Monday, 2 June 2014

Economics @ Transition Exeter: event Thurs 26th June

The economics working group within Transition Exeter will be hosting a session exploring current ideas on sustainability later in the month:

Working for a Fair and Sustainable Economy

Our economic system is unfair, unsustainable, and unstable. How Could it be different? and what bottom-up steps can we take towards those changes?
Thursday 26th June 7:oo for 7:15 pm
Exeter Community Centre
St David's Hill, Exeter EX4 3RG
Working for a Fair and Sustainable Economy
Talk and discussion lead by Gill Westcott, Transition Exeter Economics Group.
ecomomics 
Gill Westcott studied ecomomics at Cambridge and Oxford, editing a magazine critical of orthodox economics; then as a smallholder's wife and mother ran a market veg stall before teaching sustainability in schools. She facilitates workshops, writes and gives talks on economics for Quakers and others. Call 01647 24789 for more information.

Working for a Fair and Sustainable Economy | Transition Exeter

Gill Westcott has hosted other similar meetings:
Alternative Economic Systems | Transition Exeter

... has been part of the Transition Town movement for some time:
www.sitesplus.co.uk/user_docs/880/File/Sustainable and Resilient Rural Communities Conference Report v2.pdf

... is part of the Exeter Community Energy team and convener of the Local Currency working group:

Our Team - ECOE

... and is very active in the Quakers:
Sustainability stories - Exeter LM | Quakers in Britain
www.swquakers.org.uk/sites/default/files/130205 How much is enoughTE.pdf
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