Summer School -Recalibrating our relationship with nature and biodiversity

Summer School -Recalibrating our relationship with nature and biodiversity

By Green Economics Institute

Recalibrating our role in nature and biodiversity gentle and fascinating summer school -reclaim the solutions

Date and time

Location

Oxford Friends Meeting House

43 St Giles' Oxford OX1 3LW United Kingdom

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Highlights

  • 6 days, 9 hours
  • In person

About this event


Recalibrating our relationship with nature. Embracing nature as within us and we are within it.

Relaxing together after the immense recent challenges in 2025 and introducing the new world order and new axis around green solutions- the key to peace and human and natures prosperity and survival- how does it work and what does it mean ?


Who are we as humans

How the pandemic was caused by our devastation of nature and our economic systems

Values, valuation and valuing

Ecosystems services, nature based solutions

Equality inclusion


Sessions:

Day 1 Introduction to Philosophy and nature

Poetry in Nature. Understanding nature in 2025- what is means to us now

Stopping the 6 th ever mass extinction of species.How has it happened and what can we do? What does it mean to value nature- values, valuation and valuing nature.

Nature, monotisation, commons, ecosystems, use value -and needs of nature and people and other species, the planet and its systems.


Day 2 How we rebuild our economy and live within nature? What do we need to do to stop the 6th mass extinction of species.

Recalibrating our own relationships with nature- opening ourselves up to nature

Our role in protecting the nature we meet- nature as personal interactions

Examples and workshops and lectures- going out in nature around the lovely centre


Stopping the 6 th ever mass extinction of species. Our new role

Working in the real world in 2025 in the context of IPBPES and the COP30 United Nations Conferences

Understanding that the role of ecosystem services and nature based solutions and more technological and privatised agriculture are being promoted this year- and how to counter that to ensure that nature can be encouraged to flourish again and to enhance the biodiversity.



Natural capital, environmental movements

Green Economics - Enclosure - Other sentient beings - Intelligence of Octypus and other creatures.

Human nature and our evolution in nature

Capital and economics, women, indigenous people, agroeconologist-

Agriculture and food- biodiversity

United Nations.

Economy privatisation and nature and the role of the state as intermediary between us and nature.

Literature and philosophy- introduction to the changing philosophy of nature

Preparing our input and response to the pandemic -and the role of the United Nations IPBES





NB Should the covid situation be too challenging we can run this event on line

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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