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Community, Place and Play: A Post-Market Economics

Community, Place and Play: A Post-Market Economics

by Shaun Chamberlin | Jan 26, 2017 | All Posts, Cultural stories, David Fleming, Lean Logic, Philosophy, Surviving the Future, Transition Movement

In a couple of weeks (Feb 6-10) I’ll be leading a week-long course at Schumacher College based on David Fleming’s legacy: Community, Place and Play: A Post-Market Economics. It will be an exploration of what ‘life well lived’ looks like in a...
Forthcoming (and past) events

Forthcoming (and past) events

by Shaun Chamberlin | Dec 7, 2016 | All Posts, David Fleming, Lean Logic, Surviving the Future

Forthcoming public events     Fri 29th November 2020 ‘David Fleming: 10 Years on, Celebrating His Legacy’ A programme of online events to mark the 10th anniversary of David Fleming’s death. Schedule and details to follow.  In the meantime,...
A Circle Closing

A Circle Closing

by Shaun Chamberlin | Nov 29, 2016 | All Posts, David Fleming, Lean Logic, Surviving the Future

A personal post this, on the sixth anniversary of my dear friend David Fleming’s death. A mournful day, but also one of great satisfaction, as his incredible books finally spread their wings and find the audience his genius always deserved. Ten years on from our...
By popular demand, David Fleming’s interviews!

By popular demand, David Fleming’s interviews!

by Shaun Chamberlin | Oct 14, 2016 | All Posts, David Fleming, Lean Logic, Surviving the Future

At recent events I have played clips from interviews with the late, great David Fleming, and a few people have asked me to make the full footage available. So here it...
David Fleming’s posthumous book tour!

David Fleming’s posthumous book tour!

by Shaun Chamberlin | Sep 8, 2016 | All Posts, David Fleming, Lean Logic, Out and about, Reviews and recommendations, Surviving the Future

So, after years of work from me, and decades from David, the day is finally here – the official publication date for his astonishing lifework!! In truth, demand has already been such that the distributors have been struggling to keep up, but they’re...
Interview on David Fleming, music and hippos!

Interview on David Fleming, music and hippos!

by Shaun Chamberlin | Aug 21, 2016 | All Posts, David Fleming, Economics, Lean Logic, Reviews and recommendations, Surviving the Future, TEQs (Tradable Energy Quotas)

Last week the wonderful Brianne Goodspeed of Chelsea Green Publishing interviewed me on my late mentor David Fleming and the astonishing gift he left to the world. His sudden death in 2010 left behind his great unpublished work—Lean Logic: A Dictionary for the Future...
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