15th Annual Green Economics Institute’s Green Economics 3 Day Conference
24th, 25th and 26 July 2020: To be held on Line this year
Blue sky thinking -which way humanity? Which way the planet? Which way survival? Which way civilisation-? Nurturing nature or high tech surveillance? Democracy or freedom? Contraction of life on earth? Or expansion and flourishing of life on earth? Our health, breathing easy? Come and find out more with us during 3 exciting days. Visioning the future of life on earth. Facing a future with fear or favour?
Sessions include
- Training, skills and expertise
- Lectures
- Virtual visits to our teams all over the world
- Music with our virtual teams
- Dancing with our global teams
- Debates, panels, exhibition stands, sponsors.
- The future of food, animals, cruelty free, local supplies- taste and locality rather than big agribusiness- ?what is the future of our food and why does it matter so much?
- Cooking together
- Growing vegetables and fruit together
- Sharing food from around the world with receipes from our global teams
- Campaigns- join our many campaigns and do good in the world
- Science, policy making, education.
- Publications teams welcomes you to our books, magazines and journals
- New authors
- Meeting our book authors and hear how they came to write the books and ask them questions
- Presentations on science, climate, social and environmental justice
Civilisation ? did we do it? Are we there yet?
Civilisation -the next 10,000 years? Philosophy of humans and our role in nature. Nurture nature and it will nurture us?
- Economics, finance, accounting – what happened ? The biggest downturn in 300 years- what does it mean? What are the solutions? what are the dangers and implications? Is it time to do things differently? Who saw it coming?
- Basic income
- Economics theory lectures
- Social justice theory lectures
- Green Economics theory and practice lectures
- Panel debates
- Economics at the crossroads-? With our panel of experts- which economics is going to take civilisation forward
- Kondratieff cycles- is health the next frontier?
- Sweatshops, morality, outsourcing, near shoring, supply chains, economies of scale,
Ricardo -specialisations global procurement methodologies, comparative advantage, competitive advantage, tragedy of the commons- how far are they implicated in the current disaster?
- The Global Commons- how do we share them and look after them – in an age when even our genes are threatened with enclosure?- Industrial revolution mark 4?
- Investment golden ages- are we at a crossroads?
- The future of jobs, income and labour
- The gig economy exposes its weak under belly
- The contraction of wealth owning- 8 white men own half of the global wealth- is this sustainable?
- Trade blocks and why they matter-
- The science of global institutions examined- the UN and the WHO, FAO.
- Green New Deal and Green Deal, Circular Economy etc.
The health of life on earth and the human hand in this situation
- ‘The pressure on all life on earth- and the mass extinctions – corona virus is just one, there are many more attacking all species from chocolate to olive trees- many caused by humanities destruction – how does economics answer and solve these issues?’ expert panels.
- Social Prescribing, mental health and the role of nature in our well being with psychiatrists and therapists
- Health science, and latest corona virus science and solutions
GEIAcademy Education at the Green Economics Institute Presentations and discussions
- Green Economics Institute Campaigns Presentation and planning- inviting people to join
Membership presentation and members events
Green Economics Institute Trust Presentation about our charity work and how to join in
www.greeneconomicsinstitutetrust.org
- Expert panels
- International speakers
- Charity presentation and training
- Visit Africa
- Visit Europe
- Visit South America
- Visit Asia
- Education, training, skills workshops
- Impacts of climate and environmental change around the world with our virtual expert panels
Planning issues
- Transforming our cities, working from home
- Transport, country and city planning futures- short and l0ng term
New Frontiers
- Whose planets are they anyway? space and resources exploration.
Water cycle -blue gold in the 21st century
- Deep sea, marine, water cycle, life, pollution, drinking water, drought, floods- is it for humans to manage? Or coexist?
- Homo destructivus? Or homo sapien sapien have we really earned the name?
- Where is gyny sapien? Why and when did we start to denigrate women? Can we learn from other species? Lockdown and the gender issues
- Male violence as a scientific phenomena
- Coercive control- new understandings of power- in the home and by the state
- Gender – back to the 1950s or forward to a new era?
- Women as leaders and saviours
- Leadership -what does it mean in the new Post Covid-19 world
- Why do people follow leaders they know are very flawed?
- The global geopolitical map- is it about to be redrawn?
- Inclusion, holism, diversity, accessibility- black lives matter, what happened? Why did we wipe out diversity on this planet, spread diseases whilst increasing hegemony, and how do turn the tide back-? – expert panels – seeds savers, indigenous peoples, scientists- discuss what we can do to undo our mismanagement.
- Green Economics for Development
- Expert Presentations and how to get involved- virtual tours of impacts and implications
- New energy models- Transition – technical presentations
- SDG – how are we doing?
- www.geiclimate.org
- Our United Nations delegations -climate science, climate change, global impacts so far- predictions and modelling- the links to all the other issues- the future has arrived. COP26 planning. Seeing difference and seeing common humanity- one planet together
- Big data, smart cities, algorythms- mapping our genes- surveillance, 1984- is this what we want? Is there another way forward?
- Exhibition stands, poster sessions, student presentations, experts, members events and much more-
- Come and join us !
- Email today to find out more and discuss your ideas for presentations at the conference.
- Call for papers, sessions, workshops, participants, students, experts, speakers, exhibition stands
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