Brno: Week 1 Course Outline


Date/time/place

Theme and content

Activities

Thursday 22^nd Oct.

6pm-7.30, P21

Introduction

Personal and to the course

Adjective

Interest

Reason for signing up

Session 1

Friday 23^rd October

10-11.30am, U32

What is Green Economics?

Basic concepts and provenance

What is your vision of a green economy?

Session 2

Monday 26^th October

2-3.30pm, AVC

Widening the Circle

Women and the core economy; minority vs. majority world

Parliament of all beings:

Nuclear power station

Climate change treaty

Session 3

Tuesday 27^th Oct.

4-5.30pm, P24

Energy

Why do we worry so much about money, when energy is the scarce resource?

Energy mapping our lives: putting energy tags rather than money tags on our consumption. Three
categories: high, medium and low

Session 4

Thursday 29^th Oct.

8-9.30am, P22

Money: The politics of money – how it is created and who controls it

Homework: research land history

Session 5

Thursday 29^th Oct.

6-7.30pm, P21

Land as Commonwealth: CLTs and CSA

What changes have there been in land ownership and use in Brno and the surrounding region?

Session 6

Friday 30^th October

10-11.30am, U32

Food Security

The economy of food

Which resources are most critical? What can you provision locally and what do you need to import?
In groups of three with perpsectives of: consumer, local producer, global producer/distributor