No more business as usual

Posted on6th April 20206th April 2020AuthorSchumacher Institute

Rethinking economic value for a post-Covid world. A national conversation has begun which is alarming, yet also familiar. It talks about costs and trade-offs, losses and accounts. It is a conversation about human lives framed in the language of economics…

Making Finance Sustainable

Posted on3rd March 20203rd March 2020AuthorSchumacher Institute

Global finance has been a big part of the problem in creating a more socially just and sustainable world, so it also has the potential to be an important part of the solution. How does this work you may well…

Cafe System Change – Issue 2

Posted on8th May 20198th May 2019AuthorSchumacher Institute

Announcing a lighter companion to our System Change journal. The second issue is now available: Please see the first copy :…

Our Conference – 9th May

Posted on20th March 201927th March 2019AuthorSchumacher Institute

Systems Connections: the Wellbeing Economy and Climate Emergency “Our climate is changing faster than we are. We need to speed up. The Rapid Transition Alliance is a new, global initiative learning from where, when and how good things happen quickly”.…

New paper on renewable energy

Posted on9th January 201910th January 2019AuthorSchumacher Institute

What can be done to increase the share of electricity generated by renewable energy installations? Read this policy briefing from Jonathan Moss: …

Research papers available

Posted on3rd August 20183rd August 2018AuthorSchumacher Institute

Our latest set of papers from our fellow, interns and volunteers are now published here. A good example is an essay on the German energy transition and climate change: ‘Germany – Climate change hero or hypocrite?’ by Jonathan Moss.…

10th Anniversary Impact Appeal

Posted on8th May 20188th May 2018AuthorSchumacher Institute

We already provide free, online resources through our Systems Learning website and our open access journal System Change. To improve our impact please read our – thank you.…

May 24th – Our 10th anniversary conference

Posted on8th March 201824th April 2018AuthorSchumacher Institute

From systemic failure to a transition of civilization Thursday, May 24th, 2018, 10.00 – 16.30, Watershed 3, Bristol “Come and celebrate our 10th anniversary with a day of thinking about a positive future” Dr Nafeez Ahmed will give a keynote…

Potential use of planetary boundary thinking in the UK

Posted on4th December 20174th December 2017AuthorSchumacher Institute

The planetary boundary (PB) concept is based on a set of nine boundaries for critical processes that regulate the functioning of the earth’s ecosystems at a global level. The concept posits that crossing these boundaries takes us into ‘zones of…

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