WINTER WARMER FOR GREEN ECONOMICS INSTITUTE SUPPORTERS, AUTHORS, CAMPAIGNERS, ACADEMICS, ACTIVITISTS, VOLUNTEERS, MEMBERS AND TEAM MEMBERS

Building a better future together making a space for social, environmental and economic justice. A special new event for our members, supporters and those who share our desire to make the world a better place in 2021. N.B. All times are current UK time

09:30-10:00 Set Up

Chairs: Marlyn Lee Hughes Tech Host: Miriam Kennet Sessions Management: Sukriti Anand

10.00-10.50 Welcome and Introductions,

Opening Plenary No 1: Speakers -Recalibrating our relationship with Nature- Environmental Perspectives

10.00- 10.30 Reimagining Food, farming and agriculture in 2021 and 3021. Baroness Natalie Bennett of Manor Castle, House of Lords, United Kingdom. “I was born the child of a 19-year-old apprentice carpenter and an 18-year-old homemaker, who lived in a one-bedroom flat in a poor area of Sydney,” she said. “You wouldn’t have predicted that’s where I’d end up.” She has a degree in agricultural science and said part of her focus on the climate and environmental emergency would include areas such as land use and food security. Leadership in environmental and social change.

10.30- 10.50 SOS Amazonia -The Amazon on the Brink Only a short time Left to Save it. Presentation by fridays for the future.

Campaigning with the Mayor of Manaus in Amazonia Brazil. What are the implications and choices? ( See panel below for more information about the presentation.)

10.50-10.55 Nature and Destruction – Examples HS2 Felling of Trees is echoed everywhere Bianca Madison – Vuleta.

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10.55-11.10 Break

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11.10-12.45 Key Note Speeches about Social Justice Perspectives: Plenary No 2

New Narratives and Perspectives Pioneered by the Green Economics Institute

a) 11.10- 11.35 Indigenous Perspectives- Ontology of environmental issues.

Chelsea Fairbank: researches Anthropology and Environmental Policy program at the University of Maine, which sits on Marsh Island in the homeland of the Penobscot Nation. As a critical theorist and social scientist, Chelsea’s scholarship looks at large-scale fossil fuel extraction and transport as accelerants to climatic changes. Her current research focuses on emergent pipeline infrastructures as they attempt to cross valuable waterways, Indigenous territories, and the technocratic environmental governance systems which support these infrastructures in settler-states.

Mrs. Natalie Dana-Lolar is a Passamaquoddy/Penobscot tribal citizen, researches- at the University of Maine in Anthropology and Environmental Policy. Her research goals include the understanding of archeological importance around indigenous voice and presence and the understanding of past Indigenous lifeways both within and outside of contemporary Wabanaki communities.

. b) 11.35 -11. 50 Greening the Japanese Economy. A young non mainstream environmental economist and and environmentalist: Environmental Economics Perspectives from Japan. Koryo Suzuki- GEI Japan.

c) 11.50-12.15 Age-friendly city and innovations with new narrative s for ageing. Christa Möller- Metzger,MbHB Seniors -Spokeswoman of the Green Faction in the Hamburg Parliament, Board Member European Network of Green Seniors and Federal Green Seniors. Journalist. Following our GEI Book- the Vintage Generation- The Rocking Chair Revolution – Christa discusses the exciting developments and changes in infrastructure and life style emerging for an aging human demographic. With discussion

d) 12.15-12.45 Migration: leads a discussion on Changing the Narratives of Migration : Dr. Caroline Zickgraf Deputy Director of The Hugo Observatory, Department of Geography, Faculty of Sciences, Université de Liège. This follows from the Green Economics Institutes book on Changing the Narrative of Migration and our 4 conferences we have held on this subject and vimeo. With discussion

12.45-13.30 Virtual Visits :

A) 12.45 -13.15 Option A Indigenous perspectives from a changing Artic in Winter. A virtual visit with Health worker and Arctic Reindeer herder, Agneta Granstroem, Indigenous SAMI in Sweden.

B) 13.15-13.30 Option B A virtual visit to Oslo City Centre in mid winter with Hans Kare Flo. Break out room

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13.30-14.00 Lunch Break with sharing and chatting

Solving the issues of today: Can we solve them together? What the institute does and how do we connect together. What the institute does and how do we connect and what do we take from it? All participants discussion – about social justice perspectives and next steps for activities and action.

-14.00-14.10 -Group photo -please bring fruit in season or plant you have grown with you

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14.10- 15.00 Green Economics Institute- What we do, what we have done in 2020 and what we plan to do in 2021. -Making plans with all participants.PPT.

Presentation of the Annual Report: Sharing our lovely events from 2020 and next steps,

Prepared by Bella Campbell

GEI Calendar of Events 2021 and Diary Dates and how you can get involved- Prepared by Sukriti Anand

Meet the Authors Forum : Climate Change:The Inner Landscapes- Jeremy Seabrook, Endangered Ecosystems- Professor Jay Beeks, Professor Maria Madi and Miriam Kennet- The future as a vision-Anthropocene to Biocene, Rosemary Field- The Stewardship Economy Series. Clive Lord – The Citizens Income. Meet the Editors: Rachel Earnshaw. Bella Campbell and Sukriti Anand

Meet the Research Team: Brand New Research, Reports and Occasional Papers Group: Calling Researchers, Post Graduates, Students, Professors .

Introducing our Academic Journal The International Journal of Green Economics and inviting new reviewers and academic board members.

Relaunching the Green Economist Magazine: Maria Madi, Sukriti Anand, Dr Liliana Poposkova.MEP, Miriam Kennet, Juliana Goeke.

How we work at the Green Economics Institute: Team Presentations for finding your way around the Green Economics Institute’s Activities, Projects, Campaigns, Membership and Charity Work. Discussion of Education at the Green Economics Institute Plans for 2021. Join our Education Providers Team.

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15.00-15.30 Break

15.30 -16.00 Speaker Plenary No 3 : Recalibrating our role in nature How it feels to make real changes in our perspectives and what it means to be human. The philosophy and Ontology of a change in our entire place on the planet.

Edward Gildea: Sailing Around the World: getting in touch with oneself through nature and poetry. The combination of sailing across oceans and observing shrinking glaciers co-inciding with the births of his grandsons, transformed him into a green activist. Our modern, technology dependent lives have alienated us from the world that is our only home and life support. We have abused it, taken it for granted, used the oceans and atmosphere as if they were infinite sewers, greedily exploited wildlife and natural resources… And we are now facing the consequences.Never having intended to become an adventurer, still less a poet, Edward has circumnavigated the globe and climbed Himalayan peaks; experiences which gave him a powerful and visceral connection with our planet.

16.00-16. 30 Break

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16.30-18.00 Plenary No. 4 Speakers from the Green Economics Institute Teams Campaigning in the Field:Social, Environmental and Climate Action : Bringing it all together

-16.30 – 16.50 Gender and inclusion and health issues campaigns in ActionAid during the Pandemic in Nigeria Anjikwi Mshelbwalla. Possibly with Ms. Nkechi Omekedo who is the Manager on Gender and Women/Girl issues in ActionAid Nigeria TBC.

-16.50 -17.20 Overview of our health actions and campaigns in An Age of Multiple Pandemic Waves.Survival Solution and a new role inside nature, pioneering philosophical innovations at The Green Economics Institute -Sukriti Anand, Bianca Madison-Vuleta, Agneta Granstroem Indigenous Sami Healthworker

-17.20-17.45 Yen Chit Chong -Population Reduction – The moral cowardliness of some sections of environmental campaigners

-17.45- 18.00 Overview of Our Climate Campaigns in 2020 and how you can participate in 2021 : Overview of our campaigns in 2021: News from Climate Science and United Nations Negotiation: Miriam Kennet: Join our campaigns for COP26 and climate change and climate action. Reports from the November Cimate Dialogues 2020 and how you can join our delegation to COP26 for November 20201. Sharing participants climate campaigning in 2020.

18.00- 18.30 Q and A and discussion and next steps

18.30 Close of Conference

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Speakers in Plenary 1:

The Amazon is burning! Indigenous communities and biodiversity are threatened more than ever. We’re a global alliance of climate activists from the SOS Amazonia fund campaign of various countries raising awareness to protect the Amazon rainforest. By organizing strikes and digital campaigns we’re showing why it’s crucial to take action now, why the Amazon matters to all of us and the world has the power to positively change and protect our natural world. We’re defending the defenders and giving a voice to the most vulnerable life on earth. Since Bolsonaro’s presidency Amazon deforestation as well as violation and human rights abuse have increased immeasurably. If destruction continues the Amazon is already at the brink of reaching the tipping point, it will turn into a Savanna and the damage of loosing the biodiversity forever will be irreversible.

This is an emergency call and we would like to share this to reach out to you and discuss solutions and what needs to be done to save it as there is still time.

Speakers- Fridays for the Future: Alma Anderson FFF Sweden,

Aidan Mendoza Hayward FFF Finland, SOS Amazonia, Alexandra Buck FFF Germany