The Story of Bottled Water – provided by the Story of Stuff Project; Annie Leonard makes the obvious connection between water and manufactured demand, explaining how manufacturers get us to buy more than half a billion bottles of water every week when we can get it almost free from just-as-good (often better) tap!
In this program Hazel Henderson explores with Dr. Monica Sharma, author of Radical Transformational Leadership (2018). How the worship of money and the fetishism of measuring national progress by GDP-growth can be clarified. Now that 195 nations have agreed on the new scorecard, the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) progress can be tracked more holistically with these 17 goals covering all aspects of human development. Dr. Sharma became a leader in many United Nations health initiatives and her leadership style can inspire and empower many others.
The Opportunity Wthin the Economic Crisis provided by TheSoulofMoney.info; Lynne Twist, founder and president of the Soul of Money Institute, offers a positive view on the economic challenges ahead.
The Possible Society – Hazel Henderson and Dr. Jean Houston discuss evolutionary scenarios for humanity: how our minds are expanding and new awareness opens up new possibilities for our future.
Sweden Moving Toward Sustainability — provided by UNDESADSD; The Minister for the Environment speaks of the thematic issues in the eighteenth session of the Commission for Sustainable Development (CSD-18). He shares examples of what can be done to tackle Sustainable Transport, Waste Management, Sustainable Consumption and Production Patterns (SCP) amongst other topics: Green cars, greening taxation, sustainable cities, and keeping 95% of its Waste out of Landfills
“Your Money Or Your Life”
with author Vicki Robin
In this program Hazel Henderson discusses with author Vicki Robin how the financial markets have changed since her book “Your Money or Your Life”, originally co-authored with Joe Dominguez, was first published in 1993. This perennial best-seller was updated again by Vicki Robin in 2018 and found a new audience of half a million millennial followers. Vicki describes how investing has changed to focus more locally and personal growth an achievements. Vick’s new fame includes interviews in the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times and the cover of Money Magazine.
Technology: Servant or Master? with Dee Hock and Oscar Motomura, from the series Rethinking Globalization with Hazel Henderson, provided by Ethical Markets Media and Florida Community College at Jacksonville.
Ben Bingham, 3 Sisters Sustainable Management, LLC
Downsizing and reforming global capital markets with pioneer asset manager Benjamin Bingham on financial transactions tax to curb excessive speculation and high-frequency trading, closing tax havens, raising capital reserves, breaking up too-big-to-fail banks and more. “Transforming Finance 2.0” – an Ethical Markets Media, LLC, production © 2012
The Turning Point – Dr. Fritjo Capra discusses with Hazel Henderson how worldviews in science are changing from mechanistic models toward more holistic, ecological models and how these shifts in perspective are changing business practices.
Geothermal Energy in Iceland — provided by Schreinervideo.com; The most inventive, progressive and eco-friendly energy system in the world is the cornerstone of a national consciousness that is a blueprint for the world’s future.
“Blessing the Hands That Feed Us”
with author Vicki Robin
In this program Hazel Henderson discusses with author Vicki Robin the unsustainable global food system and reforms needed, described in her book “Blessing the Hands That Feed Us”. Vicki describes how locally-grown organic foods are a growing segment worldwide and offer better nutrition as well as more secure livelihoods for farmers. Opportunities are discussed on all the ways our unsustainable global agro-chemical industrial complex with its narrow mono-culture crops in global trade are feeding perilously on the planet’s 3% of freshwater. Meanwhile all the hundreds of salt tolerant food plants that grow in 22 countries on desert lands can be added, along with many other overlooked native plants, as well as all the startups in plant-protein foods offering better nutrition for the growing vegetarian consumer markets.
Katherine Collins, Honeybee Capital
Holding stock-markets to higher ethical standards, regulation and oversight for accountability. Why successful asset manager Katherine Collins sought a more ethically satisfying life beyond Wall Street after her degree at Harvard Divinity School. “Transforming Finance 2.0” – an Ethical Markets Media, LLC, production © 2012
Restructuring the Global Economy – Hazel Henderson, Dr. Lester Thurow, Dr. Sidney Dell and Dr. Howard Perlmutter engage in a fast-paced discussion of what went wrong with economic recipes for development and of ways to change course toward a more sustainable global economy.
Stoneyfield Farm provided by the Trusteeship Institute; Gary Hirshberg, founder of Stonyfield Farm, bought by Danone, talks about Selling Without Selling Out.
In this program Hazel Henderson discusses with Paul Ellis, veteran financial adviser and consultant, how his practice evolved into broader concerns for our common future. Paul had discovered the Calvert-Henderson Quality of Life Indicators (2000) which Hazel and the Calvert group developed. Later, in 2015 Paul found the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Paul and Hazel had never meet until this show. They discuss how their mutual goals became aligned in their respective efforts to reform mainstream finance and its narrow focus on obsolete economics and short-term profits. Now both work in a new partnership to promote the SDGs!
The Future of Enterprise – Hazel Henderson and her guests John Naisbitt and Sven Atterhed discuss new forms of business and enterprise and how companies can release the creativity of their employees.
Seeing the World Whole with Dee Hock and Oscar Motomura, from the series Rethinking Globalization with Hazel Henderson, provided by Ethical Markets Media and Florida Community College at Jacksonville.
Susan Davis, Capital Missions Company
Legendary banker Susan Davis describes her winning philosophy, KINS, based on strategies of generosity, win-win deals, connecting investors around conscious capitalism and growing fairer, greener economies worldwide as described in her autobiography, The Trojan Horse of Love. “Transforming Finance 2.0” – an Ethical Markets Media, LLC, production © 2012
In this program, Hazel Henderson and Paul Ellis discuss their respective and complementary work in reforming mainstream finance and economic textbooks. They share how these obsolete models and metrics had been steering societies toward greater environmental despoliation and unanticipated social problems.
Money-based Gross Domestic Product (GDP) was never intended to be a measure of human progress, while over averaged macroeconomic indicators of inflation, unemployment, savings, etc. were like flying over a country at 50,000 feet! Both Hazel and Paul rejoiced in 2015 when 195 member countries of the United Nations launched their Sustainable Development goals (SDGs). At last, these 17 Goals, ratified by all sectors, systemically based in metrics of empirical sciences, can now steer the world’s countries away from the cliff edge toward knowledge-richer, inclusive sustainable societies for our common human future.
Post Industrial Futures – Hazel Henderson discusses with James Robertson and Dr. Marvin Harris how best to deal with automation, job losses, changing workplaces and technologies.
Amy Domini, Domini Social Investments
Industry icon Amy Domini, author of the landmark book Socially Responsible Investing, Making a Difference and Making Money. Amy created the Domini Social 400 Index which regularly outperforms conventional benchmarks and founded Domini Social Investments. “Transforming Finance 2.0” – an Ethical Markets Media, LLC, production © 2012
Ben & Jerry’s provided by the Trusteeship Institute; Pierre Ferrari, chair of Ben & Jerry’s, bought by Unilever, talks about Selling Without Selling Out.
Future Politics/Anticipatory Democracy – Hazel Henderson and Alvin Toffler discuss the need for greater citizen participation in US politics and ways that citizens can empower themselves.
Icelanders using the F word — provided by RUV; UMKC in Iceland: interview with Professor William Black discussing the commission report detailing endemic control fraud at Iceland’s Big 3 banks (only the first minute is in Icelandic).
Introducing Phaedra Ellis-Lamkins provided by Green for All; Phaedra comes to Green For All from San Jose, California, where she was the head of the South Bay AFL-CIO Labor Council and Working Partnerships USA. She helped to expand health care access in San Jose and across California. She also helped to raise the minimum wage for low-income families in the South Bay – twice.
Alisa Gravitz, President, Green America
Alisa Gravitz took her Harvard MBA into uncharted waters in co-founding Green America and the National Green Pages. Her latest innovation is CREW, a business-to-business barter site. “Transforming Finance 2.0” – an Ethical Markets Media, LLC, production © 2012
Shaping 21st Century Organizations with Oscar Motomura, CEO of Amana-Key taking questions from Jacksonville community leaders, from the series Rethinking Globalization with Hazel Henderson, provided by Ethical Markets Media and Florida Community College at Jacksonville.
What is Money? —provided by the EF Schumacher Society; Susan Witt, executive director of the EF Schumacher Society and founder of BerkShares, talks about the nature of money.
Leland Lehrman, Fund Balance, LLC
Leland Lerhman, principal, Fund Balance, is an investor with deep ecological understanding and visionary proposals for correcting the failing financial models. These derived from obsolete economics now harming both humans and our planet. Leland and Hazel are both advisors to the Public Banking Institute founded by lawyer Ellen Brown, author of The Web of Debt. “Transforming Finance 2.0” – an Ethical Markets Media, LLC, production © 2012
Organizational Change with Dee Hock taking questions from Jacksonville community leaders, from the series Rethinking Globalization with Hazel Henderson, provided by Ethical Markets Media and Florida Community College at Jacksonville.
Christopher Lindstrom, Slow Money
Christopher Lindstrom and Hazel discuss their longtime, often shared efforts to reform the money-creation process. They both promote the many local, complementary currencies now in circulation in hundreds of cities around the world. Chris was a key actor in launching “Berkshares,” the successful currency of the Schumacher Society developed by Susan Witt in Great Barrington, Massachusetts. “Transforming Finance 2.0” – an Ethical Markets Media, LLC, production © 2012
Terry Mollner, Trusteeship Institute, Inc.
Terry Mollner, a leader in co-founding the Calvert Group of socially responsible mutual funds also spent time in India following the exemplary life of Mahatma Gandhi. He also serves on the board of Ben and Jerry’s Ice Cream, now owned by Unilever. Terry got this giant multinational to sign a path breaking agreement to preserve Ben and Jerry’s social mission. Terry and Hazel agree that the next stage of finance is full recognition of the primacy of the global commons and hence placing the common good above all else if we are to preserve our common future. “Transforming Finance 2.0” – an Ethical Markets Media, LLC, production © 2012
Global Corporations and Global Citizenship with Dee Hock and Oscar Motomura, from the series Rethinking Globalization with Hazel Henderson, provided by Ethical Markets Media and Florida Community College at Jacksonville.
Homero Santos provided by Mercado Ético; Christina Carvalho Pinto, president of Mercado Ético, interviews Homero Santos, professor and consultant.
Sarah Stranahan, New Economy Network
Longtime community-development specialist, housing expert and investor Sarah Stranahan tells Hazel how the struggling US housing market can be revived by adopting viable policies pioneered during the New Deal. Millions of homeowners were saved from foreclosure then, and the US Treasury can do the same by following these policies and revitalizing Fannie and Freddie – owned by US taxpayers already! “Transforming Finance 2.0” – an Ethical Markets Media, LLC, production © 2012
Developing New Scorecards of Progress with Dee Hock and Oscar Motomura, from the series Rethinking Globalization with Hazel Henderson, provided by Ethical Markets Media and Florida Community College at Jacksonville.
World Trade & Finance with Dee Hock and Oscar Motomura, from the series Rethinking Globalization with Hazel Henderson, provided by Ethical Markets Media and Florida Community College at Jacksonville.
Nassim Taleb on May 6 Wall Street Selloff—provided by Bloomberg; Nassim Taleb, NYU professor and author of “The Black Swan” talks with Bloomberg about the May 6 stock market selloff and the drivers for the financial crisis, the U.S. economy and the performance of Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke.
The Link Between Human Rights and Responsibilities with Dr. Don Beck, from the series Rethinking Globalization with Hazel Henderson, provided by Ethical Markets Media and Florida Community College at Jacksonville.
Anne Louette provided by Mercado Ético; Christina Carvalho Pinto, president of Mercado Ético, interviews Anne Louette, author of the Sustainability Compendium.
2012: The Day After part 1 — provided by M-CAM; Professor David Martin explains what evolving markets will look like in a world that is not bound by scarcity.
Tim Nash – provided by the Lang & O’Leary Exchange; Timothy Jack Nash, president of Strategic Sustainable Investments and sustainability research coordinator of Ethical Markets Media, discusses the growing investments in the green economy, including the Green Transition Scoreboard.
Oscar Motomura provided by Mercado Ético; Christina Carvalho Pinto, president of Mercado Ético, interviews Oscar Motomura, president and CEO of Amana-Key.
2012: The Day After part 2 — provided by M-CAM; Professor David Martin explains what evolving markets will look like in a world that is not bound by scarcity.
Rethinking Globalization with Dr. Don Beck, from the series Rethinking Globalization with Hazel Henderson, provided by Ethical Markets Media and Florida Community College at Jacksonville.
Money & Life — provided by StormCloud Media; In this trailer, director Katie Teague introduces some of the many thoughtful voices calling for a change in our relationship to money. Movie release expected Fall 2011. For more information visit http://www.moneyandlifemovie.com/.
Analysis of Adam Smith Economics to modern day part 1 – provided by M-CAM; Professor David Martin of M-CAM and the University of Virginia’s Darden Graduate School of Business Administration.
Shaping a More Peaceful and Prosperous & Secure Future with Dr. Don Beck, from the series Rethinking Globalization with Hazel Henderson, provided by Ethical Markets Media and Florida Community College at Jacksonville.
Coming Home: E.F. Schumacher and the Reinvention of the Local Economy” provided by Chris Bedford Films and the Schumacher Society; Sincere appreciation goes to Chris Bedford who made this film as a labor of love, telling the story of rebuilding a local economy using strategies from community land trusts to the nation’s most successful local currency – Berkshares. Copies of the film can be obtained at www.localharvest.org.
Mari Kuraishi – GlobalGiving Foundation – provides a platform for social entreprenuers to share resources.
Analysis of Adam Smith Economics to modern day part 2 – provided by M-CAM; Professor David Martin of M-CAM and the University of Virginia’s Darden Graduate School of Business Administration moves on to discuss other economic theories, such as Keynesian, applied to the 21st century.
Hayek vs. Keynes Rap Anthem — provided by Econstories.tv; Editor’s note: This appears to be the argument going on within economics but both are wrong in ignoring that the economy is embedded in and empowered by our planetary ecosystem. – – Hazel Henderson
Ricardo Young provided by Mercado Ético; Christina Carvalho Pinto, president of Mercado Ético, interviews Ricardo Young, president of the Instituto Ethos.
Should Government Take Over BP Oil Cleanup? — provided by Bloomberg; Matt Simmons, founder and chairman emeritus of Simmons & Co. (investment banking serving the energy industry), talks with Bloomberg about BP leaking oil well in the Gulf of Mexico, offering a controversial suggestion.
Caroline Casey – Ireland – The Aisling Foundation – promotes positive image of disablity. “You don’t need eyes to have a vision!”
Rodrigo Loures provided by Mercado Ético; Christina Carvalho Pinto, president of Mercado Ético, interviews Rodrigo Loures, president of FIEP.
Hazel Henderson — provided by Pavlov e-Lab, www.pavlov.nl; video profile of the president and founder of Ethical Markets Media by Nathalie Beekman, artistic director at Pavlov e-Lab, The Netherlands
Money As Debt III — provided by Paul Grignon; preview for “Evolution Beyond Money”, a video which illustrates in extensive and entertaining detail how a fundamental change in our long-held concept of money, paired with recent breakthroughs in technology, opens the door to a liberated, self-balancing global “money” backed by Real Value and Open to All.
Ladislau Dowbor provided by Mercado Ético; Christina Carvalho Pinto, president of Mercado Ético, interviews Ladislau Dowbor, professor of economics, Catholic University of Sao Paulo PUC.
Roundtable on Sustainable Development – provided by TheRealNews.com; At the Bretton Woods, INET conference, hundreds of economists gathered to come up with new economic thinking, trying to find a way out of the economic crisis while asking just how much growth can the planet sustain? Speakers include John Fullerton, founder and president of Capital Institute, a think tank working on these questions; William Rees, professor and ecologist at the University of British Columbia; Peter Brown, professor at the School of Environment at McGill University, and Juliette Shor, economist and sociologist at Boston College.
Ethical Markets: The Non-money Economy – Over 50% of all production of goods and services in all countries is ignored because it is unpaid. A look at this “love economy” – raising children, caring for families, the elderly and sick, volunteering – is estimated at over $16 trillion worldwide missing from global GNP. (~ 27 minutes)
Regulating derivatives could lower price of food — provided by the TheRealNews.com; Robert Pollin, Professor of Economics at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst, describes how unregulated speculation in food and oil are major factors in creating food and energy price bubbles.
Mathias Craig – blueEnergy – provides low-cost, sustainable energy to marginalized communities through the construction of wind turbines and installation (and maintenance!) of hybrid wind and solar electric systems.
Richard Trumka on worker and voter rights — provided by The Natonal Press Club; Richard Trumka, president of the AFL-CIO, addressed the National Press Club on May 20, 2011, on recent efforts to curb collective bargaining rights in several states, including Wisconsin and Ohio, the political outlook for the 2012 elections, and the impact of austerity budgets on local, state and federal workers. Presentation begins around 6 min mark.
Built Totally Green — provided by BuiltTotallyGreen.com; Preview of a compelling and educational documentary of Tragedy to Triumph. After Tropical Storm Fay destroyed Steve Sadler and Michaela Miller’s home in 2008, they chose to rebuild a sustainable, ruthlessly energy efficient and environmentally responsible home.
23 Things They Don’t Tell You About Capitalism — provided by TheRealNews.com; The front cover ofNewsweek said we’re all socialists now. So what about the future of the capitalist system? Are we facing another major depression? Are we facing a global meltdown? And is there a more rational way to have a capitalist system? TRNN talks about all of this with Ha-Joon Chang. He’s the author of the book 23 Things They Don’t Tell You About Capitalism and on the Faculty of Economics of Cambridge University. See the entire series on all 23 points on TRNN.
Cap-and-trade won’t cut it provided by The Real News Network; With Obama support, the House Energy and Commerce Committee plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in the US calls for the creation of a cap-and-trade market. James Handley from the Carbon Tax Center believes that cap-and-trade is a flawed system made worse by way of concessions to energy companies, big coal in particular. According to Handley, the bill is unlikely to achieve needed emission cuts, likely to create serious financial instability, and incapable of protecting the most vulnerable from its intended hike in energy prices.
Power Kick for Africa — provided by www.worldfuturecouncil.org; The WFC and cooperation partner Energiebau Sunergy Ghana Ltd. installed modern solar panels to power the Oboadaka village community hospital with a permanent and reliable electricity supply, medication cooling and modern communication facilities. As a bonus — football enthusiasts in the small non-electrified bush village watched Ghana’s soccer team in the World Cup!
Ayeleen Ajanee – Pakistan – Acumen Fund Fellow – working with woman enterprenuers who make less than $4 per day.
Frederick Hayek speaks — provided by RealEconTV.com; What if the fundamental theory that guides government
action on the economy were fatally flawed? Frederich Hayek recounts his last conversation with
John Maynard Keynes. Hayek asked Keynes whether he wasn’t alarmed that the real problem was inflation. Keynes completely agreed, assuring Hayek that Hayek’s theory was “frightfully important in combatting deflation.” Keynes added that “if inflation ever becomes a danger, I’m going to turn public opinion around like this.” Six weeks later Keynes was dead and couldn’t do it.
Cap-and-trade won’t cut it, pt. 2 provided by The Real News Network; The Waxman-Markey bill, the Democratic Party’s climate change legislation, promises to reduce US emissions by 17% by 2020, and 83% by 2050. These numbers however, do not account for a practice known as carbon offsetting. Payal Parekh from International Rivers believes that the practice is counterproductive at best, serving to delay necessary energy generation changes, or dangerous at worst, putting communities at risk from megaprojects. Furthermore, offsets are unknown as a financial entity, and have already shown themselves in Europe to be candidates for financial speculation.
The Story of Cosmetics – provided by the Story of Stuff Project; Annie Leonard explains “toxics in – toxics out” in all the untested cosmetic products we use daily. Released in conjunction with the introduction of the Safe Cosmetics Act in the US Congress, the video raises the debate about toxic chemicals in the shampoos, deodorants and lotions we rub on our bodies every day.
Women and Transformational Leadership provided by Ethical Markets Media; Hazel Henderson speaks to the Sophia Alliance – Women Uniting for Humanity Retreat sponsored by the Omega Institute, May 2009.
Traci Fenton of WorldBlu — provided by TED.com; In the talk “Democratic Workplaces,” Traci shares the story of why she founded WorldBlu in 1997, what organizational democracy and freedom in the workplace means, and the “power question” every organization must ask if it is going to survive in this new, Democratic Age.
Building the Woman’s World Banking Movement – interview with Michaela Walsh; Ethical Markets Transforming Finance Series 2013. Michaela Walsh is Founding President of Women’s World Bank http://www.swwb.org/, expanding economic assets, participation and power of low-income women and their households by helping them access financial services, knowledge and markets. She discusses transforming finance through women’s banking with Hazel Henderson.
“What Would the Founding Fathers Do? — provided by FairElectionsNow.org; In 1776 the Founding Fathers threw off the yoke of British tyranny. Now they’re back to throw off the yoke of British Petroleum — and the other peddlers of influence who have befouled our fair democracy by pushing Congress to pass the Fair Elections Now Act. Learn more at FairElectionsNow.org.
Do Not Frack New York — provided by DoNotGasNY.org — “Clean Natural” Gas is neither. Gas extraction, made possible by hydraulic fracturing (“fracking”) is as environmentally hazardous as Deep Sea Drilling, Mountain Top Removal, and Dirty Tar Sands Oil in the pantheon of insane ways to produce energy. There needs to be a drilling “time out” where drilling doesn’t occur unless and until it can be done safely with strong rules and enforcement.
FLOW — presentation to the UN and trailer for the award-winning documentary on the looming water crisis and the Right to Water, proposed Article 31 to the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
Common good banks™ are a democratic, community-based system that puts people and planet first by having depositors decide where in the community to invest profits while offering micro-loans, FDIC-secured banking and other community-centered services. For the past seven years, hundreds of people around the world have worked to design this new system to support and empower ordinary people everywhere to put an end to war, poverty, hunger, unemployment and global warming. This is not just another bank with a social mission, this is a social mission with a bank.
Ethical Markets has focused since our founding in 2004 on the need to illuminate the role of money in all societies and how it became a dominant factor in Western societies , driving out the informal, mutual aid, volunteering, caring and sharing traditionally the foundation of human relationships and cultural norms. This money focus created all the macroeconomic statistics, such as GDP, inflation and prices drove valuation, including in stock markets and obscured the values and goals in public budgeting.
Karen Zainah Anwar – Sisters in Islam, based in Malaysia, workers on the right of Muslim woman within the framework of Islam to end discrimination against woman in the name of religion while upholding the principles of justice, equality and freedom.
The Last Mountain – trailer for the critically acclaimed documentary on the devastation of mountaintop removal in the pursuit of coal in Appalachia
The Organic Opportunity provided by Chris Bedford Films; Chris Bedford tells the story of Woodbury County, Iowa, first in the US to promote local organic agriculture as economic development by offering tax rebates to farmers transitioning to organic agriculture, mandating purchase of locally grown organic food by county institutions and offering no-cost loans and free building lots to farmers relocating to the county to farm organically. Copies of the film can be obtained at www.localharvest.org.
Harmonic Humanity + Music = Jobs — provided by HarmonicHumanity.org; A grassroots, outreach organization serving homeless adults and at risk youths in the Bay area, Harmonic Humanity started in 2005 as a music empowerment program in a soup kitchen in Seattle, WA. The mission of the program is to inspire and support homeless individuals through music, providing the homeless a means to support themselves.
Bernice Celeyta – NOMADESC {Association for Social
Research and Action} works primarity with women, trade unionists,
campesinos, the Afro-Colombian and indigenous peoples.Kisia – AfriAfya
– Provides communication technology for rural and informal
“Spin” by Brian Springer – Using the 1992 presidential election, documentary filmmaker Brian Springer captures the behind-the-scenes maneuverings of politicians and newscasters in the early 1990s. Pat Robertson, Al Gore, George Bush gaffes are shown — all presuming they’re off camera. Composed of 100% unauthorized satellite footage, Spin is a surreal expose of media-constructed reality. Coupled with Alan F Kay’s Spot the Spin, one is led to wonder how much truth is in politics.
COMMUNITY DEVELOPMENT SOLUTIONS – With the collapse of global financial norms, these videos demonstrate the creative ways in which communities are facing the challenges of producing and consuming sustainably.
William Black on Banking Rackets and Financial Fraud — provided by the Keiser Report; William Black helped send more than 1,000 criminal bankers to jail in the 80s for their part in the $150 billion S&L crisis. He explains how the rules for the 2008-2009 crisis hide the losses and therefore the fraud.
Greening the Global Food System Opportunities in Halophyte Foods. Hazel Henderson presents at the ASU, March 2020
Nassim Nicholas Taleb on economists from YouTube; Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of New York Times best seller Black Swan, explains what of economists’ reasoning is mistaken and counter productive.
Bank of North Dakota – provided by Prairie Public Television and the Public Banking Institute; During the early 1900s, North Dakota was dependent on agriculture. To diversify the economy, North Dakota created the state-owned Bank of North Dakota, largely credited for making North Dakota the only state with a large budget surplus. This film discusses the bank’s history and plans for the future.
Hazel Henderson and Aurelio Peccei, Founder of The Club Of Rome. Discussing future issues at The Association for the Study of World Future Social Prospects.
Caracas, Venezuela 1983.
Caroline Nyami – Kisia – AfriAfya – Provides communication technology for rural and informal settlements in Kenya.
Nassim Taleb and Daniel Kahneman: Reflection on a Crisis provided by Fora.tv; Nassim Taleb and Nobel Laureate Daniel Kahneman discuss the economic crisis of 2008-2009 in terms of economists’ unfounded expectations.
Why Save the Euro? – provided by TheRealNews.com; Mark Weisbrot, American economist, columnist and co-director of the Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) in Washington, D.C, explains how the Euro is flawed and how the European Union will survive, with or without it.
The Money Fix — provided by Ethical Markets; on PBS stations and affiliates around the US for free download from www.epstv.com. Directed and produced by Alan Rosenblith (see full version at www.themoneyfix.org) and edited for TV by Hazel Henderson, this feature-length documentary explores our society’s relationship with the almighty dollar and examines economic patterning in both the human and the natural worlds. Most of us take the monetary system for granted, but it has a profound and largely misunderstood influence on our lives. The film documents alternative money systems which help solve economic problems for the communities in which they operate.
Joseph E. Stiglitz: Financial Crisis & Global Development provided by MaximsNews Network, Feb. 2009; Nobel Laureate Stiglitz, speaking at the U.N. Dag Hammarskjold Auditorium, characterizes the global crisis as having a “made in the USA label” and states that the US exported its deregulatory philosophy, its “toxic mortgages” and, now, the recession.
Banking for the Common Good – interview with Mary Houghton, Ethical Markets Transforming Finance Series 2013. Mary Houghton is the co-founder of ShoreBank, once the largest and oldest community development bank in the US. She shares her transforming finance views on community banking with Hazel Henderson.
Austerity and the Destruction of Democracy — provided by TheRealNews.com; Rob Johnson: Austerity policies in Europe threaten a deformation of democracy and the rise of ultra-nationalist forces
The Green Economy — A Wide Shot – interview with Gregory Wendt; Ethical Markets Transforming Finance Series 2013. This is a wide-ranging discussion of the green movement today and transforming finance with Hazel Henderson.
Cool Jobs – Solar Installers provided by Workforce Solutions Capital Area and coolaustinjobs.com
Foreclosure Fraud Crisis – provided by Grayson.house.gov; Florida Congressman Alex Grayson explains the extent of foreclosure fraud and the means by which it is perpetrated.
Michael Lewis: The End of Wall Street provided by Fora.tv; Michael Lewis, the author of Liar’s Poker and Panic: The Story of Modern Financial Insanity, speaks about the excess political influence of Wall Street before the Hudson Union Society.
Emerging Measures of Qualitative Growth — provided by Sustainable Brands 2010; Hazel Henderson re-defines the metrics by which nations measure success beyond GDP
