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Founder and initial head of the MA in Economics for Transition talks about her background and the philosophy behind the development of the programme.

Great companies are the ones which design customer experiences with soul. A customer experience has soul when it has the quality of authentic wholeness, the principle of life itself. When you can connect with the soul of your organisation and experience the way in which it is expressed through each and every part, you will have created an authentic customer experience with soul.

Life in Transition will feature changemakers from Denmark, Brazil, Estonia, the UK, Spain, Australia, Italy, USA,

The two meetings attack the issues from different angles and with different speakers -- but both argue that for starters we (humanity, the world) need to re-think food and farming from principles. We need nothing less than an Agrarian Renaissance – to be driven by all of us: a giant exercize in democracy.

Established as an educational charity in 2006, The Resurgence Trust publishes Resurgence & Ecologist magazine, alongside its main website www.resurgence.org, where the entire back catalogue of issues are available for members to read. The Resurgence Trust also publishes the internationally-respected environmental news website www.theecologist.org. With a world-wide network of distinguished contributors and strong editorial integrity Resurgence, with the addition of The Ecologist in 2007, has become a powerful force for change.

The Jali Ardhi, or 'Care Of The Land' Project will examine socio-ecological resilience to soil erosion driven by extreme events: past, present and future challenges in East Africa and aims to involve Schumacher College’s Ecological Design Thinking to map the issue in terms that will point towards a solution.

In 1999, in his magnum opus, The Great Work, Thomas Berry said that the present urgency is to begin thinking within the context of the whole planet, the integral Earth community with all its human and other-than-human components, as an ecological imperative.

An article on The Three Horizons of innovation and culture change by Daniel Christian Wahl, glocal educator, activist and consultant, generalized in whole systems design and transformative innovation for regenenerative cultures.

Sustainability alone is not an adequate goal. Article by Daniel Christian Wahl

Underpinning currently dominant educational practice lie a series of assumptions about how we learn that are contradicted by a growing body of scientific evidence, as well as by our common sense.