826 -"Steering Our Societies from GDP to SDGs” with financial advisor and podcaster Paul Ellis of Paul Ellis Consulting

 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.