Green Economics Institute Annual Conference at Oxford University this week- 29th 30th 31st July 2010 Mansfield College, Oxford University

Our 5th Annual Green Economics Institute Conference 29th 30th 31st July 2010 is this week,everyone is very welcome ! Please email to let us know you are coming and to book greeneconomicsevents@yahoo.co.uk ! This year the Conference features Green Jobs, Progress in Green Economics, and how Green Economics is the Beacon of Hope for finding solutions to the Economics Downturn and for solving Africa's problems. It has 14 different and fascinating themes this year with Nobel prize winners, green MPs from diferent countries.Speakers from Africa, Asia, Americas and technical speakers, philosophers, geographers, economists, food, built environment - lots of other speakers, from all over the globe - all ages, and very diverse in all respects. It also focuses on Green Jobs and the Economics Downturn and the role of stimulus packages in pushing economies over the edge. It also features Womens Unequal Pay and Poverty, and Green IT and Eco Technology and running a Green Business.

Picture: One of our exciting events at Oxford University. (Photo by Bogusia Igielska)

Green Economics Institute Amazing web site- Green Economics- we get 1 million visitors !

This week the Green Economics Institute had its 1 millionth visitor to our site

which we are extremely pleased about. We would like to thank Oliver Tickel our web designer and manager! and we will be celebrating throughout all of the rest of the year with some special offers and schemes- and events

Green Economics Institute Best in class -rolls royce of internship programmes - come and join us - places still open for this summer

The course is one of the very very best available and especially is designed to help students become employable in this tough and competetive market- teaching them formally and training them in the life and commercial skills lacking in todays schools colleges and university education -as well as giving them absolutely top academic oportunities, publishing presenting speaking and networking with the major innovators of our time! This is a truly wonderful and cutting edge highly structured programme built individually around each students needs according to a tight and well woven ciriculum which all sucessful interns follow and which really gives the student major advantages in their life and work and continues to do so throughout their career.

We are still taking bookings for our Summer and autumn and winter 2010 Internship Programme:Expanded Directors team -Sophie Henstridge Cambridge University and Michele Gale Richmond American University.Its not too late - please apply now.

Thought for the week

- As you grow older, only our young students can save you from a premature hardening of the brain. Each student working in their field is also a teacher, Who else teaches the teacher but your own pupils" A quote from John Boardman founder of the Environmental Change Institute at Oxford University.in Soil Science :Reflections on the limitations of curent approaches. Boardman 2006. Catena Elsevier Also the teacher of our Green Economics Institute Director. We respect all our students and we learn from every single one of them! Our Interns Programme is £250 for overseas students working remotely from abroad and £500 for students working full time and tutorial days are once a week on a Monday in our Reading Offices.Plus all interns are required to attend the Oxford University Conference in July the cost of which is included in the fees. All students are required to pay the Green Economics Insitute regular annual membership fee which is deducted from the student fees above.

There will be new cohorts starting every week over the summer with over 100 students enroled already and plenty of places available as we have greatly increased our capacity.Please email us for details and an application form.We are very full and whilst we are trying to accomodate everyone we cannot guarantee a place. All interns are required to learn and assist in the running of the Institute and also to produce academic work including writing and to work as part of our very big international multicultural multilingual team. Our course is suitable for Erasmus and other scholars and we have a constant stream of such students as part of most cohorts.

Green Economics Institute in Venice, Italy. Picture Miriam Kennet

Green Economics Institute in Venice, Italy. Picture Miriam Kennet

For the first time you can pay by debit or credit card for any of our services directly from your computer with no fuss. Just visit

http://www.greeneconomicsshop.co.uk/

or click on the Payments and Webshop Tab or on the Green Economics Shop Tab and its incredibly easy to pay now

If you cant find what you need on there just email us at greeneconomicsinstitute@yahoo.com and we can sort it out for you.

Welcome to the Green Economics Institute website which is a treasure trove of useful information much of which can be found on the Green Economics News tab http://www.greeneconomics.org.uk/key67.html at the top left hand corner of this page

This week is budget week in the United Kingdom, Austerity Budget week where large cuts in the public sector and in welfare have been anounced as well as substantial tax rises many of which are regressive.

A substantial shift has taken place in ideology so that the public sector in particular has been substantially cut -the stated aim is to cut the deficit of the UK. However a boom and bust economy is unpleasant and hurting the poor, removing money from women has been proven to all sorts of detrimental and unintented effects well beyond the immediate measures. Public services are really important and just when we are in a recession it may be precisely the time for sensible transformations in public investment towards a more resilient economy. Auserity budgets tend to be imposed by one group upon another others rather than the originator experiencing it too. . .

There is a huge opportunity to turn the economy towards the future and to build a resilient green economy. However it was not taken up today.

Picture - Our team of women economists in Brussels for Green Week June 2010

Picture: One of our exciting events at Oxford University. (Photo by Bogusia Igielska) Special regional panels include Green Policies in Europe, Green Economics Beacon of Hope for Africa- a very lively project, and Green Economics in Asia, including our lively team in China and work in India and Bangladesh as well as our work in South America- Brazil and Equador especially and the Galapagos. We are also working with the UN and with The European Environment Agency and the International Labour Organisation all of whom as expected to be represented.

We will have a number of Nobel Prize Winners also Directors from Business, NGOs and quite a few MPs from around the world in an exciting mix. This conference is a working conference which will take the idea of the Green Economy and Green Economics forward with our lively team of 6500 professionals, campaigners, public representatives and activists. If you would like more information please email us at greeneconomicsinstitute@yahoo.com and also if you would like to be a speaker please email now as we are currently planning the timetable. There is more information on the top left hand tabs -

Our lively group of international women economists representing USA Brazil Lithuania and the UK outside the European Commission !

Miriam Kennet our CEO at our recent lecture at the Free University of Bolzano in Italy

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Pictured here two of our Directors Michele Gale and Volker Heinemann relaxing between sessions in the European Parliament in Brussels.

Picture by Bogusia Igielska Green Economics Institute. Green Economics Institute Training Course at Oxford University

Green Economics works happily with Business as usual nature and economics in nature and the planet and its systems

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Picture Volcano Dawn over Tidmarsh seen through cherry blossom, 18th April 2010, Miriam Kennet CEO Green Economics Institute

Resilience of green and slow travel in the face of disruption:

Due to our work using slow travel there is currently no interuption to our activities as we travel using slow travel most of the time anyway and several of our team have taken the no flight pledge. Therefore if you require guaranteed speakers or trainers or lecturers in any part of the world we can provide them and you can be assured they can get there. We have been in Belgium this week and will be in Ankara and in Italy in two weeks time travelling by overnight trains.

If you need more information about how to join our slow travel please email us on greeneconomicsinstitute@yahoo.com

For photos of our activities on our lovely flickr site, please look at the Photos tab on the top of this website.

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.

The Green Economics Institute proposes that economics should be about provisioning for the needs of all people everywhere, other species, nature, the planet and its systems. This week we have all been reminded about the relevance and power of the planets systems. The volcano in Iceland has caused losses for the airlines of around $200 million per day. All travel is now problematic if your business was based on flying. However the green economics institute runs its business on slow travel or train travel and therefore future proofed its economy and its business plans. We specialise in web and video conferences and symposium and also use skype a great deal but we also are able to travel round the world when thats necessary using land transport.

Additionally the planets systems seem to indicate a link between global warming and seismic activity. We are exploring this and will run a workshop which people are welcome to attend which will explore the science and the links.We will be bringing together seismic specialists and climate specialists and economists with glacial and earth system specialists and we will be leading on this important emerging story, first noticed by our team members Dr Turk and Miriam Kennet our CEO and editor of our academic journal.

. Volcanic Eruption of Eyjafjallajokull, in Iceland. Photo Yahoo library photo.

April 2010.

An article in The Times, April 18th 2010 says that this is just the beginning, warn scientists

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. Picture volcanic dust on the Green Economics Institute window sill this morning, note amongst other particles, the large white particles of ash which are large - a just bit smaller than shreds of cigarette ash and are sticky in texture adhering to the metal of cars. .

Professor Andrew Hooper who is currently also advising us, said that As the last ice age ended, volcanic activity in Iceland increased 30 fold because of reduced pressure on the earth's mantle, Since the 19th century the ice caps in Iceland have been shrinking further. This will lead to additional magma generation, so we should expect more frequent voluminous eruptions in the future.(Grimston and Haslam Times 18.04.2010. ) < P> This, in the opinion of the Green Economics Institute, could have devastating and a complete restructuring effect on the global and local economies which could dwarf the expected costs of climate change estimated at 2% of global GDP, and biodiversity loss estimated at 7 times as much (TEEB Sukdev 2008).The costs of a sudden seismic period of earths history would be unimaginable. Currently its 200 million US $ a day for the airline industry.

We will be running special workshops to consider how the earths systems and changes to them impact economics.

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Picture: Typical Green Economics Institute workshop - this one is in Venice: Photo Balkan Government Officials workshop run by REC - The Green Economics Institute CEO speaking and leading this workshop.September 2009. Photo by permission of REC Hungary.

April 2010.

We are recording the power of nature and documenting it through pictures, and will be posting pictures about this, here and on our flickr site. If you want to future proof your business and want to know what is in store- please email us -greeneconomicsinstitute@yahoo.com.

The first is shown above of dawn over our institute, seen through the volcanic cloud.Please send in any other images about any aspect of green economics

Picture Green Economics Institute speech in Venice Italy about Sustainable Development economics September 2009, Miriam Kennet CEO Green Economics Institute

Bookings and calls for papers for our 5th Annual Green Economics Conference at Oxford University, July 29th 30th 31st 2010 at Mansfield College Oxford University are now open. Both are filling up fast- please email as soon as possible greeneconomicsinstitute@yahoo.com to reserve your place or request a speaker slot. (Pictures of previous events can be seen on our flickr site- under the photos tab above).

Green Economics Institute Training Course at Oxford University We have a delegation to the Kyoto talks in Bonn in May and June this year to work on ratification of a climate treaty under Kyoto. Please enquire for more details, and we are on the IPCC Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change.

This month we have been training the National Government School, teaching climate change economics and giving a public lecture at Schumacher College, and attending the Royal Economics Society annual conference, we were selected to join the IPCC climate change scientists panel and also attended the conference of European Greens in Barcelona which we attended traveling on the overnight train. We are also writing various papers and books including for the Italian government and the Cambridge Journal of Economics. We have sent two issues of our academic journal to press for this year and are currently compiling two more.If youd like to write a paper for the next two issues; we have room for 14 more papers, please submit them quickly as we will be sending the next few off this month. We are lecturing at Richmond American University and for Transition Towns this month as well as Serbia and Norway.

Next month we wil be in Bolzano Italy and Ankara Turkey.

We are also discussing the next phase of our work as we have largely suceeded in the initial aims we set ourselves to establish a new discipline in economics. We have also got more interns than ever before from all parts of the globe with us this year and new people joining us literally every day in our very fast growing network.

During this years is international womens day- not only have we been taking part in a national government school day for senior women leaders - we are now calling for one of our team - a woman to head up the UNFCC- as there is a vacancy and the new team put together by gordon brown - does not contain any women- We wish to put forward Graciela Chichilnisky for this important climate team- please support our campaign which we are taking to the highest level! email if you agree with us -women need to be included in climate talks ! greeneconomicsinstitute@yahoo.com Write to all the Ministers and UN people you know and let everyone know we wont take this lying down!For the full text see womens economics tab above !

We are calling for papers for our 5th Annual Green Economics Conference at Oxford University, July 29th 30th 31st 2010 at Mansfield College Oxford University.Both are filling up fast- please email as soon as possible greeneconomicsinstitute@yahoo.com to reserve your place or request a speaker slot. ( Pictures of previous events can be seen on our flickr site- under the photos tab above).

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. Last month we worked in Ankara Turkey and Skopje Macedonia, as well as the UK and some via webcam and web seminar and video. This month and next we will be in Venice, Brussels and Barcelona.

Forthcoming events

Green Economics Institute in Venice, Italy. Picture Miriam Kennet

Oxford University July 29th, 30th 31st 2010

Glastonbury on a farm - November 6th 7th 8th 2010 and Cape Town January 2011

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The Italian Government,The British Council, the National Government School, 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.

What is Green Economics?An age of global transformation- An age of Green Economics

Green Economics positions economics within a very long-term, earth-wide, holistic context of reality as a part of nature in the longer term and as a blueprint for 21st century economics practice in the shorter term. It moves economics from an emphasis and outcome of military, sex and cars, with Fordist and Taylorist high mass consumption of the 20th century into the economy of the 21th century which has a completely new aim and objective, for provisioning for the needs of all people everywhere, other species, nature, the planet and its systems as beneficiaries rather than throwaway inputs to the ceteris paribus economy of homo economicus and ruling man and his preferences. Economics is no longer about men in business suits- arguing over supply and demand curves and models. Economics is reclaimed as something that everyone and everything on the planet practices as all have impacts and all have needs, all have responsibilities and all have spheres of impact.

Economics goes back to its roots- as a discipline of household and estate management - oikia- rather than being predicated on greed, profit and price- with its joint roots in ecology.

Economics becomes altogether a more inclusive, much more gender balanced discipline both in terms of who its practitioners are and what its outputs and theories and explanations are. It also incorporates and celebrates 'difference', diversity, equity and inclusiveness within its concepts of society and community. Its philosophy is to manage economics for nature, the planet and people, rather than to manage the environment for business as usual.

Green Economics views the current downturn as partly arising from the clash between ecology and economy in the outdated structures that meant a competition for land for food and land for fuel and the result of the end of the bubble economy, and the Minsky idea of The Great Moderation being actually unhelpful in artificially stabilising the economic system and creating over optimism, and the over complacent all powerful feeling that man had finally conquered the vagiaries of nature and the economy and resource use and so could rule the world without fear. This meant a complete belief in his mastery and invincability and that economics downturns would never return again! In fact as Minksy showed- this was simply creating the very thing they feared- a major meltdown of the economy. But green economics shows that even during this unprecedented spell of a show of invincibility- one fifth of humanity was starving and the spoils were more unevenly disributed than ever before. All this at the same time- depleting and exhausting the planets resources- natural capital and rocking the roots of our civilisation - the climate interglacial on which had ever only been based. There is no blue print for a much warmer climate being able to host our civilisation! We are now into unchartered waters. The world is hotting up and we have wipped out many other species who might have been able to help us! Over consumption and over use of the worlds resources is now in urgent need of correction. This means a complete rethink of how we use the planet our home our house hold and also the relationship of dominion and mastery- a complete false dawn. We are part of the earth and we risk everything if we forget that, and dont do our household maintenance and housework. Economics is part of that- but only a subset.

Economics is going to have to be completely re written. We think that life style changes will be the only answer- doing Different Things- Differently! - Rather than messing about with redefining or measurement or trading or technical fixes any other kind of fudging - the world has changed- and we need to keep up with it- that means we have to change what we do and how we do it ! By combining economics with knowledge from the natural sciences, Economics can now incorporate a much wider, more practical, holistic, and pluralist multidisciplinary range of knowledge than other schools of economics under a heterodox umbrella. Green Economics can offer unique insights into four of the key areas ('eco', intellectual, political and moral) of today's significant and mounting problems and highlights how its novel insights provide new solutions.

The development of this new branch of Economics critiques the main contradictions, deficiencies, assumptions, conventions, and inherent normative concepts found in dominant neo-classical economic thinking, which have accumulated over the past two centuries and reassessing the world undergoing social and environmental change.

It develops these themes further in order to achieve simultaneous social and environmental justice, as inseparable parts of a whole. Green Economics looks for solutions that simultaneously address poverty,( one fifth of humanity), current dangerous runaway climate change and instability and ending the current mass extinction of species ( currently there is the 6th ever on earth mass extinction event going on ) within an equitable and future proofed framework.

Green Economics is extremely forward thinking, long term, hi tech, futuristic, technically competent, ( many of our board have degrees in economics and Phds or other degrees in earth science or physics). Many are also literate in social science, many specialising in new ways of examining -truth and reality in both the social and physical world, using new innovative more up to date methodology. Our project is nothing less than to re-conceptualise the philosophy of economics and its and our place in the world.

As such a particular aspect is to re consider the role of economic growth, the role of GDP, and the role, structure and outcomes in the real economy of production, Foreign Direct Investment, speculation, land use, construction, property, procurement, logistics and supply chains and accounting as well as IT, and computer uses and intellectual property issues. Practises we use include everything on open source, and using slow travel in our work as well as web cams, web seminars and open source publishing. We have one of the largest green websites with free up to the minute global news and information. We also believe in local production for local needs, efficiency for appropriate supply, eg milk and vegetables being produced locally, energy being produced locally where possible and SMART grids being implemented. We are also exploring higher tech solutions. However, climate change will lead to huge areas of the world being uninhabitable or unsuitable for growing food and we are committed to a sharing methodology for all of humanity - rather than a l"and, forest and food grab" of assets by the rich and powerful.

This means global solutions for global problems such as poverty and it means working much harder to prioritise the Millenium Development Goals especially the education and empowerment of women and girls. It has been suggested (McGlade) by the European Environment Agency that educating and empowering women - would alone reduce the population projection down from 9 billion to 7 billion humans. This alone would allieviate huge amounts of hardship. We advocate empowerment of women and girls and the single most important piece of work to be done in the next few years - which will have direct benefits for all of us on the planet. Men currently own 99% of the worlds assets and this patriarchy and accumulation needs to be urgently rebalanced into a more sharing and caring economics practise.Most of the worlds poor are women and many women are poor. Poverty is a highly gendered situation. Many of the main victims of aids HIV today are women and many of the main victims of disasters from the Tsunami and other natural disasters are women being poorer and often more directly dependent on the natural world. Women are still dying in huge numbers in pregnancy and child birth all over the world. There were more slaves, mainly women, in the 20th century than ever before- far from eradication of slavery - it is thriving and has a very gendered aspect and needs urgent re- abolition - this time for good!

Green Economics has also been termed -The economics of sharing -so it addresses now forms of distribution and also the economics of doing- as it is now a major player in many governments around the world, in the race to become green and to use Green Economics and the green economy as the one ray of hope in ending the current economics downturn and setting trends for 21st century economics and provisioning over the century for the needs of all people everywhere, other species, nature the planet and its systems and in fact provisioning for the comfortable survivability of the human and other species. Governments all over the world are falling over themselves to understand this programme and message- do ensure you don't loose out! 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.

Recently the Green Economics Institute was in Turkey speaking at major conferences on Economics in Ankara and 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 provided training and lecturing in many places - these include: Ireland, Montenegro, Campinas University Brazil,Turkey and in 2010 we will be in South China Normal University, Guandong, China and Hafei and Beijing China, Macedonia, and Abuja- Nigeria and many more businesses, government departments, and at 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.

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.

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

Miriam Kennet, February 2010 Please see pictures of our activities here

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