greeneconomics 2012 - 7th Annual Green Economics Institute, Green Economics Conference

July 19th -21st 2012 is our main annual conference Green Economics at Oxford University where green economics was developed. Its an " open source " conference where speakers come from all over the world from all sorts of backgrounds and cultures to create something completely new. This year is twice as large as ever before- so do sign up and email us to reserve your place -greeneconomicsevents-AT-yahoo.co.uk.
The Green Economics Institute Conference every year, is the main forum where the development of a major economics alternative to the main stream is created by global innovators from policy making, politics, NGOS, campaigners and academics and students all come together to make waves of real change in the world. Your voice really counts at the conference. This year it seems the tiny seedling we have created and nutured of "Green Economics" has come of age and is nearly 15 years old and so has entered its adolescence. Hence there are fascinating tensions between the claims for it of corporations who are wanting to use it to carry on with business as usual, and campaigners who want to use it to change the world and to solve contemporary problems- namely- runnaway climate change, population and equality and empowerment of women, minorities and people with dissabilities and special needs and inclusion, and also the problems of the 6th ever mass extinction of species, and the terrible economics downturn.
The East and Asia have also adopted a "green economics narrative" largely taking the environmental out of our " social and environmental narrative" whilst the west has adopted the social- (countries like Norway) but still kept the oil addiction and not yet really embraced the environmental bit.Most countries are still running business as usual banking and economics but all are putting a toe in the water of green economics. The job of the conference is work out how to move forward with a more complete and all embracing narrative which satisfies developing countries and developed countries and helps people use the green economics narrative to end the current economics downturn and crisis and to move towards a green economy fit leading in the 21st and 22nd centuries and for human sustainability and survivability.