Deforestation and Planetary Boundaries: COVID-19 as a Tipping Point for Civilisational Crisis

Posted on9th November 20209th November 2020AuthorSchumacher Institute

The Schumacher Institute for Sustainable Systems is launching its new report at an exclusive event on 12th November – see here. The report by leading systems theorist, environment journalist and Schumacher Institute Fellow, Dr Nafeez Ahmed, is titled ‘Deforestation…

Schumacher Lectures 2020 the new flowering

Posted on20th June 20201st July 2020AuthorSchumacher Institute

We are hosting online lectures this year giving new generations of sustainability thinkers and practitioners a platform. This promises to be an exciting series of talks. They will take place on each day of the week commencing 6th July. The…

No more business as usual

Posted on6th April 20209th November 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 20209th November 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: …

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