Invitation to the
Green Economics Conference
hosted by the Green Economics Institute
Saturday 22nd January at Reading International Solidarity Centre 11-6 pm
and Call for Papers to the Conference and articles for Sustainable Economics magazine and articles for the International Journal of Green Economics.
11-6, with communal dinner afterwards to celebrate the inauguration of the Institute.
Please come to the Green Economics Conference hosted by the newly formed Green Economics Institute, in connection with the Green Economy Policy Working Group, and Sustainable Economics.
This is a brand new organisation which has been founded just to promote Green Economics.
The Conference is hosted by the newly registered Green Economics Institute, whose Directors are Volker Heinemann and Miriam Kennet.
The conference will be an opportunity to present papers in work- shops and plenaries, to hear leading thinkers in the field, to prepare papers/articles for the International Journal of Green Economics, a new academic journal, edited by Miriam Kennet, in conjunction with an academic publishing house; also at the conference: the Managing Director of the radical publishing house, Pluto Press, who recently published Dr Caroline Lucas’ and Mike Woodin’s book. Pluto Press will be looking for new authors to add to their portfolio.
Don’t miss this opportunity to find a suitable and radical publisher for your ideas. There will be the opportunities to debate all the usual issues of Green Economics including growth, eco taxes, oil, war, the arms trade, climate change, land value tax.
For more information please look on the web site www.greeneconomics.org.uk
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To reserve your place at the conference and to request a slot in a plenary or workshop, please email email greeneconomicsinstitute@yahoo.com
Send a cheque for £10.00 to Miriam Kennet, 6 Strachey Close, Tidmarsh, Reading, RG8 8EP. Tel. 07990 590463.
If you would like to attend the dinner, please send additional cheque for £10.00.
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Green Economics Institute
Miriam Kennet
The Green Economics Institute was launched to bring green-thinking into one of the most important areas of politics, with the intention of making a fundamental impact on the mainstream economic debate.
Economics is in fact a social science and an important one at that. Its true function ought to be to enhance the quality of life for as many people as possible on the planet whilst having regard to the needs of the planet and other non human species.
The exploration of economics should be into what constitutes quality of life and human happiness and how it can be achieved given that our home is the earth and has finite resources. Without such a truly objective long-term goal, based securely on a strategy derived from green thinking, it is no surprise that the existing economic discipline is far away from explaining realities and shaping our future convincingly and constructively.
The Green Economics Institute is already drawing from a world- wide pool of expertise, including radical publishers, university lecturers, campaigners, community workers, writers, politicians and other green thinking people
The Institute is preparing its own academic refereed journal, called ‘The International Journal of Green Economics’ and will also be publishing on topics relevant to the establishment of a green economics discipline.
If you'd like to participate, join the institute or find out more please visit the web site at www. greeneconomics. org.uk or email greeneconomicsinstitute@yahoo .com
Miriam Kennet