Green Entrepreneurship in Action

14-25 November, 2011

Week 1 - The Green Entrepreneur

Week 1 of the course will help participants discover the important qualities of a green entrepreneur, develop the skills you need to inspire, lead and motivate those around you to support your ideas, and provide valuable inspiration, ideas and practice to help make this your future. We’ll also explore some of the key factors that have led this sector to develop more quickly in the UK than other countries.

Week 2 – The Green Enterprise

The UK is at the forefront of social and environmental enterprise, and it is taking the country by storm. This course will help you understand the different kinds of business model found in social enterprise and help you understand how to build your own organisation or project towards a sustainable future. Using the Devon School for Social Entrepreneurs’ action learning methodology and Schumacher College’s deep understanding of environmental issues, this course is aimed at people who are running or about to start a green enterprise, or who run a green community initiative that needs to become more financially sustainable.

Course Fees

Any one week £750

Two weeks £1,200 (£300 fee saving)

All course fees include accommodation; food, field trips and all teaching sessions.

For more information: http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/courses/-building-the-green-enterprise-

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Scything 30-31 July 2011

Fruit Tree Grafting 13 August 2011

Eco Open Houses 8-11 September 2011

Apple Day at Stanmer Park 25 September 2011

Building with Rammed Earth and Chalk 15-16 October 2011

Introduction to Photovoltaics 18 October 2011

Self-building an Earthship 21-23 October 2011

Green Roofs 29-30 October 2011

Eco Renovate your Home 2 November 2011 & 3 November 2011

Introduction to Permaculture 19-20 November 2011 (tbc)

Pruning Old Fruit Trees 14-15 and 17-18 January 2012

Practical Permaculture Gardening 31 March-1 April 2012

Mushroom Cultivation 5-6 May 2012

Forest gardening 30 June-1 July 2012

Full details and bookings: www.brightonpermaculture.org.uk

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What are the credible alternative to the existing financial system?

Financial markets, we are told, are the lifeblood of our society, which is why governments across the globe have gone to such enormous lengths to prop up failing financial institutions. However is the economic crisis really over? Is the ‘business as usual’ mentality destined to produce more of the same instability? What plausible alternatives to the current system are there that would promote employment, social and environmental equality, whilst ensuring the economic stability we require?

Bringing together some of the leading voices in alternative economics including Ann Pettifor, Hazel Henderson, Tessa Tennant, Julie Richardson and Nathalie Buschor. This course will cover macroeconomics as well as the experiences of those working with money and investments on a daily basis. The course will uncover the myths and flaws that surround the current banking system, before drawing on the wide range of ideas and experience to explore how a new economic dawn could really lead to a fairer robust system that supports and serves the interests of communities and ecosystems.

Ann Pettifor recently featured in The Observer magazine as one of six pioneers in green thinking. Her work and writing has concentrated on the international financial architecture, the sovereign debts of the poorest countries, and the rise in sovereign, corporate and private debt in OECD economies. She is well known for her leadership of Jubilee 2000, an organisation that placed the debts of the poorest countries on the global political agenda, and brought about both substantial debt cancellation, and radical policy changes at national and international levels.

Hazel Henderson is a world renowned futurist, evolutionary economist, a worldwide syndicated columnist, consultant on sustainable development, and author of Beyond Globalization, and seven other books. She sits on several editorial boards, including Futures Research Quarterly, The State of the Future Report, and E/The Environmental Magazine (USA), Resurgence and Futures (UK).

Tessa Tennant is Executive Chair of The Ice Organisation myice.com, an environmental rewards programme. Tessa co-founded the UK’s first equity investment fund for sustainable development in 1988, the Merlin (now Jupiter) Ecology Fund. She was Chair and co-founder of the UK Social Investment Forum uksif.org and of the Carbon Disclosure Project cdproject.net where she is now a Trustee.

For more details click here: http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/courses/rethinking-finance-good-servant-bad-master

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What does the future world we desire require of us now?

At this time of great challenge, we need to ask how we created the world we currently inhabit and how we can develop the skills and understanding to act wisely, and in harmony with the needs of the Earth and wider society.

Internationally renowned teacher and mentor Jeddah Mali combines experiential wisdom with the latest scientific discoveries to throw new light on the role of harmony, coherence and empathy in human life and suggests positive new directions in the eternal search for peace on Earth.

Using a combination of presentations, discussion, written exercises and closed eye analysis (analytical meditation), this essential course offers participants the opportunity to spend deep time with Jeddah, in the tranquillity of the Devon countryside, to learn how to discover solutions to the many questions that existence asks of us.

• How do you find answers to the many questions you have?
• Discover how science and spirituality combine to offer new directions in our search for peace.
• Find out how through expanded awareness, we as individuals can make a significant difference.

For more details:

http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/courses/what-makes-our-world-work

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What do we mean by Creativity and what is the nature of Imagination? How do they relate to the fruitful processes of the natural world, and are there fresh ways in which we can activate their energy in our life and work?

Lindsay Clarke, Whitbread Prize winner and author of The Chymical Wedding, will help illuminate the deep ground of our creativity in the personal, collective and ecological layers of the unconscious mind. Lindsay is joined by John Moat, painter and a poet, whose work embodies the search for integration and balance and Roselle Angwin a celebrated Westcountry poet and author, she will use a trip to Dartmoor to discuss the connections between creativity, consciousness and the environment.

Through a varied range of stimulating activities, group discussions and reflections on the poetics of experience, the wisdom of dreams, and the roles of muses, the course will help participants to develop areas of their own creativity and strengthen their vision and practice.

• Discover and enhance new aspects of your creativity.
• Learn from established writers and artists about their own creative journeys and processes.
• Develop your understanding of the inter-play between imagination and the unconscious.

For more details:

Visit: http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/courses/the-springs-of-creativity

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Over countless millennia, nature has developed some of the most inspiring and sustainable solutions to a multitude of different problems. Bio-design is a compelling and inspiring method of both seeing and doing for problem-solvers of every discipline, and can be a powerful tool for promoting sustainability.

More and more often science and the private sector are turning to design inspired nature. Possibly one of the most obvious architectural examples are the Eden Projects ‘biomes’ which were inspired by soap bubbles consequently an incredibly efficient structural form that has one hundredth of the weight of a glass solution. The result is one of the lightest structures ever created and a building that is largely self-heating using passive solar design principles.

Participants on these dynamic course will be presented with a fresh design lens by looking at the natural world. They will be offered dynamic examples of successful applications of biomimetic innovation from a surprising range of professions, including: architecture, product design and medicine. Participants will practice techniques for discovery, analysis, ideation and implementation of creative solutions using experimental, problem solving and team based learning.

How Would Nature Do That? Bio-Inspired Design, taught by Tom McKeag runs from June 13 – 17, 2011 followed by

Biomimicry and Buildings: Innovation and Sustainability in Architecture taught by Michael Pawlyn and Robert Somerville runs from June 20 – 24, 2011

To find out more about these course:

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How much is enough?

This question has never been more relevant or important than it is today, and Vicki Robin has been at the forefront of these issues ever since the publication of her seminal work Your Money or Your Life?

During the 5 day course she will work with participants to find joyful ways of living at your “enough point” – the point where you have all you need and nothing in excess.

How do you have everything you want and need, but nothing in excess?

Individuals, communities and organisations can benefit from this rich exploration of what makes transformation possible through to practical action and impact.

Vicki Robin

Vicki Robin is co-author with Joe Dominguez of the best-seller, ‘Your Money or Your Life: Transforming Your Relationship With Money and Achieving Financial Independence’, an international best-seller which has been translated into eleven languages.

For more information and to book:
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Schumacher College is the perfect space for reflecting, sharing ideas and engaging in change for the individual, community and the environment.

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INTRODUCTION TO PERMACULTURE

19-20 March 2011

This course introduces the basics of permaculture design and shows how this approach can be applied. 9.30am-5pm.  Stanmer Park and/or other Sussex locations.  Tutors: Jen Beaufoy, Kate Hamilton and Hedvig Murray.  See website for full details: www.brightonpermaculture.org.uk

GREEN ARCHITECTURE DAY

26 March 2011

Sallis Benney Theatre, University of Brighton, Grand Parade, Brighton BN2 0JY.

Stalls, exhibitions and illustrated talks.  See website for full details: www.brightonpermaculture.org.uk

PRACTICAL PERMACULTURE GARDENING

2-3 April 2011

This course explores how permaculture design can be used to create beautiful, productive and wildlife-friendly gardens. 10.00am – 5pm. The first day is based at the Earthship in Stanmer Park, Brighton and on the Brighton Permaculture Trust plot.

The second day begins at Pippa Johns’ garden close to Southease station between Newhaven and Lewes.  The afternoon will be held in a nearby hall.  Tutor: Pippa Johns. See website for full details: www.brightonpermaculture.org.uk

INTRODUCTION TO PHOTOVOLTAICS

19 April 2011

The course will cover the basics of photovoltaics, from system design and load calculation through to the various types of solar panels, batteries and inverters and their suitability in different situations. The afternoon will be spent setting up a small photovoltaic system and will include a tour of the award winning Earthship Brighton.  9am – 5.30pm.  Tutors: Alex Saunders, Mischa Hewitt.  CPD CERTIFIED.  See website for full details:  www.brightonpermaculture.org.uk

BUILDING WITH STRAW BALES

22-24 APRIL 2011

This course is for anyone interested in building with straw bales – a cheap, natural, healthy and low impact way of making your own house. This is a practical building course and involves lots of hands-on workshops.  9am – 5.30pm.  Tutor: Ian Brown.  CPD CERTIFIED.  See website for full details:  www.brightonpermaculture.org.uk

INTRODUCTION TO PERMACULTURE

4-5 May 2011

This course introduces the basics of permaculture design and shows how this approach can be applied. 9.30am-5pm.  Stanmer Park and/or other Sussex locations.  Tutors: Jen Beaufoy, Kate Hamilton and Hedvig Murray.  See website for full details: www.brightonpermaculture.org.uk

MUSHROOM CULTIVATION

7- 8 May 2011

This course looks at the significant role fungi play in the cycles of life and how they enhance the environment. Hands-on practical activities will give participants skills in cultivating mushrooms suitable for small spaces.  You will be able to take home a shiitake-inoculated log and oyster mushroom-inoculated straw.  9.30am–5.30pm   Tutor: Bill Knight.  See website forfull details:  www.brightonpermaculture.org.uk

COMMUNITY ORCHARD TRAINING

24 May 2011

This course looks at the basics of how to nurture newly planted fruit trees – watering, feeding, disease prevention and pest control.  The course includes apple cookery, juice-making on a traditional apple press (which is available for hire to community groups) and ideas for celebrating your apple harvest.  9.30am-5pm.   Stanmer Park, Brighton BN1 9PZ.  Tutors: Anne-Marie Bur, Bryn Thomas, Fran Pickering, Peter May, Robin van Creveld, Stephan Gehrels. See website for full details:  www.brightonpermaculture.org.uk

COMMUNITY ORCHARD TRAINING

28 May 2011

This course looks at the basics of how to nurture newly planted fruit trees – watering, feeding, disease prevention and pest control.  The course includes apple cookery, juice-making on a traditional apple press (which is available for hire to community groups) and ideas for celebrating your apple harvest.  9.30am-5pm.   Stanmer Park, Brighton BN1 9PZ.  Tutors: Anne-Marie Bur, Bryn Thomas, Fran Pickering, Peter May, Robin van Creveld, Stephan Gehrels. See website for full details:  www.brightonpermaculture.org.uk

SELF-BUILDING AN EARTHSHIP

10-12 June 2011

This course is for anyone thinking about building their own home or interested in learning about Earthships.  It includes practical workshops.  9am – 5.30pm.

Tutors: Rebecca Sarll, Jon Kalviac, Paulina Wojciechowska, Mischa Hewitt.  CPD

CERTIFIED.  See website for full details:  www.brightonpermaculture.org.uk

FOREST GARDENING

25-26 June 2011

Learn how to grow fruit, nuts, salads and perennial vegetables as a low maintenance, highly productive garden ecosystem. Includes four site visits. 10am-5pm. Stanmer Park, Brighton, Hertford Junior School, Brighton and Seaford, East Sussex.  Tutors: Bryn Thomas, Pippa Johns and Stephan Gehrels.  See website for full details:  www.brightonpermaculture.org.uk

FOREST GARDENING

2 – 3 July 2011

Learn how to grow fruit, nuts, salads and perennial vegetables as a low maintenance, highly productive garden ecosystem. Includes four site visits. 10am-5pm. Stanmer Park, Brighton, Hertford Junior School, Brighton and Seaford, East Sussex.  Tutors: Bryn Thomas, Pippa Johns and Stephan Gehrels.  See website for full details:  www.brightonpermaculture.org.uk

SELF-BUILDING AN EARTHSHIP

15-17 July 2011

This course is for anyone thinking about building their own home or interested in learning about Earthships.  It includes practical workshops.  9am – 5.30pm.  Tutors:

Rebecca Sarll, Jon Kalviac, Paulina Wojciechowska, Mischa Hewitt.  CPD CERTIFIED.

See website for full details:  www.brightonpermaculture.org.uk

SCYTHING

30-31 July 2011

The course will cover everything you need to know on how to use and maintain a scythe, leaving you with the skills and knowledge needed to mow anything from a small lawn to a meadow and even brambles, and also traditional hay making. Plenty of hands-on guidance from the tutor will enable you to leave as a competent scytheperson. Saturday 10am-5pm Sunday 9.30am-3.30pm (optional 7am start).  Tutors: Simon Fairlie, Bryn Thomas, Stephan Gehrels.

See website for full details:  www.brightonpermaculture.org.uk

FRUIT TREE GRAFTING

13 August 2011

10am-5pm.  Stanmer Park.  The course will encourage participants to develop practical skills in the propagation of fruit trees.  Experience will be gained in the use of a grafting knife, concentrating on the technique of “Chip Budding” to graft an apple variety onto a rootstock.  Tutors: Peter May, Stephan Gehrels.

See website for full details:  www.brightonpermaculture.org.uk

APPLE DAY AT STANMER PARK, BRIGHTON

25 September 2011

11am-5pm

Apple day is an annual celebration in and around the orchards at Stanmer Park which is a free event for all the family.   Delicious food and drink, including apple crumble, pie and juice will be available.   The day features juice-making demonstrations, children’s activities, apple identification, guided tours, produce for sale, stalls and much more.  See website for full details: www.brightonpermaculture.org.uk

BUILDING WITH RAMMED EARTH AND CHALK

15-16 October 2011

This course will cover the basics of rammed earth and chalk, from the benefits of building

with rammed earth, finding the right earth, choosing a formwork system, different construction methods, design detailing, different approaches and the various tools used. There will be a large practical component to the course, with the construction of a section of rammed earth wall.  9.00am-5.30pm.  Tutors: Rowland Keable, Mischa Hewitt.  CPD CERTIFIED.

See website for full details: www.brightonpermaculture.org.uk

PRUNING OLD FRUIT TREES

14-15 Jan 17-18 Jan 2012

The course is held in the old apple orchards at Stanmer Park.  Learn how to improve health and productivity by appropriate pruning.  10am – 5pm.  Tutor: Bryn Thomas.

See website for full details: www.brightonpermaculture.org.uk

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June 27 – July 2, 2011 with David W. Orr, Stephan Mayer & Rob Hopkins.

Human history has entered “the long emergency” driven by climate destabilisation, the end of cheap fossil fuels, economic uncertainty, inequality, and increasing political turmoil. Governments virtually everywhere seem incapable of responses that are appropriate to the scale of the challenge. What’s to be done?

That question, of course, has no single answer. Responses to the long emergency will depend on varying situations and circumstances, different blends of culture and ecology, and local capacities for creativity and adaptability. But this course will focus on what communities can do to create maximum resilience and sustainability in a time of rapid change and instability.

For more details or to book a place on this course, please go to: http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/courses/the-road-ahead-building-community-in-the-long-emergency

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March 28 – April 8, 2011

Changing the way we live and work on the planet is vital, and to do that we need a whole new set of skills to enable us to act effectively – and urgently. Understanding Ecoliteracy will help students to appreciate and act with a greater ecological awareness in both local and global situations.

Teachers include:

Fritjof Capra (by videolink), Satish Kumar, Gustavo Esteva (by videolink), Stephan Harding, Philip Franses, Julie Richardson, Mark Burton, Jon Rae, Terry Irwin (by videolink), Antonia Spencer, Bethan Stagg, Anne Miller, Hal Gilmore, Emily Ryan (course facilitator)

For more details or to book a place on this course, please visit our website: http://www.schumachercollege.org.uk/courses/ecoliteracy-first-principles-for-radical-change

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