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.
April 17, 2023
“[M]an’s management of the land must be primarily orientated towards three goals – health, beauty, and permanence. The fourth goal – the only one accepted by the experts – productivity, will then be attained almost as a by-product.”
April 6, 2023
On the 26th of March, the Schumacher Center hosted Kali Akuno, co-founder of Cooperation Jackson, as our inaugural Robert Swann Lecturer. Kali addressed “Shifting Focus: Organizing for an Ecosocialist Future” to a local Southern Berkshire audience.
April 5, 2023
A talk about racial justice, freedom, the future, and the promise of an altogether different kind of politics.
March 30, 2023
April’s panelists are those pioneering radical forms of land tenure that challenge the private property norm. Combined, their experience with voluntary land gifting and community trusteeship of working lands spans three continents.