Saturday 11 October 2008, 9.45am - 6pm
Bristol Council House, College Green

The Schumacher Society
Programme Director & Chair: Jonathon Porritt

This year, we are marking the 30th Anniversary of Fritz Schumacher’s death, and we are doing things a little differently. Not so much a ‘line-up of Lecturers’ as a great sharing of new ideas from passionate advocates for change, outspoken controversialists and a dozen leading practitioners – the people making change happen on the ground now. Our theme (“Less is More”) goes right to the heart of today’s debates about climate change, worsening injustice, peak oil, the credit crunch, food security, health inequalities, resource wars and so on.

Growing numbers of people now recognise that far more radical change is urgently needed – so come and spend the day with the movers and shakers, the doers and the transformers, in what surely represents the most hopeful and dynamic social movement in the UK today.

Main PresentationBILL McKIBBEN author, educator & “deep economist”
“350 ppm CO2 & The Quest for Human Satisfaction”

Other Key PresentationsIn discussion with Bill McKibben, together with Paul Kingsnorth and Simon Hooton:
The Quest for Human Satisfaction
Chair: Simon Cooper

The Schumacher Debate: Andrew Simms and Solitaire Townsend discuss the following proposition:
Consumerism and Sustainability are like Chalk and Cheese
Chair: Jonathon Porritt

Rob Hopkins
Engineering the Transition to a Sustainable World
Chair: Nick Hart-Williams

Ann Pettifor
Time for a green ‘New Deal’
Chair: Herbert Girardet

John Naish
Enough’s Enough – Less Really is More!
Chair: Satish Kumar

Eugenie Harvey
We are What We Do – So Just Do It!
Chair: Vala Ragnarsdottir

Matt Harvey
Poet and regular contributor to BBC Radio 4's Saturday Live

In discussion with Bill McKibben, together with Andrew Simms and Solitaire Townsend:
The Quest for Human Satisfaction
Chair: Simon Cooper

The Schumacher Debate: Paul Kingsnorth and Simon Hooton discuss the following proposition:
Regeneration as we know it today is a dead duck
Chair: Jonathon Porritt

Practitioners' Sessions (Workshops)Forum for the Future - Susan Warren, Head of Sustainable Cities
Building a Sustainable Bristol City Region

The Converging World - Ian Roderick, Executive Director
How Dependent are we?

Transition Bristol
Unleashing the Collective Genius of Communities

Soil Association - Joy Carey
Relocalising our Food Systems

Sustrans - Peter Lipman
Actually Getting There: Making Travel Sustainable

Peace Child International - David Woollcombe
Effective Education for Sustainable Lifestyles

Bristol Food Hub - Claire Milne
Using Food to Reach Beyond the Usual Suspects

Knowle West Media Centre - Carolyn Hassan
Young Schumacher Project: Eco Detectives