The Foundation for Convivial Living fulfills its mission at the intersection of ideas and practices of people and organizations on the leading edge of change.
Inspiring ecological
and social resilience
Conversation on Resilience & Resistence:
Ivan Illich
Ivan Illich was a philosopher and social critic whose work challenged the conventional views of education, healthcare, and modern society. His ideas continue to resonate in contemporary discussions about the role of institutions in our lives.
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Introduction: Illich & Convivial Living
Ivan Illich was a philosopher and social critic whose work challenged the conventional views of education, healthcare, and modern society. His ideas continue to resonate in contemporary discussions about the role of institutions in our lives.
Watch VideoGianozzo Pucci conversation with foundation fellows, Isabelle Cedotti and Neto Leão.
Publisher, writer, politician, ecologist, translator, activist, animal rights activist, creator and organizer of events, longtime friend of some of the greatest intellectuals of the twentieth century, Giannozzo Pucci is one of the most important figures of Italian environmentalism.
Ivan Illich was a philosopher and social critic whose work challenged the conventional views of education, healthcare, and modern society. His ideas continue to resonate in contemporary discussions about the role of institutions in our lives.
Watch VideoMarianne Gronemeyer conversation with foundation fellows, Isabelle Cedotti and Neto Leão.
Marianne Gronemeyer worked for eight years as a teacher at a secondary school. After completing a second degree in social sciences at the Universities of Hamburg, Mainz and Bochum, she received her doctorate in Hamburg in 1976 on the subject of motivation and political action. From 1987 to 2006 she was a professor of educational science at the Wiesbaden University of Applied Sciences. She is married to the theologian and sociologist Reimer Gronemeyer.
Ivan Illich was a philosopher and social critic whose work challenged the conventional views of education, healthcare, and modern society. His ideas continue to resonate in contemporary discussions about the role of institutions in our lives.
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Cultivating Sustainable Futures for 40 Years.
The Foundation for Convivial Living was established as a private operating foundation through a gift from Chelsea Green Publishing. The company’s founders: Margo Baldwin, Publisher Emeritus, and her husband, Ian Baldwin, who recently retired from the company’s board, are both trustees of the foundation.
Chelsea Green was founded in 1984 and has long been recognized as a trailblazing publisher of books on the politics and practice of sustainable living. Over the past four decades, Chelsea Green has published nearly one thousand books that have brought in-depth, practical knowledge to life. Its authors have been the recipients of numerous awards including the ALA Notable Books List Award, PEN/E.O. Wilson Literary Science Writing Award, John Burroughs Medal, James Beard Award, Garden Globe Award, and Foreword INDIES Book of the Year, as well as numerous Nautilus Book Awards and awards from the American Horticultural Society.
In May 2024, the company was purchased by Rizzoli International Publications and the foundation formally adopted its new name, The Foundation for Convivial Living.