-healing-emotional-wellbeing Thursday, 05 May 2011 3:27pm http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/community/deepak-chopra-physical-healing-emotional-wellbeing Deepak Chopra argues that Rabindranath Tagore’s contribution to our understanding of spirituality is deeply needed to repair our soul and heal our planet.

]]> http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/community/deepak-chopra-rabindranath-tagore-s-relevance-for-the-future-of-spirituality-and-of-humanity Thursday, 05 May 2011 1:01pm http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/community/deepak-chopra-rabindranath-tagore-s-relevance-for-the-future-of-spirituality-and-of-humanity 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.

]]> http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/community/ecopsychology-shadow-and-transformation Wednesday, 16 March 2011 10:00pm http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/community/ecopsychology-shadow-and-transformation Dave Key presents the WWF Natural Change Project as a successful case study of applied Ecopsychology.

]]> http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/community/the-wwf-natural-change-project Wednesday, 09 March 2011 10:00pm http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/community/the-wwf-natural-change-project 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.

]]> http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/community/an-open-evening-with-bunker-roy-and-aruna-roy Wednesday, 16 February 2011 9:00pm http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/community/an-open-evening-with-bunker-roy-and-aruna-roy Allan Kaplan talks about Facilitation as the art of anticipation.

]]> http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/community/reading-the-nature-of-process-from-a-process-of-nature Wednesday, 09 February 2011 10:00pm http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/community/reading-the-nature-of-process-from-a-process-of-nature 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

]]> http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/community/development-what-the-professionals-miss Wednesday, 02 February 2011 10:00pm http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/community/development-what-the-professionals-miss Gunter Pauli presents fascinating examples of new innovations and business models that can offer simple solutions to many global challenges.

]]> http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/community/gunter-pauli-bhutan-and-the-blue-economy Wednesday, 19 January 2011 6:46pm http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/community/gunter-pauli-bhutan-and-the-blue-economy 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.

]]> http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/community/complexity-as-worldview Wednesday, 12 January 2011 10:00pm http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/community/complexity-as-worldview Hardin Tibbs is a specialist in strategic thinking. In this talk he explores future prospects for the global system.

]]> http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/community/global-cultural-development Thursday, 06 January 2011 9:23am http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/community/global-cultural-development A series of interviews and stories recounting the unique experience of day-to-day life at Schumacher College.

]]> http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/community/radio-schumacher-series-autumn-2010 Thursday, 30 September 2010 3:32pm http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/community/radio-schumacher-series-autumn-2010 Polly Higgins is a lawyer who has dedicated her life to one client – the Earth.

]]> http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/community/this-is-ecocide-an-interview-with-polly-higgins Thursday, 30 September 2010 2:02pm http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/community/this-is-ecocide-an-interview-with-polly-higgins Carolyn Steel, author of ‘Hungry City’, explores the relationships between food and cities. Can food production be central to town life and urban planning?

]]> http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/community/why-food-is-vital-to-a-sustainable-society-talk-with-carolyn-steel Wednesday, 15 September 2010 5:42pm http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/community/why-food-is-vital-to-a-sustainable-society-talk-with-carolyn-steel 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.

]]> http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/community/kent Tuesday, 20 July 2010 9:19pm http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/community/kent Rupert Sheldrake explores the fascinating domain of telepathy, and its potential impact on our scientific understanding.

]]> http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/community/mind-and-cosmos-an-open-evening-with-rupert-sheldrake Wednesday, 30 June 2010 10:00pm http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/community/mind-and-cosmos-an-open-evening-with-rupert-sheldrake Sean Kelly presents five principles to place human existence into a holistic, ecological context.

]]> http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/community/five-principles-of-integral-ecology-an-open-evening-with-sean-kelly Wednesday, 23 June 2010 10:23pm http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/community/five-principles-of-integral-ecology-an-open-evening-with-sean-kelly Helena Norberg-Hodge talks about the growing worldwide movement for economic localization.

]]> http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/community/economics-of-happiness-an-open-evening-with-helena-norberg-hodge Wednesday, 16 June 2010 10:16pm http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/community/economics-of-happiness-an-open-evening-with-helena-norberg-hodge 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.”

]]> http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/community/creativity-and-perception-an-open-evening-with-peter-adams-fritjof-capra Wednesday, 19 May 2010 10:07pm http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/community/creativity-and-perception-an-open-evening-with-peter-adams-fritjof-capra Vandana Shiva explains the science of biotechnology (genetic engineering), and the dangers it poses to the world’s food supplies.

]]> http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/community/open-evening-with-vandana-shiva-2010 Wednesday, 03 March 2010 12:46pm http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/community/open-evening-with-vandana-shiva-2010 Part 2 of this 2 part lecture series explores the human impact on the earth’s climate in the past, present and future.

]]> http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/community/ranyl-rhydwen-current-environmental-changes-and-implications Thursday, 25 February 2010 5:19pm http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/community/ranyl-rhydwen-current-environmental-changes-and-implications This is part 1 of a 2 part lecture series which outlines the basic concepts for understanding climate change.

]]> http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/community/ranyl-rhydwen-climate-systems-and-interactions Wednesday, 24 February 2010 5:02pm http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/community/ranyl-rhydwen-climate-systems-and-interactions Philip Franses talks about Complexity and Emergence in our Economic system.

]]> http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/community/open-evening-with-philip-franses Wednesday, 10 February 2010 12:18pm http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/community/open-evening-with-philip-franses Tim Kasser presents his compelling psychological research on materialism and its alternatives.

]]> http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/community/open-evening-with-tim-kasser Wednesday, 03 February 2010 8:00pm http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/community/open-evening-with-tim-kasser Ravi Ravindra poses the question: “What is God that we are mindful of him?”

]]> http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/community/open-evening-with-ravi-ravindra Wednesday, 20 January 2010 8:00pm http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/community/open-evening-with-ravi-ravindra Bernadette Brady explores the Idea of Soul and shows how our personal beliefs around Soul reveal our attitude to life on Earth.

]]> http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/community/the-idea-of-soul-from-egypt-to-hillman Wednesday, 13 January 2010 8:00pm http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/community/the-idea-of-soul-from-egypt-to-hillman Dr. Elisabet Sahtouris shows how insights from evolutionary biology can lead us to a better future on an ever changing planet.

]]> http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/community/open-evening-with-elisabet-sahtouris Wednesday, 06 January 2010 8:00pm http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/community/open-evening-with-elisabet-sahtouris Thomas Moore, author of the bestselling book Care of the Soul talks about the Soul of the Gospels.

]]> http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/community/thomas-moore-open-evening Wednesday, 13 May 2009 12:34pm http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/community/thomas-moore-open-evening