Women form half the world's population, but are enormously under represented politically, almost everywhere, and this is one key factor, along with women's education, that needs to change urgently to rectify these hugeimbalances. The book is designed to introduce the reader to the green ideas for change and diversity and inclusion that are sweeping round the world asgreen economics which has gender inclusion and equality at its core. The book explores themes of the costs of women's inequality, unequal pay, education and democracy deficits and also the important movements for change such as the protests and the arab spring - as well as the issues of the changing status quo such as the increasing importance of sovereign wealth funds and power and state capitalism as well as sovereign debt of devastating levels. Women's economic power is, however, gradually increasing and there is now, for the first time, a woman at the head of the International Monetary Fund.
Green Economics and Energy Policy An introduction for the general reader who wants to understand green economics and also the latest thinking about energy in one easy to read volume. Working in the context of post Fukushima (Japan) and Chernobyl(Ukraine) as well as the Institute which created the academic discipline of Green Economics, (UK), this book provides a completely new round up of the current state of innovation in energy policy and life style changes for the success of all of us in the 21st century and our survivability. Introduces the reader to the important and innovative state of the art developments and aspects of both Green Economics and the measures being used to combat climate change and to meet the challenges of an increasing global population whilst at the same time changing life styles, using technology and policy and regulatio
This book presents current thinking and opportunities in Health, care and the very topical subject of Well Being for the individual and for anyone interested in their own health, the health of other people and health improvements in future for the current Age of Green Economics
Growing up in a conservative, middle-class family in Texas, Claire Myers Owens sought adventure and freedom at an early age. At twenty years old, she left home and quickly found a community of like-minded free spirits and intellectuals in New York’s Greenwich Village. There Owens wrote novels and short stories, including the controversial novel The Unpredictable Adventure: A Comedy of Woman’s Independence, which was banned by the New York Public Library for its “risqué” content. Drawn to ideals of selfactualization and creative freedom, Owens became a key figure in the Human Potential Movement along with founder Abraham Maslow and Aldous Huxley, and became an ardent follower of Carl Jung. In her later years, Owens devoted her life to the practice of Zen Buddhism, moving to Rochester, NY, where she joined the Zen Center and studied under Roshi Philip Kapleau. She published her final book, Zen and the Lady, at the age of eighty-three. Friedman’s rediscovery of Owens brings well-deserved attention to her little known yet extraordinary life and passionate spirit. Drawing upon autobiographies, letters, journals, and novels, Friedman chronicles Owens’s robust intellect and her tumultuous private life and, along the way, shows readers what makes her story significant. With very few role models in the early twentieth century, Owens blazed her own path of independence and enlightenment.
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