The collection of lectures and publications from the Schumacher Center for a New Economics represents some of the foremost voices on a new economics.

Founder of the Garden Project in San Francisco, Cathrine Sneed relates her experiences working with former inmates and at-risk youth to develop an organic community garden. All the food that is raised is given away to people in need: "This gives our folks a purpose; they know they can make a contribution." She makes it clear that her project has the power to profoundly change its participants and give them the tools necessary to function in society.