The second webinar in our series gives a better understanding of how the global economy currently works and the urgency we face to create change, recognizing that the global economic system can be a major obstacle to local change and that there is a need to change the ground rules of global economics if we are ever to create a sustainable society at the local level. Ross Jackson, author of the book “Occupy World Street”, puts forward an alternative international political/economic model to deal with the dilemma facing the world community and a concrete strategy to implement it. This webinar will give information presented in the Gaia Education EDE curriculum, including: • An understanding of how the global economy currently works and the urgency we face to create change. • Ways in which the global economy can be turned towards sustainability, and some of the solutions being proposed by our invited special presenter. Watch the webinar: http://youtu.be/zkQbaGaa1WA

1. Gaia Education
At the Cutting-Edge of Sustainability Education
Shifting the Global Economy
Towards Sustainability
September 30, 2014
Presented by Ross Jackson
rossjackson@gaia.org
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2. Publications: Curriculum & Manuals
EDE Curriculum Gaia Youth Activities Guide Teacher´sManual
Available at Gaia Education Web Page & Kindle Store
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3. On-line Programmes
http://www.gaiaeducation.net/index.php/en/programmes.html
• Gaia Education Design for Sustainability - GEDS (English)
Offered By Gaia Education
• Gaia Education Design for Sustainability - GEDS (Portuguese)
Offered By Gaia Education
• Post- graduate programme- GEDS (Spanish)
Offered By Open University of Catalonia (UOC)

4. Gaia Education Online channels
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https://www.facebook.com/GaiaEducation
https://twitter.com/GaiaEducation
New channels:
http://www.slideshare.net/GaiaEducation
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6. Ross Jackson´s Approach
From below:
• GEN: Global Ecovillage Network
• Gaia Education
• Green technologies
• Other: permaculture, etc.
From above:
• Occupy World Street
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7. Occupy Movement
GROUP Growth
Lowest 20% 138%
Next 20% 98%
Next 20% 106%
Next 20% 111%
Highest 20% 99%
US Income Growth 1950-1978
GROUP Growth
Lowest 20% 1%
Next 20% 9%
Next 20% 15%
Next 20% 22%
Highest 20% 75%
Top 1% 200%
Top 0.1% 390%
US Income Growth 1979-2005

8. Social Costs
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9. Wealth without Health
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10. Environmmental Costs
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11. Economic Costs
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12. What happened in 1980?
• Neoliberal Economics
• Free Flow of Goods
• Free flow of Capital
• Deregulation
• Privatization
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13. Other Consequences
• Unfair Competition
• Attack on Welfare State
• No action on Climate
• Social Unrest
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14. Good News: Bad News
• Paradigm Shift
• The Corporatocracy
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15. CONTEMPORARY WORLD ORDER
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16. SOLUTIONS: Gaian Economics
• Ecology First
• New Institutions
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17. SOLUTIONS: To Take Back Control, We Need:
• Controls on Capital Flow
• Controls on Imports
• Reforms in WTO
• Exit from EU/WTO?
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18. SOLUTIONS: My Ideal World
• GAIAN LEAGUE
• Sustainability
• Human Rights
• Rest Decentralized
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21. SOLUTIONS: Breakaway Strategy
• Leave WTO
• Form ”Gaian League”
• Invite others
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22. SOLUTIONS: Support from Below
• The Cultural Creatives
• ”Why are we not members?”
• Demand a referendum
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23. Gaia Education
At the Cutting-Edge of Sustainability Education
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