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 and implementing sustainable development. The Green Economics Institute is at the forefront in helping governments, institutions and individuals find solutions to the current crisis which will bring long term and real prosperity to people, nature and the planet and its systems.

Picture: Miriam Kennet Rameswarum India

The Green Economics Institute is a not for profit organisation and Trust and one of the largest green networks in the world operating in about 47 countrie. We run The International Journal of Green Economics-- the world's first green economics double blind peer reviewed academic journal.

We provide advice, information, expertise and training in all aspects of economics and green issues, as well as consultancy to businesses and governments. We hold lively green economics and sustainable development economics conferences. We publishe books, journals and briefings on all aspects of innovation to do with social and environmental justice and sustainable development and green economics.

The Institute specialises in providing training and consultancy in all aspects of green issues, economics, and sustainable development and has worked with governments. Recent country consultancy and lecturing has been in the UK, France, Spain,Poland, Germany and Montenegro, and Ireland as well as being invited to lecture all round the world in official events, deleguations and universities in countries spread from Abu Dhabi,Turkey, Dubai to China and Brazil and the Russian Federation.This month we are working in Venice- Macedonia and Sweden amongst others.

Forthcoming events

Venice International University, April 22nd -24th 2010 onwards, and Oxford University July 26th -31st 2010 and Glastonbury on a farm - November 6th 7th 8th 2010 and Cape Town January 2011

. Recent Clients include:

The Italian Government, the Hungarian Government, the UK Cabinet Office, the UK Treasury, the Schumacher College UK, the Richmond American University in the UK and the American University in Macedonia, The Irish Government, the Spanish greens, the European Greens in the European Parliament, the Young Greens, Yorkshire Forward, The Department of Transport in the UK, Chelsea Art College, the University of Bath, the Rosa Luxembourg Foundation, the UK Quakers,The Government of the Netherlands, Eurac Research Centre Bolzano Italy, the International Labour Organisation, The Green Jobs Programme and many others, the National Government School, Venice International University, REC Hungary.International University, Slubice Poland and Frankfurt am Oder University Germany, The National Audit Office.

It aims to innovate in methodology of economics, theory and practice making economics acessible for everyone. We are actively changing the culture of homo economicus and making economics broader and more socially and environmentally just.Our Sustainable Development Economics courses include robust, lively and enjoyable training in development and in women's economics, environmental change and social justice. We do this using participatory methodology.

We want to transform economics to enable it to provision for the needs of all people everywhere, nature, other species, the planet and its systems.We want economics to benefit these groups rather than being throw away inputs in the service of faceless policies.

"We're now on the threshold of a global transformation- the age of green economics" Ban Ki-Moon General Secretary of the United Nations.

The Green Economics Institute advises governments around the world and provides advise about dealing with the current crises in economics, climate and biodiversity as well as poverty and inequality. We help people future proof their economics with an eye on weathering the current economics downturn and laying the foundations of future sustainable prosperity for themselves and their family, their company or their country.

If you would like more information of our work email us at greeneconomicsinstitute@yahoo.com. Don't forget to visit our "News and information" which you can find at: http://www.2tix.net/zone/preview.php?id=9&key=67, where we post current topical daily information. Its the best part of our website.

We also have a photo gallery of some of our recent activities. There are pictures of our activities so you can see some of our activities on the photos tab.http://www.flickr.com/photos/32535080@N00/page3/

and http://www.flickr.com/photos/32535080@N00/3701960571/

Our books series with Gower Publishing and Ashgate Academic Press can be found at : http://www.ashgatepublishing.com/default.aspx?page=3344 We publish books, green economics readers with Oxford University Press and Routledge on a variety of subjects- and have two new chapters in book on teaching pedagogy- one with Routlege- and one with Syracuse University in the USA as well as German chapters in Rosa Luxembourg Foundation books.

In the summer we were invited to Green and Away summer camping conference centre in July and at the Swedish Greens Conference. We will be ran a panel at the Heterodox Economics Conference in London.

Recently the Green Economics Institute was in Turkey speaking at a major conference on Economics in Istanbul via webcam saving carbon. We also ran the very first ever Green Economics Speakers Forum at the Glastonbury Festival in Somerset in the UK-see pictures on flikr. The following week we were invited to speak at the Atlantic Cities Conference in Caen in France disucssing the implementation of the Green Economy.

Green Economics Institute offers exciting and award winning Sustainable Development Training and Economics Training or exciting lectures to groups and governments

Our courses are very lively interactive, and extremely well received and enjoyable and can be run in most countries and most locations, and most languages. " We are the only organisation that can actually make economics fun" according to our recent client in Venice!"

For example in 2008 we provided training in Poland, the UK Treasury. In 2009 we are training and lecturing in many places - these include: Ireland, Montenegro, Campinas University Brazil,Turkey and South China Normal University, Guandong, China and many more businesses, government departments, and Oxford University .

We have a team of specialists in all aspects of green economics to draw on supporting our work. Please email us at: greeneconomicsinstitute@yahoo.com for more details. There is a training brochure with more information on the training green tab on the left of this page.

Aims and Philosophy of the Green Economics Institute

The Green Economics Institute has 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 is also a Research Institute and undertakes, encourages and supports International 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 is a 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.

Our Mission Statement

We pledge to work up our new discipline of Green Economics into a robust economics discipline

We pledge to reform mainstream economics to allow it to prevent poverty, not to create it, and to enhance biodiversity, and not destroy it and to work within the planets capabilities not over consume and exhaust its resources.

We pledge to make economics accesible to all people everywhere, and to make everyone limit their impacts and enhance their responsibilities.

Further we pledge to within 5 years ensure that womens unequal pay is a thing of the past. The assumption that women are 70% of the worlds poor- as happens now and that women will be paid less than men for equal work- is now an outdated notion and will be removed by our work- and in our hugely popular campaign. Where we have put green economics on the map globally we have pledged - this year at our March 2009 Green Economics Institute Womens Unequal Pay and Poverty Conference- and also at No11 Downing Street, the Home of the UK Chancellor of the Exchequer on May 6th 2009, we pledged that we will campaign with others - and lead on ensuring that womens unequal pay and womens unequal opportunty becomes a thing of the past. This involves a huge attitude change and we have pledged as Obama has said-to ensure that "yes" we can change to womens equal pay and womens equal opportunity.|We are facilitating the National Government Schools special womens day in March 2010.

Recent events and conferences

Saturday 16th May 2009 - Reading International Solidarity Centre,Reading, Berkshire.UK training in Green Economics, introduction to economics, social and environmental justice, social justice in Africa, womens economics, and the costs of biodiversity, understanding discounting methodology. This training has a particular focus on Ethiopia.

Oxford University Annual Green Economics Conference Conference 2009 July 31st - 1st August 2009 Mansfield College Oxford University, UK

National Government School, UK, Miriam Kennet is part of a team of trainers on Sustainable Development, lower growth economics and its Redefining Prosperity programme across the UK government departments. This training has already taken place in Admiralty Arch, the UK Treasury, GCHQ, The Department for Transport amongst others.

Glastonbury Festival of Music and Dance, Somerset UK- The Green Economics Institute for the first time ran its own stall and speaker forum at the festival.

To find out more please look at our newsletter 2010 and also Diary Dates 2010 and the Calendar 2010 - with dates and venues- please have a look on the left hand side of each page.

Later in 2009 South China Normal University Miriam Kennet lectures on Green Economics

In May 2009 The Green Economics Institute provided Sustainable Development training to the Dutch Governments Sustainable Development Programme and the government and its officials of Montenegro

Publishing with the Green Economics Institute

The Institute also publishes a regular refereed academic journal International Journal of Green Economics in association with large international academic journal publisher- Inderscience. The journals own website is www.inderscience.com.ijge

We especially encourage new authors, people from minorities and less developed countries and also experienced authors and many of our writers are Professors exploring the cross over from other disciplines and also economists and practitioners at all levels. The main requirement is an open and enquiring and curious mind to innovate and to think in completely new ways.

We have several book series. We are working with several publishers- our flagship series is with Gower Management and Ashgate Academic Press on Green Economics and Sustainable Growth and Miriam Kennet is the series editor.

Our Womens Unequal Pay and Poverty book will consist of chapters by leading ministers, writers, campaigners and change makers and is a contributed volume, if you would like to write a chapter please contact us as soon as possible- greeneconomicsinstitute@yahoo.com.

Plan for the Planet by Ian Chambers- published by Gower Management Publishers is available in 2009 about business methods and saving the planet

Greening the Academy discusses teaching methods by Syracuse University Press is out in 2009

Heterodox Economics teaching by Professor Jack Reardon is published by Routledge in 2009 which we have contributed to

Dr Magnus Chidi of our Nigerian department is producing a book about Green Economics and Africa in 2009

Clive Lord is producing a book about the basic income in 2009

Wolgang Hoerschele has written The Economics of Abundance for Gower Publishing as part of our series on Green Economics, this will be published in 2009

We presented at the Green Summer University, straddling Poland and Germany, eastern and western Europe, 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.

Our Third Annual Green Economics Institute Conference took take place at Oxford University on Friday, 18 July 2008 and Saturday, 19 July 2008, and was a huge success with people coming from all over the world and much work being undertaken. Themes included 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.

We delivered a keynote speech at Cambridge University in July 2008. at a Plenary session on Green Economics The State of the Art, at the Assication of Heterodox Economists Conference miriam.kennet@greeneconomicsinstitute.eu

Miriam Kennet spoke in the French Senat in June 2008

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, 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.

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

All our Conference proceedings are available via our web shop on this site.

Miriam Kennet, October 2009 Please see pictures of our activities here

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Pictures : Daniela Petrovic Green Economics Institute Serbia, and Miriam Kennet CEO Green Economics Institute and Bogusia Igielska Green Economics Institute, Poland