"Gathered visionS"
Dear Friend,
Gathered over a period of twenty-six years the collected E. F. Schumacher lecture pamphlets represent some of the finest thinking about creating a sustainable future. Each delivered as a lone testament to one person's vision, viewed together they offer an integrated picture of hope and possibility for people, land, and communities.
It was 1981 when Schumacher Society board member David Ehrenfeld first spoke to the revival of the fine art of pamphleteering. His goal was to raise awareness of a cultural revolution in the making. Twenty-six years later, speakers at the Annual E. F. Schumacher Lectures are still promoting that revolution--each year adding new voices, enhancing the dialogue, and challenging entrenched attitudes.
Efforts towards a sustainable world are enlivened by conversations among disciplines. The annual lecture series represents the diverse quality of the debate about ways to achieve that world. Lectures range from John Todd's concrete examples of ecological design to Thomas Berry’s spiritual affirmation of every being's rights.
The E. F. Schumacher Society's policy is to facilitate access to the lecture material to broaden the conversation about our collective future. The lectures are edited and published in pamphlet form for sale at an affordable price and then posted at the Society's web site where they may be read for free. The ideas are too vital to languish unread, the examples too important to be ignored.
Consider sharing favorite lectures with family and friends this holiday season (see speaker list below). You may want to send a set of pamphlets to your public library, your neighborhood school, your favorite organization for its bookshelf, or to someone incarcerated (as some members have done). You may order online at: http://www.smallisbeautiful.org/publications.html or by calling the office and requesting an order form by mail (413) 528-1737. Price including postage is $5 each or five BerkShares (http://www.berkshares.org).
It is membership support that has built the Schumacher Society and its lecture program. It is you and your generous donations that have helped support a revolution in thinking on how we should conduct ourselves on the earth and with one another. The pamphlets are a tool for spreading these ideas. Please help us "pamphleteer."
Sincerely,
Michael Gordon, Christopher Lindstrom, Peter Tiso, and Susan Witt
E. F. Schumacher Society
140 Jug End Road
Great Barrington, MA 01230
(413) 528-1737
www.smallisbeautiful.org
Board of Directors: Jessica Brackman, Starling Childs, Merrian Fuller, Hildegarde Hannum, Eric Harris-Braun, Constance Packard, Joseph Stanislaw, Ganson Taggart, Nancy Jack Todd, and Charles Turner.
Board of Founders: Ian Baldwin, David Ehrenfeld, Satish Kumar,
John McClaughry, and Kirkpatrick Sale.
Advisory Board: Tanya Berry, Thomas Berry, Wendell Berry, Lisa Byers, Olivia Dreier, Hazel Henderson, Wes Jackson, Amory Lovins, John McKnight, David Orr, Michael Shuman, Cathrine Sneed, Lewis Solomon, John Todd, Greg Watson, and Arthur Zajonc.
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E. F. Schumacher Lectures pamphlets by
Gar Alperovitz, Donald Anderson, Peter Barnes, Thomas Berry, Elise Boulding, David Brower, Christopher H. Budd, Marie Cirillo, George Davis, David Ehrenfeld, William Ellis, Chellis Glendinning, Hunter Hannum, Alanna Hartzok, Hazel Henderson, Ivan Illich, Dana Lee Jackson, Wes Jackson, Andrew Kimbrell, Leopold Kohr, David Korten, Winona LaDuke, Frances Moore Lappé, Thomas Linzey, Amory Lovins, Kevin Lyons, Oren Lyons, Jerry Mander, John McClaughry, John McKnight, George McRobie, Deborah Meier, Stephanie Mills, John Mohawk, David Morris, Helena Norberg-Hodge, David Orr, Kirkpatrick Sale, William Schambra, Cathrine Sneed, Charlene Spretnak, Robert Swann, John Todd, Nancy Jack Todd, Jakob von Uexkull, Greg Watson, Judy Wicks, Susan Witt, and Arthur Zajonc.
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