Building the Woman’s World Banking Movement http://www.ethicalmarkets.tv/video-show?v=2021 Description Building the Woman’s World Banking Movement – interview with Michaela Walsh; Ethical Markets Media, 2013. Michaela Walsh is Founding President of Women’s World Bank http://www.swwb.org/. Its mission is to expand the economic assets, participation and power of low-income women and their households by helping …
Hazel Henderson: There is 21st Century Abundance Hiding in 19th Century Scarcity Politics
Terry Waghorn, Contributor I cover the intersection of innovation and sustainability. Follow (10) LEADERSHIP | 3/11/2013 @ 4:12PM |103 views Hazel Henderson: There is 21st Century Abundance Hiding in 19th Century Scarcity Politics Comment Now Follow Comments “We live in a world of abundance,” says Hazel Henderson, D.Sc.Hon., FRSA, president of Ethical …
The Trillion Dollar Coin: Joke or Game-changer?
We agree with lawyer Ellen Brown, president of the Public Banking Institute, in this important article. — Hazel Henderson, Editor The Trillion Dollar Coin: Joke or Game-Changer? By Ellen Brown, author, Web of Debt The trillion dollar coin actually represents one of the most important principles of popular prosperity ever …
RESPONSIBLE INVESTOR , January 15: ESG news from around the web
RI Alert – January 15th, 2013 RI Extra: › Illinois lawsuit says United Airlines runs ‘sham’ to evade tax ? Reuters › Tidal Energy Can Meet 20 Percent Of UK Electricity Needs, Report Says ? Yale Environment 360 › Poll: Europeans overwhelmingly favour renewables over shale gas ? Business Green › UK: FTSE100 …
A Digital Cold War?
The most important result of the World Conference on International Telecom has been to demonstrate that the world now splits into two camps when it comes to the Internet: one is comprised of more authoritarian countries, which would like to turn back the clock and regain sovereignty over their own …
Magazine Lily Cole’s ‘Impossible’ network wants its users to help each other out
Lily Cole’s ‘Impossible’ network wants its users to help each … Wired.co.uk Impossible is in beta and is still self-funded, and its advisers include Wikipedia founder Jimmy Wales and economist Hazel Henderson. “The average Londoner knows just one neighbour,” says model and actress Lily Cole. “I travel a lot and …
Book Review: ‘Why Nations Fail’
This magisterial book is a tour throughout the world and our human history, examining the persistent puzzle of why some countries successfully industrialized and others failed. MIT economist Daron Acemoglu and James A. Robinson, a political scientist and economist at Harvard, go beyond economics and its centuries of hypothesizing about …
KNOWPHEST is honored to host respected ethical economist Hazel Henderson
Hazel has worked for over 40 years to facilitate a shift in our global economic model and raise awareness regarding the way our current greed-based system is hindering rather than helping. She will be not only speaking, but KNOWPHEST is proud to be presenting the Ethic Mark Award for 2012 …
Forbes Interview With Hazel Henderson: Reforming Markets, Metrics and Media
May 8, 2012 By Terry Waghorn Futurist and evolutionary economist Hazel Henderson is president of Ethical Markets Media (USA and Brazil), author of nine books, a syndicated and author of over 200 articles in Harvard Business Review, New York Times and other publications. She has been profiled in Wired …
About Time: the case for shorter working hours
As you read this, the UK is sliding back into recession, unemployment across Europe is at a record high, and uncertainty stalks China and the other rising economies. Politicians call for austerity and little else. But spending cuts are economically illiterate. They wreck weak economies, locking them into a cycle …