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The College was co-founded in 1990 by Satish Kumar, John Lane, Stephan Harding and others. They were inspired by E.F. Schumacher, the economist, environmentalist and author of Small Is Beautiful. which argued that the growth of capitalism came at a very high human and planetary cost. The first course ran in 1991 with visiting teacher James ...
Wholesome Wave is an American nonprofit organization focused on nutrition and access to fresh food. Wholesome Wave operates two nutrition incentive programs, the Double Value Coupon Program and the Fruit & Vegetable Prescription Program, which tackle the issue of affordability for underserved consumers. The organization works with with food ...
E. F. Schumacher Society. The Schumacher Center for a New Economics (formerly the E. F. Schumacher Society) is a tax exempt nonprofit organization based in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. [1] The Schumacher Center promotes the ' new economy ', which includes the concepts buy local, local currency and self-sufficiency.
A Guide for the Perplexed is a short book by E. F. Schumacher, published in 1977.The title is a reference to Maimonides's The Guide for the Perplexed.Schumacher himself considered A Guide for the Perplexed to be his most important achievement, although he was better known for his 1973 environmental economics bestseller Small Is Beautiful, which made him a leading figure within the ecology ...
History 1862 – 2000. The university was originally founded as the Plymouth School of Navigation in 1862, before becoming a university college in 1920 and a polytechnic institute in 1970, with its constituent bodies being Plymouth Polytechnic, Rolle College in Exmouth, the Exeter College of Art and Design (which were, before April 1989, run by Devon County Council) and Seale-Hayne College ...
It mandated a certain percentage of the funds be used to increase quality in subsidized child care, established new health and safety standards, earmarked funds specifically for infants and toddlers, and required states provide families with information about providers’ licensing, histories, and inspections.
Schumacher or Schuhmacher is an occupational surname (German, "shoemaker", pronounced [ˈʃuːmaxɐ], both variants can be used as surnames, with Schumacher being the more popular one, however, only the variant with three "h"s can also be used as a job description in modern German spelling).
KAP7 was founded in California by Brad Schumacher and Wolf Wigo in 2004. [1] [2] Schumacher is an American competitive swimmer , water polo player, and two-time Olympic champion. [3] [4] Wigo is an American water polo player and three-time Olympian.