Barrington Institute works with the award-winning Berkshire Publishing Group as a hybrid social enterprise committed to “Knowledge for our common future.”
Food Security • Infrastructure • Climate Adaptation • Community • Leadership • Systems Thinking
The Train Campaign is working to foster a robust network of rail transportation options, based on a conviction that the future of rural America depends on connectivity and that we need to reshape the rural-urban relationship.
Train Time Podcast
Listen to our conversations with people leading the rail renaissance at Train Time, hosted by Karen Christensen. Click here for a list of programs.
Global Food Sustainability
Academic resources: social justice issues of poverty and hunger; food security; food sustainability in a time of rapid climate change; the role of big business in food production; sustainable food production and farming practices in different regions around the world; health and sustainability; water resources; policy making.
Climate Adaptation
Our sister enterprise, Berkshire Publishing Group, focuses on knowledge for our common future. Read more at Berkshire’s Making a Difference, and at Karen Christensen’s Home Ecology.
What people have said about our work
“Think of [Karen Christensen] as commander of the Western Massachusetts rail uprising.” – Heather Bellow, Berkshire Eagle
“It takes a splendid little publishing house to do what a major international trade publisher should have done long ago.” – Benjamin Barber, author of Jihad vs. McWorld
“Cutting-edge thinking from some of the smartest members of our species.” – Denis Hayes, principal organizer of the first Earth Day