Green Economics Institute Newsletter May 2020
We are delighted that the United Nations General Secretary has said that the Green Economy and Green Economics is the only way to tackle climate change successfully. This means there is renewed focus on our Institute and our work and we welcome all students and team members to join us to make our work as effective as possible in solving social and environmental justice and reforming economics and making Green Economics work better for the world, preventing poverty, biodiversity loss and climate change.
We are of course shocked and sadened by the global pandemic taking place at present.
We do believe that all life on earth is compromised at present and under serious pressure from man made environmental change.
We work very hard to point this out- as many people still have not realised. We believe that addressing this pressure will help human health and resilience improve at the same time and help us all conquer this awful pandemic.
Our forthcoming events deal with some of the aspects of this crisis and suggest ways forward for a more succesful and stronger future, These events include:
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An Evening of Messages from the Future: Visioning an holistic economy
Visioning exciting solutions to the worst economic mess for 300 years and the biggest health and climate crisis to hit humanity for centuries
15th June 2020 19.00-21.00 on line Members’ Evening- To Join please email us www.geimembership.org and info@geimembership.org
Join us for an evening of future visions and exciting and grounded expert discussions 
Blue Sky Thinking
Part 1 – Expert Speakers
Professor Maria Madi Author, Finance Professor, (Brazil) (Confirmed)
Professor Simon Mouatt, Economics Professor and Author, Director of the Association of Heterodox Economics (UK)
Anjikwi Mshallbwana ActionAid (Nigeria) (confirmed)
Dorothy Nulambega (Uganda)
Michelle Gale (USA) VP of Charity in the USA, Director of the Green Economics Institute, Leader of our United Nations Delegations,
Margarita Nieves, Lawyer, Erasmus University DPhil Candidate, and part of our COP24 United Nations Climate Delegation to Madrid, Spain (Colombia and The Netherlands)
Format 45 minutes
5 minute Expert presentations on visioning the future
With written questions from the floor
15 minute coffee, tea, drinks break
Part 2: 45 minutes
5 minute speech by the Chair- Bianca Madison – Vuletta (UK)
Implementation of the messages from the future
Implications for Campaigns and campaigning
Deciding and planning for campaign ideas
Discussion from the floor on the question:
What are the implications on campaigns of the future?
20.45 Concluding remarks
21.00 Close
To book please email us to reserve a place and to receive the invitation.
Tickets on Eventbrite and on our website
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Smart Cities Webinar
Public values and technology in the corona crisis
Webinars 19th & 20th June 2020 On Line
The Green European Foundation and the Green Economics Institute are delighted to invite you to a webinar on smart cities in corona times. How do we ensure that the technologies that are being deployed in the corona crisis respect public values such as democracy, human dignity, privacy, equality and sustainability?
This webinar will gather experts, practitioners, activists and (local) politicians. The online discussions will cover two mornings. Participants can choose to take part in one session or in both sessions.
The webinar takes the Green European Foundation’s Charter for the Smart City as a starting point. The results of the webinar will feed into the online version of the Charter.
Draft programme
June 19th 10:00 – 12:00
- Presentation of the Charter for the Smart City, value-led development of technology and its relevance in times of corona by Richard Wouters (Wetenschappelijk Bureau GroenLinks, NL), followed by discussion.
- Presentation and discussion on digital surveillance. Will the corona crisis take the surveillance of citizens and workers to new heights? Can and should we counter this tendency? Is there a role for local politics?
June 20th 10:00 – 12:00
- Presentation and discussion on digital innovations. The corona crisis has given a boost to the digitalisation of work, commerce, education and social life. How do we deal with the socio-economic inequalities which arise from this? Can we prevent Big Tech from becoming even more powerful? What role for local politics?
- Presentation and discussion on a Green New Deal. The economic crisis and the climate crisis must be tackled simultaneously. Does this create new opportunities for green technologies? What role for local politics?
Platform
We will use the Zoom video conferencing platform. It is recommended to join the webinar via a PC. You don’t need to install additional software. However, for the best user experience and full participation features, we recommend to install the Zoom Desktop App, which is for free.
Registration
Please apply to www.geiconferences.org and Eventbrite or email us at info@geiconferences.org to reserve your place.
Please consider making a donation to enable the Green Economics Institute, a not for profit, to continue its work. The suggested donation is around £25.00 per person.
Preparation
The Charter for the Smart City is available on the website of the Green European Foundation. Click here to download.
This event is organised by the Green European Foundation and Wetenschappelijk Bureau GroenLinks, with the financial support of the European Parliament to the Green European Foundation.
Our Green Economics Institute
15th Annual Green Economics Institute’s Conference
on line July 24th 25th 26th 2020
We will be hosting our 15th Annual Green Economics Institute Conference on 24th 25th and 26th July 2020.
Please visit our conferences special website for more details www.geiconferences.org and email info@geiconferences.org where you will find all the booking details and Calls for Papers.
Tickets will shortly be available on Eventbrite or on the conferences website.
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Saturday 25th July 2020 1 day interactive conference
Life on Earth- Surviving in a Corona World
Climate change and Environmental & Economic Meltdown
Ripped off in the service of homo economicus-women and minorities
Sunday 26th July 2020 On Line 1 Day Interactive event
It has never been so stark as under this pandemic-Women, Minorities,
air quality, nature, other species, all domesticated and ripped off in the service of homo economicus-
Mans’ contempt for nature and anything ‘other’
Expert speakers and break out rooms, exhibition stands and discussions
Networking as well as training to make a difference and showing each other solutions and change making.
During this pandemic it has become clearer just how much destruction homo sapien sapien has done to nature, women and other species.
Women are doing huge amounts more work in the lock down and many are more at risk of loosing their jobs.
This event explores- inequality, development, SDGs and generally mans destructive nature and its results and looks for new ways of running the economy which do not value destruction but flourishing, caring and sharing -a completely new way of doing economics.
Green Economics theory and philosophy infoms a renaissance of humanity on a better path to the future.
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Academic Flagship Academic Journal
The International Journal of Green Economics
in its 14th Year
We are Calling for Papers for the Academic Journal, Volume 14 issues 1-4 in 2020 and 2021- please visit the website www.geibooks.org.uk to find out more about the call for papers or send your paper in to us at info@geibooks.org.uk.
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Green Economics Institute Book Publishing House
Research and Publishing with The Green Economics Institute 2020
We are an official research organisation of the United Nations Climate Conferences and have produced research in all kinds of settings.
Please email with your ideas or to find out more.www.geiacademy.org
We are also Calling for Books, Book Chapters for new books in 2021.
More details on the website.www.geibooks.org.uk
We are working on books about climate change and about Economics and Green Economics- please email to discuss your ideas with us.
We also need Magazine articles, reviewers and editors so please do contact us if you would like tBoard of the Green Economist Magazine, please email for more details about how to apply.
We are also working on our publications -including our academic journals and our books and Magazines. If you would like to write, edit review publish etc please email info@geibooks.org.uk and visit www.geibooks.org.uk.
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Campaigns of the Green Economics Institute 2021
These can now be found in the campaigns area of this website:
The Greening of Health and Healthcare and Mental Health, Food and Farming Changes, Creating a 2 tonnes of carbon world and preparing for Zero Carbon, Having a different look at migration, access and diversity and understanding the human story and our place in the world and trying to make sure we end the 6th ever mass extinction of species and that we dont become one of them – preventing poverty, biodiversity loss and runaway climate change- and managing Economics, Economics Reform and leading with Green Economics and a Green Economy for solving climate change in the 21st and 22nd centuries.
We also work on gender and development and education of the public to deliver our campaigns.
Smart Cities Campaign
We are running 2 on line webinars on Friday 19th June 2020 and Saturday 20th June 2020.
These are part of our campaigns on The Green Built Environment and the Green IT and Big Data Campaign.
This is the second in our Series of Smart Cities events, as we ran one at Said Business School last August 2020.
We ran our Green Built Environment Conference in 2011, part of a policy project funded by the government department on the Rural Urban Fringe. Our book, The Green Built Environment was published and can be found at.https://geibooks.org.uk/product/green-built-environment/
Additionally we have published on the future of Income, work and labour and in particular the effect of technology on jobs and the labour markets.https://geibooks.org.uk/product/the-future-of-work-income-and-labour/.
We also launched our The Greening of Transport Campaign in the House of Commons in 2013. https://geibooks.org.uk/?s=Transport&post_type=product
Bookings are now open for these two excting webinars. Please email for further information. We will be posting the tickets link today or tomorrow.
The Greening of Health and Healthcare and the Care System
We have trained 100s of health officials and governments large and small all over the world using our experts.
Our book includes ideas for updating health and care systems including the green idea of social prescribing and also of considering mental health and prevention as extremely important.
We also identified that older people have the knowledge that we all need
and our work has focused on different ways to welcome more senior periods of our lives, in a much more productive and happier way
As well as the issues of younger people and education
Our Climate Change Campaign
Our Official Delegation to
United Nations COP26
Glasgow Scotland November 2021
- We will also be attending the United Nations Conference in Bonn, Germany, in October- SB52 -please email if you would like to be considered to join our delegation, side event or official exhibition stand or research and reports team.
- We will be hosting our Official United Nations Delegations to the Climate Conference in Glasgow Scotland November 2021. Please email for more details and visit our special Climate Web Area- www.geiclimate.org and email info@geiclimate.org if you would like to participate or support us. During the year we will be producing a book and special publications exploring the issues and suggesting scientific solutions to the current climate change problems.
Green Economics for Development Campaign:
Stopping climate change and for development
In 2020 we will be paying particular attention to social and environmental justice and how our ideas and theories are helping and can be used to solve some of the problems of todays Africa-and gender issues around the world, building on previous work we have done in those areas. Please visit our tv station to find out more.
We have produced many events, speeches and books on development with more coming soon, https://geibooks.org.uk/?s=Africa&post_type=product
Women and Gender Issues Campaign
Special conference Sunday 27th July 2020
Womens issues of all kinds are needed to be solved urgently being one of the biggest barriers to sustainability of any. We have worked long and hard on this and urge all our visitors to try to understand the critical nature of this area of our work.
Please observe activities in your area and call out any that are not gendered or inclusive.
As we suspected women are doing more of the work during lockdown for the pandemic and womens emancipation has been thrown back 50 years or more. We explore this phenomena and what to do about it-in our Sunday confererence 27th July 2020.
Migration, Inclusion and Access Campaign -we walk the talk
We try very hard to, walk the talk, with this and strive in all our work to be diverse and accessible. Please advise if you would like more information or would like to ask how to implement our solutions in your organisation, as we can send speakers and consultants and advisors to help. Please see our videos and books and previous events on this.
Membership of The Green Economics Institute
- Our wonderful group of members now have their own webspace- www.geimembership.org and info@geimembership.org
- To write or join the Editorial Board also please visit the area and join or renew if you havent already and we will be organising members’ events in iconic places this year- please email us with suggestions and requests. We need articles and editors for our members magazine- please email if youd like to participate. Our network is truly global and composed of some of the best thinkers and doers on the planet but also ordinary people and ordinary people doing extraordinary good things- come and join us !
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The Green Economics Institute Trust
www.greeneconomicsinstitutetrust.org
Our charitable trust, is doing very well influencing the global agenda- and once again we are looking for new trustees and team members. Current we need 5 uk team members to help with admin and provision of projects and 5 new trustees working on delivery of the Charities Programmes.
We also need donations to enable us to carry out our work.
Please visit www.greeneconomicsinstitutetrust.org to find out more- or email info@greeneconomicsinstitutetrust.org.
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Green Economics Education Courses for Students- Summer Schools on line in June, July and August-2020
www.geiacademy.org & info@geiacademy.org.
To find out more -please email today
Training Courses – Summer 2020
This course in person or via skype enables participants to try their hand at being a published author. They can either aim to edit one of our contributed volumes of other writers or to produce their own volume or book of writing or team up with others or get involved in production of books. Its a very exciting course and most people will end up with at least one citation – often several if they work hard on the programme and produce good work. Please visit www.geibooks.org.uk and www.geiacademy.org to find out more or register their interest at info@geiacademy.org.
Remote Study Placements in summer and autumn 2020
We are delighted to reopen our lovely programme for 2020, for students who want to study with us via skype. Too apply please visit www.geiacademy.org for more details or email us at info@geiacademy.org.
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Our GEITV Climate TV station
Video and Vimeo our brand new way of talking to supporters. https://vimeo.com/user78993274
Please visit our videos site has over 50 videos from the cutting edge of climate and economics negotiations and more besides from those who are right there where the action is. If you would like to be interviewed please email us here for more details- greeneconomicsinstitute@yahoo.com
Contact us today email greeneconomicsinstitute@yahoo.com
and info@greeneconomicsinstitute.org.uk