Welcome

With an ever increasing gap between rich and poor, and the increasing number of people living below a minimum standard of living, there is a need for new solutions and a complete reassessment of the problems and what really counts.

Miriam Kennet Co-Founder and Director of the Green Economics Institute

Picture: Miriam Kennet Rameswarum India

The Green Economics Institute has therefore been formed to bring together thinkers, activists, practitioners, academics and policy makers, people in business wanting to work for a real change in outcomes, economists and campaigners, writers and opinion formers in order to educate and exchange information and ideas and to provide the tools for beneficial change to occur.

The Green Economics Institute undertakes, encourages and supports research into Green Economics issues, perspectives, methods, tools and instruments, economic theoretical discourses and disciplines in order to facilitate change in the way people are affected by the economy and their relationship to it. It will seek out and encourage best practice and innovation in Fair Trade and sustainability and exchange ideas and examples and cases.

Aims of the Green Economics Institute

The aim is that as a result more people enjoy a better quality of life. There will be focus on corporate activities and the globalisation process and their impacts on a range of stakeholders including indigenous peoples, minorities, women, people in less developed countries and non human species and the biosphere and also the conventional wisdoms of trickle down theories, growth and development.

The culture of consumerism will be critically assessed and the Institute will aim to underpin an economic discipline which serves more people's needs than simple discussions of supply and demand. Green Tools and Instruments including the role of the citizens income, land value tax, local production for local needs, will be presented and thoroughly analysed and discussed from a variety of perspectives.

The Institute aims to reformulate, rework and re-orientate mainstream economics

The Institute aims to create a new discipline of Green Economics which is better able to address today's problems.

Forthcoming events and conferences

Our Third Annual Green Economics Institute Conference will take place at Oxford University on Friday, 18 July 2008 and Saturday, 19 July 2008, and bookings are now being taken. Please download and fill in the form on the left hand side of this web site. Please do email for current details and if you would like to speak or run a workshop, the list of speakers is very lively, already so if you do want to speak please email us and tell us the subject and we can see if there is a slot. Bookings are now open for registration and there is plenty of space as we have expanded to a much larger venue at Mansfield College Oxford University. Places must be pre registered- so please do contact us to book. .

Themes include Lower Growth Economics and scenario planning in a new economic environment - lower growth on which was are at the forefront advising government, Greening of economics theory, innovations in teaching economics, Greening of business, Greening Procurement and Supply Chains, Civilisation the first 10,000 years an audit, our biodiversity campaign, poverty alleviation, and basic income, and also womens economics and economics in China. We also have an entire stream on Greening of Business on the Friday- and there are still some spaces left there on that theme. There are also some spaces left for aspects of women's economics. Please email: miriam.kennet@greeneconomicsinstitute.eu, for details

Our exciting workshop retreat using multiple intelligences in economics, Weekend Retreat/ Conference will take place at Lockyers farm in Somerset near Glastonbury on October 25th and 26th 2008 - please see left hand tab on this website for further details after our very successful well being retreat weekend last year.This weekend will explore the effects of 10,000 years of human economics activity on ecology and bio-diversity by examining local wildlife and also visiting ancient roads and landscapes.Please see fuller description on the left hand side tab on this web page. - please see left hand tab on this website for further details after our very successful well being retreat weekend last year.This weekend will explore the effects of 10,000 years of human economics activity on ecology and bio-diversity by examining local wildlife and also visiting ancient roads and landscapes.Please see fuller description on the left hand side tab on this web page

We are presenting to Green MPs Summer University in a building which sits at the cross roads of both East and Western Europe, in Frankfurt Am Oder, in Germany and Poland, in August 2008 at the annual summer school.

We will be at Cambridge University in July 2008. We are running several workshops and a Plenary session on Green Economics The State of the Art, at the Assication of Heterodox Economists Conference miriam.kennet@greeneconomicsinstitute.eu

Miriam Kennet will be speaking in the French Senat in June 2008

There will be a women's economics and equal pay workshop on November 29th 2008 in Oxford run with Adrienne Barnet

There will be a green building/engineering event in Oxford and in Reading later in the year run with Looseby Plumbing and Walker Electrical and local financial advisors, banks and mortgage brokers! Please email for details.

We are running a series of in house training courses and seminars for different organisations. If you would like us to run your training course or to provide a seminar, please email us.

We are running a conference stream on green economics at the Environment Conference hosted by Jouni Khorhonen from Finland who is our editorial board and which will take place in New Dehli and will be visiting Vandana Shiva in Dehra Dunn and also opening our new office in Lucknow Uttar Pradesh in 2007, details and dates to be posted shortly.

If you would like a speaker on Green Economics for your event or if you are a media caller- please ring 07990 590463 we will be pleased to respond to your requirement.

Recent events: At the Heterodox Economics Conference we are provided a very successful Plenary and Green Economics Workshop in July 2007 in Bath

Corporate Social Responsibility Conference in Leeds on 15 - 17 July 2007, we are providing a set of workshops on Green Economics aspects of Corporate Social Responsibility with Rose Bridger, Miriam Kennet and Professor Jack Reardon

We are speaking in the US- please email for details

We are speaking to the nuclear fusion development team 2007

Our four campaigns are aviation and its true costs, biodiversity and species extinction, the future of business, and reducing poverty.

The launch of the New Zealand Branch in the New Zealand Parliament run by Barbara Weinberg and Dr Delyse Springett is planned for the near future. Please email for further details

Launches are also being planned at the moment in the Australian Parliament with Caroline Burns and in the Maltese Parliaments with Jacob Sanders - please watch this space for details.

Recent conferences and events

Oxford University 3 - 4 April 2007 Green Economics Conference at Oxford University. The complex mesh between social and environmental justice. Themes included poverty, social and environmental justice, climate change and energy streams, deregulation and a special focus on China, speakers from Brunei, India, Nigeria and Bangladesh.

29 October 2005 conference at the Reading International Solidarity Centre. This was a lively and busy conference with 25 different speakers looking at aspects of environmental economics, ecological economics, green economics as well as finance, eco-feminism, carbon economies and green solutions to climate change. Speakers included Professor Pricscilla Alderson a specialist in Intergenerational Equity, Professor Mayer Hillman of the Policy Studies Institute, Professor Maria Mies first feminist Professor, Professor Mary Mellor and Tony Juniper CEO of Friends of the Earth.

The Institute was represented at the ERP environment conference on Sustainability in Leeds in early September where Miriam Kennet gave a speech on supply chain issues and re-engineering to meet Green Economic Criteria.

We also had a lively strawberries and cream and bubbly launch at the Houses of Parliament UK on 12 July 2006 with a diverse range of speakers.

The Institute is also publishing a regular refereed academic journal International Journal of Green Economics in association with academic journal publisher Inderscience. The first two issues have been published and we are now calling for papers for future issues.

The first book in a series supported by the Institute titled "Babylon and Beyond" was just published and copies can be ordered by emailing the Institute. Signed copies are available from the Institute. The book was written by Dr Derek Wall a lecturer at Goldsmiths College London University and Birkbeck College London University.

The first Green Economics Conference at Oxford University, Mansfield College was held on Saturday 8 April 2006 launching the International Journal of Green Economics, discussing Long Termism in Economics and Intergenerational Equity, the well being of future generations and stakeholder theory. Featuring Professor Laslo Zlonai from Hungary, Professor David Simon from Royal Holloway College London and Professor Priscilla Alderson. Conference proceedings are available price £10 plus p and p.

Miriam Kennet, April 2008