THE GREEN ECONOMY

As the market is flooded with everything from “Green bags” to environmentally responsible investment funds it becomes clear that capitalism is desperately trying to adapt to the pending social and environmental disasters of global warming and peak oil while still ensuring you consume.

In our second last forum for the year we explore the way in which capitalism is defending itself from environmental collapse and ask if a green capitalist economy is possible?

Speaker: Robyn Eckersley

Robyn Eckersley was educated at the University of Western Australia, Cambridge University (UK) and the University of Tasmania, and taught political science at Monash University from 1992-2001 before joining the University of Melbourne in 2002. Her research interests include global politics, environmental politics and political theory (particularly theories of justice and democracy). She is on the editorial boards of Environmental Politics; Environmental Values; Ethics, Place and Environment; Global Change , Peace & Security; Global Environmental Politics; International Journal of Innovation and Sustainable Development; New Political Economy; Organization and Environment; and Politics and Ethics Review.