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Upcoming Schumacher Lectures
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Donnan Steele)
Mon Oct 15 15:19:18 2001
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Date: Mon, 15 Oct 2001 15:19:14 -0400
From: Donnan Steele <donnan@MIT.EDU>
This may be of interest to some of you. The Schumacher Society -- a
Mass based enviro group the promotes decentralization, local
currencies, and land trusts -- has a great line up this year for their
annual lecture series (held in Amherst). John Todd and Amory Lovins
are the headliners. I've been going to these lectures for a few years
and they're always a good time.
-- Donnan
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THE 21st ANNUAL E. F. SCHUMACHER LECTURES
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 27, 2001 * 10AM-5PM
JOHNSON CHAPEL, AMHERST COLLEGE, AMHERST, MA
Featured speakers:
JOHN TODD is an internationally recognized biologist and author of over two=20
hundred technical and popular articles on biology and planetary stewardship.=
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Currently a professor at the University of Vermont. he is a leader in the=20
field of ecological design and has received numerous awards for his work,=20
most recently the Lindbergh Award in 1998. Dr. Todd was co-founder of the=20
New Alchemy Institute, and in 1980 founded Ocean Arks International, a=20
non-profit organization devoted to the promotion of ecological design and=20
engineering. He is also the creator of the Living Machin(TM), a=20
revolutionary natural wastewater treatment system that accelerates the=20
natural water purification process and has been adapted for use across the=20
globe.
AMORY LOVINS co-founded Rocky Mountain Institute in 1982, a nonprofit=20
research and educational foundation that fosters the efficient and=20
restorative use of natural and human capital. A MacArthur Fellow, he has=20
held a variety of visiting academic chairs, briefed 10 heads of state,=20
published 26 books and several hundred papers, and lectured and broadcast=20
widely. He has served on the U.S. Department of Energy's Senior Advisory=20
Board and received the Heinz, Lindbergh, and Right Livelihood Awards and the=
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Mitchell, Nissan, and Onassis Prizes. Lovins' work focuses on transforming=20
the car, real estate, electricity, water, semiconductor, and several other=20
sectors of the economy toward advanced resource productivity. The WALL=20
STREET JOURNAL=E2=80=99s Centennial Issue named him among 39 people in the w=
orld most=20
likely to change the course of business in the 1990s and CAR magazine, the=20
22nd most powerful person in the global automotive industry. Lovins is=20
co-author of NATURAL CAPITALISM: CREATING THE NEXT INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION. =20
ALANNA HARTZOK is an economic justice, land rights and tax reform educator=20
and activist and a mental health counselor. She is United Nations=20
Non-Governmental Organization Representative for the International Union for=
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Land Value Taxation , with 60 member organizations worldwide; Vice President=
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of the Council of Georgist Organizations, with 35 member organizations=20
nationwide; and State Coordinator of the Pennsylvania Fair Tax Coalition.=20
Soon to be incorporated is Earth Rights Institute which she founded in 1996.=
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Her published articles on tax reform are used by legislators in the states o=
f=20
Pennsylvania, Maryland, New Jersey and New York. She is one of several=20
people featured in PLANET CHAMPIONS: ADVENTURES IN SAVING THE WORLD=E2=80=
=94NEW PATHS=20
TO PEACE, PROSPERITY & HUMAN RIGHTS by Jack Yost.
Tickets are $20, $15 for members of the Schumacher Society, students, and=20
seniors. A vegetarian lunch is available for $12 and must be ordered one=20
week in advance. Pre-registration is recommended as space is filling up=20
quickly. To pre-register, please visit the Society's web site at=20
www.smallisbeautiful.org (Click on "New" and follow the links) or call=20
413-528-1737 to request an event flyer and registration card.
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