Annual E.F. Schumacher Lectures

1st Annual E.F.  Schumacher Lectures Mount Holyoke College; South Hadley, Massachusetts October 24, 1981

People, Land, and Community  by Wendell Berry A Call for a Revolution in Agriculture by Wes Jackson

2nd Annual E.F.  Schumacher Lectures Cathedral of St. John the Divine; New York, NY October 24, 1982

The Family as a Small Society by Elise Boulding The Community's Role in Appropriate Technology by George McRobie

3rd Annual E.F.  Schumacher Lectures: "Thinking Regionally: Ecological Politics for the 1980s" Mount Holyoke College; South Hadley, Massachusetts October 15, 1983

The Economics of Regions by Jane Jacobs Mother of All: Introduction Bioregionalism by Kirkpatrick Sale

4th Annual E.F.  Schumacher Lectures: "Alternatives to Politics as Usual" Sheffield-Sterling-Strathcona Hall of Yale University; New Haven, Connecticut October 27, 1984

John Deere and the Bereavement Counselor by John McKnight Green Politics: The Spiritual Dimension by Charlene Spretnak

5th Annual E.F.  Schumacher Lectures: “The Politics of Third World Development” Harvard Kennedy School; Cambridge, Massachusetts October 19, 1985

Toward a Politics of Hope: Lessons for a Hungry World by Francis Moore  Lappé An Ecological Economic Order by John Todd

6th Annual E.F.  Schumacher Lectures: Arch Street Friends Meeting House; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania September 27, 1986

The Farm Crisis and the City  by Wendell Berry The Farm Crisis by Katherine Waller

7th Annual E.F.  Schumacher Lectures: “Technology and its Consequences: How to Understand and Resist the Megamachine” Monument Mountain Regional High School; Great Barrington, Massachusetts October 24, 1987

Technology as if the Earth Mattered by Nancy Jack Todd Alternative Medicines by Richard Grossman Technology and its Consequences by Jeremy Rifkin

8th Annual E.F.  Schumacher Lectures: “Import Replacement: Economic Opportunities for Regions” Monument Mountain Regional High School; Great Barrington, Massachusetts October 29, 1988

Import Replacement by Alanna Probst Linking America's Farmers to Cities: The Farmers Market Coupon Program by August Schumacher The Need for Local Currencies by Robert Swann

9th Annual E.F.  Schumacher Lectures: "The Paths of Decentralism Since E.F. Schumacher" John Dewey Academy; Great Barrington, Massachusetts October 28, 1989

Development Beyond Economism by Hazel Henderson Why Small is Beautiful: The Size Interpretation of History by Leopold Kohr Bringing Power Back Home: Recreating Democracy on a Human Scale by John McClaughry

10th Annual E.F.  Schumacher Lectures: “Decentralist Responses to the Environmental Crisis” John Dewey Academy; Great Barrington, Massachusetts October 27, 1990

The Management Explosion and the Next Environmental Crisis by David Ehrenfeld Women and the Challenge of the Ecological Era by Dana Lee Jackson The Columbian Legacy and the Ecosterian Response by Kirkpatrick Sale

11th Annual E.F.  Schumacher Lectures: “In Memory of Lewis Mumford: Human Habitat and the Natural World” John Dewey Academy; Great Barrington, Massachusetts October 19, 1991

The Ecozoic Era by Thomas Berry Making Amends to the Myriad Creatures by Stephanie Mills

12th Annual E.F.  Schumacher Lectures First Congregational Church of Stockbridge, Stockbridge, Massachusetts October 31, 1992

It's Healing Time on Earth by David Brower Environmental Literacy: Education as if the Earth Mattered by David Orr The Right Livelihood Award and Further Initiatives for a Sustainable Society by Jakob von Uexkull

13th Annual E.F.  Schumacher Lectures Sheffield-Sterling-Strathcona Hall of Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut October 23, 1993

Ecologically Sustainable Development: More than Just a Pretty Face by George Davis Becoming Native to this Place by Wes Jackson Voices from White Earth: Gaa-Waabbaabiganikaag by Winona LaDuke

14th Annual E.F.  Schumacher Lectures Sheffield-Sterling-Strathcona Hall of Yale University; New Haven, Connecticut October 22, 1994

Distributing our Technological Inheritance by Gar Alperovitz The Wisdom of Leopold Kohr by Ivan Illich

15th Annual E.F.  Schumacher Lectures Yale Law School; New Haven, Connecticut October 21, 1995

The Ecology of Commerce: Changing the Nature of Business by Paul Hawken The Garden Project: Growing Urban Communities by Cathrine Sneed The Seed Savers Exchange by Kent Whealy

16th Annual E.F.  Schumacher Lectures First Congregational Church of Stockbridge; Stockbridge, Massachusetts October 26, 1996

The Assembly: A Tool for Transforming Communities by Donald L. Anderson Reclaiming Community by David Morris Moving toward Community: From Global Dependence to Local Interdependence by Helena Norberg-Hodge

17th Annual E.F.  Schumacher Lectures First Congregational Church of Stockbridge; Stockbridge, Massachusetts October 18, 1997

How the Conquest of Indigenous People Parallels the Conquest of Nature by John Mohawk The Wisdom that Builds Community by Greg Watson Buddhist Technology: Bringing a New Consciousness to our Technological Future by Arthur Zajonc

18th Annual E.F.  Schumacher Lectures: Salisbury Congregational Church; Salisbury, Connecticut October 24, 1998

Democratic Self-Governance: Lessons from Vermont by Frank Bryan Flapping Butterfly Wings: A Retrospect on TRANET's First 20 Years by William Ellis The Company We Keep: The Case for Small Schools by Deborah Meier

19th Annual E.F.  Schumacher Lectures Salisbury Congregational Church; Salisbury, Connecticut October 23, 1999

A Map: From the Old Connecticut to the Rio Grande Valley and All the Meaning in Between by Chellis Glendinning Economic Globalization: The Era of Corporate Rule by Jerry Mander The Friendship Club and the Well-Springs of Civil Society by William Schambra

20th Annual E.F.  Schumacher Lectures: “The Effects of Globalization and Steps toward Strengthening Local Economies” Salisbury Congregational Church; Salisbury, Connecticut October 28, 2000

Stories from an Appalachian Community by Marie Cirillo Cold Evil: Technology and Modern Ethics by Andrew Kimbrell Creating a Post Corporate World by David Korten

21st Annual E.F.  Schumacher Lectures Johnson Chapel; Amherst, Massachusetts October 27, 2001

Democracy, Earth Rights, and the Next Economy by Alanna Hartzok Natural Capitalism: The Next Industrial Revolution by Amory Lovins Ecological Design: Reinventing the Future by John Todd

22nd Annual E.F.  Schumacher Lectures: "Greening the Campus: Values in Action" Edwards Church; Northampton, Massachusetts October 26, 2002

Greening the Campus from a Procurement Perspective by Kevin Lyons Walking North on a Southbound Train by David Orr

23rd Annual E.F.  Schumacher Lectures: "The Commons: Rights and Responsibilities" First Congregational Church of Stockbridge; Stockbridge, Massachusetts October 25, 2003

Capitalism, the Commons, and Divine Right by Peter Barnes Every Being has Rights by Thomas Berry Salmon Economics (And Other Lessons) by Andrew Kimbrell

24th Annual E.F.  Schumacher Lectures First Congregational Church of Stockbridge; Stockbridge, Massachusetts October 23, 2004

The Ice is Melting by Oren Lyons Bob Swann's "Positively Dazzling Realism" by Stephanie Mills Good Morning, Beautiful Business by Judy Wicks

25th Annual E.F.  Schumacher Lectures First Congregational Church of Stockbridge, Stockbridge, Massachusetts October 22, 2005

The Role of the Individual in Localizing Money Issue and Credit Creation by Christopher Houghton Budd Of Corporations, Law, and Democracy by Thomas Linzey The Promise of Ecological Design by Nancy Jack Todd

26th Annual E.F.  Schumacher Lectures First Congregational Church of Stockbridge, Stockbridge, Massachusetts October 28, 2006

Fifty Million Farmers by Richard Heinberg Declarations of Independents by Stacy Mitchell E.F. Schumacher: He Taught Us to Build Bridges and Plant Trees by Will Raap

27th Annual E.F.  Schumacher Lectures Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center; Great Barrington, Massachusetts October 27, 2007

Sustainable South Bronx: A Model for Environomental Justice by Majora Carter Local Stock Exchanges: The Next Wave of Community Economy Building by Michael Shuman What about Us - The Earth's People? by Charles Turner

28th Annual E.F.  Schumacher Lectures First Congregational Church of Stockbridge; Stockbridge, Massachusetts October 25, 2008

Natural Foie Gras and the Future of Food by Dan Barber Very Small is Very Beautiful by Sally Fallon Morell Eat the Sky: The Climate Crisis at the End of your Fork by Anna Lappé

29th Annual E.F.  Schumacher Lectures First Congregational Church of Stockbridge; Stockbridge, Massachusetts October 17, 2009

Climate Change and the Politics of Interdependence by Benjamin Barber A talk by Alisa Gravitz The Most Important Number in the World by Bill McKibben

30th Annual E.F.  Schumacher Lectures The Community Church of New York; New York, New York November 20, 2010

What Can we Hope for the World in 2075? by Neva Goodwin Letter to Liberals: Liberalism,Environmentalism, and Economic Growth by James Gustave Speth Voices of a New Economics by Stewart Wallis

31st Annual E.F.  Schumacher Lectures: "Voices of a New Economics" First Church in Cambridge; Cambridge, Massachusetts November 5, 2011

If You Don't Like Capitalism or State Socialism, What Do You Want? by Gar Alperovitz The New Economics of Plentitude by Juliet Schor “Voices of Today’s Youth: Occupy Wall Street and the Call for a New Economy” Panel

32nd Annual E.F.  Schumacher Lectures:  First Church in Cambridge; Cambridge, Massachusetts November 20, 2012

 The Role of the Internet in the Creation of a Just and Sustainable Economy by Robert K. Massie and Lawrence Lessig

33th Annual E.F.  Schumacher Lectures:  “America Emerging: Culture and Economics” Essex House; New York, New York Nov. 9, 2013

America Emerging: Western Civilization 2.0 by Otto Scharmer America Emerging: Culture and Economics by Van Jones

34th Annual E.F.  Schumacher Lectures:   “This Must Be the Place: Creative Enterprise in the New Economy” Judson Memorial Church; New York, New York Nov. 15, 2014

What is a Work of Art in the Age of a $120,000 Art Degree? “Entrepreneurs of the Self” in the New Economy  by Caroline Woolard The Nature of Work: How Ecosystems Can Teach Us to Build Lasting and Fulfilling Businesses  by Matt Stinchcomb

35th Annual E.F.  Schumacher Lectures: “Cattle and Kelp: Agriculture in a New Economy” Churchtown Dairy; Churchtown, NY Oct. 24, 2015

Greening the Desert: Holistic Management in the Era of Climate Change by Allan Savory Ecological Redemption: Ocean Farming in the Era of Climate Change by Bren Smith

36th Annual E.F.  Schumacher Lectures Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center; Great Barrington, Massachusetts October 22, 2016

A Conversation with Wendell Berry and Wes Jackson moderated by Mary Berry

37th Annual E.F.  Schumacher Lectures Mahaiwe Performing Arts Center; Great Barrington, Massachusetts November 4, 2017

Prophecy of the Seventh Fire: Choosing the Path that is Green by Winona LaDuke A Conversation about Land and Liberation with Gopal Dayaneni, Karissa Lewis, and Robert HawkStorm Bergin; moderated by Nwamaka Agbo

38th Annual E.F.  Schumacher Lectures: "Towards a New Reconstruction: Land, Racism, and Economic Emancipation" Saint James Place, Great Barrington; Massachusetts October 27, 2018

Uprooting Racism, Seeding Sovereignty by Leah Penniman Building Freedom: Our Challenges by Ed Whitfield

39th Annual E.F.  Schumacher Lectures: "Actionable Responses to Climate Change" Saint James Place; Great Barrington, Massachusetts October 27, 2019

Actionable Responses to Climate Change by Sallie Calhoun A Comprehensive Anticipatory Green New Deal by Greg Watson

40th Annual E.F.  Schumacher Lecture: "Land as a Commons: Building the New Economy" Virtual October 24, 2020

Private Sufficiency, Public Luxury: Land is the Key to the Transformation of Society by George Monbiot

41st Annual E.F.  Schumacher Lecture Virtual October 25, 2021

Felled By Beauty: Guam and the End of American Empire by Julian Aguon

42nd Annual E.F.  Schumacher Lecture Virtual November 12, 2022

Planetary Economics: New Tools for Local Transformation by Kate Raworth