Sustainability is core to Dartington. We view sustainability as transforming the way we live and work and as a touchstone for inspiration and creativity in all that we do. The wellbeing of the local economy and society, of broader humanity and of the abundance of life is a central concept to the Dartington experiment and in this sense we have always been focused, if not in name, on sustainability.
The Arts at Dartington explores and communicates our world, our work on Social Justice helps all to enjoy it, and our evolving understanding of ecology and earth systems is developing through Schumacher College, Conservation and Landscope. The land and the buildings have always been central to the experiment: they are a source of biodiversity and inspiration, a means of production and resilience, and a basis for local employment.
Students studying the Dartington Certificate in Sustainable Horticulture course experienced overwhelming success recently when they received their first external exam results…
2011 is the 20th anniversary of the opening of Schumacher College. It is also the centenary of the birth of E.F. Schumacher, the author of Small is Beautiful, whose work was an inspiration in the founding of the College…
New short courses at Schumacher College – Tracking the Past – Meeting the Future; Awakening our Relationship with Food; Whose Land is it Anyway; Wild Nature – Human Nature; and Wild Plants as Food and Medicine
Seminar on Mobilising Democracy to Tackle Climate Change asks What innovations are needed in democracy and participatory decision-making, to deliver the actions required to mitigate and adapt to climate change?
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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.
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?
Alastair McIntosh, Iain MacKinnon, Sulemana Abudulai | The process of gaining community ownership or control of land involves working within a legal framework which has not in the past been friendly to community rights, and also can present that group with a whole new set of responsibilities and challenges. This course will address both aspects of the process.
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.
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