[ComCom] Fwd: Gathered Visions - EF Schumacher pamphlets

Thu Dec 13 14:04:38 EST 2007

Hi Eli,
Thanks for all the great work.  I wish that I could have joined you  
last night.  And I still look for some way to help.  I do not have  
web skills.  The ballot access folks at national would like help in  
getting signatures in nearby New England states.  NH is one, I  
believe.  I could check on that and perhaps that appeal could be put  
on the site.
jw
p.s. I wonder whether we could somehow publicize Nader's suit against  
the Dems for keeping him off the ballot in 2004.  He is actually  
trying to prove criminal intent and said at BU that they will soon  
depose the lawyers the Dems used.  Apparently if you engage in  
tactics to distract a campaign from its electoral effort, then you  
are in violation of the law.  So the deposed lawyers may have to  
perjure themselves and they run a big risk if there are documents  
around (emails etc) that can prove their intent.
So it is quite interesting and will benefit all third parties.

On Dec 13, 2007, at 1:29 PM, Eli Beckerman wrote:

> Had a somewhat productive phone meeting last night about the website.
> I will try to get minutes of it out before week's end. The long and  
> short of
> it
> is that Jamie & I will try to set up a forum at
> community.green-rainbow.orgfor people to provide input for a new
> website. Stay tuned.
>
> In the meantime...
>
> Wouldn't it be nice if we could start pointing people to these  
> types of
> readings?
>
> ---------- Forwarded message ----------
> From: E.F. Schumacher Society <efssociety at smallisbeautiful.org>
> Date: Dec 13, 2007 12:04 PM
> Subject: Gathered Visions
> To: office at green-rainbow.org
>
>
> Dear Friend
>
> Gathered over a period of twenty-seven years, the collected E. F.  
> Schumacher
> lecture pamphlets represent some of the finest thinking about  
> creating a
> sustainable future. Each was delivered as a lone testament to one  
> person's
> vision, viewed together they offer an integrated picture of hope and
> possibility for people, land, and communities.
>
> It was 1981 when Schumacher Society board member David Ehrenfeld  
> first spoke
> to the revival of the fine art of pamphleteering. His goal was to  
> raise
> awareness of a cultural revolution in the making. Twenty-seven  
> years later,
> speakers at the Annual E. F. Schumacher Lectures are still  
> promoting that
> revolution--each year adding new voices, enhancing the dialogue, and
> challenging entrenched attitudes.
>
> Efforts towards a sustainable world are enlivened by conversations  
> among
> disciplines. The annual lecture series represents the diverse  
> quality of the
> debate about ways to achieve that world. Lectures range from Richard
> Heinberg's call for sweeping changes in our agricultural policy to  
> Thomas
> Berry¹s spiritual affirmation of every being's rights.
>
> The E. F. Schumacher Society's believes the ideas contained in these
> lectures are too vital to languish unread, the examples too  
> important to be
> ignored. To facilitate greater access, the lectures are edited and  
> published
> in pamphlet form for sale at an affordable price and then posted at  
> the
> Society's web site where they may be read for free. A full list of  
> pamphlets
> is included below.
>
> Consider sharing favorite lectures with family and friends this  
> holiday
> season. You may want to send a set of pamphlets to your public  
> library, your
> neighborhood school, your favorite organization for its bookshelf,  
> or to a
> retirement community (as some members have done).
>
> You may order online at: http://www.smallisbeautiful.org/ 
> publications.html
> or by calling the office and requesting an order form by mail (413)
> 528-1737. Price including postage is $5 each or five BerkShares
> (http://www.berkshares.org).
>
> It is membership support that has built the Schumacher Society and its
> lecture program. It is you and your generous donations that have  
> helped
> support a revolution in thinking on how we should conduct ourselves  
> on the
> earth and with one another. The pamphlets are a tool for spreading  
> these
> ideas. Please help us "pamphleteer."
>
> Sincerely,
> Michael Gordon, Kristen Fix, and Susan Witt
> E. F. Schumacher Society
> 140 Jug End Road
> Great Barrington, MA 01230
> (413) 528-1737
> www.smallisbeautiful.org
>
> Board of Directors: Jessica Brackman, Starling Childs, Merrian Fuller,
> Hildegarde Hannum, Eric Harris-Braun, Constance Packard, Joseph  
> Stanislaw,
> Nancy Jack Todd, and Charles Turner.
>
> * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *
>
> 1. E. F. Schumacher, Wendell Berry, and Susan Witt, An Economics of  
> Peace, a
> collection of essays, 2001
> 2. Judy Wicks and Susan Witt, "Exuberant Episodes of Import  
> Replacing": Two
> Tributes to Jane Jacobs, 2006
> 3. Robert Swann and Susan Witt, Local Currencies: Catalysts for  
> Sustainable
> Regional Economies, 1988
> 4. Susan Witt and Robert Swann, Land: Challenge and Opportunity,  
> 1995 (out
> of print)
> 5. Susan Witt and Jay Rossier, A New Lease on Farmland, 1990
> 6. Robert Swann, Tributes, 2003 (free)
> 7. Gar Alperovitz, Distributing Our Technological Inheritance, 1994
>  8. Donald Anderson, The Assembly, 1996
> 9. Peter Barnes, Capitalism, the Commons, and Divine Right, 2003
> 10. Thomas Berry, The Ecozoic Era, 1991
> 11. Thomas Berry, Every Being Has Rights, 2003
> 12. Elise Boulding, The Family as a Small Society, 1982
> 13. David Brower, It¹s Healing Time on Earth, 1992
> 14. Christopher Houghton Budd, The Role of the Individual in  
> Localizing
> Money Issue and Credit Creation, 2005
> 15. Marie Cirillo, Stories from an Appalachian Community, 2000
> 16. David Ehrenfeld, The Management Explosion & the Next Environmental
> Crisis, 1990
> 17. William Ellis, Flapping Butterfly Wings, 1998
> 18. Chellis Glendinning, A Map (From Old Connecticut Path to Rio  
> Grande
> Valley & All Meaning In Between), 1999
> 19. Hunter Hannum, Wagner and the Fate of the Earth: A Contemporary  
> Reading
> of "The Ring," 1993
> 20. Alanna Hartzok, Democracy, Earth Rights, and the Next Economy,  
> 2001
> 21. Richard Heinberg, Fifty Million Farmers, 2006
> 22. Hazel Henderson, Development Beyond Economism: Local Paths to
> Sustainable Development, 1989
> 23. Ivan Illich, The Wisdom of Leopold Kohr, 1994
> 24. Dana Lee Jackson, Women and the Challenge of the Ecological  
> Era, 1990
> 25. Wes Jackson, Becoming Native to This Place, 1993
> 26. Wes Jackson, Call for a Revolution in Agriculture, 1981
> 27. Jane Jacobs, The Economy of Regions, 1983
> 28. Andrew Kimbrell, Cold Evil: Technology and Modern Ethics, 2000
> 29. David C. Korten, Creating a Post-Corporate World, 2000
> 30. Winona LaDuke, Voices from White Earth: Gaa-waabaabiganitkaag,  
> 1993
> 31. Frances Moore Lappé, Toward a Politics of Hope: Lessons from a  
> Hungry
> World, 1985
> 32. Thomas Linzey, Of Corporations, Law, and Democracy, 2005
> 33. Amory Lovins, Natural Capitalism: The Next Industrial  
> Revolution, 2001
> 34. Kevin Lyons, Greening the Campus from a Procurement  
> Perspective, 2002
> 35. Oren Lyons, The Ice is Melting, 2004
> 36. Jerry Mander, Economic Globalization: The Era of Corporate  
> Rule, 1999
> 37. John McClaughry, Bringing Power Back Home--Recreating Democracy  
> on a
> Human Scale, 1989
> 38. John McKnight, John Deere and the Bereavement Counselor, 1984
> 39. George McRobie, The Community¹s Role in Appropriate Technology,  
> 1982
> 40. Deborah Meier, The Company We Keep: A Case for Small Schools,  
> 1998 (out
> of print)
> 41. Stephanie Mills, Making Amends to the Myriad Creatures, 1991
> 42. Stephanie Mills, Bob Swann¹s "Positively Dazzling Realism", 2004
> 43. Stacy Mitchell, Declaration of Independents, 2006
> 44. John Mohawk, How the Conquest of Indigenous Peoples Parallels the
> Conquest of Nature, 1997
> 45. David Morris, Reclaiming Community, 1996
> 46. Helena Norberg-Hodge, Moving Toward Community: From Global  
> Dependence to
> Local Interdependence, 1996
> 47. David Orr, Environmental Literacy: Education as if the Earth  
> Mattered,
> 1992
> 48. Will Raap, E. F. Schumacher: He Taught us to Build Bridges and  
> Plant
> Trees, 2006
> 49. Kirkpatrick Sale, The Columbian Legacy and the Ecosterian  
> Response, 1990
> 50. Kirkpatrick Sale, Mother of All: An Introduction to  
> Bioregionalism, 1983
> 51. William Schambra, The Friendship Club and the Well-Springs of  
> Civil
> Society, 1999
> 52. Michael Shuman, Going Local: New Opportunities for Community  
> Economies,
> 2002
> 53. Cathrine Sneed, The Garden Project; Growing Urban Communities,  
> 1995
> 54. Charlene Spretnak, Green Politics: The Spiritual Dimension, 1984
> 55. Nancy Jack Todd, The Promise of Ecological Design, 2005
> 56. John Todd, An Ecological Economic Order, 1985
> 57. John Todd, Ecological Design: Reinventing the Future, 2001
> 58. Jakob von Uexkull, The Right Livelihood Award, 1992
> 59. Greg Watson, The Wisdom That Builds Community, 1997
> 60. Judy Wicks, Good Morning, Beautiful Business, 2004
> 61. Arthur Zajonc, Buddhist Technology: Bringing a New  
> Consciousness to Our
> Technological Future, 1997
>
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