Green Economy Green Futures &Visions 5 Day Training course  23-27/8/2021

Green Economy Green Futures &Visions 5 Day Training course 23-27/8/2021

5 Day Training Course on Line Green Economies, green careers, green jobs, green cultures, green visions and solutions for the future.

By Green Economics Institute

Date and time

Sat, 23 Aug 2025 01:00 - Wed, 27 Aug 2025 09:00 PDT

Location

Online

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About this event

Green Economy, Green Futures, Green Jobs and Survival Solutions Training Course

23rd -27th August 2021

Narrative based ideas putting it all together addressing todays challenges and using our Green Economics Institute books, publications and research.

Day 1 Setting the Scene Introductions

The world round up of green economics and green economy literature and policies in place and the global size of the green economics markets around the world

Introduction to the aims of survival solutions to change the world for the better and to ensure human survival as well as preventing poverty and biodiversity loss and runaway climate change. Creating a more sustainable caring sharing economy.

Understanding the mainstream constructions and ideologies and vested interests and perverse incentives and sunk costs in investments and how this can be changed and is changing.

Towards a green recovery, building back better, green economy, just transitions.

Mapping the transitions so far in concrete terms. Workshops and case studies.

Debates, panels, expert inputs today setting the scene.

Participants debate the issues and undertake group activities together.

2 Expert speakers

Workshops

First evening colourful cultural dinner sharings together.

Day 2 Unpicking the world and rebuilding back better:

Food farming agriculture and land use and the essentials of life -water and air and biodiversity- nature

Presentations from experts in the field literally and sharing the great outdoors. Field trips from the future.

2 Expert speakers

Workshops

Day 3- understanding the climate and how it protects our species and provided for us for millenia -and how this is threatened and the pathways left for us to correct it- and the forces working to change it- how it all hangs together and introducing our diplomatic role at the UN in this and how you can participate and help make a real change

Cultural exchanges- song, food, plantings, art, writing, walking

virtual visits. Making virtual visits together and visiting each other virtually.

2 Expert speakers

Workshops

Day 3 afternoon - Health pandemics nature- how we can build health and

the connection to the economy and vested interests privatisation and how we construct health in the 22nd century . Making videos together for our tv channel.

2 Expert speakers

Workshops

Day 4 - Biodiversity and nature and human shelter and landuse

Why it matters more than anything else- the role of nature and who we actually are in reality. The philosophical and ideological constructs humans have made for 1000s of years and how this has led to the current crises. Our survival solutions magazine- planning and blogging and working together.

2 Expert speakers

Workshops

Day 5 Putting it all together- providing participants with the tools to get the job done- sharing methodologies -invitations to participate in our writing publishing events speaking workshops -presentations today from participants. Sharing new knowledge and how we have changed on our journeys. Making a career in green writing and research or green activities.

High Profile Speakers.

Students speeches

PM Certificates and awards for activities during the week and outputs from the summer school.

Presentations from the Mayor and other dignitaries.

Final Tea Party -virtually to share our learning and planning our next steps together and for when we meet again.

Creating a new publication together- participants design and plan next steps.

Organised by

The Green Economics Institute is based in the UK and provides inspirational leadership for ecological, social and economic justice transformations fit for the 21st and 22nd centuries.

The Green Economics Institute, is active throughout Europe, and runs a global network, impacting European policy development and outcomes.

It works on climate and visioning the future, long term frameworks of the economy and civilisation, basing its ideas on scientific and philosophical research. All its activities feature its unusual profile of European and global voices of non standard actors and its emphasis on holism, sustainability, future resilience, inclusion and diversity. This includes expert work on philosophies of social justice and mobility, refugees and migration.

It is a Members’ network and the professional body for Green Economics practitioners, policy making and practical organisation of innovators, philosophers and thinkers to envision and lead towards a world which meets the needs of all people everywhere, ( especially women ) nature, other species, the planet and its systems. Its team members usually have a multi mode background, often cross border, and always firmly rooted in the real world.Its include practitioners, scientists, academics, business people, and supply chain experts, mapping the downturn in human destruction of nature, the economy and the environment and are well placed to suggest a recovery path, both in terms of human health and also the environment and nature.

Its Publishing House GEIBooks, has over 100 titles in print, and each one provides a global network of people and voices advocating a message and campaign for change towards a more benevolent and beneficial world. The Green Economics Institute has a TV station, an academic journal, a members’ magazine, a specialist climate science organisation, a Charity and a Conference Making organisation. The Institute has world class speakers speaking often in parliaments and Universities around Europe, Nobel prize winners, national business award winners and others, professors, students, farmers, business people.

It has its own large delegations to the United Nations Climate Talks UNFCCC. which include exhibition stands and climate events and is an official Research Organisation of the United Nations. Its work is used around the world by governments, kings, princes, global institutions, businesses, students, philosophers, economists and many more.

It runs courses at all levels for qualifications, including field trips, summer schools, youth in action, Erasmus, short courses long courses, post doc supervision, and lectures in many European Universities and many others. It also runs regular conferences to support its campaigns and to encourage debate and progress both on line and mainly in Oxford and around Europe. It runs regular exhibition stands, publishing and giving speeches and hosting conferences in most countries in Europe

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