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Transformative Learning for Sustainable Living
Through an innovative approach to learning and with experts from round the world, Schumacher College has helped thousands of organisations and individuals in understanding and finding solutions for the most pressing ecological and social concerns of modern life. For more about Schumacher College click here
Courses recently added to our programme.
Using Living Roofs and Walls: A macro and a micro perspective
The Art of Feminine Leadership: Values, vision and success with Lynne Franks
Courses coming up soon
Awakening our Relationship with Food
Starts: Monday September 13, 2010
September 13 – 17, 2010 | Edward Espe Brown, Carolyn Steel | This course steps back from asking what to eat and how to cook it and reflects on our relationship to food as a whole, and what it can tell us about how we relate to the natural world and our inner world.
Creativity and Social Innovation
Starts: Monday September 20, 2010
20 – 24 September, 2010 | Kate Davies, Jonathan Robinson | How can we create sustainable human systems – social, organizational, political and economic? What methods and processes help generate innovative social change? What are the skills of successful change agents?
Whose Land is it Anyway? Empowerment and community of place
Starts: Monday September 27, 2010
27 September – 1 October, 2010 | Alastair McIntosh, Iain MacKinnon, Sulemana Abudulai | This course will address important and complex challenges in combining land, human and Earth rights, as well as the fun and inspirational ways communities can live, work and learn together. It will help you in taking the next step in your relationship with the land, and within the rich community of Earth as a whole.
To Buy or Not to Buy? Consumption, Growth and Prosperity
Starts: Monday October 4, 2010
October 4 – 8, 2010 | Tim Jackson, Ed Mayo, Julie Richardson | Unless we can radically lower the environmental impact of our economic activity – and there is no evidence to suggest that we can – we will have to devise a path to prosperity that does not rely on continued growth.
Dame Ellen MacArthur will be teaching on Leadership, Education and the Closed Loop Economy with Ken Webster, Steve Martin at Schumacher College in November 2010
Latest news
Ellen MacArthur launches educational foundation to promote sustainability
Thursday September 2, 2010
Never have I got involved in a challenge before which is so exciting, and so testing, but together with the talented and motivated team a the Foundation I am absolutely loving it.
Dartington Commissions Inspirational New Campus for Schumacher College
Thursday September 2, 2010
The Dartington Hall Trust will be commissioning an architect to design an inspirational new reception and teaching facility at the new campus site for Schumacher College built to high environmental standards.
Excellent results for students of the Dartington Certificate in Sustainable Horticulture
Friday August 27, 2010
Of the seventeen students who sat their Level 2 National Certificate for the Dartington Certificate in Sustainable Horticulture, twelve students received distinctions, two students were awarded merits and two students received a pass, giving a 100 per cent pass rate. Applications are being accepted for level 3 of The Dartington Certificate in Sustainable Horticulture
Events
Land Matters – Documentary Screening
Thursday September 9, 2010
5pm | The Barn Cinema, Dartington | A special screening of the documentary following the Land Matters Co-operative as it sought planning permission to create a low-impact permaculture holding in South Devon.
Why food is vital to a sustainable society? Talk with Carolyn Steel
Wednesday September 15, 2010
8pm, Wednesday 15th September | Totnes Methodist Church | Carolyn Steel is author of ‘Hungry City’, which explored the relationshipsbetween food and cities. Can food production be central to town lifeand urban planning? What might this mean for Totnes?
Schumacher College is part of the Dartington Hall Trust, a company limited by guarantee, registered in England and as a charity (company no. 1485560, charity no. 279756). Registered office: The Elmhirst Centre, Dartington Hall, Totnes, Devon TQ9 6EL, UK.