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

This week 16th June 2009 finds the Green Economics Institute in Turkey speaking at a major conference on Economics in Istanbul. Next week we will be running the very first ever Green Economics Speakers Forum at the Glastonbury Festival in Somerset in the UK- please do visit the forum if you are at the festival. We will be running workshops there too.The following week we will be speaking at the Atlantic Cities Conference in Caen in France disucssing the implementation of the Green Economy. This is our peak time for interns- and we have around 20 at the moment. We will also be speaking at Green and Away summer camping conference centre in July and at the Swedish Greens Conference. Our own conference is now booking up fast on July 31st and 1st of August 2009 at Oxford University: please email us for further details- everyone is very welcome - its a wonderful and lively mix of campaigners, activitists, politics, policy, local government national government and NGOs as well as academics- both new and top professors and writers a well as business people and lots of authors and writers and publishers and grass roots activitists and company directors all wanting to solve the worlds problems and all with vision and taking power and in the last 12 months since the last conference have altered the worlds agenda.

The Green Economics Institute is a not for profit organisation and Trust, which is one of the largest green networks in the world operating in about 47 countries and running the world's first green economics double blind peer reviewed academic journal. It provides training in aspects of economics and in green issues, as well as consultancy to businesses and governments, lively green economics and sustainable development conferences, and it publishes books and conference proceedings and journals on all aspects of innovation to do with social and environmental justice.

The Institute specialises in providing training and consultancy in all aspects of green issues, and of economics, and sustainable development and has worked with governments and MEPs including 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.

It aims to innovate in methodology of economics, theory and practice so that economics becomes acessible to everyone. We are actively changing the culture of homo economicus and making economics broader and more socially and environmentally just.Our Sustainable Development courses include robust and lively and enjoyable training in develolpment and on womens economics, environmental change, and social justice,as well as making economics more accessible and providing participatory methodology.

We achieve this by transforming 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. Company must once again allow for " breaking bread with people" and economics must once again be linked to eco- nomics- from the greek word oikia - meaning household management, and its root is the same as eco-logy and the two must work together. There is no economy without ecology and there is no economy outside of the earth. The pinnacle of human evolution is not a man in a business suit, we can do better than that!

"We're now on the threshold of a global transformation- the age of green economics" Ban Ki-Moon

The Institute advises governments in the UK and abroad, and provides training to people and companies who wish to fully understand the current economic situation, and to manage their affairs better and 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.

Picture: Miriam Kennet Rameswarum India

If you would like more information of our work email us at info@greeneconomicsinstitute.eu. Don't forget to visit our "News and information" tab at the top of this page, on this this website, where we post current topical daily information. Its the best part of our website. There are pictures of our activities so you can see some of our activities on the photos tab.

Dont miss our next exciting events: Annual Green Economics Institute, Green Economics Conference, Oxford University July 31st - 1st August 2009

Green Economics Introductory Training, in Reading,Berkshire, UK May 16th 2009

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, multilevel and extremely well received and enjoyable and can be run in most countries and most locations, and most languages.

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 Universities, Oxford University .

We have a team of 5000 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.

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 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.

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.

Forthcoming events and conferences

Saturday 16th 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 onSustainable 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 is running its own stall and speaker forum at the festival- if you would like to speak at this, or to visit us there, please email me at greeneconomicsinstitute@yahoo.com.

Norway, we will be holding a conference in Oslo in the autumn 2009, please email for details

All our events are listed on the calender tab - with dates and venues- please have a look on the left hand side of each page.

Autumn 2009 Miriam Kennet will be providing the keynote speech at the Green IT conference Olympia Conference and Exhibition Centre, London

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

In May 2009 The Green Economics Institute will be providing 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.

Our first book was "Babylon and Beyond" published by Pluto Press 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.

Plan for the Planet by Ian Chambers- published by Gower Management Publishers and 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

Recent Events

Our exciting Green Economics Well Being and Retreat Conference Glastonbury on a farm October 25th 26th 2008

This took in October on a farm in Somerset, focusing on physical manifestations of green economics -biodiversity, and ecology and also on economics methodology investigating for example Howard Gardiners Multiple Intelligences and how it can be applied in economics practise and methodology, as well as building on the last 10 000 years of civilisation and looking to the next 10 000 years.

This Weekend Retreat/ Conference was 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 explored 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.

We presented at the first ever 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

There will be a women's economics and equal pay workshop on March 7th in Oxford run with Adrienne Barnet, Judith Dellheim Berlin Rosa Luxemburg Foundation, Vanessa Jerome from France

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.

There will be a Green Procurement Day with David Rabey head of Procurement for Defra and others.

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 2009, 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 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 were invited to the nuclear fusion development team 2007

Our four campaigns have been aviation and its true costs, biodiversity and species extinction, the future of business, and reducing poverty.We are now starting some new ones. Details are being posted.

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 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.

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

Miriam Kennet, May 2009