Bristol’s Big Green Week
The very first BIG Green Week festival programme features one hundred events over nine days in Bristol, from Saturday 9th to Sunday 17th June – and seven of those days will have a Schumacher Lecture as the main event of the evening – making this the largest Schumacher Lectures ever. In the words of Festival chair Jonathon Porritt, ‘the Big Green Week has been designed to inspire and empower people, to give them a feel for so much of the creative thinking and practical action that is going on all around the country.’
The speakers include friends both new and old. Two authors join us for the first time – Australian Clive Hamilton will be exploring a very powerful question: are we capable of managing the planet? And Patrick Curry will talk about ecological ethics. Two TV stars, both very committed to a greener future, will join us – Deborah Meaden of Dragon’s Den and Kevin McLeod of Grand Designs. And we welcome back Polly Higgins – just before she goes to Rio to present her proposal for a new international law against ‘Ecocide’; and Juliet Davenport, one of a number of speakers who are leading change in the business world. And of course, many leaders in the green movement will be with us – Ed Mayo, Tony Juniper, Rob Hopkins and Bill McKibben among them.
To see the full list, click here – and we look forward to welcoming you in June! Tickets can be booked through eventbrite.
2011 Centenary DVD is out now
Just arrived: DVD with 4 hours of the best presentations from the Schumacher Centenary Festival – order now: £10 incl. post.
This most ambitious Schumacher event – to mark the Centenary of his birth – included poet Matt Harvey, Resurgence editor Satish Kumar, barrister Polly Higgins, Green Party leader Caroline Lucas, Triodos Bank CEO Peter Blom, the founder of 350.org Bill McKibben, Transition Town’s Rob Hopkins and author Professor Tim Jackson.
It was a totally inspiring day, and as Diana Schumacher said in her closing remarks, “We’ve had a green lawyer, a green politician and a green banker; if Fritz Schumacher was suspicious of any categories of people, I think you could count those three professions in – and I think he’d be absolutely delighted to hear this revolutionary stuff that’s coming out of the mouths of green bankers, lawyers and politicians.”
Read more about the Centenary event here – and read the excellent review in the Guardian here.
Richard St. George, much loved former Director of the Schumacher Society, passed away on Wednesday, Nov. 9. He was 61, and had been suffering from colon cancer. Richard ran the Society from the mid-90s until 2009 – and just last month, we all had the thrill of watching him receive the richly deserved lifetime achievement award from Diana Schumacher at the Schumacher Centenary Festival. Click here to read some of the many tributes to Richard.
