The Schumacher Lectures

Korten is co-founder and board chair of YES! Magazine , an author, former professor of the Harvard Business School, and founder and president of the Living Economies Forum. David Korten delivered “Creating a Post-Corporate World” on October 28, 2000. If you would like a physical copy of this lecture or others like it, visit centerforneweconomics.org/order-pamphlets to purchase pamphlets of publish...

David Morris is co-founder and vice president of the Institute for Local Self-Reliance  and directs its Public Good Initiative . Founded in 1974, the Institute provides innovative strategies, working models, and information to support environmentally sound and equitable community development. David Morris delivered “Reclaiming Community” on October 26, 1996. If you would like a physical copy of th...

John Mohawk (1945–2006) was associate professor of American Studies at the State University of New York (SUNY), Buffalo, and director of Indigenous Studies at its Center of the Americas. John Mohawk delivered “How the Conquest of Indigenous Peoples Parallels the Conquest of Nature” in October 1997. If you would like a physical copy of this lecture or others like it, visit centerforneweconomics.org...

Author, filmmaker, and Goi Peace Prize winner, Helena Norberg-Hodge  is the founder and director of Local Futures/International Society for Ecology and Culture (ISEC) and The International Alliance for Localization (IAL) . Based in the US and UK, with subsidiaries in Germany and Australia, Local Futures examines the root causes of our current social and environmental crises while promoting more su...

Cirillo is co-founder of the Woodland Community Land Trust and is the founder of the Woodland Community Development Corporation, the Mountain Women's Exchange, and Appalachian-Based Community Development Education. Marie Cirillo delivered "Stories from an Appalachian Community" in October 2000. If you would like a physical copy of this lecture or others like it, visit centerforneweconomics.org/ord...

Greg Watson is Director of Policy and Systems Design at the Schumacher Center for a New Economics. His work currently focuses on community food systems and the dynamics between local and geo-economic systems. Watson has spent nearly 40 years learning to understand systems thinking as inspired by Buckminster Fuller and to apply that understanding to achieve a just and sustainable world. Greg Watson...

Bren Smith is the owner of Thimble Island Ocean Farm and founder/executive director of GreenWave . A commercial fisherman since the age of 14, Smith pioneered the development of restorative 3D ocean farming. His work has been profiled by CNN, Google Food, The New Yorker , and Bon Appetit . His writing has appeared in The New York Times and National Geographic . Bren Smith delivered "Ecological Red...

Wicks is the founder of White Dog Café, Fair Food Philly, the Sustainable Business Network of Greater Philadelphia, and the Business Alliance for Local Living Economies. Judy Wicks delivered "Building a New Economy: What's Love Got to Do with It?" on October 10, 2014. If you would like a physical copy of this lecture or others like it, visit centerforneweconomics.org/order-pamphlets to purchase p...

A leading physicist and humanist, Arthur Zajonc is the former President of the Mind & Life Institute . He is also emeritus professor of physics at Amherst College, where he taught from 1978 to 2012, and former director of the Center for Contemplative Mind , which supports appropriate inclusion of contemplative practice in higher education, from 2009 to 2011. Arthur Zajonc delivered "Buddhist Techn...

Alperovitz is the president of the National Center for Economic and Security Alternatives, a founding principal of The Democracy Collaborative, and is co-chair of the Next System Project. Gar Alperovitz delivered "If You Don't Like Capitalism or State Socialism, What Do You Want?" on November 11, 2011. If you would like a physical copy of this lecture or others like it, visit centerforneweconomics...

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 cultures and lands.. Winona LaDuke delivered "Voices from White Earth: Gaa-waabaabiganikaag" on October 23, 1993. If you would like a physical copy of this lecture or others like it, visit centerfornew...

Susan Witt is the Executive Director of the Schumacher Center for a New Economics, which she co-founded with Robert Swann in 1980. She has led the development of the Schumacher Center’s highly regarded publications, library, seminars, and other educational programs, which established the Center as a pioneering voice for an economics shaped by social and ecological principles. Deeply engaged with t...

Jackson is a world-renowned plant geneticist, farmer, author, former professor of biology, and co-founder of The Land Institute in Salina, Kansas. Wes Jackson delivered "Becoming Native to This Place" on October 23, 1993. If you would like a physical copy of this lecture or others like it, visit centerforneweconomics.org/order-pamphlets to purchase pamphlets of published works and transcripts. The...

Wendell Berry—farmer, essayist, novelist, poet, activist, teacher—lives with his wife Tanya on the banks of the Kentucky River. There he has farmed a Kentucky hillside for over half a century in his native Henry County, where his family has lived for eight generations. As a small-scale farmer who has used mules instead of machinery for plowing, Berry has taken a stand for decades against the destr...