Sunday December 5: Economic & Technologic Side to Eco-Spirituality with Hazel Henderson and Bill Halal

We will talk with two friends who cover the same turf to reveal the bumps in the road ahead and maps for navigating the big rethink that is underway. Hazel Henderson is a pioneer in ecological, and economic spirituality. She’s been stirring it up for decades, with call to action and to rethink our paradigm. Her book titles clue us in —

When I interviewed Hazel in the 1990’s for my local Seattle station about the forests of Washington state, she posed a question that has stayed with me. “Why is a tree, in a forest, providing habitat, diversity of ecosystems, recreational opportunities,” she asked, “why is it not assigned a monetary value until its cut down and sold? why are we blind to its value as part of a forest?” Or our air and water, which gets to the heart of why our priorities and values are out of balance.

Hazel wrote the foreword to William Halal’s new book, Beyond Knowledge: How Technology Is Driving an Age of Consciousness. He opens with the observation that the noosphere of Teilhard de Chardin — this emerging global consciousness — is already here in the technological sense, citing the statistics. (Not quite what Teilhard was envisioning, back in the 1950’s) William Halal, Professor Emeritus of Management, Technology & Innovation at George Washington University, says “As an aerospace engineer on Apollo, an Air Force officer, a Silicon Valley manager, professor of technology & innovation, and founder of TechCast, I have always been fascinated with the revolutionary power of technology driving us into a high-tech global order. My work is devoted to helping us figure out where this profound transition is heading, what it all means, and how we can get there.”