Green Economics Institute Team Building Weekend at Crowne Plaza, Reading

This weekend event is for everyone who has been active recently at the Green Economics Institute and who will be active in 2024 and beyond. It is by invitation only.

It is in person with two sessions over a weekend- one on the Saturday 27th and one on the Sunday 28th January 2024.

We will plan our activities for 2024 together and our campaigns and where to put the Institutes resources and efforts.

Come and discuss and have your say - this is the third time we have run this event there with a strong social and team building element. It was great fun last time and everyone enjoyed -dont miss it !

Please click on the tickets so we get an idea of numbers.

We are unable to pay any costs except the meeting room hire and ask that anyone with the resources to do so please help towards the costs. We are asking for donations of say £25.00 from each attendee towards the cost of the room. It is also a pre condition that everyone who comes is a fully paid up member of the Green Economics Institute for 2024 before they come.

We will issue a session plan in consultation with you all in the next couple of weeks but please send in your suggestions for what we need to discuss.

Some ideas include:

Session 1: Introductory Session:

• Introductory presentation and round up of what we have achieved and activities in the last few years.
• SWOT Analysis
• Media Presence Metrics

Session 2: Looking Back on 2020-2023

• The contribution we made to widening the scope of economics generally, the contribution we made to promoting other voices to be heard.
• Looking back on 2023- what happened- to social, environmental and economic justice, human health and the health of planet- what are the vital signs?How did we do?
• Looking back on 20 years of the Green Economics Institute- what has been our role?
• What should be our role going forward another 20 years to 2043.
• How will the world look?

Session 3: Philosophically what has the contribution been?

• What would we like it to be in the years to come?
• Examining our new research initiatives?
• Looking back on our academic journal and articles founding the Green Economics Discipline or School and its situation -what adjustments do we want to make and what placing now would be use for it today?

Session 4: Partnering with other organisations.

• What partner initiatives would we like to begin?
• What additional international regimes such as the United Nations would we like to initiate?
• What events would we like to attend and participate in run by other organisations?

Session 5: Looking Forward in 2024 -social, environmental and economics justice in 2024 -what does it mean?

• Our events in 2024- 20th Anniversary Conference at the University of Oxford in June 2024
• Big data, AI and Media transparency and democracy -threat or opportunity?
• Climate change, geopolitical instability, biodiversity loss- we are in the future now- what needs to be done in 2024. ?
• Diversity, indigenous people, gender, older people, younger people, migration etc
• Planning for COP29 in Azerbajan and our other United Nations Delegations
• Planning for COP30 in the Amazon in 2025. www.geiclimate.org
• Our publications, research, magazines, books, journals, websites,TV station, projects for 2024 and beyond. www.geibooks.org.uk
• Our educational offerings -internships, courses, fellowships, examinations, qualifications, summer schools-How can we realise our ambitions to integrate these more fully to support our work? www.greeneconomicsinstituteeducation.org and geiacademy.org
• GEIMedia. We are regularly getting up to 6 tv station interviews for our events including recently the front page of Bloomberg Media, TV India, TV France,and appear regularly on the United Nations official streaming and TV stations as well as our own GEITV station vimeo channel and many others. Should we start to manage the media images and interviews more proactively again? What should be the most important aspects of our features and content of our own new media offering? https://greeneconomicsinstitute.org.uk/media-green-economics-institute/

Lots more -campaigns and activities- for 2024 -please come and find out more.

Presentations

If you would like to do an optional presentation on any of the above please email [email protected] with your suggestion as soon as possible. However this is only if you feel you would like to.

Dinner Socials

As Saturday night is Burns Night in the UK on the Saturday night -we hope to take participants our to celebrate in a traditional way in the evening at the local pub -The GreyHound- an 11th century typical public house.https://www.greyhoundtidmarsh.co.uk

We will finish with our traditional curry dinner at River Spice on the Sunday early evening. https://riverspicereading.co.uk/

Please choose the evening ticket options in principle here on eventbrite so can guage how many people will want dinner on each night and then we will write to you with advise on costs and choices offered etc.

Reserving your place for the weekend event

The weekend event must be pre booked. So please click on the eventbrite link to register your participation so we can guage numbers coming. Please ensure you have paid your 2024 geimembership.org subscription -link here https://geimembership.org/product/green-economics-institute-membership-2024/

Contribute to sharing the meeting room cost for the weekend if you can

If you can please donate to the cost of the meeting room for the weekend on the link here. Suggested donation is £25.00 per person where possible. january-gei-team-building-weekend-2024/

Accommodation

May be available in Reading and once you have booked we can advise what is available locally. There are mainy hotels in Reading town centre near where the event is taking place. The best hotels to consider are:

The Crowne Plaza- where the event is taking place is easily the nicest location, best views over the river- big windows,lots of light, wildlife- birds swans to look at, most convenient but its prices vary enormously- so check what prices there are when you book.

The Easy Hotel Reading is much cheaper and very very near the hotel where the venue is taking place.

The Premier Inn Central next to the Oracle. Can we cheaper- is a 20 minute walk from the venue.

The Malmaison -Up market town centre hotel, expensive but fairly convenient opposite the central station

The Reading Penta Hotel- very central location- convenient large town centre hotel. Can be nice.

The Hilton -not brilliantly convenient but standard fare and expensive

Various Holiday Inns- not very near- good quality.

FYI . Please be careful with the website- booking.com as several people have had recent bad experiences with their booking system. Try to book directly with these hotels.

Please email us for more information and other suggestions.

Photography.

The photos below are from a variety of photographers and team members. Photos of the plenaries at the United Nations are courtesy of Aissiatou Ba Linarz one of our team members based in Bonn. We are also grateful to other team members including Liu Yang, Dr Vinitae Apte,

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