Schedule

Friday

10:30 – 5:30 Schumacher Centenary Research Day at University of Bristol
7:00pm – 11:00pm Schumacher Centenary Business Dinner at @t Bristol

Saturday

10:00 Welcome, and Matt Harvey, conference poet
10:05 Satish Kumar: E.F. Schumacher: The Pioneering Green Economist
10:35 Polly Higgins: Peace In Our Time: how to create a 5th Crime Against Peace
11:05 Caroline Lucas: Small is Beautiful – Can Many Be Beautiful Too?
11:35 Tea
12:00 Peter Blom: Follow Your Heart, Use Your Head
12:30 Bill McKibben (live, on video): Small is Beautiful and Big is Necessary: Linking Local and Global in the Fight for a Working Planet.
12:55 announcements
1:00 Lunch – music in foyer from Declan Millar, and Ben and Alfie Weedon
2:00 Workshops in various rooms in Colston Hall: Soil Association, Practical Action, nef, Schumacher College, CAT, Jeevika Trust
3:10 Matt Harvey, conference poet
3:15 Rob Hopkins: Why the Transition to a post-growth world could be the making of us: shifting the focus
3:45 Tim Jackson: Tim Jackson – Buddhist economics in a ‘post-crisis’ world
4:15 Tea
4:40 Final plenary
5:20 Matt Harvey‘s final poem
5:25 Diana Schumacher
7:30 – 10:00 Concert

Sunday

@Bristol The Watershed
10:00 Barbara Wood
10:15 Margaret Gardner
10:30 Stephan Harding: Reviving Deep Ecology – Uncovering wholeness in everyday life.
11:00 Tea
11:20 HS Report
11:30 Film: Future of Hope
1:00 Lunch
2:00 Choice of 3 workshops Film: Four Horsemen
3:45 Choice of 3 workshops
4:00 Film: Animate Earth
5:30 Closing session
6:00 End of session
7:00 Film: Voices of Transition