We celebrate this month’s Local Legend, Susan Witt, cofounder and executive director of the Schumacher Center for a New Economics.
The Center, founded in 1980, works to keep the vision of economist E.F. Schumacher alive. Schumacher published Small Is Beautiful: Economics as if People Mattered in 1973. Susan executes the Center’s mission “to envision a just and regenerative economy; apply the concepts locally; then share the results for broad replication.”
“The Center pioneered Community Supported Agriculture (CSAs), Community Land Trusts, local currencies, specialty loan programs, and much more,” wrote economist Michael Shuman. “If you look at the Schumacher lectures over the years, you will see a ‘who’s who’ of the greatest thinkers in the world on decentralization. No one in the United States has done more to keep Schumacher’s vision alive than Susan. Now, Susan is creating a school that will help spread these ideas across the country. Don’t be surprised if you, your children, and your grandchildren attend.”
As AMIBA celebrates its twenty-fifth year, we added a new section to our newsletter celebrating the entrepreneurs who created legacy businesses. These long-standing enterprises strengthened their own communities while feeding the entire local economy movement.
