Saturday, October 22, 2005, 10 AM-5 PM
First Congregational Church, Main Street
Stockbridge, Massachusetts
Nancy Jack Todd - A co-founder
of Ocean Arks International and of the New Alchemy Institute,
Nancy Todd continues to be the recorder of the innovation
that has come from these two groundbreaking institutions.
As editor of the journal Annals of Earth, a
publication of OAI, Todd guides readers to an understanding
of ecological design science and practice.
Her new book, A Safe and Sustainable World: The
Promise of Ecological Design, tells the story of
the founding, growth and continual development of the
New Alchemy Institute, and its mission to provide basic
needs of food, shelter and energy in sustainable and
ecologically responsible ways. The Christian Science
Monitor has compared the book to Rachel Carson's
The Sea Around Us.
She and her husband John Todd have received the Bioneers
Award, the United Nations Award, and the Swiss Threshold
Award for contributions to human knowledge.
Links:
Ocean
Arks International
Thomas Linzey
- Thomas Linzey is the co-founder of and staff attorney
for the Community Environmental Legal Defense Fund.
CELDF provides free and affordable legal services to
grassroots, community-based environmental groups, and
rural municipal governments. Established in 1995, CELDF
assists organizations in asserting direct, local, and
democratic control over corporations. Linzey has special
expertise in the history of corporations and organizing
tactics to help local communities take a stand against
corporate power structures. He has worked extensively
with the Franklin County (PA) Coalition--an association
of community-based organizations seeking to build a
sustainable county in South-Central Pennsylvania.
Linzey is also involved in Democracy Schools, which
are weekend workshops held in cities across the country,
addressing why "democratic self-governance is impossible
when corporations wield constitutional rights to deny
people's rights, and how we are able to rectify these
wrongs."
Links:
Community
Environmental Legal Defense Fund
Orion
Magazine Article about CELDF
Christopher Houghton Budd—- Christopher Budd has spent his life researching the nature and purposes of economic life. His experience includes green businesses, organic farming, local politics, and academia. His formal studies were at the John Cass Business School in London where he researched central banking practices and the financial markets. Informally he has specialized in the economic contributions of the Austrian philosopher, Rudolf Steiner.
Budd is director of the
Center for Associative Economics in Canterbury, England
which promotes an associative approach to modern economic
life. In that role he travels widely, consulting
and giving workshops. He has authored several books
including his latest, Rare Albion: the Further Adventures
of the Wizard from Oz, A Monetary Allegory, which
tells of the inner journeying that can be associated
with modern finance.
Links:
Centre
for Associative Economics
Lecture Schedule
9:30 Registration and coffee
10:00 Welcome
10:15 Talk by Nancy Jack Todd
11:15 Audience response and questions
12:00 Lunch (see details below)
1:00 Talk by Thomas Linzey
2:00 Audience response and questions
2:30 Coffee Break
2:45 Talk by Christopher Budd
4:00 Audience response and questions
4:30 Closing remarks by the speakers
4:50 Tea and book-signing by the speakers
Details
Time: Saturday, October 22, 2005; 10:00 - 5:00. There
will be a lunch break from 12:00 - 1:00.
Cost: $20 per person, $15 per member of the E. F. Schumacher
Society, and $15 for students and seniors. Tickets are
available at the door and from the E. F. Schumacher
Society. Pre-registration
recommended. Checks payable
to the E. F. Schumacher Society. Visa and MasterCard
accepted.
Lunch: A vegetarian brown bag lunch may be ordered in
advance for an additional $12. Call for menu details.
Alternatively there are several nearby restaurants or
bring your own bag lunch.
Directions: The First Congregational Church of Stockbridge
is located on West Main Street (next to Town Hall) in
Stockbridge. From Boston, take the Lee Exit on the Massachusetts
Turnpike and follow signs south (Route 102) to Stockbridge.
From New York City take the Taconic Parkway to Route
23 in Claverack. Follow Route 23 east to Great Barrington,
where Route 23 joins Route 7. Take Route 7 north to
Stockbridge, turn left on Main Street at the Red Lion
Inn. The church will be on your left approximate 1/3
mile. The historic red brick church is easy to identify
behind the prominent clock tower.
Accommodations: Call the Southern Berkshire Chamber
of Commerce 413-528-1510 for listings of the many overnight
options in the region or visit www.greatbarrington.org.
REGISTRATION for Twenty-Fifth Annual E. F. Schumacher Lectures
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Once payment is received, you will receive lecture tickets and registration confirmation by mail.
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