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OTTAWA, January 19, 2011  —  Sustainable Prosperity, in collaboration with the University of Ottawa, invites you to a debate with four of the world’s top economics experts. CBC Radio One’s Paul Kennedy, host of Ideas, will moderate the live debate, entitled Green Growth or No Growth: Charting a Sustainable Economic Future, at the University of Ottawa.

Can the Earth support an ever-growing economy? Can we shift to “green growth”, for a healthier environment and economy? If so, how?

WHAT: International panel of experts to debate green growth or no growth

WHEN: Thursday, January 20, 2011, 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.

WHERE: University of Ottawa, Desmarais Building, room 12102 (55 Laurier Avenue East, Ottawa)

***Media interested in attending the conference can register by contacting Sarah Van Stiphout at sarah@sustainableprosperity.ca***

Participants include four globally prominent economics experts:

• Tim Jackson, author of Prosperity Without Growth: Economics for a Finite Planet, and economics commissioner with the UK Sustainable Development Commission

• Peter Victor, author of Managing Without Growth: Slower By Design, Not Disaster, and economics professor at York University

• Richard Lipsey, one of Canada's pre-eminent economists and author of Economic Transformations: General Purpose Technologies and Long Term Economic Growth (winner of the 2006 Schumpeter Prize)

• Paul Ekins, author of Economic Growth and Environmental Sustainability: The Prospects for Green Growth and chair of the UK Green Fiscal Commission

The debate will be broadcast on February 2, 2011 on CBC Radio One’s Ideas.