Cutting edge and historic Education at the Green Economics Institute: First ever Green Economics Masters course in the world!
Unique, brand new innovation: Our Masters Programme with Birmingham City University -starts January 2012- dont miss this exciting evolution!, Internships, scholars programme, study at all levels and overseas study trips to the UK, and specialist conferences, training and education in Green Economics from The Green Economics Institute! Visit our EDUCATION-MASTERS information by clicking on the EDUCATION-MASTERS tab above!
Our new Green Economics Masters will be taught in the cutting edge Science Museum: Think Tank Building!
The COP 17 Kyoto Climate Conference finished with an urgent need to reach agreement for a successor to the Kyoto Protocol which runs out in 2012. Please ensure you ask your representatives at all levels, local, regional and national and international government to ensure they are pressing for this to happen!
Climate Change: The evidence:Global Photo Competition!
Without any climate Treaty- the world will absolutely have to go for rationing of CO2. The choice is stark - with the warmest winter on record and droughts in Africa and unprecedented global weather patterns, melting Polar Ice Caps, no snow in the Alpine resorts- how much more evidence do people need to see what is happening all around the planet?
We will offer a prize for the best 5 photos of climate change happening, under the Heading:
Why we need a Treaty, why we need rationing!
The photo competition photos will be used for the covers of our next books in our series and also be put on our website and sent to 8,000 people!
If you fancy yourself as a photographer go out and get pictures of the evidence!
Send them by email to Photo Competition, greeneconomicsinstitute@yahoo.com and ensure you tell us formally who took the picture, who is the owner of it, when precisely and where it was taken and what the subject is and why it matters! This competition will be open till the end of January 2012.
Green Economics Institute Stall at Oxford Green Fair
The new books are:-
The Green Economics Reader
- Edited by Miriam Kennet
New book just launched! December 2011- Order your copy now- £15.00 plus P and P. Just launched this Friday. Completely rewritten. Brand new book! Back in Print after selling out last year!greeneconomicsinstitute@yahoo.com
Green Economics and Climate Change
- Edited by Miriam Kennet and Winston Ka Ming Mak from Hong Kong and UK
Womens increasing economics power- a Green Economics Perspective
Miriam Kennet and Amana Winchester
Our other books out recently
The Green Built Environment
Judith Felton and Miriam Kennet
Voices of Africa-Green Economics A Beacon of Hope
Amana Winchester
The Handbook of Green Economics
Miriam Kennet and Eleni Courea
Green Economics and Citizens Income
Clive Lord and Judith FeltonDont miss this lovely range of colourful and beautiful books
They can all be ordered by emailing greeneconomicsinstitute@yahoo.com or visiting our stall tomorrow Saturday in Oxford Town Hall at the Green Fair-
These books are pictured above
New for November 2011: Books from the Green Economics Institute!
The Green Economics Institute special Methodology Conference and Symposium at Oxford University 18th and 19th November 2011
See her here in action at the Occupy LSX demonstration outside St Paul's Cathedral
Miriam Kennet, Our CEO, visits the London Stock Exchange Protest outside St Pauls Cathedral We are glad to see that the eviction order has been delayed as we are seeing a global movement asking for change in economics practise and theory- and this cant be quelled by force- only by progress- green economics offers such hope and so the protesters and visitors were exceptionally keen to use and to propose green economics as a solution.
One world action and there was a celebration last week in London. See the photos from yesterday at the protest. Or see the photos tab at the top of this page where they are all displayed as well as visiting the Green IT conference.
See photos from all these activities at the photos tab at the top of this page click on Photos and - click on Our Photos. We have been very active this week. Below is a slide show of our work this week - protests in the City of London, visit to Green IT, working with universities, producing books, working with students and changing policies, radio interview about the protests and about green economics, winning the award for 100 most powerful women on the globe!
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Miriam Kennet, Our CEO, visits the London Stock Exchange Protest outside St Paul's Cathedral, part of the Occupy Wall Street Movement to reform economics this week
Our 2011 summer 7th Annual Green Economics Conference held at Oxford Conference is featured below!
Pictured below is a previous conference at Oxford University
Picture: Typical Green Economics Institute workshop - with officials from the Balkan Governments Officials.
The Green Economics Institute Director Michele Gale D;Oliveira Brazil, USA and UK, pictured headed up our Delegation at Cancun Kyoto Climate Change Conference COP16 -
Our head of Delegation is Michele Gale D'Oliviera Brazil, USA and UK.
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7thAnnual Green Economics Conference at Oxford University 19th -21st July 2012: Hold the Date
Our 6th Annual Green Economics Conference at Oxford University, Mansfield College 28 - 30 July11 was a huge sucess.
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Our 6th annual conference at Oxford University in July 2011 attracted lots of interest.With the BBc recording the conference and interviewing our speakers from all continents, MPs, Africa, Malaysia, all ages, diverse speakers- open source invitation to all greens, economists, philosophers, practioners, social theory, business people, campaigners, policy makers, change makers, innovators, scientists, environmental managers, IT.Procurement. Government!
Share green ideas and methodologies with international experts in the field, with academics and green business leaders. Presentations, Panel Discussions, keynote speeches, from MPs, Nobel Prize winners, Economics Professors, engineers, Business Directors, Campaigners and many others.
Our unique style of conference promotes a participatory "open source" ways of working with many new and exciting speakers.as we create and develop the Discipline of Green Economics together at our conferences!
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The Green Economics Institute works to prevent poverty. New Solutions for an innovative new age!
Activity and typical conferences at the Green Economics Institute
Picture:Participants at our training course at Mansfield College, Oxford University: Introduction to Green Economics.
Activity and typical conferences at the Green Economics Institute (Click here to see slide show)
Books and Journals Launches: Plan for the Planet: The Green Economics Reader Series: Economics of Abundance
Gender perspectives: Our activity Green New Deal , Panel with Green European Foundation.
Features: Eastern Europe, China, Baltics, Ireland, Estonia, Egypt, Balkans, Our work in Africa - Nigeria, Ethiopia South Africa
We look forward to welcoming you at our regular conferences and events at Mansfield College, Oxford University a traditional beautiful typical Oxford University College complete with croquet lawn and quad at the front and stunning chapel and Dinning Hall both of which we will be using for the conference, and the Oxford University Club, a lovely new bright and airy building overlooking the cricket green in one of the most beautiful cities in the world with outstanding, exciting and famous atmospheric Conference facilities excellent travel connections and accommodation.
All paid up participants will receive a proceedings document on arrival at our conferences. .
All speakers and participants are invited to contribute to the proceedings. Please provide between 4 and 8 pages A4 -1600 - 2500 words please. References to be used where necessary and no footnotes. Please send the article in .doc or .odt formats. Please use Arial 11 point with 12 point headings. Send a 5 line biography about you and your professional interests and your title, institution and the title of the paper and your telephone and email contact details..
All proceedings will be considered for inclusion or submission to our high profile global academic and or political journals whose editors are Kristina Jociute, Miriam Kennet and Michele S.Gale d' Oliveira. Papers will be considered for inclusion in our books series, The Green Economics Readers © books and our Green Economics books series with Ashgate Academic Press and Gower Management Publishers.
Professor Graciela Chichilnisky Economics and Statistics Columbia University USA
Graciela Chichilnisky is the author of the carbon market of the UN Kyoto Protocol that became international law in 2005. She also created the concept of Basic Needs voted by 153 nations at the 1993 UN Earth Summit to be the cornerstone of Sustainable Development, and in 1996 created the formal theory of Sustainable Development that is used worldwide. Chichilnisky is a world renowned economist and mathematician that the Washington Post calls an "A-List Star" and appeared in the 2009 Time Magazine on "Heroes of the Environment". Chichilnisky acted as a US Lead Author of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, which received the 2007 Nobel Prize. A special adviser to several UN organizations, heads of state and US Congress, her pioneering work uses innovative market mechanisms to reduce carbon emissions, conserve biodiversity and ecosystem services.
Chichilnisky has a Masters and a PhD in Mathematics from MIT and UC Berkeley and a second PhD in Economics from UC Berkeley. She has taught at Harvard University, Stanford and Columbia University. Dr. Chichilnisky is a Professor of Economics and Mathematical Statistics at Columbia University, Director of Columbia Consortium for Risk Management (CCRM) a former Senator and UNESCO Chair in Mathematics and Economics at Columbia University, and currently the Sir Louis Matheson Distinguished Professor at Monash University in Melbourne, Distinguished Visiting Professor at Nankai University and at Beijing Normal University in China, and a Founder and Managing Director of Global Thermostat LLC. Dr. Chichilnisky has authored 14 books and over 250 articles published in leading academic journals including Nature, American Economic Review, Transactions of the American Mathematical Society, and the Journal of Mathematical Economics, as well as popular news media outlets, such as Time Magazine and the Financial Times. She is a frequent commentator on CNN, ABC, BBC TV News, and Bloomberg News. Her most recent books are Saving Kyoto, published in fall 2009, and The Economics of Climate Change, published in autumn 2010.
Chichilnisky is listed in Who's Who in the World, Who's Who in America, Who is Who of American Women, Who's Who in Science and Engineering, Who's Who in Education and in the Dictionary of International Biography among the world's 1,000 most outstanding scientists of the 21st century. In 2007 she was identified by Hispanic Business among the top 10 most influential Latinos in the US. A native of Argentina, Professor Chichilnisky is a U.S. citizen, the mother of two children, and a resident of New York City.
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To include conference attendance and all dinners with Green Economist letters after name if successful M.GEI. Award ceremony with academic gowns, Must attend full conference. Must pre - register and pre -pay. Please send for further particulars.£500. Open book examination will be run at Conference. Must be pre- booked for examination room to be provided.
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Our aim is to reclaim economics, for all people everywhere, especially women and minorities, nature, other species, the planet and its systems, all underpinned by developing the complex mesh social and environmental justice together.
It is to invent and to promote green economics as a new discipline and discourse.
It is to promote the ideas of social and environmental justice as being two halves of the same idea- you cant have one without the other. . Changes to green solutions so they are completely inclusive of everyone and everything on the planet. Its about recognising that we are all connected and that we need each other and we need other species and we need the planets systems which we are all part of. In this recession and downturn its about understanding how to work together for a bright, healthy progressive and positive future for our species which lasts and which is fun and exciting and which works to help everyone especially those who don't have a voice on the planet. Its about managing our own impacts, our own economics needs and our own responsibilities. Everyone and everything on the planet has needs, responsibilities and impacts. We need to ensure they can all happen together to benefit each other, not just using the economy and others as throw away imputs to a faceless uncaring economy but as a positive global force for changing the way we do things - for the better for every person, every species, every system on the planet.! The major stumbling block to this in the 20th century was the rise of the changed idea of economics- as a faceless exclusive alienating tool The idea of the 21st century is a complete about turn - so that the economy and economics enhances all our lives and our existence on the planet as a force for good, even a high tech and accessible future for everyone and with everyone involved. We do this using progressive and beneficial economics. We named this -green economics. The economics of equality, equity and sharing ! We have spread this idea right round the globe and we are now consolidating it and implelementing it. Join us today and enjoy being part of the fastest growing movement around the planet! For a really exciting and visionary future!
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.
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 practis.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.
1. To provision for the needs all people everywhere, other species, nature, the planet and its systems, all as beneficiaries of economics transactions, not as one-off inputs.
2. To reinforce an underpinning of social and environmental justice, tolerance and no prejudice and creating quality of life for everyone, including current and all future generations, and regardless of age.
3. To ensure the recognition and respect of other species' rights. To end the current mass extinction of species and ensure the survival of Earth's biodiversity.
4. To create an economic system which advances non-violence and the inclusion of all people everywhere, regardless of special needs or special ability. To ensure that all nations have equal access to power and resources on a finite planet, and that local people to have control over their own destiny and resources. To eradicate poverty, increase life expectancy, human welfare and real well-being in the least developed countries.
5. To guarantee gender equity in all activities, educating, respecting, empowering women and minorities, and ensuring that all people valued and respected equally.
6. To end high mass consumption and the current overshoot of Earth's resources, returning human civilisation to the comfortable bounds of nature in its original climatic conditions. To choose lifestyle change over techno-fixes and eco-technology, lowering individual carbon usage, living lightly on the earth.
7. Changing how economics is done: from being an abstract mathematical exercise to embracing the real world we all live in, recognizing that we are all concerned as stakeholders.
8. Climate change prevention, adaptation, mitigation. Protecting the most vulnerable from risk. Ensuring the future of small island states. Quickly reducing carbon per capita globally to 2 tonnes in the next 5 years and zero soon after. Limiting and reversing climate change. Moving to renewable energy sources.
9. Future-proofing economics to increase its suitability for the 21st century, solving the current economic downturn and widespread uncertainty. Creating and nurturing an economy based on sharing, rather than greed and profit.
10. Completely reshaping and reforming economics to do all the above.
Video of a Green Economics Institute, Green Economics training course for the clients the Young Greens in Berlin 2008
Click here to hear Miriam Kennet address the Institute of Mechanical Engineers about Green Economics and Geo Engineering. Picture below : we visit a renewables heating plant in Tallin Estonia.
Picture: Typical Green Economics Institute workshop -with officials from the Balkan Governments Officials.
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.
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. We worked in Ankara Turkey and Skopje Macedonia, as well as the UK and some via webcam and web seminar and video.
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.
The Malaysian Government, the UK National Government School, the Tyrol Government, Ministers in Italy, The Encyclopedia Britanica in Italy, ll Libro Del' Annio Green European Foundation, the Young Greens, Thessaloniki. The International Labour Organisation, the Universities in Lancaster, Cambridge, the Oxford Union,The University of Ankara, the University of Istanbul, the European Greens, the European Green Summer University, Poland and Germany, Coutts Bank,Tekna Norway, the European Commission and the British Council and many, many more.
The Institute also publishes a regular refereed academic journals including The International Journal of Green Economics in association with a large international academic journal publisher- Inderscience
We also publish 3 other journals run in house of various types One magazine for members- The Green Economist,(c)
One journal for world policy makers, academics, NGOS and campaigners The Green Policy Journal (c)
One journal for economists - Green Economics(c)
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 inquiring and curious mind to innovate and to think in completely new ways.
We have several book series. Our flagship series is with Gower Management and Ashgate Academic Press title- Green Economics and Sustainable Growth and Miriam Kennet is the series editor.Several titles are published this year including The Economics of Abundance, the Plan for the Planet -both available from our webshop
We have the Handbook of Green Economics out now : cover price £30.00 available now from The Green Economics Institute
We have many other books and also procedings from our conferences. Please email us for more information. geeneconomicsinstitute@yahoo.com
6th Annual Green Economics Conference July 2011- Photo: our team exploring the economics of fusion fashion for everyone - young older and all sections of society
How women get hit twice by the recession,special conference on 20th and 21st May 2011 in Reading, UK
Don't miss this exciting event.
We are taking bookings now and also calling for speakers for this exciting event: our 4th womens unequal pay and poverty conference. Each one has been very successful and the last one resulted in us attending the Treasury and No 11 Downing Street at the heart of the UK Government to plead for more consideration for womens participation in the economy and the budgets.
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