August 1, 2023
“Schumacher Conversations” continued in July with a focus on the role of human-scale technologies in community economic development. Video of “Developing Convivial Technologies for Right Livelihood” is now available on our website and YouTube.
July 25, 2023
The Farmsteads for Farmers project is part of a broader effort to build a culture in the Berkshires of land gifting into Community Land Trusts.
July 3, 2023
Our celebration of Small is Beautiful continues in July, focusing on the theme of Developing Convivial Technologies for Right Livelihood. Our participants for this online conversation are introduced here.
June 27, 2023
This month, Naomi Davis of Blacks in Green, David Sturmes-Verbeek of the Fair Cobalt Alliance and Stuart Cowan of the Buckminster Fuller Institute joined in conversation. Our own Greg Watson moderated, connecting dots among this constellation of experts.
June 21, 2023
“The former mayor of Berkeley, California, he spent his life nourishing community-building initiatives, and fighting to end gentrification and apartheid. His mission was to shift power and translate dreams into reality.”
June 7, 2023
In anticipation of June’s Schumacher Conversation, we revisit two relevant essays from our archive. Together, they connect visionary concepts born of E.F. Schumacher’s generation with the challenge and opportunity of a global renewable energy commons.
May 30, 2023
In June, our celebration of Small is Beautiful turns to the theme of Creating a Global Renewable Energy Commons. Our participants for this online conversation are introduced here.
May 24, 2023
Alfa Demmellash of Rising Tide Capital, Chuck Collins of the Institute for Policy Studies, and Kate Poole of Chordata Capital discuss innovative ways to move money and resources toward enduring community wealth-building. Nwamaka Agbo of Kataly Foundation moderates.
May 13, 2023
With inequality in the U.S. reaching heights not seen in a century, Chuck’s message is clear: “we should be encouraging the flow of money. Move the money. Move it to the nonprofit charity sector…” This theme is shared among the participants of May’s Schumacher Conversation.
May 2, 2023
Our celebration of Small is Beautiful continues into May with a new theme: Activating Stagnant Capital to Catalyze Local Transformation. Our participants for this online conversation are introduced here.
April 26, 2023
April’s installment of our Schumacher Conversations brought a spirited discussion on freeing land from market pressures and renewing relationships between people and the Earth. The full recording of “Reallocating Land: From Market to Commons” is now available online.
April 19, 2023
A trail-blazing author and activist, once called “the patriarch of the anti-globalization movement,” Jerold Irwin “Jerry” Mander passed away earlier this week at the age of 86.