Schumacher Center for a New Economics
Buckminster Fuller and E.F. Schumacher showed us how to see and experience the world differently
Founded in 1980, the Schumacher Center for a New Economics works to envision the elements of a just and sustainable global economy; undertakes to apply these elements in its home region of the Berkshires in western Massachusetts; and then develops educational programs to share results more broadly, thus encouraging replication. The Center convenes lectures, conferences and seminars. The Center has international renown for its pioneering work in establishing successful community land trusts, community supported agriculture and a local currency. A new program called Reinventing the Commons is reviving the concept of community shared resources. One of the most extensive libraries focusing on the new economics (including the personal collections of E.F. Schumacher and Hazel Henderson) is housed at its Berkshires site. The library was recently expanded and is now the permanent home of the World Game Workshop archives.