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May 2012 - The Green Economics Institute is busy preparing our delegation to the

RIO +20: Sha Zukang Head of RIO Green Economy Conference with our Handbook of Green Economics

Conference in Brazil 20th - 21st June 2012

RIO +20 Conference which is all about the world discussing green economics and the green economy! Our books are going to be used as a toolkit for the output of the conference. We are very proud of this! Pictured above our CEO Miriam Kennet discusses the RIO Conference with Dr Sha Zukang.

We are currently preparing our delegation - if you would like to join us please email us.

Introduction to Green Economics- 1 DayTraining Course

May 26th we are running a training course at Reading International Solidarity Centre UK about Methodology and Tools in Green Economics and an Introduction - Green Economics- how is it different -what is all the fuss about? We are filling up fast so do book now if youd like a place.

Swedish Environment Minister uses our book "Womens Unequal Pay and Poverty" to inform policy making!

Norway

Also this week May 2012 we are running a very high profile and packed event in Norway with the shakers and movers of the Norwegian economy about the future of their economy in a lower carbon world.

Some of our team at the Green Economics Institute 2012

Green Economics Institute Annual Green Economics Conference July 18th -21st 2012 Oxford University

July 19th -21st 2012 is our main annual conference Green Economics at Oxford University where green economics was developed. Its an " open source " conference where speakers come from all over the world from all sorts of backgrounds and cultures to create something completely new. This year is twice as large as ever before- so do sign up.

1st ever Green Economics Masters Programme starts September October 2012

Our ground breaking and historic first ever Green Economics Masters programme starts in September/October 2012 and is filling up fast with a most outstanding cohort of excellent students- from all over the world -all ages, cultures and backgrounds, please apply now to ensure you get a place.

Interns students and work placement

We also have a really really excellent cohort of interns and students this summer working with us at the moment- if you would like to join us for the three months, May June and July please contact us straight away as this is a very lively and outstanding group.

Books on Green Economics

We have 7 wonderful books which explain how it all works- if you would like to order some please contact us as they keep selling out -so ensure you order yours. We are also able to supply colleges and universities for courses as well.

For all the above please contact greeneconomicsinstitute@yahoo.com and greeneconomicsevents@yahoo.co.uk and greeneconomicseducation@yahoo.co.uk Looking forward to hearing from you- The Green Economics Institute Team May 2012

Stockholm Plus 40 sustainable development conference in Sweden

April was an incredible month for the Green Economics Institute, we attended the UK Parliament Cross Party womens group who were very excited about our book Green Economics:Womens Unequal Pay and Poverty. We attended the historic Stockholm Plus 40 sustainable development conference in Sweden and you can see the photos from the incredible list of participants on our facebook and flickr photo sites attached to this website. Attendees included the King of Sweden and the Chinese and Indian Premiers. Many thanks to the Green Women who sponsored us for this exciting development.

Green Economics and The future of Europe, its economy and the EURO

We also we very lucky to go to the strategy meeting discussing the future of the Euro and of the European Union and the benefits and dangers of integration and the needs of the citizens of Europe, with the Board of the European Central Bank and to input to the process. Invitation to write- we are inviting articles, papers, chapters for our book

Green Economics and The future of Europe, its economy and the EURO

So please send in your writing asap as we are currently compiling this book.

Pictures are on our flickr and facebook. We are currently recruiting this spring/ summers interns -so if youd like to join us or know anyone who does please email us greeneconomicsinstitute@yahoo.com

We are also recruiting for our Masters Programme starting in September October 2012 and please email us as well to apply or to find out more.

Our main conference will take place at Oxford University 19th -21st July 2012 so please ask us for more details- its double the size of previous conferences and also will feature RIO +20 where we have an official delegation and our books will be used as a toolkit for the output of the conference.

Photos will be first on flickr and facebook and on this website later this week.

We are also running a training course on Green Economics on 26th May 2012 in the UK so please do sign up for that and ask for more details.

April was a busy month at the Institute, we were at the House of Commons twice and the London Book Fair and will be at the Frankfurt Book Fair too.

We are launching our Research Videos and our Green Built Environment Book and are asking anyone who wants to write to send in their papers, chapters, ideas urgently for that book.

Click on the Research tab above or the second insert box down to the right and visit the charming Rural Urban Fringe Economy of RUFOPOLY shire our new RESEARCH game with one of our Masters Lecturers Dr Rachel Curzon, illustrating the issues in an increasingly urban human population and the rapidly developing rural urban fringe around the globe

The Greening of Asia and China Book: Invitation to write!

We are currently compiling our book about Asia and it is nearly full- we hope to have it ready this month, if you would like to write on the Greening of Asia and China please send in your paper, chapter, article,essay, or points asap as we are creating this book now!

Calling all potential students, scholars and interns -spring/summer May 2012 onwards :Interns Programme is launching this week

This week, May 2012 we are recruiting for the spring/summmer interns, scholars, work experience world class training courses we run. Students of all ages and backgrounds can come for 1 month, 2 months or 3 months and receive first class state of the art, training, workshops, classes, presentations, participation and opportunities which we think are unique. Subject to numbers there are outings, field trips and visits and exposure to some of the top economics, policy makers and institutions on the planet. Please email us if you would like to be considered, some of the courses have fees and some are working courses. Please enquire and discuss you own requirements for green jobs, and green careers. We keep the best students and give them work afterwards if they want it ! Please see the interns section of this website for much more information about the programmes we offer and email us in the first instance- greeneconomicsinstitute@yahoo.com and we will discuss your requirements with you.We are currently speaking to all applicants this week.

Dont forget our Masters Programme as we are also currently recruiting for that and will interview all applicants by telephone so please email us as we are speaking to everyone this week.

Reforming Economics UK Budget Day Spring 2012:Up to the minute assesement: Our green economics perspective

Contact us at email: greeneconomicsinstitute@yahoo.com

UK Green Budget Checklist 2012 comments by Miriam Kennet

(a green perspective and comment 21st 11 am March 2012)

A Hotch-potch budget: stealing from Granny and from people with children! Robbing ordinary women and giving to Millionaires!

ECONOMY AND PUBLIC FINANCES

Overall after only 5% of cuts and austerity pain:

In fact figures just in show an amazing doubling of borrowing: how on earth can the Chancellors position be maintained: screwing up the economy and the deficit and borrowing hugely worse than last month:

This is absolutely unacceptable !

Figures are now ....twice as bad as forecast !

Public borrowing last month hit an incredible £15.2 billion jump in February's net borrowing excluding financial interventions and was a record for the month and compared with £8.9 billion last year. The City had forecast a £7.9 billion rise.according to the Belfast Chronicle

"Total borrowing for the year to date is £110 billion, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) said, and with a month of the financial year to go is £17 billion away from the full-year target of £127 billion. Last year, public borrowing in March was £17.95 billion."

This shows the Chancellor has no control of the economy and cannot be allowed to continue. What is being borrowed with the economy more or less stagnating. How on earth is it possible to get it so so wrong?

This shows incompetence of staggering proportions:quite an achievement.

Pain and cuts only 5% so far with 95% still to come

Most economists do not believe that the predicted austerity package is possible as its the most austere ever proposed anywhere for a sustained period. It looks like even with this austerity package this government has actually managed to make the position even worse!

. 95% of cuts are still to come. Family silver being sold off : latest is our national roads to be sold off to private contractors.

National Health Service Challenged without a government mandate for reform.

The current government promised not to ruin the health service which for once the public was pleased with as waiting times were shorter. It is as well to notice that the dangerous fiasco with putting mattress filling and hip replacements that leaked were all done in private medicine. The benefits of that private medicine go to the health care privatised companies and the government and society pays the bill to save the people who had this unfortunate surgery external costs are once again picked up by the tax payer.

Unemployment Unemployment is now 2.68 million according to the Office for National Statistics.

The unemployment rate rose to 8.4%, its highest since 1995, and up 0.3% with half of young black youths unemployed.

1.3 million people are now working part-time because they are unable to find a full-time role: the highest number since records began in 1992.

No of claimants is now 1.6 million and youth unemployment is 1.04m

More money is being lost to the costs of strikes than at any time since the Thatcher government. This government is Thatcher mark 2 with no imagination.

Unemployment across the economy rose by 118,000 in the three months to November, to 2.68 million, the ONS said, in the latest sign that the UK slowed sharply in the autumn.

The unemployment rate rose to 8.4%, the ONS said, its highest since 1995, and up 0.3% over the quarter.

Increase in the number of claimants was 1,200 in December to 1.6 million.

However, the ONS said a total of 1.3 million people are now working part-time because they are unable to find a full-time role: the highest number since records began in 1992.

The number of young people out of work is also continuing to rise, hitting 1.04 million in the three months to November, up 52,000 on the three months to October.

We need to give young people a citizens income to get them active again.

I cant believe the Chancellor did NOTHING for young people : its completely mad ! he will allienate an entire generation! Did he learn nothing from the riots last year ?

Public sector jobs cuts: some figures:

Unions have launched another attack on the public sector jobs "carnage" today. Louisa Peacock reports: Unions have launched another attack on the public sector jobs "carnage", with new figures showing a 381,000 reduction in state jobs since the general election. But it is falling on deaf ears as the Chancellor is unlikely to announce any plans to reverse the state cuts in the Budget.

Public sector jobs cuts: women hit hardest but also other workers:

(figures Peacock job carnage) Public sector employment fell from more than 6.3m before the general election to less than 6m at the end of last year.

The biggest loss of jobs was in the South West (52,000),

followed by London (46,000),

the North West (45,000), Scotland (38,000),

East of England (32,000),

Yorkshire and the Humber and the West Midlands (both 27,000)

and the North East (24,000).

Robbing the poor and ordinary people to pay for the rich: reverse Robin Hood 800 years later!Are we going backwards with this government?

Same with the banks the mess was created privately and we all have to pay for it to be sorted out.

Today the government will rob the poorest and most vulnerable in society: removing some allowances from dissabled people and give them in a tax give away to those with the very highest incomes over £150,000 1% of the population, removing top rate of tax and reducing it to 45% from 50% . It is important to remember that the poorest in society use most of their money on essentials and therefore feel the pain. Those at the top use it for luxuries and investment. In such a year of austerity this is absolutely immoral!

With regard to climate change which is starting to cost everyone money, the government has seriously renagued on its promises and removed stablity in the renewables and green markets with the fiasco about feed in tarrifs. This is possibly the least green and most cynical government ever. Robbing the poor and dissabled and blatently giving to the rich : how can the nation stand by and support it ?

Similarly Fracking causing local earthquakes: a danger to people and their lives and property is really silly, dangerous and short sited. And expensive. The costs get transferred to the community, ( so called externalities get met by the rest of us ) much better to have government led demand management and an urgent switch to renewables!

Mansion tax was called for houses over £2million: this is welcome:No one needs to buy a house worth over £2million.It is important everyone has somewhere to live and this anomily meant such people were paying less proportionately than everyone else.

Energy

The Chancellor is going to stimulate the oil and gas industries: ? How is this possible when we know climate change, drought etc is hurting our economy more and more and faster and faster?

Spending and taxes in total The spending cuts have scarcely begun and 95% are still to come. Debts amazingly are still rising according to the Office for National Statistics and expected to peak at 78% of GDP. Inspite of all the pain this government has not got the debt under control even now. It likes to blame the previous government but really the current government has created a real mess which is now very difficult to get out of without a real stimulus to the Uks manufacturing base and a revival of home industry, production and also reshoring all the outsourced jobs and a campaign to enhance and support British industry. The cuts have been more severe than expected but are harming our national economy. The one good thing is as britain stagnates inflation has finally come down. But nothing is happening and lots of small businesses are either going out of business or fearing going out of business.The business rates for large corporates are coming down faster than for small businesses.There was nothing in the budget for small businesses. Except I suspect a hidden tax increase in the paperwork changes he proposed.

National Debt The governments receipe is to borrow more from China or to sell off infrastructure including national assets such as water to China and other sovereign wealth funds. This wont in any way revive our economy. Its time to start making things here at home and to look at the whole basis of our economy, our education and our knowledge and take a role of excellence and a lead in renewables and in the knowledge economy. Reducing consumption of those things we have to buy in and increasing production of those things we consume here and export.

The Chancellor seemed to muddle up investment in Britain: and buying up assets of Britain proposing specifically China and other countries come here and buy up our infrastructure ?He didnt seem to appreciate that exporting and making things would make us richer and selling off assets would make us poorer overall.There seemed to be prominent confusion there

TAXES Income tax Reducing the top rate of tax to 45p helps the very rich but is expected to stop some avoidance by the ultra wealthy so would not deplete the countries coffers. However we argue the squeezed middle and lower earners need it far far more as luxury markets and brands are doing extremely well. The rich dont need more help: they need help contributing to society, this is NOT the way to do it. It is further utterly immoral at a time like this to enhance the pay packet of the extremely wealthy at the expense of the rest assuming this extra wealth would trickle down in increased jobs. In fact as we have seen half of young people are unemployed in certain groups and nothing has trickled down at all !

Young people have an epidemic of binge drinking which he acknowledged as a cost to society but then did nothing about it. It seems that since there are no jobs for young people he expects them to continue in an orgy of binge drinking as they wont have jobs to disturb them. How utterly lacking in ambition of him, for our youngsters,.

Personal allowance:The tax-free threshold is expected to be raised from £8,105 to £9,200 next year at a cost of about £3bn. Stamp duty: Foreign companies buy UK residential property, and avoid stamp duty. The new top rate of 6pc a so called Mansion tax is to be imposed on homes worth more than £2m raising about £500m.

‘Tycoon tax' 20pc tax for very high earners was proposed by the Liberal Democrats but rejected by the Tories,most of whom are very high earners in their own right.

Council tax A new top rate of council tax could be brought in on high-value homes which is only fair Pensions. Pension tax relief could be cut which would hurt people already struggling womens pensions are already very badly hit.

Corporation tax Aiming to get it down to 23pc and to 20pc at a cost of about £3bn. We believe small and medium size companies must now be given tax incentives as they are the life blood of a local economy The help to banks to lend to small businesses is not going to help as it will give those already qualifying a slightly reduced interest rate but wont help any of them who cant currently get loans, and begs the question: what is it for?who will it benefit. Small companies urgently need help and support, training and loans, access to credit and also schemes to support them to help them survive and also to be able to take on staff to create jobs. National Insurance One year National Insurance holiday for every employee aged under 25 hired because of disastrous youth unemployment.

Seed capital Tax relief for investors extending from equity to debt.

Fuel duty Due to rise by 3p per litre in August as our CO2 commitments become ever greater and the drought will start to cost the country money. There is a world hike in the price of oil and this was highlighted by Christina Laguard yesterday as a threat to the world economic recovery.

The effect on women

Womens Budget Group assessment

Cuts in direct taxes are no compensation for cuts in public services and tax credits.

Women benefit less than men from cuts to direct taxes and lose more than men from cuts to public services and tax credits. Lowering the top rate of tax from 50p to 45p gives large benefits to a few very wealthy people, mainly men and will do little or nothing to create decent jobs.

Meanwhile, the poorest families will gain nothing from raising the personal tax allowance, and those who will not gain from this measure are predominately women, some because their earnings are already below the threshold; some because they have no earnings at all because they are caring full-time for others in their families; and some because their life-time earnings are so low that their pensions are below their threshold.

Professor Diane Elson, Chair of the Women's Budget Group, said in response to the Chancellor's statement: "Rather than any cuts in income tax, the Chancellor should have used this Budget to put money in the hands of less well off women, who would spend it in ways that are much more effective for job creation than will rich men."

The Women's Budget Group is a network of over 200 academics and activists.

Rest of the budget

Child Benefit most commentators seem to have forgotten why this came in. Basically give a woman money and she spends it on her family and her children helping the entire community, Give a man the money and the likeliehood is some will be spent on cars and other things for him: The idea was that all mothers had a least some money to spend on the family without interference. Women the world over suffer from doing more work at home and many suffer from domestic violence, most recently in Russia in endemic proportions but its everywhere at all levels of society.

This money : child benefit is the only benefit specifically for women. Now its being scrapped or removed from women to pay for the rest of the budget. We sincerely believe that child benefit needs to be left alone and not to two earner families but to Women regardless and directly to them personally. Women are bearing the brunt of the austerity, the stimulus packages are aimed largely at industrial jobs where they are less represented and their pensions have already been under attack. Apparently 80% of the current cuts affect womens jobs more and 1.1 million women have lost their jobs in the current round of cuts. So child benefit is the one thing women had and it should NOT be removed. Families with one higher-rate taxpayer will lose their child benefit this year saving £2.4bn, at the rate £44,000 to £50,000, costing about £200m.This has now been rectified to £50,000 lower level of removal and £60,000 higher level cliff edge.

Tax avoidance A General Anti-Abuse Rule (GAAR) now companies have to check beforehand with HM Revenue & Customs saving £7bn a year by 2015.

Help for North Sea oil: The Treasury is expected to begin plans for legally binding contracts tying all future governments into decommissioning tax reliefs. The measure would provide certainty and stimulate more than £20bn of investment, the industry reckons. There would be no cost implications for the Exchequer.No investment in renewables and no incentives to save carbon: one of the most old fashioned budgets in the world.

UK PLC future

The future he sees as faster broadband, pharmaceuticals, aerospace,creative industries, media, (He mentioned Disney but yesterday Disney posted a profits warning) and energy but what energy every other country is after low carbon energy but NOT the Uk it seems.

Foreign companies Help for TNCs investing in the Uk is the same idea as what wrecked the Irish economy with tax incentives for large companies, making less money available for infrastructure: large companies must be pay equal if not more tax than householders and smaller businesses. The current measure proposed means that foreign earnings will not be taxed. More multinationals would come here, but this was tried in Ireland and Estonia and in both cases led to disaster. Small companies need incentives not large ones in todays climate.

Privatisation and incentives for investment in infrastructure. Selling off our national assets and roads is going to make us all poorer and not a good idea. Once again the building industry gets help. The spread of government help in a recession needs to target those most in need and ordinary people not just the richer speclative industries.

Creative industries Help for the flagship UK film and video game industries is to be welcomed.

Regional PayMuch of the public sector will be very badly affected by this, the idea being that regional pay will decrease. This means those public sector workers who moved out of London will see their pay stagnate and reduce and they wont be able to move back.More importantly the national pay scales will disapear making it much harder for trade unions to argue to support wages, whilst some wages of this kind have risen many have not with typically many public sector jobs still very low. The wage gap and the unemployment disparities between the north and south of England are already giving cause for concern without making this worse.

Green Comment: What I am missing here is any kind of modernisation of the economy, any kind of green stimulus, any kind of incentive for us as a nation to get ourselves educated or trained or to compete on the world stage, this strikes me as rearranging the deck chairs on the titanic as the boat slowly sinks to the bottom whilst the chancellor fiddles so ensure the rich get the final pickings of the UK economy and carve it up with the larger companies the ultra rich own. It is a receipe for the Uk to descend to become a much more unequal banana republic without the means to grow our own bananas.

This budget lacks imagination, and a realistic view of the future, it is a true son of Thatcher budget but even without her grocers daughter practical mitigation, although keeping her cruel edge on inequality. Quite a feat but a disaster for a nation whose economy is not even keeping up with others in a similar mess and GDP growth ( flawed though it is) not even up to 1% for another year running. This government seems much more concerned with its own back benchers and their disparate views than the needs and rights of the British people.

Women: are being hit from all angles, pensions, child benefit, austerity and cuts in the public sector.

Young people only message here is to save the employers money:nothing otherwise for young people which is incredible as they are the future and are termed the lost generation, it seems the case to help them is totally compelling, only a chancellor completely out of his depth would fail to adress the crisis in young peoples careers and employment Disabled people are currently loosing many of their benefits, even downs syndrome people cant get care allowances they need. The most vulnerable are of course trampled over in a budget like this. Pensions Robbing pensions is a favourite in time of austerity, however of course there are more and more pensioners so not helping the pensioners is political suicide apart from unethical and immoral.

Nothing here to stop poverty, nothing here to stave off climate change, nothing here to help biodiversity, nothing here to generate natural or human capital in future and nothing here to help Britain survive in the global economy! Nothing here in terms of exporting or even making an attempt to revive our industrial basis or our manufacturing and leading us to degenerate into a client state of larger sovereign wealth funded states and a pathway for even more debt being owed by us to them.

Medium term projection, conclusion and recommendations! In the medium term a disaster.A budget for the rich and powerful and for the benefit once again of investors who can take their surplus money abroad. A budget to encourage ethics free shortterm disembodied investment from those who have absolutely no ties to the Uk and dont care what happens to it. No mention of national assets that really matter such as clean air, water and healthy soil and agriculture and diversity and local business and home industries support. No mention of our relationship to the Eurozone, no planning for defaults in Europe. No planning for diversification of exports. No helping with other industries apart from financial and construction. Ignoring the 15% of the economy which is industrial. A road to nowhere!

Surely we can do better in creating a fairer, more sensible, more creative and viable UK PLC economy for the 21st century!

Lets have some imagination and a special budget to address what really counts and get Britain moving again !

If the government really wants us to compete on the world stage: have a real green policy, green excellence, put some real investment into it and stick to it. Have a proper green plan and invest in green projects in the green investment bank and report on it in every budget and how green jobs are one of the only growth sectors in the economies around the world

. Miriam Kennet March 22nd 2012

Green Built Environment Book Launch and Campaign

a)On friday we will be launching our brand new book The Green Built Environment

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b) We will also be launching our TV of our latest research into the Rural Urban Fringe Economy we did for the government.

c)We will also be launching our courses in the Built Environment Department of Birmingham City University

d)We will also be launching our second ever Green Built Environment Conference:the last one was at Oxford University. This second one will be in the autumn of 2012 and watch this space on friday for more details

e)We will be launching this years major interns and scholars programme for spring: summer 2012

General Information about the Green Economics Institute

The Green Economics Institute has its own delegation to the COP Conferences, Kyoto Protocol. We have also given two high profile radio interviews on BBC Radio Oxford. We have attended conferences in many places including Cancun Mexico and Riga, Latvia. We have also appeared on TV and radio in Italy, Tallin in Estonia, the UK and Bangladesh amongst many others, and received invitations from The Presidential office in Russia, the UK Government and several universities and governments in China. We have also been invited by governments and princes in several Gulf States as well as several parts of the United Nations and the International Labour Organisation.

Our CEO Miriam Kennet recently gave a speech in the UK House of Commons in the UK Parliament about Green Economics, and more specifically about recycling, reusing and repairing.

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Green Economics is one of the fastest growing global movements for change which has been taken up by many governments and NGOs and is having a huge influence on the worldwide social and economic landscape. It seeks to reform the very concept of economics itself by creating an entirely new discipline which is designed to help all people everywhere, prevent poverty as a given assumption, consider other species, nature and the planet and its systems.

The Green Economics Institute has been spreading this message and is leading thinking in this new global transformation. We are now an international network of 8000 people, and we aim to change the world through this revolutionary way of thinking: Green Economics. We are achieving this by running lectures, organising conferences, briefing governments, teaching and educating and of course writing and publishing our own books and journals. The 21st century has marked an incredibly new and powerful age of Global Transformation-the Age of Green Economics.See More

We trained at the Women Leaders Event last year for top civil servants on the importance of the role of women in the world economy at the National Government School. We have lectured at the Oxford University European Affairs society on gender and its importance, and have also taught the staff at GCHQ about the importance of this issue for global security. We were published in the New Scientist, in an article about the importance of gender arguing that this is the single most important issue for the future. We are also working with women around the world in many different countries to change the global economics representation. We were part of a delegation to No 11 Downing Street in the UK to speak to the chancellor and we spoke in the Treasury about Green Economics.

We are members of Mansfield College Oxford University, The Oxford University Club and the Oxford Union Debating Society-the most prestigious in the world-through our CEO Miriam Kennet. Every year we hold an annual conference at Mansfield College of Oxford University-the 7th annual conference on Green Economics will take place on 19th -21st July 2012, and we encourage all our members to attend.

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The Green Economics Institute works to change government policy and to implement their vision of a world where economics is changed and reclaimed for all people everywhere, especially women, minorities, and less able people, and people whose voice is not normally heard. It has been about fairness since the beginning.

It works to get gender equality as a major part of this as 70% of the worlds poor are women and also it works in all sorts of countries to help people to realise their own voice.

Our vast global network works as equals with mutual respect.

Our particular campaigns include: gender equality, stopping and reversing rapid and hostile climate change, reforming economics into a goals based discipline, reforming our ideas about philosophy, stopping biodiversity loss, stopping geo physical changes brought on by humans of the anthropocene, helping humans plan an economy that works within the comfortable bounds of nature and the planet allowing both to flourish, working to ensure green jobs and green careers are available to young people- and helping prevent youth unemployment, helping to ensure ordinary people have banks that help them and not speculation which robs them.Changing energy use to renewables often small scale and locally generated and changing transport from private car use to encouraging investment by governments into safe accessible viable and attractive public transport for the 21st century and the second millenium. Helping to ensure Europe and other trading blocks help the people in them rather than existing to promote large multinationals, helping to ensure tax burdens are bourne by those most priviledged who can afford them. Helping to create and ensure democracy in many countries where corruption is more prevalent than fairness and equality and rights to vote. Helping to prevent outsourcing of environmental and social and economic benefits.Helping to ensure the European area starts to manufacture and reverse -"the fall of the Roman Empire" and bring the Real Economy back to strength and vigour.Helping to reinvigorate eduction and science for all people in the European space and helping women and older people and younger people participate as they want to make their own contributions. Advising governments and international institutions about what greening the economy and growth and flourishing really mean.Helping to eliminate and above all prevent poverty- by controlling those forces that dont care about the outcome of their particular economics ideology. Creating a more efficient earth,nature and people friendly for the 21st century.

Our current campaigns include Womens Unequal Pay and Poverty- how to prevent it- we are very active in this and have won awards

We are working to implement a green economy in Africa- our book Green Economics Voices of Africa is now available

We are working on the Eurozone crisis and its implications: we shortly have briefings and books coming out about that

We are working on the Green Built Environment - ensuring the green economy is part of the physical fabric of our lives and we have a book out about that- The Green Built Environment

We work on preventing dangerous and inhospitable climate conditions and reversing climate change -and we have a book out about that Green Economics and Climate Change

We also look at the way equality can be implemented and work on a citizens income with Clive Lord and our book Green Economics and a Citizens Income is out now

We do this by producing policy, advising on policy, running campaigns, writing and compiling our 4 book series- Reader Books, Handbooks, Philosophy of the 20th and 21st Century books, and Green Economics and Sustainability Book Series and also our academic journal International Journal of Green Economics, and our Members global networking magazine The Green Economist and occassional papers and Green Economics Briefing Papers.

We also run our own courses for older people, younger people, people all over the world and in all countries, and bring together visionary and innovate change makers: people from all over the world and all over Europe, to plan and innovate, changing the worlds economies as we do it!

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We speak in various parliaments and governments around the world to create an atmosphere and incubating change and work with young revolutionaries in the rapidly changing geo political environment in the Middle East offering them hope and vision for changing their society.

We provide support for minority campaigns.

We are working on the green economy-Features, theory, practise, methodology and implementation to ensure its a version that allows for flourishing, equality and fairness and is above all inclusive and we have the Green Economics Reader, The Handbook of Green Economics, and Green Economics Methodology Books coming out about those.

Above all we advise governments how they can change and implement the green economy and we advise students and academics at all levels how to do this -and what a green economy actually is: we have a Masters course and short introductory courses for that.Please email to enquire for details.We also give lectures, speeches and training, all over the worl in Universities and Governments from China to South America and Africa- please email to request a world class trainer, teacher, lecturer, speaker, Professor, policy maker or campaigner.If you wouldlike our help to make change wherever you are: email us at greeneconomicsinstitute@yahoo.com and discuss your requirement with our CEO Miriam Kennet who just won an award for creating global inclusion in the world economy!

Our Aims

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. It is intensely practical. Phase one was about spreading the idea around the planet which has largely been achieved, phase two is about implementation, including such ideas as democracy, innovation, green procurement, green IT, changes to transport, changes to distribution, changes to the entire way we do things

. 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!

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.

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.

10 Key Values of Green Economics

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.

Recent clients include

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, Birmingham City University and many, many more.

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!

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.

See the photos from 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.

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

Below is a slide show of our work

- 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!

> Our 6th Annual Green Economics Conference at Oxford University, Mansfield College 28 - 30 July11 was a huge sucess.

Please see the left hand tab of this web site for further conference particulars

Accomdation is available at the conference venue and other accomodation details are also on the tab next to it here

Please email us or look on the top right hand tab above for the conference flyer and details of accomodation and how to book

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!

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.

Conference high quality proceedings at all our conferences and events

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.

New Professional Schemes and Qualifications

Certificated Attendance CPD

Conference attendance and Certificate of Attendance of conference for professional purposes. Minumum 3 days attendance. £380 certificates awarded. This package includes all dinners and award ceremony in academic dress.

Open Book Examination Programme

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.

greeneconomicsinstitute@yahoo.com for further details and to book a place.

Publishing with The Green Economics Institute

Our journals and magazines

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.

Our book series: The Handbook of Green Economics

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

Women and the economy in the Age of Austerity and the crisis: Women are now getting hit four times:1. HIT NO. ONE : as their pension is removed or is balanced over life time earnings not final salary.

2. HIT NO.TWO as their child benefit is removed

3 HIT NO: THREE: once as they are the target of easy cuts as they are regarded as more docile in the market place and complain less

4. HIT NO: FOUR as the stimulus packages are aimed at creating mens jobs

. We will start a list- a hit count- women and recession -send in your ideas and experiences. !

Special conference in 2012- our 6th conference about womens unequal pay and poverty.

Don't miss this exciting event- watch this space for details. Our book- womens unequal pay and poverty will be out within the month! - packed with 300 pages of campaigning women, MPs, women from all walks of life from all over the globe talk about their experience and how green economics is making a difference from Africa,Turkey, India, to China to Estonia to Australia. .

We are taking bookings now and also calling for speakers for this exciting event: our 6th 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 Join in this exciting campaign project to change womens lives. We are running a special campaign to enhance womens standing- we took this to the House of Commons this week. You can join in - either email or watch this space for more info shortly..

Join this campaign and also protect local amenities and wild walks -the THEME PARKIFICATION of our wild and commons spaces is absolutly awful and should not be supported by public officials, council members and worse still countryside and woodland organisations!There is much more to life than money- Its time to take a stand on this!

Let us know if its happened near you in the name of the CUTS

We need a 1000 signatures to stop this happening!

The campaign is going to court to try to stop it- as the land in this case was gifven by a local resident in perpetuity for the use of local residents.NOT for a theme park- please join the petition. There may be cuts- and debt and total chaos in the economy but removing our wildlife heritage for ever- and rare species- is absolutly NOT the way to solve it- join the campaign now -and stop it happening in Cockfosters or in your local area.

International Women's Day March 8th 2012:United Nations features our women's book!

We have produced this lovely book, 370 pages packed with voices, information, and campaigning to change policy from all around the world!

Order your copy directly from us at greeneconomicsinstitute@yahoo.com

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Join our campaign to improve women's economics lives

Since the book has come out so well we are inviting writing for our second one focusing on progress in womens economics including the 30% women onto the boards of companies, and public bodies and universities as well as equal pay and opportunities, the costs of non inclusion of women and the fact that women are experiencing 80% more job cuts at the moment than men during the current downturn.

They are being hit at least 4 ways at the moment, Austerity measures are hitting their jobs more, the stimulus packages tend not to address the industries they work in, the financial sector is the most unequal of all the sectors in studies assessed, their pension is under attack and delayed and their child benefit is being removed. This is an important time to reverse this process. All over the world women are standing up and have had enough. Our network women are very active in the Arab Spring at the moment and in some areas of Asia women are participating more than over here according to figures from the Institute of Chartered Accountants!

Please join our campaign and help us reverse these situations. Enjoy the book and if youd like to contribute to the next ones, please let us know.

Overview of the campaign

Women of the Garo in Bangladesh: Some of the many women we work to empower around the world!

80% of Jobless in the UK are women! 1.1 million women unemployed and taking the brunt of the cuts!

According to the Davies Report, all FTSE 100 companies and all public bodies and charities should have at least 25% female representation by 2015. Please join this campaign today! We are encouraging all women to at least consider taking up non executive positions on public bodies, charities, companies and universities! and anyone on such a board to ensure they have this representation. Our institute directors are 2 women and one man.Please ensure your boards achieve at least 25%.

Contact Details

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