Description
Saturday, 10 June 2017
12th Annual Green Economics Institute Conference
By Green Economics Institute Trust
Sat, 10 Jun 2017 10:30 – Mon, 12 Jun 2017 23:00 BST
Location
St Hugh’s College
Saint Margaret’s Road Oxford OX2 6LE
Refund Policy
Refunds up to 7 days before event
Description
Green Economics Institute
12th Annual Green Economics Institute Conference
10th 11th 12th June 2017 In the beautiful setting of St Hugh’s College, University of Oxford
Green Finance, Green Investment & Green Economics
Reclaiming The Economy from Privatisers, Fossil Fuellers, Xenophobes and Divide and Rulers.
Keeping social and environmental justice alive in this new age of Barbarism- Post Truth and Post Science
Green Finance, Green Investment & Green Economics
Reclaiming The Economy from Privatisers, Fossil Fuellers, Xenophobes and Divide and Rulers.
Keeping social and environmental justice alive in this new age of Barbarism- Post Truth and Post Science
Please note: All the conference information is to be found together with registration and the call for papers, books, proceedings, speakers, terms and conditions, accomodation, qualifications etc at:
http://www.greeneconomicsinstitutetrust.org/events/12th-annual-green-economics-institute-conference-oxford-university-june-10th-12th-2017/
For details, bookings and Paper proposals, please visit:
greeneconomicsinstitute@yahoo.com
www.greeneconomicsinstitutetrust.org
Three Days to Change The World
Reforming Economics, Saving environmental and social justice in an age of tyranny, privatisers, fossil fuellers, xenophobes and divide and rulers but also an age of emancipation. Reclaiming the narrative for social and environmental justice.
These conferences are designed to create a unique global discourse of social and environmental justice, inclusion, fairness, resilience, survivability, and reforming mainstream economics and creating new discourses which can allow the human species to survive another 10,000 years. Indeed Ban Ki Moon’s team has told us that our ideas are some of the very few which can actually work and can actually implement the COP UNFCC United Nations Climate Conference Resolutions. Prince Charles has said that our academic journal is music to his ears, We have won the Luxembourg Green Business Award and our Director/Founder was named as one of the 100 most powerful women on the planet.
Call for Papers, Journal Papers, Speakers, Participants, Workshops, Ideas for Subject Streams, Keynote Speakers, Book Chapters, Academic Proceedings Papers, Magazine Articles, Policy Reports, Volunteers, Facilititators, Exhibition Stands, Sponsors, Green Economics Institute Members, Speakers from Global Institutions, Scientists, Academia, Business, NGOs and Campaigners, Change Makers, Scientists, Innovators.Philosophers, Economists, Financiers, Thinkers, Enviromentalists, Social and Environmental Justice Makers, Development workers, Policy Makers, Politicos, Writers, Students, Lecturers and many more!
Green Economics Institute Publishing House
We publish 50 books, 30 academic proceedings, hundreds of papers, reports and book chapters. We also have an academic journal The International Journal of Green Economics, publishing 4 issues a year. If you would like to present a workshop or idea at our conference and publish in our lovely and unique and accessible books, please email us today to discuss how to get involved with our global network of 30,000 diverse change makers. Join us today and change the world with like minded people!
People who love other species, people who love humans, people who love systems of the planet !
Our conferences are for everyone, are very inclusive, and have voices from many countries from around the world from all walks of life and all sorts of backgrounds, all abilities, and all sorts of challenges, mental physical, being minorities, older people, younger people all realising their full potential etc.
Come and help us save the world and lead change and progress!
Positive and optimistic views of the world! It’s never too late to do things
Never underestimate the power of one person to change everything!
Call for Papers: Send your papers and ideas to GEIBooksandjournal@yahoo.co.uk
Sessions will include:
All people everywhere, minorities, majorities, indigenous people, able people, less able people, mental and physical challenges, women, all genders etc
Nature, the biosphere, other species, stopping the human caused suffering of other species, biodiversity, individual life patterns of other species, group life patterns and safety, endangered species. Humanity of animals. Ethics of animal keeping, husbandry and domestication. Cruelty and how to avoid it happening. Saving the apes. Avoiding extinction and the mass extinction.
The sea, water, rivers, fish. Marine eco systems, coastal problems.
Pollution and air pollution and health
Ageing demographics, the care crisis, migration, population, zenophobia, caring sharing and supporting each other in a frightening and uncertain world.
Young people, the lost generation, housing, homelessness, benefits. Public policy, the property mess, affordable housing, public housing
Climate Change, Climate Science, reports from our COP 15- 21 delegations and our plans for our team at COP22 in Bonn lead by the government of Fiji. We are calling for team members, sponsors, supporters, helpers. Carbon Rationing debate.
Migration, refugees, ethics from the people who have experience first hand of migration, refugee life and genocide, The Jazidhi people, other minorities.
Indigenous people and their knowledge and rights and their economy. How green economics is one of their main hopes.
Our green library projects
Renewables, Now the investment of choice- patterns of renewable development and investment
Investment, finance, economics, the economy, Global Institutions, Banks, Finance Houses, Public economic policy, climate finance
Science and Technology and Future Innovations – the latest green thinking
Food security in a world of climate unpredictabililty and instability. Access to food, organic farming, free range, increasing disease due to climate change. The reduction predicted in food and food security in an age of increasing populations
Launching New books on Art, Farming and food in India and in Japan, Organics, The Caribbean, Japan, Economics Values, Climate Finance and many many more.
Launching our new fiction books
Migration and trade, protectionism, v making locally to sell locally, relaunching home manufacture and industry and engineering and technology.
Changing narratives about migration – reclaiming the stories, positive migration stories from around the world where migrants have saved the day and laid down the basis of whole economies and industries. ( Building on last year’s very successful conference on The Migration Journey, A project supported and funded by The Green European Foundation and other green foundations and supported by the European Commission.) We hear from the Refugee Resource Group in Oxford about the excellent work they are doing and what is being done around the world.
10,000 years of farming and domestication– an audit- how have we done? what could we improve? will it last another 10,000 years, what do we do next? what is the meaning of domestication, of women, animals, crops, cereals, nature? Is it right- ? whose domestication is it ?
The Greening of the Caribbean– how do we change its economy for resilience- a project we are doing in partnership with the UK Foreign Office in the post Brexit world as part of the Caribbean Leaders 2030 initiative. We report on the latest findings.
Finance and the Economy in Brazil
The Greening of Italy and innovations in its economy and policies
The Economy of Japan and Nuclear Challenges
Air pollution, diesel, technofixes or changing lifestyles, if we cant trust the car companies to do the right thing – is it time to impose rationing to save the climate and civilisation? whose civilisation is it? Transport and travel
Green IT – a real alternative- democracy and access?Big Data issues,confidentiality
Indigenous voices from around the world wanting to use Green Economics- what they need and how we can help them
Black Lives Matter: Black Womens Writing
Human rights in an age of fear and violence
Are we living in an Age of Democracy or an Age of Tyranny? Are they related?
The Age of the Earth: Mass Extinction cycles, The Anthropocene
Education and the Media; Truth Post Truth, whose truth, science, education of the masses, the opiate of the masses, fake truth, fake science, misleading the public, lies, damned lies and deliberate lies, hacking, freedom of information or misleading the public, the lack of critical analysis at university, the lack of criticism by students, public acceptance and lack of resistance and lack of ethical vigour, the appauling state of political ethics.
State sponsored terrorism, torture, violence, murder- how do we cope with the fact that most genocides are done under ‘ legally elected or appointed regimes?’ what does that tell us? what do we do?
How do we do as we would be done by? how do we treat our neighbour as we would want to be treated ourselves?
The threats from the extremist groups and regimes around the world in office or about to take office?
Taxonomies of Economics and Finance – what does it really mean?
Taxation, investment issues, inflation, trading blocks, green investment, green funds, climate funds, environmental economics, heterodox economics behavourial economics, green economics, ecological economics.
Saving the forest and the rain forest. Debt for Nature swaps, accounting for the environment, costing the environmental, values and valuing the world and the environment.
Rapidly developing countries and their pathways, the implications.
International trade, and climate miles, emboddied energy and life styles, is it time to change and think about how to move to a better life?
Reforming economics – mainstream reforms today
Mainstream economics prevailing ideas, bubbles, property, the national regional local and global economies. Trading blocks. Alternative economics teaching, theories, ideas.
Land Grab, Robotics, Privatisation and Work
The new science of the individual in an age of robotics and concentration of power. New Feudalism and the oligopolies of global influence, how do the rest of us cope? Gardening, growing our own food, resilience, self sufficiency.
Health, mental health, pyschological changes to ensure survivability and sustainability- explaining why people are distrustful and wont make the changes yet. How do people really think and plan for the issues?
Mental Health and making the shift- why is it so difficult to alter what we do and how we do it?
Building on last years excellent work by our team of psychiatrists, we explore cultural shift and the way our minds stop us doing what is sensible and keep directing us off the cliff of survivability even though we all know it’s stupid.
Call for Papers
Papers are being invited on any subject concerning
- a) Social justice
- b) Environmental justice
- c) Reform of Economics, economy, policy, practise, impacts, theory, philosophy
- d) Reform of Investment practise policy theory or implementation
- e) Reform of Finance practise policy theory or implementation, Green Finance or Climate Finance
- f) Ending the current mass extinction, the human treatment of other species of all kinds and the implications Preventing Biodiversity Loss
- g) Human survivability
- h) Resilience of networks, robotics, future of work
- i) Climate change, climate science, methodology, reversing climate change
- j) The Media
- k) Education, economics education, meaning of education,
- l) Science- truth post truth –mass stupification
- m) Consumerism and famousisms- why people buy rubbish for a lot of money instead of thinking and noticing what is happening around them
- n) Preventing poverty, reversing inequality development
- Landgrabs, privatisation, legal frameworks, secularisation –meaning of the law
- p) Health, mental health, NHS, funding, the care crisis,
- q) Migration narratives, changing migration narratives, the migration journey, child refugees and the impact. Economic benefits of migration, the hardships of migration, migration in history, migration in future
- r) Learning the lessons from history — education for the future
All these are eligible for our academic journal
And for our academic proceedings
And for our books
And for our magazines
Some may be eligible for our websites too
We have many publications and your writing is very likely to be accepted in one or more of them- please submit your writing and advise which you prefer and we can advise which it is suitable for.
Entertainment will include all three nights
Conference dinners
Music
Speeches
Networking
Summer typical English walled garden buffet dinner
Special gala dinner in the oldest Oxford University Building
Dinner out in one of Oxfords typical restaurant. A light hearted conference review/ with everyone joining in.
A walking tour of Oxford for participants, friends and family
Speakers
Oliver Rothschild
Sir Crispin Tickell KG
Survivability in the anthropocene
Economics, Finance, Investment Reform and Theory
Dr Arturo Herman
Italy
Economics and Well Being
Dr Enrico Tezza
Italy
Professor Maria Madi
Brazil and Argentina
Economics finance and investment
Dr José G. Vargas-Hernández
University of Guadalajara
Mexico
Urban Green Spaces as a Component of an Ecosystem.
Functions, Services, Users, Community Involvement, initiatives and Actions
Mike Goodfellow Smith
UK
Sustainability
Dr Tony Lawson
Econometrics University of Cambridge
UK
Economics and Reality
Hend Ahmed
Professional Economist
Egypt
Climate Change
Miriam Kennet
Leader The Green Economics Institute delegation to UNFCC COP
Michelle Gale
Leader The Green Economics Institute delegation to UNFCC COP
Karen Alveranga
Climate Change specialist
Jack Easton
Examining finance, economics and investment and climate finance
Hend Ahmed
Professional Economist
Egypt
Economics of Renewables in the MENA and Egypt
Clive Lord
Citizens Income
Jasmeet Phagoora
Professional Economist
UK
Renewable economics and stories from around the world
Economics theory and practise
Giorgi Jashiashvili
Economist
Georgia
Migration Narratives
Lord Alfred Dubbs ( invited still confirming)
UK House of Lords
UK and originally a child refugee from Prague in the 2nd ww.
Author of the Dubbs amendment a Law to admit child refugees to the Uk
Nadia Murat
Jadzidi Spokesperson
Iraq and Germany
The journey of trafficking and migration
Susanne Rieger
Chair Green European Foundation
Nos Horizons Catalanya
Alternative Narratives to migration
Sushila Dall
Refugee Resources
UK
Migration
Councillor David Williams
Oxford City Council
UK
Migration at local council level
Vedran Horvat
Green Institute
Croatia
Changing Migration narratives
Jose
Equo
Madrid Spain
Migration narratives and videos
Health
Dr Katherine Kennet
National Health Service Pyschiatry
Professor Jay Ginn
Gerontology
Social justice
Biodiversity and other species
Robert Cowley
Oxford, UK
Mammal Tracking
Mike Shipley
UK
Mammals
Sustainability
Henry Cox
Building Sustainable Communities
Bianca Madison Vuleta
Sustainability
Federica Savarino
University of Bologna
Italy
Growth for sustainability
Launch of her new book
Karl Lamm
UK
Sustainability
Alima Adams
UK
Sustainability
Johnathan Essex
UK
Sustainability and buildings
Max Basta
Social justice in practise
Victoria Awuku Gyesu (Ghana)
Ghana
Social justice and economics
Charitable Trust and Trustees
Marlyn Lee Hughes
Introducing the Green Economics Institute Trust
What it takes to be a trustee
New Green and Sustainable Agriculture
Raphaele with Shilpa Chaudhary
Brazil
And India
Launch of their new book
Koryio Suzuki
Japan Uk and Germany
Agricultural futures- organic farming
The Punjab Green Revolution and its impact
Social Justice
Dr Michael Briguglio
Malta
NGos and social movements
City of Sanctuary
Vedran Horvat
Green Institute
Croatia
Migration
Professor Gary Craig
UK
Social Justice Theory and development
Dr Adrienne Barnett
UK and South Africa and Swaziland
The Law and the legal systems
How they impact us why they matter
Andrea Grainger
United Kingdom
TheTrans Journey
The Migration Journey
The Green European Foundation
Making a video of alternative narratives of the migration experience
Carribean Sustainability and ending perverse incentives for fossil fuels
Carribean Leaders 2030
Carribean Green Growth alternatives and diversification to the tourism dependent economy
Don O Neal
Uk and St Vincent
Caribean Sustainability
Aviation
Rose Bridger
Author- the Plane Truth
Education for sustainability
Karen Varanga
UK
Kim Bailey
Scotland and UK
Marlyn Lee Hughes
Uk
Education for sustainability
Dzintra Astaja
Latvia
Sustainability
Professor Kevin Albertson
Economics education
Library and Resource Room Project
Sue Shipley
The Library of Alexandria Project
Technology today
Hi tech –robotics – the future of work- financialisation – start ups
Douglas Watson
Space futures
Inside Bitcoin – who runs it – what does it do- why does it matter? Its impact today
Data, big data, bit coin, truth science corruption,open government
(Invited still confirming)
Block chain
Indigenous uses and implementation of Green Economics
COP UNFCC climate science conferences
COP22 debrief
Miriam Kennet
Preparing our delegation for COP23 UNFCC climate conference 2017
Miriam Kennet
Climate science methodology
Publishing New Green Ideas for change in the world
The Green Economics Institute Publishing House
Publishing in our books
The Green Economist Magazine
New editorial board
The International Journal of Green Economics
Publishing in our academic journal
The Green Writers Bank
Sue Shipley
The Green Library and Resource Room Project
2017 student presentations
Koryo Suzuki
Japan
Sophie Cardinal
Andrea Grainger
Raphaele Freire Limas
Brazil and UK
We never advertise, we work with teams across the planet from all walks of life and we dont edit what they say- we listen! and we implement! we make change, we include, all voices – we really walk the talk- come and meet our diverse and wonderful teams- we attract the brightest and the best from all walks of life from all around the world -some have major challenges- and from those major challenges- great things and great resilence happens- come and enjoy with us!
Timetable
Morning
Afternoon
Evening
Day 1
11.00- 18.00
Economics and Finance and Investment Themes
And a party in the evening
Opening Plenary and debates
Citizens income
Equality
Work
Robotics
Oligopolies
New feudalism
Uberisation of the economy
Workshops, debates, panel debates, discussions
Economics
Green Economics
Investment
Climate Finance
Finance Reform
Training
Privatisation
Landgrab
Feature Caribbean and Sustainability
Feature Egypt
Communal Dinner salad buffet in lovely walled garden
Day 2
Sunday 11th June 2017
10.00-18.00
Environmental Themes
And in the evening
Climate Change
Climate Science
Climate Impacts
COP 21 22 23
Planning for Bonn
Feature India
Feature Japan
Farming
Agriculture
Green revolution
Organics
Environmental Justice
Aviation
Renewables
Landgrab
Biodiversity
Science, truth post truth, education
Space
Presenting our charitable trust
Conference dinner
Day 3 Monday
10.00-17.00
Poverty and economics Green Economics
Migration
Women
Refugees
Poverty
Migration
Trans
Poverty
Migration and climate change
Videos
Party in typically English Pub
A visit to a local organic farm and renewables installation for participants, friends and family
An evening production of a Shakespeare Play in the lovely garden grounds of a college
A visit to St Hugh’s Special and Unique Oxford China Centre in the grounds of the college.
Times: Normally the conference will run from 11 am on Saturday 10th June, to 11 pm and then 10 am on Sunday 11th June till 11pm and then 1o am on Monday 12th June till 11 pm.
Registration
Please contact us today to find out more about fees, timetable, speakers, to reserve a place, to book a workshop, to find out about papers for the proceedings and for our books and academic journal and to offer to be a speaker or generally to participate.
The Green Economics Institute Trust: A Registered Charity
Reading, Bracknell and Oxford, UK
07990 590463
Greeneconomics.org.uk
Greeneconomicsinstitutetrust.org
