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Hazel Henderson interviews Claudine Schneider and Lawrence Bloom. They discuss conflicts of interest of ratings agencies like Standards & Poors and Moody's. Bloom describes his optimism for the future, in regards to halophytes for China, and Paraguay's efforts to become the first energy self-sufficient country in the world. Schneider, despite her Republican association, describes her frustration with her party and the need to make change.
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In this program, Hazel Henderson discusses a range of global challenges and transition management strategies with Frank Dixon (Harvard MBA), former head of global research with social auditing firm Innovest. They consider the ways in which global geopolitics is evolving in response to the systemic changes to our planet's ecosystems due to human activities. Frank Dixon's book, Global System Change, maps these global issues and connects the dots. The...
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In this program, Ethical Markets Media founder Hazel Henderson discusses with award-winning civic leader Thais Corral, co-author of Leadership Is Global, the transitions occurring in her country Brazil. Brazil has all the resources and capital assets it needs to make the transition to sustainability. However, the obsolete fossil-fueled industrial model is still imposed by foreign investors and traditional financial models. Thais Corral points to Brazil's...
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Hazel Henderson interviews Kim Ann Curtin, author of "Transforming Wall Street." They discuss the two greatest icons of Western thought, Adam Smith and Charles Darwin, and how their ideas were distorted and misused by elites in 18th century Britain, and now in global economics and finance. Learn about Smith's "Theory of Moral Sentiments" (1759) which explores human behavior in families and communities as empathetic, caring, and cooperative, as well...
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In this video, Hazel Henderson explains the controversy and problems surrounding mining gems from the earth and her own solution to the issue. By creating a standard for scientifically crafted diamonds called Ethic Mark Gems, Henderson hopes to shift the trend from favoring Earth-mined diamonds for fine jewelry to the crafted gems. Meet author and consultant Frank Dixon, who shares information and perspective with Henderson regarding her goals for...
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Futurist Hazel Henderson and Asian Markets Sustainability Analyst Matthew McGarvey, discuss trends toward new values beyond Western GDP-measured economic growth. McGarvey recounts his personal journey from growing up in America's heartland to learning Chinese and working in Beijing, and his experiences in Vietnam and other Asian countries.
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In this program, Hazel Henderson discusses with Frank Dixon, MBA, author of Global System Change, the massive transition now underway to innovate and build societies powered by renewable energy and resources. All are based on more cooperative sharing models. This transition management is driven by paradigms beyond traditional economics, based on new understanding of human behavior and the integrated science of Earth systems. This new knowledge is...
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In this program, Hazel Henderson and Louis Bohtlingk, author of Dare to Care, discuss the growth of the new sharing economy, including open source volunteerism, crowdfunding, and local currencies. People can overcome the domination of money over their lives by participating in new opportunities for sharing services, exchanging community forms of wealth, and fostering local relationships.
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In this video, futurist Hazel Henderson and Asian Markets Sustainability Analyst Matthew McGarvey review the new challenges that China and other emerging Asian economies pose to Western economies. Western analysts misunderstand the restructuring in China from exports toward domestic goals and shifting from polluting coal to wind, solar and the "circular economy." The new Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIG) led by China has attracted members...
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In this video, watch founder and president of Ethical Markets Hazel Henderson discuss climate change, rising sea levels, greenhouse gas emissions, and more with author and consultant John Englander. Englander is a geologist, an ocean expert, and the author of High Tide on Main Street: Rising Sea Level and the Coming Coastal Crisis. Topics include the geology of varying coastal cities, the Earth's rising temperature, and the disruption of natural ice...
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In this program, Hazel Henderson explores the personal story of award-winning civic leader and Leadership Is Global co-author Thais Corral. Thais and her family came to Brazil from Spain, bringing their entrepreneurial skills and creativity. She studied in Italy and in the U.S. at the University of Chicago and Harvard. She created 400 radio programs broadcasted to empower women across Brazil and became a co-founder of the global Women's Environment...
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In this film Ethical Markets president and Futurist Hazel Henderson interviews University of Florida law professor and former speaker in Florida's House of Representatives Jon L. Mills about his current book, "Privacy in the New Media Age." The Internet, social media, blogs, "citizen-journalists" and global news distribution pose thorny issues in many countries. While the U.S. favors free speech over individual rights to privacy, European countries...
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Linda Crompton and Hazel Henderson review the urgent need to reform curricula at business schools in North America and Europe. Many are still teaching from obsolete textbooks with faulty assumptions that still permit companies, financiers, and governments to "externalize" social and environmental impacts from their balance sheets and pass on the costs to taxpayers, citizens, and the environment.
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In this program, Hazel Henderson and geologist/oceans expert and author of Rising Tide on Main Street John Englander discuss the ways that humans can practice transition management: by mitigating and adapting to rising sea levels. The long-term processes set in motion by rising global temperatures, melting glaciers, and polar ice sheets are altering risk-analyses models in finance, insurance and business. Henderson and Englander consider how investments...
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NASA Chief Scientist Dennis Bushnell and futurist Hazel Henderson explore the advance of automation as more and more sectors of industrial societies are digitized: from manufacturing to retailing, accounting, healthcare, education, legal services, and even finance. They discuss emerging alternatives such as worker-owned companies; cooperative enterprises; and guaranteed basic incomes now enacted in Brazil, Mexico, and proposed in Switzerland, Europe,...
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In this film, Ethical Markets Media President Hazel Henderson interviews Wall Street Coach CEO and "Transforming Wall Street" author Kim Ann Curtin. In her new book, Curtin interviews 50 well-known Wall Street players on their moral challenges in business and finance and what values guide their behavior, asking if they read Adam Smith's "Theory of Moral Sentiments" (1759). Most had not, and these revealing interviews raise key issues of how further...
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In this film, Ethical Markets Media President Hazel Henderson and Flagler College President Dr. William Abare discuss growing challenges to education: costs rising faster than inflation, students bearing 1.2 trillion dollars in loans while facing disruptive technological changes, and job markets shifting globally. How are traditional colleges challenged by massive open online courses (MOOCs) such as Khan Academy and millions of students learning free...
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Futurist Hazel Henderson continues discussing with Professor Jon L. Mills his current book, Privacy in the New Media Age. The conversation focuses on the USA and how the Constitution favors free speech and press in the First Amendment over individual rights to privacy. Mills cites many examples of how individuals are harmed in today's social media, by false statements by bloggers, ubiquitous cameras in public places, tracking individuals' movements...
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NASA Chief Scientist Dennis Bushnell discusses with futurist Hazel Henderson the new alarms raised by Bill Gates, Google's Eric Schmidt, Space-Ex and Tesla's founder Elon Musk and physicist Stephen Hawking that intelligent machines like IBM's Watson may soon outsmart humans. While futurists envisioned "leisure societies," shorter work weeks, guaranteed basic incomes and flowering of culture, art and human potentials - what we got was unemployment,...
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Chair of the Business Administration Department at Flagler College Dr. Allison Roberts and Hazel Henderson explore the values underlying much traditional business education. Most business schools still teach with obsolete textbooks and assumptions that self-interest competition is "human nature" and that the impacts of business activities harming others and their environmental costs can be "externalized" from company balance sheets.