Prof. Lawrence Kotlikoff of Boston University has some creative and viable new ideas for reforming our “too big to fail” banks and making our financial sector much safer. We will be reviewing his forthcoming book, JIMMY STEWART IS DEAD, from Wiley Publishers on its launch . Meanwhile our thanks to …
Supreme Court’s Shocker Makes CSR Key Buttress of Democracy
From CSRwire.com Talkback Jan. 25, 2010 Is the Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United v. FEC to treat corporations as “persons” a debacle for democracy — or an opportunity for corporate social responsibility? Hazel Henderson of Ethical Markets has some creative answers. By Hazel Henderson If the worldwide movement for …
P2P Foundation
This new book by my longtime friend Jeremy Rifkin (see him on our TV show on “THE FUTURE OF WORK” at www.EthicalMarkets.tv) is his magnum opus. On getting my review copy of his Empathetic Civilization, we chatted about his concepts of this rising consciousness among humans and compared it with …
The Climate Challenge: 101 Solutions to Global Warming by Guy Dauncey, New Society Publishers, 2009
The Climate Challenge: 101 Solutions to Global Warming by Guy Dauncey, New Society Publishers, 2009 A wonderfully clear guide to simplify the issues of global warming and climate change so that anyone can get involved, doing what they can where they are. Dauncey’s 101 solutions – which people can take …
New Green Transition Scoreboard Finds Over $1 Trillion Invested in Green Since 2007
Click for background research (PDF) Washington, DC – December 4, 2009 – Ethical Markets Media (USA and Brazil) and The Climate Prosperity Alliance today launched their Green Transition Scoreboard™ which tracks private investment in companies growing the green economy globally. This new, never before reported number, showing $1,248,740,645,993.00 (over $1.248 trillion) …
Qualitative Growth
A conceptual framework for finding solutions to our current crisis that are economically sound, ecologically sustainable, and socially just. By Fritjof Capra and Hazel Henderson Click on image for full monograph.
A Walled Garden for Capital
New socially responsible trading networks seek to facilitate long-term profitable investment. by Hazel Henderson When the global financial system broke down in 2008, many people realized for the first time that the credibility of large institutions, no matter how well regarded, could turn out to be flawed. Read more…
Changing the Game of Finance
Invited paper for “The World as We Want It to Be” SRI in the Rockies 20th Anniversary, October 25-28, 2009. By Hazel Henderson © 2009 www.hazelhenderson.com Marking the 20th Anniversary of SRI in the Rockies offers more than an opportunity to review the hard-won progress of investors to prove that …
Appreciating Maurice Strong
Hazel Henderson, August 2009 “Maurice Strong is a unique player on the world stage. His career is also improbable and very inspiring, as he followed his own vision for a better world through thick and thin. I found Maurice a wonderful role model and sometimes I was fortunate that he …
Lecturing Birds on Flying, by Pablo Triana, J Wiley, 2009
Review by Hazel Henderson A deeply unsettling insider account of how bogus mathematics overtook finance and was a key contributor to the financial collapse of 2008-2009 and also the 25% losses Wall Street suffered in the crash of 1987. Pablo Triana, like his fellow iconoclastic options trader Nassim Taleb who …