[Sust-mar] GPI Special Events

[Gwen Colman]

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Thanks so much,
Gwendolyn Colman
Managing Director, GPI Atlantic
gwen at gpiatlantic.org
www.gpiatlantic.org
 
 
GPI Atlantic Special Events

Tues, July 12, 1:30, Panel Discussion, Applying Genuine Progress to Inform
Policy, panelists will be members of government and non-government
organizations who have seen firsthand what changing the measure of progress
can do to create positive change.
Fri, July 15, 1:30, Visioning a Sustainable Economy, community partner
organizations are invited to help create a vision for further training of
researchers, partnering in specific projects to measure progress and inform
policy, and to help create a new paradigm of sustainable economic
development.

Sustainable Economics Intensive

The Genuine Progress Institute, July 6-16, 2011, Halifax
Learn to use the tools that can shape public policy for positive change.
This course provides hands on training in how to count what really matters:
valuing natural capital and social capital; going beyond the GDP to measure
real wellbeing; full cost accounting that counts human contributions as well
as environmental costs; how to work at the community level; proving the case
for environment versus profit - and your own contribution!

The Genuine Progress Institute is the first of an annual series of workshops
on a system of full-cost accounting called the Genuine Progress Index,
delivered by GPI Atlantic and partners. The Genuine Progress Index accounts
for the social and ecological values, benefits, and costs that are ignored
in our conventional GDP-based economic system. The course will look at why
the Genuine Progress Index is necessary, what it looks like, and - most
importantly - how to apply it.
Participants will learn methods for measuring the value of key assets, such
as forests, water resources, unpaid work. They will also learn to measure
the costs of liabilities such as preventable illness, pollution, and
greenhouse gases. This Intensive will give you the tools and skills to
understand and build a sustainable economy.

Course hours are 8:30-4 daily, with Sunday, July 10 as the day off.
GPI Atlantic Studio, 3008 Oxford Street, enter on Cork Street side.
Cost: we have reduced the cost to be $350 for students, including food; $880
for employed people; and we have youth bursaries available for work/study
arrangements.
For more information  or to register, please contact Gwen Colman, Managing
Director, GPI Atlantic, gwen at gpiatlantic.org , Phone: 9902) 823-1944, Cell:
(902) 489-7007  or (902) 489-7117; <http://www.gpiatlantic.org/
<http://www.gpiatlantic.org/> >
 
 

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Gwendolyn Colman
Managing Director, GPI Atlantic
gwen at gpiatlantic.org
www.gpiatlantic.org