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The Schumacher Circle
 There
are many organizations that owe their existence to, or have been greatly
inspired by, E.F. Schumacher. His books and other writings are still thought-provoking
- in particular Small is Beautiful, which was first published in
1973. The range of his thinking is reflected in the diversity of the organisations
that recognise him as their inspiration: they share a vision of social
development that is sustainable and benign to both people and the environment.
The Schumacher Circle comprises
Green Books
Intermediate Technology
The New Economics Foundation
Resurgence Magazine
Schumacher College
The Schumacher Society
Schumacher Book Service
The Soil Association
It is an informal network of organizations
which in their different ways all build on Schumacher's legacy. They have
a common concern with developing ideas and approaches to the ecological,
technological, social and spiritual predicament which is faced by the
world's population.
Here are brief details of the other members of The Schumacher Circle.
Please visit their web sites for more information.
Green Books
 We
are a small publishing company whose aim is to inform and inspire the
general reader about ecological, spiritual and cultural issues of our
time. We usually publish between four and eight new titles each year,
and also distribute selected titles from two like-minded US publishers:
Chelsea Green Publishing Company of White River Junction, Vermont, who
publish in the field of Sustainable Living, including renewable energy,
organic gardening and ecological building; and Council Oak Books of Tulsa,
Oklahoma, who specialise in native American culture, consciousness, ecology
and spirituality.
Our own books come under four imprints:
Green Books (all titles prior to1991),
Resurgence Books (general titles from1991 onwards),
Green Earth Books (practical titles from1995 onwards), and
Themis Books (titles on indigenous cultures and eco-philosophy from 1996
onwards).
If you would like us to add your name to our mailing list to be sent
information about our new and forthcoming titles, or if you would like
a copy of our current Spring or Autumn catalogue, please email, phone
or fax us. Please note that prices are subject to change without notice.
Green
Books
Intermediate Technology
 Everyone
in the world uses technologies of some sort and is affected by them. How
much control and choice do we have over them, and just how appropriate
are those technologies? Intermediate Technology (ITDG) - founded by E.F.
Schumacher in 1965 - aims to expand technology choices by promoting the
Appropriate Technology approach which focuses on people and the environment,
and by encouraging the responsible use of technologies by the powerful.
IT can tell the human stories behind the development projects and communicate
the lessons, learned from working alongside people in rural areas of Bangladesh,
Kenya, Malawi, Nepal, Peru, Sri Lanka, south India, Sudan and Zimbabwe.
There is an extensive range of projects, with particular emphasis in specific
technological areas. A publishing company (IT Publications) and a consultancy
company (IT Consultants) help to disseminate experience and knowledge.
With a huge amount of technological and cultural knowledge and understanding,
IT has an international reputation for its work on the appropriate technology
approach and its practice.
Regular newsletters and Local Group activities keep our supporters in
touch with our work, and an active schools education programme promotes
the concepts of appropriate technology in British schools.
Intermediate Technology
The New Economics Foundation
 Don't
you ever wonder why the world works as it does? How people in the rich countries can die of heart disease while those
in poor countries are dying of hunger? How those in jobs can be overworked
and stressed while others want the chance to be useful and are denied
that right? How our throwaway society can waste so much and still want
to plunder the earth's resources?
And don't you ever wonder if there's an alternative?
Over the past ten years, the New Economics Foundation (NEF) has been working
to explore and promote an alternative vision of ideas and practical schemes
based on the needs of people and the environment.
Current initiatives include formulating alternative indicators of sustainability,
linking faith and ethics to economics, working with community enterprise
and understanding social investment.
New Economics magazine, free to supporters, will put you at the fascinating
and challenging frontiers of change. Contact the address overleaf for
more details.
The New Economics
Foundation
Resurgence
 Resurgence
is a bi-monthly magazine of vision and action. Resurgence brings its readers
a unique blend of news and views on a range of topics that includes ecology,
development, education, health, science and politics, together with art,
culture and spirituality. In a world of unchecked materialism, Resurgence
stands for an environmentally and spiritually sustainable future.
"Resurgence illuminates some of the most profound questions of
our age; thoughtful, passionate, nevershrill, always challenging."
Jonathan Dimbleby
Resurgence Magazine
Schumacher College
 Schumacher
College is based in the beautiful surroundings of the Dartington Hall
Estate in South Devon. In a very short time it has become internationally
renowned as one of the few institutions exploring the fundamental problems
now facing the world and since its opening in January 1991 it has attracted
over 1200 participants from 45 countries to its courses.
Whether the approach is via science, ecology, economics, spirituality
or the humanities, its intent is to explore the foundations of a more
balanced and harmonious world view.
See programme of forthcoming
courses at Schumacher College
The Schumacher Society
All over the world individuals and organisations are working to bring
practical solutions and creative new approaches to our ecological and
spiritual predicament.
Their work includes new economics, human-scale education, permaculture
and organic cultivation, intermediate technology and green spirituality.
Many of these groups and individuals who are working towards a wholistic
and ecologically sound society draw inspiration from the life and work
of E.F. Schumacher, the great economist and philosopher, author of Small
is Beautiful, Good Work, A Guide for the Perplexed and other works.
Together with his deep spiritual vision and his rejection of western materialism
and economic exploitation, Schumacher saw the need to give societies,
communities and individuals practical tools for change.
His ideas live on in the Schumacher Society (founded in 1978), which is
at the heart of a network of allied activities, playing a major role in
encouraging the spread of ecological and spiritual values. The Society
works to support and bring together the many strands of the world-view
which is currently emerging. This vision is informed by a sense of the
whole, the connectedness of the parts, a commitment to sustainability,
and a reverence for the sacred.
The Schumacher Society builds on Schumacher's legacy: it has been the
seedbed for many initiatives that include Green Books, the Small School
at Hartland and Schumacher College. Through the annual Schumacher Lectures,
our Newsletter, Lecture Service and our wide range of contacts and networking,
including links with Schumacher Societies in other countries, we help
to spread the ideas and values that are needed to bring about a truly
sane and ecologically sound society.
The Schumacher Society
The Schumacher Book Service
The Schumacher Book Service is now being run by GreenSpirit Books. It
is a mail order service with a great selection of books on environmental
and eco-spiritual subjects.
Like a huge web, stretching from Creation Spirituality to Deep Ecology,
from New Cosmology to Global Justice, and embracing scores of other vital
strands, the booklist draws its inspiration from the Green Movement.
The Book Service is a 'not for profit' personal service. Books are packed
with great care, using mainly recycled packaging, and posted the same
day whenever possible.
Website address: www.greenspirit.org.uk/books
The Soil Association
 Do
you care about the quality of your food and the way farming affects our
countryside?
Since the war, farming has become increasingly intensive. Government policies
have encouraged farmers to increase production of both crops and livestock,
creating a system that relies heavily on chemicals.
The Soil Association has been at the centre of the fight for safe, healthy
food, an unpolluted countryside and a sustainable farming policy in Britain
and worldwide, since its formation in 1946. Key areas of work include:
- Promotion of organic food and farming
- Agricultural reform
- Certification of organic standards
- Responsible forestry programme
- Information
- Education
- Campaigns
- Joining forces with other organisations involved in conservation,
the environment, food quality and animal welfare.
Members of the Association receive the magazine Living Earth (our magazine
with in-depth coverage of organic issues), regular newsletters, information
on regional groups, and expert advice. By joining the Association, you
can add your voice to the many who are concerned for the future of their
food, the countryside, and the earth they will pass on to their children.
The Soil Association.
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