The Schumacher Center Staff

Founded in 1980, the Schumacher Center for a New Economics works to envision the elements of a just and regenerative global economy; undertakes to apply these elements in its home region of the Berkshires in western Massachusetts; and then develops educational programs to share the results more broadly, thus encouraging replication.

Remembering Richard Heinberg: ‘He was one of the clearest and steadiest voices addressing fossil-fuel dependence’

Richard’s writing never minimized the severity of the challenges before us, but neither did it surrender to hopelessness. Again and again, he insisted that another path could be imagined and designed—one based on ecological understanding, community-based economics, and a renewed culture of commoning.

August 5, 2026

Jerry Mander

Remembering Jerry Mander

We too have had our great dreams, but now the corporate-run media, the corporate world, have them for us. Part of what Jerry Mander is crusading for is to encourage us to have great dreams again.

April 21, 2023