[permaculture-oceania] FW: [Ecovoice] Achieving a sustainable economy - seminar

[Cameron Little]

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Economic Reform Australia
South Australian Division

Public seminar:  
Date:    Sunday, 30 July, 2006
Time:    2.00pm to 4.00pm
Venue:  University of SA, City West Campus (North Terrace, Adelaide)
             Lecture Theatre HH5-05 [Level 5, Hans Heysen Building] 

ACHIEVING A SUSTAINABLE ECONOMY
New economic alternatives to market globalism

The speakers are:

1. Prof Bob Blain  (Southern Illinois University)
    Beyond capitalism: confronting the endless growth paradigm

Bob believes that our growth-dominated economic system has reached a crisis
stage, in no small part due to the accelerating growth of national and
international debt. He spoke eloquently about exponential debt growth in the
U.S. over a 200-year timespan at the recent American Monetary Institute
conference held in Chicago, and is particularly concerned about the serious
social and environmental costs as well as the consequent breakdown in
infrastructure. Bob has also proposed a scheme for defining currency
exchange rates in terms of productivity per hour of work, arguing that this
makes the exchange rate parity fair, objective and visible, simple, free,
and independent of any reference currency.

2. Dr Geoff Davies (A.N.U. researcher and author)
    Growing quality, shrinking quantity: minds, markets, money

Geoff is an academic at the Australian National University in Canberra who
has published a splendid book entitled Economia, which is about new economic
systems to empower people and support the living world. He is concerned
about whether economic globalism has delivered on its promises and asks the
questions (a) If progress is supposed to make our lives easier, why are so
many stressed and dissatisfied? (b) why is so much of the world still
impoverished? and (c) Is humanity destroying its own life-support system?


3. Deirdre Kent (NZ environmental & social activist, and author)
    Healthy money, healthy planet: why we need a new monetary system

Deirdre has always questioned underlying assumptions and beliefs, and has
founded several organisations in New Zealand which advocate new ways of
thinking. One of her passions is to inform people about how the financial
system we have inherited contributes to worldwide environmental and social
degradation, and  promoting monetary literacy to help avert further
degradation. She is a trustee of Living Economies, an organisation set up
for this purpose. Her most recent book, Healthy Money Healthy Planet:
Developing Sustainability through new money systems, discusses how local,
complementary currencies can make a difference.


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Each presentation will span about 30 minutes, and there will be a thirty
minute question and answer session.
Tea and coffee will be provided.  A gold coin donation would be appreciated.

Further information:   Contact John Hermann    Email:
hermann at picknowl.com.au    Tel: (08) 8264 4282




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