The Schumacher Lectures
The 1st Annual E. F. Schumacher Lectures of October 1981 emphasized the importance of vibrant regional economies at a time when the focus of the nation was on an expanding global economy. Much has happened since then. The promise of the global economy has faded in face of ever greater wealth disparity and environmental degradation. There is growing interest in building a new economy that is just and recognizes planetary limits. The speakers of the Schumacher Lecture Series continue to be at the forefront of this movement.
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- Update frequency
- every day
- Average duration
- 59 minutes
- Episodes
- 63
- Years Active
- 2017 - 2021
Felled by Beauty: Guam and the End of American Empire - Julian Aguon
Julian Aguon is an activist lawyer and writer from Guam and the author of the acclaimed new book, The Properties of Perpetual Light. He is the visionary behind Blue Ocean Law, a progressive firm that…
Winona LaDuke and Leah Penniman in Conversation
Winona LaDuke—an Anishinaabekwe (Ojibwe) member of the White Earth Nation—is an environmentalist, economist, author, and prominent Native American activist working to restore and preserve indigenous …
Hazel Henderson and Juliet Schor in Conversation
Since the early 1980’s Hazel Henderson’s name has been synonymous with impact investing. Probably more than any other person, Henderson has been responsible for creating and promoting a set of social…
Neva Goodwin and Stewart Wallis in Conversation
Neva Goodwin is co-founder and co-director of the Global Development And Environment Institute at Tufts University, where her projects have included editing a six-volume series, Frontier Issues in Ec…
Otto Scharmer and Matt Stinchcomb in Conversation
Otto Scharmer understands the stages of consciousness that are necessary to achieve transformation – whether that be transformation of the self, transformation of a group initiative, transformation o…
Mary Berry and Bill McKibben in Conversation
Mary Berry is the Executive Director of The Berry Center and a leader in the movement for sustainable agriculture. A well-known advocate for the preservation of rural culture and agriculture, she is …
Nwamaka Agbo and Stacy Mitchell in Conversation
Nwamaka Agbo is a nationally respected voice for impacted communities, working to ensure they are not left behind with the growing New Economy movement. Her approach, which she names Restorative Eco…
Wes Jackson and David Orr in Conversation
Wes Jackson is one of the foremost figures in the international sustainable agriculture movement. In addition to being a world-renowned plant geneticist, he is a farmer, author, and professor emeritu…
Greg Watson and John Todd in Conversation
John and Nancy Todd and a group of scientist friends established the New Alchemy Institute on a twelve-acre site in Falmouth, Massachusetts. Greg Watson joined the staff in 1980. He was inspired to a…
John McKnight and Gar Alperovitz in Conversation
John McKnight’s approach to community development is to turn attention to the assets of a neighborhood rather than elaborate on its problems. For instance, he would suggest that the primary wealth i…
Helena Norberg-Hodge and Richard Heinberg in Conversation
Heinberg and Norberg-Hodge are experts on climate change, localization, and sustainability. Their past lectures have been almost prophetic in their accuracy, and their ideas are more relevant now tha…
Judy Wicks and Michael Shuman in Conversation
Every year during the first decade of the twenty-first century, the Business Alliance for a Local Living Economy (BALLE) would hold its annual conference. Those conferences were a celebration of loc…
Private Sufficiency, Public Luxury: Land is the Key to the Transformation of Society - George Monbiot
George Monbiot is an author, Guardian columnist and environmental campaigner. His best-selling books include Feral: Rewilding the land, sea and human life and Heat: how to stop the planet burning; hi…
America Emerging: Western Civilization 2.0 - Otto Scharmer
C. Otto Scharmer is a senior lecturer at Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s Sloan School of Management. In 2015 he received the Jamieson Prize for Excellence in Teaching at MIT.
He is co-founder …
America Emerging: Culture and Economics - Van Jones
Van Jones is a CNN political commentator, regularly appearing across the network’s programming and special political coverage. The founder of Dream Corps, Rebuild The Dream, Green For All, the Ella B…
What About Us -- The Earth's People? - Charles Turner
Charles (Chuck) Turner has been a community organizer and civil rights activist in Boston, Massachusetts, since 1966.
He graduated from Harvard University in 1963 with a B.A. in government. After a ye…
The Right Livelihood Award and Further Initiatives for a Sustainable Society - Jakob von Uexkull
Jakob von Uexkull is a writer, lecturer, philanthropist, activist, and former politician. He is the founder and chair of the Right Livelihood Award (1980), often referred to as the Alternative Nobel …
It's Healing Time on Earth - David Brower
David Ross Brower (July 1, 1912- November 5, 2000) is considered by many to be the father of the modern environmental movement. Beginning his career as a world-class mountaineer with more than 70 fir…
Local Stock Exchanges: The Next Wave of Community Economy Building" - Michael Shuman
Michael H. Shuman is the Director of Community Portals for Mission Markets and a Fellow at Cutting Edge Capital and Post-Carbon Institute. He is a founding board member of the Business Alliance for …
A Map: From the Old Connecticut Path to the Rio Grande Valley and All the Meaning in Between - Chellis Glendinning
Chellis Glendinning was born just after World War II and came of age during the decolonization, liberation, and feminist movements. The central themes of her writings and presentations include the in…