Prince Charles has also thanked us in September 2008 for the work in our journal and the article by Miriam Kennet and Volker Heinemann Vol 1 issue 1 /2 2006 Inderscience - International Journal of Green Economics.Kennet M., and Heinemann V., (2006) Green Economics Setting the Scene.

Congrats on your speaking engagements. I am very proud of you and the Institute! As I said earlier I found an intellectual home. You should also be proud of the Institute.

My intellectual development since I met you has produced this new book and new Journal. Probably more than anyone else you have had the most influence on my accomplishments. The book and Journal owes much to you!  Professor Jack Reardon USA,Professor of Economics USA. November 2008

Just to say a great event this year, as last - so glad I stumbled across your website last year! A plethora of fantastic sessions and speakers, and excellent networking - def the one event I would move mountains to attend in the year. As I said to Miriam - a veritable sweetshop for the green intellect! So fantastic to be amongst so many able, diverse, articulate, passionate and like-minded people with the rigour of excellent research and evidence behind them - makes it so much easier to make our case back on the ground. Thank you! Manda Brookman Director,CoaST: Cornwall Sustainable Tourism Project 2008 July

Our recent speech at eWorld Purchasing & Supply, September 2008 at the New Connaught Rooms, Covent Garden, London received excellent delegates' feedback, it was a very successful event with 92% of delegates rating the event as very good or excellent.Johnathan Essex delivered a speech from a joint text written with Miriam Kennet. We are delighted our material on Green Procurement and the Sustainable Supply Chain was so well received at a purchasing professionals event. EWorld Purchasing Team 2008

I've seen several references to your economic review of biodiversity in the BBC News web pages, especially in relation to the recent conservation conference in Barcelona. Well done! Hope it goes well - as with your many other projects! ECI should be very proud of you. Best wishes, Clive Hambler, Tutor, Oxford University, Environmental Change Institute: October 2008

How I wish I was still in England and able to come along to the Glastonbury event - it sounds brilliant! The Oxford conference was a great success in my view and I enjoyed the other speakers I had the opportunity to hear very much. David L. Page, Green Purchasing and Supply Expert, Australia 2008

I would suggest firstly that you use the potential dim light dawning in some people's minds and the dawning realisation that perhaps the markets will not fix everything, to investigate ways in which economic models can encourage pro-environmental and sustainable behaviour, rather than do precisely the opposite. A good contact for new thinking in what is sometimes referred to as "green economics" is Miriam Kennet, of the Green Economics Institute, working out of Oxford University . Their annual conference is small, highly informed and utterly compelling - try Miriam on greeneconomicsinstitute@yahoo.com - their thinking is a breath of fresh air and breaking new ground at an astonishing rate. Manda Brookman Email October 2008

hello, loved the conference - you are a rock star ! Dr Sacha Norris, Conservationist and former Television presenter

Great conference last week, and lots of contacts.Ian Chambers, Director, Orange Sales Projects

Dear Miriam, I enjoyed meeting you at the conference last week and have now had some time to digest the proceedings of the conference. It was a truly fascinating conference. I hope that we have an opportunity to remain in touch. If at any stage you would like to know more about work being done by Greenpeace please don't hesitate to get in touch.Robert De Bryn Greenpeace International.July 2008

It was a pleasure to present to and meet with your gathering - and being at Oxford was a pleasant bonus for me ! Your Green Economics Institute seems to have many parallels to our own GIST. Pavan Sukhdev, Managing Director Deutsche Bank, India, and Leader of TEEB Economics of Biodiversity and Ecosystems.

Hi Miriam Congratulations on organising such a fantastic conference -- Do keep me posted on any new events or developments,best wishes,Elaine Brooks,Gaia Partnership July 2008

Very much enjoyed the conference on Friday, a busy day but so much to listen to, many lovely people to meet and huge amounts to return home thinking about - I hope Saturday was just as successful!Kind regards,Rachel Curzon, Lecturer in Stakeholder Theory and Stakeholder Engagement, University of Birmingham July 2008

I would just like to thank you for putting on such an excellent conference, and I look forward to future discussions! Daniel W. O'Neill, Director of European Operations, Center for the Advancement of the Steady State Economy,

You should pat yourself on the back for the hard work you have done the past few years. Congratulations! Take a look where we were three years ago and where we are today. You have a lot to be proud of!! I am extremely glad to be part of Green Economics; I relish my role and hope I continue to contribute whatever is needed. Cheers! Professor Jack Reardon Physicist and Economist, USA. July 2008

Just wanted to say thanks for organising another great conference and good to see The Green Economics Institute moving forward Johnathan Essex Campaigner and Sustainability specialist, Bio regional company and Civil Engineer, Durham University.

"Congratulations on a really wonderful conference, I went to three conferences this month and this was the one that really spoke to me," Dr Jeff Turk PHD Physics Yale- and European Economics,University of Sussex, based Slovenia and Brussels.

"Kudos again on a fantastic conference. For me, what makes a conference great is the people, and you really assembled a fine crew. BTW, it surprised me greatly to learn you had students - you looked like one yourself. Yet you've a hubby and kid!" Jeffrey Smith July 2008

"Your conferences are like an intellectual sweet shop!" Manda Brookman COAST Cornwall Action for Sustainable Tourism July 2008

" I really enjoyed your inspiring and cheering talk on Monday." Heather Rainbow, Chair person Hampshire Organic Gardening Group, HOGG is a member of Soil Association and Garden Organic, November 2007

" thanx for the training course at Oxford on November 10th 2007, it was a fruitful exchange of non-mainstream economic thinking, and it was very well organised, " Kurt Meyer Economist and academic author with the Policy Development and education Institute of the Austrian Greens in the Austrian Parliament.

"The training day Oxford University, November 2007, was a totally brilliant, totally excellent day, I am still buzzing from it. I think a lot of diverse themes in green economics are gelling and becoming more cohesive." Rose Bridger specialist in food supply chains and Freight equity.

Professor Peter Soderbaum (2008 ) forthcoming states that the people behind the Green Economics Instittue are an exemplary example of pluralist working

Professor Tony Lawson (2007) sugests that the Green Economics Institute is taking a lead in changing mainstream economics practice,methodology and ontology by example

. Professor Jack Reardon (2007) suggests that the Green Economics Institute have suceeded in creating a new discipline within economics

. Issayane Naicker (2008) forthcoming, suggests that the methodology proposed by Green Economics may just be what Africa needs

. I (2006) recently attended a really stimulating and challenging weekend 'retreat' on Green Economics. It was held at EarthSpirit, Compton Dundon in Somerset, near Glastonbury. This Centre consists of converted farm buildings in beautiful countryside. There were about 60 participants, including around 20 speakers or facilitators.

"It was a very exciting day - so full of stimulating ideas and new horizons. It was wonderful to be in a group people of such varied ages and backgrounds but all so vibrant, committed and involved. Very heartening. Your Institute has clearly resonated with people's deep need for a real sense of purpose, which they have found lacking elsewhere." A particpants letter thanking us for the training day March 2007 at Oxford University

The National Audit office sent its members to our Green Economics Training Day on March 10th 2007. They provided the following feedback:- I'd like to express my thanks to you and your colleagues at the GEI for what was a stimulating and enjoyable workshop on 10 March. We are very glad that we went along, and would be interested in future GEI events.

March 2007

So many of us have been desperate for a new economics that puts people and planet first. We were therefore really thrilled to discover the recently formed Green Economics Institute which is gaining in authority and getting support from many mainstream economists. Theyare operating under the aegis of Mansfield College Oxford.

The Institute is seeking a new paradigm to provide a credible alternative to the neo-liberal economics which is killing the planet and undermining the heart and soul of its people. One of the Institue's basic principles if the participation of all stakeholders, not just the academics. I recently went to a Training Workshop in Oxford which they ran for anyone interested. It was one of the most life-enhancing experiences I have had for a long time. They are running a 2 Day Green Economics Conference on 2nd and 3rd of April at Mansfield College Oxford. If you are interested email Miriam Kennet(one of the Directors of the Institute) at :

greeneconomicsevents@yahoo.co.uk

www.greeneconomics.org.uk

Good luck. Regards Jill Gant

"An academic journal of the highest standards of research dealing with the reform of the dominant neo-liberal paradigm of economics and today's "business as usual" scenario is a very helpful step in solving the problems of the future, both environmental and social. This journal will provide a forum for such debate to inform academics, activists, campaigners, reformers and workers in the field of social and environmental change."Johnathan Porrit UK environmental campaigner

. Compliments about the Green Economics Retreat and Economics well being conference February 2006

I think you're doing really well getting all these people together and green economics needs to become a real discipline in its own right to which the GEI is contributing greatly. Xxx

Dear Miriam just to say what a lovely and very interesting week end it was Amazing to learn about money. There is always so much that is new to me at your meetings I do hope all future work of the Institute is as successful as the Weekend Xxx PhD FRSA, Professor of Childhood Studies, Social Science Research Unit, Institute of Education, University of London, 18 Woburn Square, London WC1H ONR

Dear Miriam -- just to thank you for organising the conference in such an inclusive and loving way -- the result was a real feeling of connectedness and hope. Good luck with your future projects and hope to meet again similarly Dr xx MD MRCP FRCPsych UKCP Consultant Psychiatrist/psychotherapist Devon NHS Partnership Trust Professor of Psychological Therapies, University of Exeter, and Psychoanalysis Unit, University College London.

Firstly to say a big congratulations. you put so much effort and energy into the retreat and I thought it was wonderful. You spend a lot of time reminding other people of their gifts - please please take a few moments to reflect on what you just gave birth to at the weekend......THAT'S gifted......did you get that or do i need to repeat it? and by the way......do you know that putting forward a point in front of 50(?) people was BIG for me .....particularly without going red......and YOU enabled me to do it. xxxxxDance Movement Therapist

First of all many thanks for organising a wonderful conference over the weekend. It was a real pleasure to meet you too. Secondly, I would be delighted to be involved in the group, the conference and the journal issue. So count me in! Exeter University Philosopher

Hi Miriam and co, Thank you for putting it together and for all your work and enthusiasm which I was impressed by. The world needs your energy and ideas. I enjoyed William's session the most. For me it was stimulating and provocative of thought and feeling. When I answered his questions with a partner I went very quickly to an understanding and strong sense of how all the money I have been given in my life was a kind of gift. As well as receiving all that, I also have given, through my energy and efforts, and money is a symbol for all that exchange. A symbol that easily obscures a deeper reality that this is giving and receiving and in fact, at its heart, a form of love. This was a good realisation and I thank you. I would like to thank him too. I am a psychologist by profession, and I view the world through that lens much of the time. xxxx" Psycologist

"This is a marvellous article" from a Professor (2006) describing our editorial of the International Journal of Green Economics.

"This is a wonderful piece of writing,"(2007) from a reviewer describing one of our conference papers."

"I have at last found my intellectual home" (2006) from an economics Professor of note in the US on attending his first Green Economics Institute conference.

Hi Miriam thanks for arranging the conference. Maya and I enjoyed it very much and met some interesting people (some who live rather close to home). Best wishes Xxxx and xxxx Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra)

The April 2007 Annual Green Economics Institute Conference at Oxford University was excellent - every session I went to was brilliant far better than most conferences I attend. From a Professor of social theory and education at the University of London