January 30, 2023
Della Duncan, Renegade Economist, Host of the Upstream Podcast, and Co-Founder of the California Doughnut Economics Coalition, will give a talk titled “Doughnut Economics” at 5:30 p.m. on Wednesday, Feb. 8 at the MCLA Feigenbaum Center for Science and Innovation, Room 121. The presenter will attend via zoom.
As part of MCLA’s Green Living Seminar series, this event is free and open to the public.
About Della Duncan
Della Z Duncan is a Renegade Economist who supports individuals working to better
align their values with their work as a Right Livelihood Coach, offers consulting
to organizations contributing to equitable and sustainable economic systems change,
facilitates inspiring “Work that Reconnects” retreats, and hosts the Upstream Podcast
which covers mainstream economic thinking through documentaries and conversations.
Duncan is also a Senior Atlantic Fellow of Social and Economic Equity at the International Inequalities Institute in the London School of Economics, the Course Development Manager of Fritjof Capra’s Capra Course on the Systems View of Life, a Gross National Happiness Master Trainer, a founding member of the California Doughnut Economics Coalition (CalDEC), and a Senior Lecturer at the California Institute of Integral Studies, Santa Cruz Permaculture, Vital Cycles Permaculture, and Gaia Education.
She holds an MA in Economics for Transition with Distinction from Schumacher College, a BA in International Relations and Sociology with highest honors from the University of California, Davis, a graduate certificate in Authentic Leadership from Naropa University, and has completed Joanna Macy’s Work that Reconnects Intensive Program.
MCLA’s annual Green Living Seminar Series continues through April 19, presenting a series of lectures on the theme of “Capitalism and the Environment.” Every semester, the Green Living Seminar Series centers around a different topic, timely and relevant to current sustainability issues. Seminars take place on Wednesdays at 5:30 p.m.
The 2023 series is a presentation of the MCLA Environmental Studies Department. Podcasts will be posted online following each presentation: www.mcla.edu/greenliving
About MCLA
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on every level of their lives. In nearly every way possible, the experience at MCLA
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to public education, we have fortified our commitment to equitable academic excellence.
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Liberal Arts Colleges. Since the list was created, MCLA has risen to #33 as a Top
Performer on Social Mobility and ranks first among all Massachusetts liberal arts
schools, which measures how well schools graduate students who receive Federal Pell
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