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Gaia Education At the Cutting-Edge of Sustainability Education

Shifting the Global Economy Towards Sustainability

September 30, 2014

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Gaia Youth Activities Guide

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On-line Programmes

• Gaia Education Design for Sustainability - GEDS (English)

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• Post- graduate programme- GEDS (Spanish)Offered By Open University of Catalonia (UOC)

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Ross Jackson´s Approach

From below:• GEN: Global Ecovillage Network• Gaia Education• Green technologies• Other: permaculture, etc.From above:• Occupy World Street


Occupy Movement US Income Growth 1950-1978

US Income Growth 1979-2005

GROUP Growth Lowest 20% 138% Next 20% 98% Next 20% 106% Next 20% 111% Highest 20% 99%

GROUP Growth Lowest 20% 1% Next 20% 9% Next 20% 15% Next 20% 22% Highest 20% 75% Top 1% 200% Top 0.1% 390%

Social Costs


Wealth without Health


Environmmental Costs


Economic Costs


What happened in 1980?

• Neoliberal Economics

• Free Flow of Goods

• Free flow of Capital

• Deregulation

• Privatization


Other Consequences

• Unfair Competition

• Attack on Welfare State

• No action on Climate

• Social Unrest


Good News: Bad News

•Paradigm Shift•The Corporatocracy


CONTEMPORARY WORLD ORDER


SOLUTIONS: Gaian Economics

• Ecology First

• New Institutions


SOLUTIONS: To Take Back Control, We Need:

• Controls on Capital Flow• Controls on Imports• Reforms in WTO• Exit from EU/WTO?


SOLUTIONS: My Ideal World

• GAIAN LEAGUE• Sustainability• Human Rights• Rest Decentralized


SOLUTIONS: Breakaway Strategy

• Leave WTO

• Form ”Gaian League”

• Invite others


SOLUTIONS: Support from Below

• The Cultural Creatives• ”Why are we not members?”

• Demand a referendum


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