Colin Hines

Colin Hines has worked in the environmental movement for over 30 years on the issues of population, food, new technology and unemployment, nuclear proliferation. He was the Co-ordinator of Greenpeace International’s Economics Unit having worked for the organisation for 10 years. Most recently he has focussed on the adverse environmental and social effects of international trade and the need to solve these problems by emphasising the rebuilding and rediversification of local economies – a process termed localization.

He helped form Localise West Midlands, an NGO which is attempting to put localisation into practise on the ground, with particular emphasis on Local Authority bonds as a local funding source. He is an advisor to the Green Member of European Parliament Dr Caroline Lucas and author of the book Localization- A Global Manifesto (Earthscan). He is an Associate of the International Forum on Globalisation, a San Francisco based alliance of activists, academics and economists committed to challenging the adverse effects of globalisation and free trade and in the process to develop alternatives. His research has covered issues as diverse as the impact of peak oil on British agriculture, real energy security for the UK, trade patterns that can benefit the developing world, the effect of China on Europe’s hi-tech future and the case for pension funds to invest in local authority bonds to reduce fossil fuel use.

Forthcoming and recent courses at Schumacher College

January 26 – February 13, 2009: Embedding Holistic Economics for a Global Community - course details

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