- Colin Hines
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Colin Hines explains the Green New Deal with passion.
Colin Hines is a co-director of Finance for the Future, an entity set up to encourage investments in local authority bonds to reduce fossil fuel use. He brought together a group of finance, tax, energy and environmental experts to form the Green New Deal Group. In July 2008 they published a report A Green New Deal: joined up policies to solve the triple crunch of the credit crisis, climate change and high oil prices.
He is an advisor to the Green Member of European Parliament Dr Caroline Lucas, author of the book Localization- A Global Manifesto (Earthscan) and 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.
Before that he was the Co-ordinator of Greenpeace International's Economics Unit having worked for the organisation for 10 years. He has worked in the environmental movement for over 30 years on the issues of population, food, new technology and unemployment, nuclear proliferation. Most recently he has focused on the adverse environmental and social effects of international trade and the need to solve these problems by replacing globalisation with localization.
He helped form Localise West Midlands which is attempting to put localisation into practise on the ground, with particular emphasis on Local Authority bonds as a local funding source.
Localization would ensure that all goods, finance and services that can reasonably be provided locally should be. Depending on the context, the ‘local’ is predominantly defined as part of the nation state, although it can be the nation state itself or occasionally a regional grouping of nation states.
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