One of our Schumacher Institute projects, Bristol’s Green Roots, is drawing to a close. The aim of this project was to document and thus
conserve Bristol’s history of sustainability and environmental action before the information, personal and collective histories, documents and evidence of action was lost and forgotten. The time-frame for the project was the last 40 to 50 years and explored Bristol’s response to and role in the development of the modern environmental movement. View videos from some of the interviews here

Bristol and the Southwest Food System Research Bristol and Bath Science Park on the 1st November, 29th November (2011) and 12th of January 2012.

You are invited to participate in an EU funded modelling of Bristol and the South West's food sector - The CONVERGE project is investigating how we can manage and allocate the earth's resources fairly and make the transition towards a sustainable future...more

Contact Alice-Marie Archer for more information.

Sustainability Toolkit

Sustainability Toolkits

Bristol Sustainability Toolkit starts again, 17th January 2012.
Taster session – 3 January,
6.15pm, St Nicholas House, BS1 2AW.

London Sustainability Toolkit starts 18th January 2012.

To book a place, email: martin@schumacher.org.uk

Masters in Managing Sustainability and Uncertainty

Will begin March 2012
We are expanding our Learning Programme by launching a new MSc - the Masters in Managing Sustainability and Uncertainty.
 
The two-year Masters programme, accredited by a local University, is aimed at people with experience of management, who have tried conventional approaches to doing things better, but who need more effective ways to tackle the increasing complexity and uncertainty of a fast-moving world. Participants will be given the opportunity to deepen their own experience and understanding of the world, to learn more about systems thinking and what being sustainable means, for themselves and for their organisation.
 
Martin Sandbrook, Director of Learning and the programme leader, says “We desperately need practical new ways to make our organisations sustainable and to deal effectively with the uncertain conditions we face. This programme is designed to introduce different ways of thinking, but also to answer the ‘So what?’ question, by demonstrating how we can translate complex ideas into practical reality”
 
The programme will be based in Bristol and will start on 12th October this year.
 
For further information, come to the last available Open Day on 14th September (email martin@schumacher.org.uk to book one of two sessions at 3pm or 6.30pm) or visit the Schumacher Institute website at http://www.schumacherinstitute.org.uk/masters.