The second webinar in our series gives a better understanding of how the global economy currently works and the urgency we face to create change, recognizing that the global economic system can be a major obstacle to local change and that there is a need to change the ground rules of global economics if we are ever to create a sustainable society at the local level.
Ross Jackson, author of the book “Occupy World Street”, puts forward an alternative international political/economic model to deal with the dilemma facing the world community and a concrete strategy to implement it. This webinar will give information presented in the Gaia Education EDE curriculum, including:
• An understanding of how the global economy currently works and the urgency we face to create change.
• Ways in which the global economy can be turned towards sustainability, and some of the solutions being proposed by our invited special presenter.
Watch the webinar: http://youtu.be/zkQbaGaa1WA
1. Gaia Education
At the Cutting-Edge of Sustainability Education
Shifting the Global Economy
Towards Sustainability
September 30, 2014
Presented by Ross Jackson
rossjackson@gaia.org
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2. Publications: Curriculum & Manuals
EDE Curriculum Gaia Youth Activities Guide Teacher´sManual
Available at Gaia Education Web Page & Kindle Store
http://www.gaiaeducation.net/index.php/en/publications.html
3. On-line Programmes
http://www.gaiaeducation.net/index.php/en/programmes.html
• Gaia Education Design for Sustainability - GEDS (English)
Offered By Gaia Education
• Gaia Education Design for Sustainability - GEDS (Portuguese)
Offered By Gaia Education
• Post- graduate programme- GEDS (Spanish)
Offered By Open University of Catalonia (UOC)
6. Ross Jackson´s Approach
From below:
• GEN: Global Ecovillage Network
• Gaia Education
• Green technologies
• Other: permaculture, etc.
From above:
• Occupy World Street
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7. Occupy Movement
GROUP Growth
Lowest 20% 138%
Next 20% 98%
Next 20% 106%
Next 20% 111%
Highest 20% 99%
US Income Growth 1950-1978
GROUP Growth
Lowest 20% 1%
Next 20% 9%
Next 20% 15%
Next 20% 22%
Highest 20% 75%
Top 1% 200%
Top 0.1% 390%
US Income Growth 1979-2005
17. SOLUTIONS: To Take Back Control, We Need:
• Controls on Capital Flow
• Controls on Imports
• Reforms in WTO
• Exit from EU/WTO?
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18. SOLUTIONS: My Ideal World
• GAIAN LEAGUE
• Sustainability
• Human Rights
• Rest Decentralized
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