By Hazel Henderson for American Sustainable Business Council, asbcouncil.org, January 20, 2016 Robert Pollin, author of Greening the Global Economy and Joseph Romm of the Center for American Progress, author of Climate Change: What Everyone Needs to Know, are both influential in the USA but little known to global audiences. …
The Real Meaning of Growth in a Sustainable World. Interview to Hazel Henderson
“This is a time for action,” writes Peter Drucker in Knowledge Society. And “active” seems the right word to define the life of Hazel Henderson who, from starting the civic movement Citizens for Clean Air to tackle air pollution in New York City, developed into a futurist, sustainable development consultant …
Opinion: NGOs Still Leading the Global Debate on Climate
Hazel Henderson, president of Ethical Markets Media (USA and Brazil) and author of Mapping the Global Transition to the Solar Age and other books. ST. AUGUSTINE, Florida, Dec 2 2015 (IPS) – Civil society organizations, known as NGOs, have for decades used their non-government status to prod officials, politicians and …
Review Of 3 Books: Can The World Be Wrong?, Superforecasting, And Patterns Of Commoning
Summary Review of Can the World Be Wrong? by Doug Miller, dealing with global polling beyond politics as usual. Review relating Superforecasting by Philip Tetlock and Dan Gardner to polling work by Miller. Review relating Patterns of Commoning edited by David Bollier and Silke Helfrich to the commons gathering wisdom …
RISKS! WHAT RISKS?
By Hazel Henderson © 2015, originally posted by Inter Press Service, Nov. 17, 2015 We humans are acutely aware of risks. From our earliest times, the risks we faced were from hunger, predatory animals, extreme environmental conditions, and as our numbers grew, from other human tribes. Fast forward to our …
Applied Research Qualify of Life journal features Hazel Henderson as pioneer
The article Hazel Henderson: A Pioneer in Social Indicators and Quality of Life Research has now been published in Applied Research in Quality of Life: Volume 10, Issue 4 (2015), Page 761-763. DOI 10.1007/s11482-015-9421-z. The article profiles Hazel Henderson’s work in defining quality of life issues. For link to article, …
OPINION: Time to Reform the Global Casino
ST. AUGUSTINE, Florida, Oct 20 2015 (IPS) – The year 2015 highlights the global shift from traditional money-based, gross domestic product (GDP)-measured economic growth to the new models of sustainable, inclusive human development embodied in the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) ratified by its 193 member nations. This historic …
Facing Up to Inequality
My broader look at Facing Up to Inequality on a global level explored the erosion of jobs due to automation, the part-timing of the workforce in the “shareconomy” via Uber, TaskRabbit and the reemergence of guaranteed minimum incomes first advocated in the 1960s by Milton Friedman as a “negative income …
WALL STREET JITTERS DRIVING SMALL INVESTORS TOWARD HOMEGROWN PROSPERITY
By Hazel Henderson © 2015, originally published at Justmeans in Finance and SRI, Wednesday, September 9, 2015 – 9:30am – See more at:Wall St. jitters driving small investors toward homegrown prosperity The wild swings on Wall Street and other now interconnected bourses in today’s global casino have seen billions withdrawn …
WALL ST JITTERS DRIVING SMALL INVESTORS TOWARD HOMEGROWN PROSPERITY
The wild swings on wall street and other now interconnected bourses in today’s global casino have seen billions withdrawn by small investors. Their instincts are correct. Today’s markets are becoming too erratic and volatile for investors – driven by frantic speed trading and speculators. The usual bromides from market pundits …