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Creating Alternative Futures

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East Meets West – Hazel Henderson and her long-time friends Alvin Toffler & Ziauddin Sardar discuss the divergent worldviews between Western science, technology and economics and the worldviews of Islam.

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Alternative Nobel Prizes – Jakob Von Uexkull, pioneer founder of the “Right Livelihood Award,” called the Alternative Nobel Prize, explains why he founded the prize and how it successfully challenged the thinking of the Nobel Prize Committee.

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Economics As If People Mattered Part 2 – Dr. A.T. Ariyaratne continues his story of SARVODAYA which means “awakening of all” and the Buddhist philosophy of the Noble 8-Fold Path to Happiness.

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Economics As If People Mattered Part 1 – Dr. A.T. Ariyaratme describes to Hazel Henderson how his SARVODAYA movement in Sri Lanka, based on Buddhist principles, has improved lives in over 8,000 villages there.

819 – “INVESTING IN SALTWATER AGRICULTURE: THE NEXT BIG THING”

In this program, Hazel Henderson and NASA Chief Scientist Dennis Bushnell continue their exploration of the massive global potential in shifting over-investments in food and agriculture dependent on the planet’s 3% of freshwater to the other halt of the plant kingdom: the 10,000 salt-loving (halophyte) plants that can fill human food and fuel needs for the foreseeable future. These crops grown with saltwater: e.g. nutritious quinoa grains in health foods and tasty salt-tolerant rice in Chinese markets are grown in 22 countries. This can expand to feed growing populations, relieve pressure on freshwater and provide food and fuels from the Earth’s 40% of degraded and desert lands. Halophyte plants require no fertilizers or pesticides and capture CO2, all to help accelerate the global transition from fossil fuels to renewable resources, cleaner, knowledge-richer economies. Today, investors can capitalize on cheap unused land, cheap water, cheap plants and free sunshine! This is a paradigm problem and due to her-behavior of financial markets.

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The Possible Human – Dr. Jean Houston and Hazel Henderson speculate on the far reaches of human potential – how we can tap more of the mere 10% of our brains’ capacities that we use today.

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He And She Futures – James Robertson and Hazel Henderson discuss gender politics and how societies are changing as women move into partnership with men in all aspects of society.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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