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.
"We're now on the threshold of a global transformation- the age of green economics" Ban Ki-Moon
The Institute is advising governments in the UK and abroad and is offering training to people who wish to fully understand the current economic situation.
Picture: Miriam Kennet Rameswarum India
If you would like more information on beating the current downturn and credit crunch please email us at info@greeneconomicsinstitute.eu. Also please visit our "News and information" tab at the top of this page on this this website where we post daily information that will help you make sense of what is going on with our team of top analysts from round the world and the 40 country perspectives in which we operate.
After our sucessful retreat this week, we are working on our training in Berlin which will take place in December and which is completely sold out. We received 5 times as many applications as places and so will be running several courses in Brussels in March 2009 as well- please apply for details.
We offer training in the UK on May 16th 2009 in Oxford.
If you require in house training for your group or department or company to help you plan your business, or charity or government work, please email us and we will come along and train your team. 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.
We are currently training in Poland, the UK Treasury, the Brussels University, Campinas University Brazil and South China Normal University, Guandong, China and many more businesses, government departments, and Universities. We have a team of 3000 specialists in all aspects of green economics. Our courses are modular, and you can select the issues you find most pressing. Courses can run for 1 or two days and can suit all incomes. Please email us at: info@greeneconomicsinstitute.eu for more details.
Forthcoming events also include 4th Annual Green Economics Conference- July 31st and 1st August 2009 at Oxford University, and also poverty social justice and womens unequal pay conference March 7th 2009 in Reading- International Soildarity Centre, as well as procurement events with the Chartered Institute of Purchasing and Supply- please email for details.
We are speaking regularly in Paris, Brussels and Germany, please email for information.
Picture: Miriam Kennet Rameswarum India
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 undertakes, encourages and supports 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.
Forthcoming events and conferences
4th and 5th November 2008 Miriam Kennet will be providing the keynote speech at the Green IT conference Olympia Conference and Exhibition Centre, LondonNovember 2008 South China Normal University Miriam Kennet lectures on Green Economics
Brussels University January to March 2009 Miriam Kennet lectures on Green Economics
March 7th Poverty, Understanding and Beating the Credit Crunch- what are the issues?, and Unequal Pay, Women and poverty Reading International Solidarity Centre, Reading, Berkshire, UK
March 2009 Campinas University Brazil, Miriam Kennet will be lecturing on Green Economics
Saturday 16th May Old Music Hall, Cowley Road, Oxford, UK training in Green Economics and Procurement Conference,
Oxford University Annual Green Economics Conference and Green Procurement Conference 2009 July 19th -22nd Mansfield College Oxford University, UK
National Government School, UK, Miriam Kennet is part of a team of trainers on Redefining Prosperity across the government departments including the Treasury
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Recent events:
Our exciting Green Economics Well Being and Retreat Conference Glastonbury on a farm October 25th 26th 2008
This will take place 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 will take place 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 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.
We are presenting 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 sucess 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 November 29th 2008 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 2008, 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 are 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 are speaking 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 Institute is also publishing a regular refereed academic journal International Journal of Green Economics in association with academic journal publisher Inderscience. The first two issues have been published and we are now calling for papers for future issues.
The first book in a series supported by the Institute titled "Babylon and Beyond" was just published and copies 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.
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. Conference proceedings are available via our shop.
Miriam Kennet, November 2008
