Independent economist and renowned futurist, Hazel Henderson, exposes the flaws within the failing economic, scientific, and environmental paradigms and makes an appeal to view the current climate of economic uncertainty as an opportunity to find truly original solutions. Henderson is the founder of Ethical Markets Media and the author of Building A Win-Win World, Beyond Globalization, Planetary Citizenship, and Ethical Markets: Growing the Green Economy. (Episode photo courtesy of imbd.com)

Nancy Jack Todd, co-founder of the New Alchemy Institute, outlines the dangers of a patriarchal society and describes the cultural changes necessary for gender equality, while emphasizing the central role that women themselves play in shifting culture for the better. Jack Todd is Vice President of Ocean Arks International and is the author of From Eco-Cities to Living Machines and A Safe and Sustainable World: The Promise of Ecological Design.

Green anarchist and decentralist philosopher, Murray Bookchin, argues that the anti-ecological, 'grow or die' nature of our society is built deeply into its structure and therefore only fundamental change is worth talking about. Bookchin is credited with founding the theory of social ecology and is the author of Post-Scarcity Anarchism and The Ecology of Freedom. (Episode photo courtesy of social-ecology.org)

Anthropologist, cyberneticist, and systems theorist, Gregory Bateson, challenges the relationship between “consciousness” and “evolution” using the logic of grammar to recontextualize the development of both biological structures and culture. Bateson is the author of Mind and Nature and Steps to an Ecology of Mind. (Episode photo courtesy of wildculture.com)

Environmental scientist Donella Meadows analyzes some of the contradictory priorities and assumptions about reality which underlie and confuse policy making. Meadows is known as lead author of The Limits to Growth and Thinking in Systems: a Primer. (Episode photo courtesy of donellameadows.org)

E.F. Schumacher, author of Small is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered and A Guide for the Perplexed, lays out the metaphysical and theological roots of decentralist economics and right livelihood. He considers quantity vs. quality, growth vs. non-growth, decentralization vs. centralization, and uniformity vs. unity. (Episode photo courtesy of schumacherinstitute.org.uk)

William Irwin Thompson, founder of the Lindisfarne Association and author of At the Edge of History, delivers the introductory talk on the re-visioning of art, science, and religion for a new planetary culture and a new image of humanity. (Episode photo courtesy of owenbarfield.org.)

In the culminating episode of the Schumacher Conversations series, distinguished farmer-activists Winona LaDuke and Leah Penniman connect to speak about climate-resilient agriculture, food justice, the solidarity economy, healing through land, and cultivating a resilient regional economy. Moderated by Jodie Evans, Schumacher Center board member and co-founder of CODEPINK: Women for Peace.

In this episode of the Schumacher Conversations series, Hazel Henderson and Juliet Schor offer their thoughts on the gig economy, platform cooperatives, moving beyond the growth imperative, UBI, how to transition to decentralized economic models, and more. Moderated by David Bollier, Director of the Schumacher Center's "Reinventing the Commons" program.

In the ninth installment of the Schumacher Conversation series, longtime stalwarts of the new economy movement, Neva Goodwin and Stewart Wallis, discuss regenerative agriculture, soil carbon sequestration, the well-being economy model, and the importance of diverse coalitions of changemakers. Moderated by Schumacher Center board member, Alice Maggio.