Rethinking Ownership & Work: Shared Responsibility & Reward
October 16, 2023
In October, our celebration of Small is Beautiful continues with the theme of Rethinking Ownership & Work: Shared Responsibility & Reward.
Newsletter Archive
Redesigning Money
October 2, 2023
Our series “Schumacher Conversations: Envisioning the Next 50 Years” continues in September on the topic of currency design. Our recording of “Democratizing Monetary Issue: Tools for Resilience” is now available on our website and YouTube.
Community Issued Currency
September 13, 2023
Earlier this year, Executive Director Susan Witt delivered a new presentation on local currency innovation in the Berkshires. Her remarks were given during a roundtable on Credit Design & Community Development at Harvard’s Money as a Democratic Medium 2.0 Conference.
Democratizing Monetary Issue: Tools for Resilience
September 5, 2023
Our celebration of Small is Beautiful continues in September with the theme of Democratizing Monetary Issue: Tools for Resilience. Our participants for this online conversation are introduced below.
A Just Distribution
August 29, 2023
In August, “Schumacher Conversations: Envisioning the Next 50 Years” continues with a spotlight on the transformational potential of Universal Basic Income. Video of “Implementing U.B.I.: Meeting Needs Unconditionally” is now available on our website and YouTube.
Visionary or Prophetic?
August 16, 2023
Since 1981, our Annual E.F. Schumacher Lectures have read as an extension of Schumacher’s vision into the present. This year’s 43rd Annual E. F. Schumacher Lecturers are Co-founders of Rising Tide Capital Alfa Demmellash (CEO) and Alex Forrester (COO).
Bayo Akomolafe’s “Why We Need Post-Activism Today”
August 15, 2023
A few memorable quotes offer glimmers of Bayo’s ruminations on racial justice, freedom, and the search for a different kind of politics in the anthropocene.
Implementing U.B.I.: Meeting Needs Unconditionally
August 9, 2023
In August, our celebration of Small is Beautiful continues with the theme of Implementing U.B.I.: Meeting Needs Unconditionally. Our participants for this online conversation are introduced below.
Technology that Simplifies
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.
Health, Beauty, Permanence: the Path to Productivity
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.
Developing Convivial Technologies for Right Livelihood
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.
Self-Determined Energy Futures
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.