Ensuring a Strong Voice for Change
Our members helped build a voice for economic change.
Past membership support of the E. F. Schumacher Society, a small organization founded in 1980, allowed it to develop a solid theoretical and practical base of work, positioning it to offer positive solutions when the need for change became broadly apparent.
That time has come.
The deepening environmental crisis is now recognized as an economic crisis. Widening social discrepancies are seen as a failure of an economic system that thrives on the tension between producer and consumer, between owners and workers, between small and too-big-to-fail. A global financial melt down puts in question the very way money is placed in circulation.
A new, fair, green, resilient, decentralized, sustainable, cooperative economy is necessary.
To meet this challenge the E. F. Schumacher Society has transitioned to become the New Economics Institute with an expanded mission. We are building alliances with other organizations shaping a new economics, convening events, publishing papers, leading a movement. An engaged board and advisory board, talented new staff, committed interns, a New York City office, and the rich legacy and experience of our lecture/publication/Library/and Berkshire model programs are the foundation blocks from which we can help effect change.
In the coming year we will work to capture and leverage growing public sentiment of the need for reform by outlining strategic steps that can be taken at the local, regional, national, and global level. The June 8-10th "Strategies for a New Economy" conference at Bard College will feature 84 workshops and 12 plenary sessions with leading economic thinkers and practitioners, recorded and streamed live for maximum participation. The Global Transition project will map new economy initiatives around the world to demonstrate the extent of this vibrant citizen movement and ensure a strong voice for a new economy at the UN Sustainable Development summit in Rio.
We continue to need membership support to maintain this momentum. Won’t you help with a year-end donation? Online at: http://neweconomicsinstitute.org/donations. By check or BerkShares to New Economics Institute, 140 Jug End Road, Great Barrington, MA 01230. We welcome your partnership in this vital task of shaping a new economy.
Wishing you a Peaceful Solstice and Happy Holidays with friends and family,
Staff and Interns of the New Economics Institute:
Jing Cao, Hannah Friendman, Samir Hafez, Camille Goulding, Scott Grimm-Lyon,
Katharine Millonzi, Carina Millstone, Dmitriy Oziransky, and Sana Rafiq
New York City Office
Gregory Barber, Susan Ingersoll, Nicholas Kacher, Kevin Wang, and Susan Witt
Berkshire Office and Library
December 21, 2011
