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The short films found at www.big-picture.tv include some of the below speakers talking about sustainable development issues; they are not extracts from the Schumacher Lectures.
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  2007          
  13 Oct 2007 - Bristol
CRISIS & OPPORTUNITY
         
  Nicky Gavron - CITIES AND CLIMATE CHANGE   dvdDVD      
  Herbert Girardet - RECLAIMING OUR FUTURE   dvdDVD      
  Vala Ragnarsdottir - TOWARDS ECO-CITY BRISTOL   dvdDVD      
  Mark Lynas - CUTTING CARBON Global Warming's Greatest Opportunity   dvdDVD      
  2006          
  7 Oct 2006 - Bristol
REJOINING NATURE
         
  George Monbiot - Apocalypse Postponed   dvdDVD      
  Elisabet Sahtouris - Seeing our Future in Nature's Past   dvdDVD      
  Stephan Harding - Bringing Earth to Life   dvdDVD      
             
  Sept/Oct/Nov/Dec 2006 - Leeds
CREATING THE SUSTAINABLE CITY
         
  Susan Roaf - Solar Cities   dvdDVD      
  Herbert Girardet - Cities of the Future   dvdDVD      
  Ezio Manzini - Creative Communities and Everyday Sustainability   dvdDVD      
  Peter Harper - Building Sustainable Communities   dvdDVD      
             
  2005          
  29 Oct 2005 - Bristol
SHAPING OUR FUTURE
         
  Tim Smit - Eating from the Tree of Knowledge   CD      
  Mary-Jayne Rust - Psychology for a Change 76K CD      
  Jakob von Uexkull - Building Moral Power

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4 June 2005 - Schumacher Lectures at the Hay Festival of Literature (in association with Gaia Cooperative)
MYTH, MIND & MEDIA
Alastair Sawday -
Lynne McTaggart -
Herbert Girardet -

         
  2004          
  30 Oct 2004 - Bristol
SPIRIT, NATURE, MATTER
         
Christopher Alexander - Sustainability and Morphogenesis   CD DVD    
  Satish Kumar - Spiritual Imperative (www.big-picture.tv)  80K CD DVD    
  Miriam McGillis - Natural Cosmology   CD DVD    
 
2003
         
  Oct 2003 - Bristol
GLOBAL CONFLICT OR HUMAN SCALE DEVELOPMENT?
         
  Michael Meacher - Natural Governance: A New Environmental World Order (www.big-picture.tv) Michael Meacher - Natural Governance: A New Environmental World Order63K   CD    
  Ann Pettifor - Real World Economics (www.big-picture.tv)     CD    
 

Peter Russell - The Science of Understanding

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  April 2003 - Hereford (in association with Gaia Cooperative)
Satish Kumar - You Are, Therefore I Am
Helena Norberg-Hodge - The Global Economy & How to Survive It
Dr. Sarah Myhill - How to avoid Cancer and live to be 100
         
 
2002
         
  Nov 2002 - Bristol
CAN WE CREATE A LOCAL WORLD?

         
  Zac Goldsmith - Beyond 'Uncle Sam' Monoculture     CD    
  Caroline Lucas - A Europe Of Local Economies (www.big-picture.tv) Caroline Lucas - A Europe Of Local Economies85K   CD    
 

Pooran Desai - Living on One Planet

 

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March 2002 - Hereford (in association with Gaia Cooperative)
Herbert Girardet - Small is Beautiful - a local world?

         
 
May 2002 - Edinburgh
RE-ROOTING THE FUTURE - the Politics and Ecology of Agriculture in Crisis
         
 
Helena Norberg-Hodge - Shifting from the Global to the Local: the social, economic and ecological benefits (www.big-picture.tv)
         
 
Wes Jackson - The Agrarian Mind: Mere nostalgia or a practical necessity
         
 


April 2002 - Manchester

VISIONS OF A NEW RENAISSANCE Globalisation with Wisdom

         
 

Ann Pettifor - Jubilee Plus (www.big-picture.tv)

  Jubilee Plus      
 

John Bunzl - The Simultaneous Policy

John Bunzl - The Simultaneous Policy84KB
The Simultaneous Policy
     
 

Hanne Strong - Our Sustainable World

  Our Sustainable World      
 
2001
         
 
October 2001 - Bristol
'The ROOTS OF HEALTH' Human Health and Sustainable Development
         
  Dr David Abram - Navigating Between Worlds     CD    
  Vyvyan Howard - Short Term Gain, Long Term Pain     CD    
  Romy Fraser - Changing the Paradigm of Health     CD    
 
May 2001 - Scotland
         
  George Monbiot - Tackling the Corporate Takeover          
  Susan Roaf - Combining climate change: Why buildings have to change          
 
April 2001 - Manchester
THEME: VISIONS OF A NEW RENAISSANCE - People and Nature
SPEAKERS
         
  Alan Watson Featherstone - Restoring the Earth   Restoring the Earth      
  George Monbiot - Preventing the Corporate Takeover of Britain   Preventing the Corporate Takeover of Britain      
  Moyra Bremner - How Not to Kill the Goose which Lays Golden Eggs        
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2000
         
 
October 2000 - Bristol
THEME: NATURAL TECHNOLOGY New Ways of Working with Nature
SPEAKERS
         
  John Todd - Ecological Design and Living Machines     CD    
  Susan Roaf - Towards a Solar Vernacular   CD

 
  Peter Harper - The Lifestyle Laboratory   CD    
  Nancy Todd - Paths to Ecological Consciousness     CD    
 
April 2000 - Liverpool
THEME: URBAN SUSTAINABILITY
SPEAKERS
         
  Colin Ward - The Benign City          
  Jac Smith - Living in Urban Space          
  Herbert Girardet - Cities, People, Planet        
 
May 2000 - Manchester
THEME: THE NEW RENAISSANCE - COMING HOME TO OUR TRUE SPIRITUAL SELVES
SPEAKERS
         
  Brian Goodwin - A New Science of Qualities and Participation
  A New Science of Qualities and Participation      
  John Lane - Creativity
         
  Jill Purce - Transformation          
 


2000 - Scotland (compiling info)

June 2000 - Ireland
THEME: WHEN THE RAINBOW FADES
SPEAKERS

         
  John Feehan - When the Rainbow Fades        
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1999

October 1999 - Bristol
THEME: RETHINKING SECURITY
SPEAKERS

         
  Scilla Elworthy - Dealing with Bullies without using Bombs        
  Wolfgang Sachs - The Rise of Security and the Decline of Ethics          
  Gita Mehta - Security: An Invention of Despair          
 
March 1999 - Liverpool

THEME: LEARNING FROM THE EARTH
SPEAKERS
         
  Fritjof Capra - Eco-literacy, Education for the 21st Century          
 

Helena Norberg-Hodge - Shifting directions: From Global to Local (www.big-picture.tv)

         
  Alastair McIntosh - Soil and Soul          
 

April 1999 - Manchester
THEME: THE NEW RENAISSANCE - MAKING CONNECTIONS
SPEAKERS
         
  Mae-Wan Ho - Genetic Engineering   Genetic Engineering      
  Stuart McBurney - Economics, Ecology and Genetics          
  Patrick Holden - Organic Farming (www.big-picture.tv)   Organic Farming      
 


1998

October 1998 - Bristol
THEME: THE ECOLOGY OF MONEY
SPEAKERS

         
  David Korten - Life after Capitalism
       
  Tessa Tennant - The Ethics of Money        
  Richard Douthwaite - Keeping Money Local          
 


March 1998 - Liverpool

THEME: HEALTHY PEOPLE, HEALTHY COMMUNITIES, HEALTHY PLANET
SPEAKERS

         
  Vandana Shiva - Sustainable Development (www.big-picture.tv)          
  James Robertson - After Dependency: Healthy People and Places in the 21st Century          
  Danah Zohar - Science and Spirituality        
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April 1998 - Manchester
THEME: VISIONS OF A NEW RENAISSANCE
SPEAKERS
         
  Geoff Mulgan - Freedom and Responsibility in a More Connected World
         
  Charles Secrett - Environmental Crises - Sustainable Solutions          
 


1997

October 1997 - Bristol
THEME: FROM THE REGION, FOR THE REGION
SPEAKERS

         
  Winona LaDuke - Indigenous Perspectives at the Edge of the Millennium
         
  Patrick Holden - Healthy Soil, Healthy People (www.big-picture.tv)          
  Hermann Scheer - Solar Power, Regional Future Hermann Scheer - Solar Power, Regional Future25KB        
 
April 1997 - Manchester
THEME: VISIONS OF A NEW RENAISSANCE
SPEAKERS
         
  Bruce Kent - "Global Disarmament..... Is It Possible?"
         
  Lindsay Clarke - "The Shaping Spirit of Imagination"          
 


1996

October 1996 - Bristol
THEME: FOOD, LAND & LIVING COMMUNITIES
SPEAKERS

         
  Cathrine Sneed - Growing Urban Communities        
  George Monbiot - The Land Is Ours
       
  Tim Lang - The Challenge of Food Culture        
 
February 1996 - Manchester
THEME: VISIONS OF A NEW RENAISSANCE
SPEAKERS
         
  Satish Kumar - Walking on Two Legs (www.big-picture.tv)          
  Helena Norberg-Hodge - Economic Growth and the Survival of Local Communitie (www.big-picture.tv)          
 


1995

October 1995 - Bristol
THEME: THE LINKS BETWEEN SOCIAL SYSTEMS, THE ANIMAL KINGDOM AND OUR THOUGHT PROCESSES
SPEAKERS

         
  Dr Karl-Henrik Robert - The Ecology of Business        
  Maneka Gandhi - Animal Welfare is Human Welfare
       
 

Mark Edwards - Through the Mind's Eye

       
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1994

October 1994 - Bristol
THEME: DILEMMAS OF DEVELOPMENT & THE GREENING OF EDUCATION
SPEAKERS

         
  Wangari Maathai - Bottlenecks of Development (www.big-picture.tv)        
 

David Orr - The Greening of Education

         
 


1993

October 1993 - Bristol
THEME: CULTURE AND CREATION - Land, Environment and Technology
SPEAKERS

         
  Jonathan Dimbleby - The Environment and the Human Spirit        
  Sir Crispin Tickell - The Road from Rio        
 

Jerry Mander - Culture and Technology

         
 
1992

October 1992 - Bristol
THEME: