PEOPLE, LAND, AND COMMUNITY:
Collected E. F. Schumacher Society Lectures
Edited by Hildegarde Hannum
with annotations by Nancy Jack Todd
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Degradation of environment and community, along with its
economic causes, has been the subject of much concern in
recent years. In this book, some of the most respected authorities
in the field discuss the historical, cultural, social, political,
and economic implications of this degradation and suggest
citizen initiatives that may halt it. 
Contributors— who include Kirkpatrick Sale, Jane Jacobs,
David Ehrenfeld, Wes Jackson, Wendell Berry, David Brower,
Stephanie Mills, and Hazel Henderson— explore topics
that range from agricultural reform to bioregional economics.
They all, however, focus on the importance of sustainability,
community, healthy and locally based economies of scale,
education, the dignity of good work, and balance between
human needs and the well-being of the natural world.
The book is based on a lecture series sponsored by the
E. F. Schumacher Society, a series honoring the ideas that
Schumacher first put forward in his classic book Small
Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered. An economist,
Schumacher was one of the first popular writers to make
the connection between economics and environmental issues.
"An environmental renewal manual for the twenty-first
century." —William Vitek, coeditor of Rooted in
the Land
Hildegarde Hannum is a freelance translator and editor.
She is a board member of the E. F. Schumacher Society.
Contents
Preface — Hildegarde Hannum
Introduction — Nancy Jack Todd
1.Beyond a Legacy of Domination
- The Columbian Legacy and the Ecosterian Response —Kirkpatrick
Sale
- Voices from White Earth: Gaa-waabaabiganikaag—Winona
LaDuke
- Women and the Challenge of the Ecological Era—Dana
Lee Jackson
- The Management Explosion and the Next Environmental
Crisis—David Ehrenfeld
- Toward a Politics of Hope: Lessons from a Hungry World—Frances
Moore Lappe
2. Toward Decentralism and Community Revitalization
- Development Beyond Economism: Local Paths to Sustainable
Development—Hazel Henderson
- The Economy of Regions—Jane Jacobs
- Local Currencies: Catalysts for Sustainable Regional
Economies—Robert Swann and Susan Witt
- Bringing Power Back Home: Recreating Democracy on a
Human Scale—John McClaughry
- People, Land, and Community—Wendell Berry
- Becoming Native to this Place—Wes Jackson
- John Deere and the Bereavement Counselor—John
McKnight
- The Garden Project: Creating Urban Communities—Cathrine
Sneed
3. Toward a New Era in Human-Earth Relations
- The Ecozoic Era—Thomas Berry
- Wagner and the Fate of the Earth: A Contemporary Reading
of The Ring—Hunter G. Hannum
- Mother of All: An Introduction to Bioregionalism —Kirkpatrick
Sale
- Environmental Literacy: Education as if the Earth Mattered—David
W. Orr
- Call for a Revolution in Agriculture—Wes Jackson
- An Ecological Economic Order—John Todd
- Making Amends to the Myriad Creatures—Stephanie
Mills
- It's Healing Time on Earth—David Brower
Afterword—Benjamin Strauss
April 1997
Environmental Studies/Philosophy 352 pp. 1 illus. 6 1/8
x 9 1/4
Cloth ISBN 0-300-06966-9 $35.00
Paper ISBN 0-300-07173-6 $22.00
Reviews
"Outstanding . . . For environmentalists, regional planners,
and interested lay readers, this book contains abundant
food for thought."—Kirkus Reviews
"An environmental renewal manual for the twenty-first century."—William
Vitek, coeditor of Rooted in the Land
"As a group [the authors] form a talented and thoughtful
symposium, and their separate essays provide a scintillating
perspective on issues such as community, the health of the
natural world, bioregionalsim, economies of scale, and sustainable
development. The essays are highly original and range from
an environmental analysis of Wagner's Ring Cycle
to a brilliant critique of myopic mismanagement in higher
education, and a deeply moving account of how gardens have
transformed prisoners' lives."—Choice
"A cross section of the best thinking and writing available
on issues of humankind's relationship with its own systems
and cultures, and with the earth. We can't think of a more
readable or better value introduction to the field."—Living
Systems Books
"In this timely volume, contributors . . . discuss the
historical, cultural, social, political, and economic implications
of the degradation of environment and community, and suggest
citizen initiatives that may halt it."—Publishers Weekly
"Short, thoughtful glimpses of what our world might look
like if [we] were to adopt a unified biological, political
and economic vision."—Robert H. Russell, Conservation
Matters
"People, Land, and Community is a thorough introduction
to the ongoing conversation on changing the dominant economic
paradigm."—Alan Razee, Rhetoric & Public Affairs
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by Robert S. Swann
Shimon Gottschalk
Erick S. Hansch
Edward Webster
Originally published by the Center for Community Economic Development, 1972.
2007 Reprinted by DRA of Vermont
117 Page paperback - $30.00
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Preface to the 2007 Edition:
This reprint responds to a felt need to preserve what may well be the first documentation of the Community Land Trust concept. The concept and principles evolved in part from the experience of several pioneering alternative landholding initiatives of the time such as the Jewish National Fund, Bryn Gweled Homesteads, and New Communities, Inc. Bob Swann, the principle author, was strongly influenced by thinkers such as Henry George, Ralph Borsodi and E. F. Schumacher. This led him to help establish what he believed to be the first experiment of this sort in Albany, GA in 1967.
But the term "community land trust" does not seem to have been used in these pioneering projects. I believe the term was born in 1972 with this publication. The movement has come a long way in the 35 years since. Directories now list over 170 CLTs and CLT projects in the USA.
International Independence Institute, the think tank out of which Bob Swann, Shimon Gottschaulk, Erick Hansch and this writer worked, was laid to rest toward the end of the 1970s. By then Institute for Community Economics (ICE) was well along with its mission to help CLTs take root. Bob Swann moved on, becoming a founder of The E. F. Schumacher Society, one several groups currently promoting the concept and supporting the establishment of CLTs.
Among them-
-The Schumacher Society (www.smallisbeautiful.org)
-Institute for Community Economics (www.iceclt.org)
-National CLT.org
-Burlington Associates (Burlington associates. com)
-CLT Academies:
Florida Housing Coalition (Florida only)
Lincoln Institute of Land Policy (Boston), www.lincolninst.edu
With this reprint we have preserved the entire text intact, adding only this intro page and modifying the original cover and title page. To the best of our knowledge CCED of Cambridge, MA, the original publisher, has long since been dissolved so the original copyright line has been dropped. Print quality is variable thanks to the original edition's earthy dark brown ink on light brown stock and some of the exhibited documents that had already been through several generations of copying.
The core ideas in this volume I attribute to Bob Swann with my contribution primarily helping to clarify and edit. Many of these ideas still lie at the core of today's CL T movement, of interest to all and perhaps even helpful to some.
-- Ted (Edward) Webster,
ORA of Vermont
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