Episodes of Schumacher College
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Hardin Tibbs: Global Cultural Development
Hardin Tibbs is a UK-based strategy consultant and futures researcher with extensive experience of scenario-based strategic thinking. In addition to his strategy work, Hardin has made significant contributions on issues involving technology and environment.
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Release date
Feb 23, 2011
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Runtime
01:30:02
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Robert Chambers: Development -What the professio...
Robert Chambers is a research associate at the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex and author of a number of influential books including Rural Development: Putting the Last First, one of the first to argue that the rural poor should not be seen as passive recipients of outside help. He describes himself as an undisciplined social scientist and failed manager of rural development. His current concerns and interests include professionalism, power, the personal dimension in development, part...
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Release date
Feb 16, 2011
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Runtime
01:24:28
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Gunter Pauli: Bhutan and the Blue Economy
Gunter Pauli presents examples of fascinating new innovations and business models that can offer solutions to global challenges. He shows that with creativity, and open mind and an understanding of whole systems, we can learn to view waste as resource and draw on nature's design principles for inspiration. Together with the Zero Emissions Research & Initiatives (ZERI), Gunter Pauli has identified and developed a large number of innovations and new business models inspiring entrepreneurs to sha...
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Release date
Jan 25, 2011
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Runtime
01:30:49
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Bernadette Brady: The Idea of Soul - From Egypt ...
*Bernadette Brady* has worked as a professional astrologer since 1980 and, in this field, is also an internationally-recognized software designer, author, and lecturer. She has been honoured with major astrological awards in the UK, as well as the USA and Australia. She holds a Masters degree in Cultural Astronomy and Astrology BSU, UK. Her MA dissertation focused on the mapping of chaos theory and complexity science to astrology and developed into the book _Astrology: A place in chaos_ (Wesse...
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Release date
Nov 23, 2010
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Runtime
58:06
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Carolyn Steel: Why is food vital to a sustainabl...
Carolyn Steel is author of "'Hungry City'":http://www.hungrycitybook.co.uk/, which explored the relationshipsbetween food and cities. Can food production be central to town lifeand urban planning? What might this mean for Totnes? Prepare to be inspired.
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Release date
Nov 22, 2010
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Runtime
01:10:25
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Rhamis Kent: Permaculture and Society
Rhamis Kent at Schumacher College. Rhamis Kent is an African American permaculture designer & trainer/teacher currently living in Cornwall. He was trained by and works closely with Geoff Lawton, director of the Permaculture Research Institute (PRI) of Australia (www.permaculture.org.au) and manager of permaculture co-founder Bill Mollison’s Tagari Farm (www.tagari.com). In April 2010, he is scheduled to conduct a design course in Detroit with local leaders in the urban agriculture movement pre...
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Release date
Oct 15, 2010
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Runtime
01:17:29
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Peter Adams: The Engaged Artist
Peter Adams shows by his own example that art and activism are not separate separate. Peter Adams is a sculptor whose art work is in the collections of five museums. Equally important, he is an environmental activist who is passionate about living one's life as an artistic endeavor. A major ongoing art project of Peter's is to restore his 100-acre property Windgrove in Tasmania into a refuge of peace, social justice, and environmental awareness. For a wealth of writing on Peter's experiences a...
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Release date
Aug 18, 2010
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Runtime
01:12:24
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Sean Kelly: Five Principles of Integral Ecology
Sean Kelly's five principles focus put human existence into context ecologically and explore the relationship between gross and subtle forms of action. Sean Kelly is a member of the faculty for Philosophy, Cosmology, and Consciousness at the California Institute for Integral Studies. He is the author of "Coming Home: The Birth & Transformation of the Planetary Era".
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Release date
Aug 17, 2010
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Runtime
01:23:46
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Helena Norberg-Hodge: Towards an Economics of Ha...
Helena Norberg-Hodge talks about her new film "The Economics of Happiness":http://www.theeconomicsofhappiness.org/ , a documentary about the growing worldwide movement for economic localization. Helena Norberg-Hodge is a leading analyst of the impact of the global economy on culture, agriculture, and individual identity. In 1975 she was one of the first Westerners to visit Ladakh, or Little Tibet, where she witnessed the psychological, as well as ecological impacts of the global consumer cultu...
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Release date
Aug 17, 2010
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Runtime
36:22
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