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Newsletter May 2009
Announcing New Schumacher Courses for Autumn 2009
Courses for the autumn include Biotecture in Practice: Building an Earthship; Exploring Ethnobotany: Plants as healers; and Growth and Consequence: Rethinking our economic future. We have released the initial course details so you can put the dates in your diary. Why not register your interest in one or more courses and you will be the first to know when the courses open for booking, with further details and any early-bird discounts.
Read more about our new list of short courses, click here.
Global change and environmental crisis: Local communities hold the answers
Maintaining biocultural diversity is an act of supreme collective intelligence according to Gary Martin, Director of the Global Diversity Foundation. Local community knowledge may hold the keys to addressing global challenges like climate change, ecosystem health and food security.
The biological, cultural and physical resources we need to sustain life are being depleted by humanity. According to the European Environment Agency, the threat to habitat and species is ‘terrifying’. Simultaneously, local knowledge on maintaining cultural landscapes and environments is being lost through uniformity imposed by a globalised society and the demands of an increasingly industrialised planet… Read more
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Final few places on Biomimicry: Nature as mentor, model & measure
This exciting course will outline the philosophy and ethics of biomimicry, introduce life’s inherently sustainable design principles and apply them to a range of professional practices. Participants will develop a method for bringing natural forms to the design table and a whole new way of viewing and valuing the genius that surrounds us.
Interested in reading what a previous participant thought of last year’s Biomimicry course? Check out Leonora Oppenheim’s blog at www.treehugger.com
For details on Biomimicry: Nature as mentor, model & measure
Director Charlie McConnell talks about his first months at the college
May marks my first six months at Dartington. I joined the Trust following five years as CEO of the Carnegie UK Trust, where amongst other initiatives we launched the influential Carnegie Commission for Rural Communities and the Carnegie Commission on the future of Civil Society… The opportunity to move to Dartington to lead the Trust’s work on sustainability and to run the internationally respected Schumacher College was a challenge I’ve relished… Read more
Future farming at School Farm, Dartington
Salad-loving staff and tenants will be well aware of fresh salad sprouting in the entrances of many buildings around the Estate. These are just some of the fruits of the recent hard work at School Farm where pioneer horticulturalist, Nick Gooderham, has been breathing new life into the previously unoccupied premises. This spring two dilapidated tunnels received new skins and more land was prepared for the busiest growing season the site will have seen for years… Read more
Forthcoming courses
Small is Beautiful Revisited
1 – 5 June
Biomimicry: Nature as mentor, model & measure
8 – 12 June
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Walking with the Earth Pilgrim
15 – 19 June
Science, Cosmology & the Future
29 June – 10 July
Valuing Diversity: Learning from ecosystems & cultures
13 – 24 July
Walking with the Earth Pilgrim
14 – 18 September
Earth Jurisprudence and Community Resilience: Learning from Africa
21 – 25 September
Biotecture in Practice: Building an earthship
5 – 9 October
Exploring Ethnobotany: Plants as Healers
19 – 23 October
Closing Loops, Opening Minds: Educating for a greener future
2 – 6 November
Purpose and Profit: How holistic thinking can remake business
9 – 13 Nov
Growth and Consequence: Rethinking our economic future
23 – 27 November
Click here to book your place(s) using our on-line booking system
Click here to book by post or fax
Events and networks
Weeds and Wild Flowers
Wednesday 27 May, 2009, 8pm
Schumacher College, Dartington
An exhibition of etchings and poems from the book by Jessica Greenman and Alice Oswald.
The evening is a celebration of the wonders of wild plants. Jessica will talk about the etchings she has created for the book, Alice will read some of her poems and bookbinder Mary Bartlett will reflect on the important role of botanical explorers. Original etchings from the book will be on display.
Economic and Environmental Recovery: from Downturn to Steady State
Creating a better world to recover from the credit crunch and the nature crunch
Saturday 30 May 2009, 11am to 5pm
Cecil Sharpe House, London
Speakers: Fritjof Capra, Ann Pettifor, Satish Kumar
peterlang@resurgence.org \ www.resurgence.org
This event is run by Resurgence Magazine, in association with Schumacher College, Scientific and Medical Network, The Temenos Academy & The Gaia Foundation
Process and Pilgrimage: The essence of life as movement
Sunday 31 May 2009, 10.30-17.30
Birkbeck College, London
Speakers: Satish Kumar, Francoise Wemelsfelder, Basil Hiley, Chris Clarke, Brian Goodwin, Philip Franses
minni@earthlinksall.com / www.earthlinksall.com/processandpilgrimage
Event organised by Earthlinks in association with Resurgence Magazine, Schumacher College, Scientific and Medical Network and Birkbeck College
Netherlands network, Schumacher meeting
21 June 2009
People who have attended short courses at Schumacher and/or former MSc students in Holistic Science are welcome, to meet each other and introduce those who have not yet attended a course to the college.
http://schumacherontmoeting.ning.com/
This event is run by Schumacher College alumni, not the college itself.
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