Event: The Potomac Institute for Policy Studies’ Center for Environmental Economics and Ethics
Announces Its January Workshop On the “Green Economy”
January 20, 2010
9am-3pm
The Potomac Institute for Policy Studies’ Center for Environmental Economics and Ethics, under the direction of James Tate, Jr., Ph.D., will host a day-long workshop on January 20 entitled “Alternatives to Neoclassical Economics for Business and National Security.” The program will focus on the highly variable concept of “The New Green Economy” by attempting to clarify and expand conventional thinking on the relationships between economy and ecology. Biologists, economists, and systems specialists will discuss their work on sustainability, biological diversity, valuation of non-commodity resources and conventional views on the economy. Discussion among panelists and the audience will be used to clarify ideas and inform participants in preparation for the opening of the National Council for Science and the Environment conference on The New Green Economy in Washington, DC.
Speakers will include Dr. James Tate, Director of the Center for Environmental Economics and Ethics, and Dr. James Giordano, Chair of Academic Programs at the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies. Also on the program: Dr. Brian Czech of Steadystate.org, who will address the relationship between sustainability and biological diversity; R. Warren Flint of Five E’s Unlimited, who will speak on a systems approach to sustainable development; Dr. Richard Margrave of the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies, who will explore the need for fundamental shifts in economic, social, and political systems; and Joan Michelson of J.B. Michelson and Associates, who will address differing points of view on green economy principles.
The program will be held on January 20, 2010, from 9am – 3 pm, at the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies, 901 N. Stuart Street, Suite 200, Arlington, VA. Space is limited, and registration and a workshop fee are required. To register, please go to http://ncseonline.org/conference/greeneconomy/cms.cfm?id=2833.