398 – Promo – “Green Banking and Investing”

Interview with Ken La Roe – Founder, CEO and Chairman, First Green Bank, Florida; Ethical Markets Transforming Finance Series 2013

400 – Promo – “Permaculture, Eco-forests Developing Green Economies”

“Permaculture, Eco-forests Developing Green Economies”

Terry Mock – Co-founder, Champion Tree Project International and the Sustainable Land Development Initiative; Ethical Markets Transforming Finance Series 2013

402 – Promo – “Healthy Foods, Healthy Lifestyles: Paths to Happiness”

“Healthy Foods, Healthy Lifestyles: Paths to Happiness”

Martin Ping – Executive Director, Hawthorne Valley Association, Ethical Markets Transforming Finance Series 2013

404 – Promo – “Fostering Homegrown Reliable Economies”

“Fostering Homegrown Reliable Economies”

Stuart Valentine – Principal, Centerpoint Investment Strategies, Ethical Markets Transforming Finance Series 2013

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Private Financing of Green Companies – interview with Karl Kleissner, “Transforming Finance” —  an Ethical Markets Media production © 2010

410 – “Recognizing the Power and Purpose of Non-profits” – Interview with Linda Crompton

“Recognizing the Power and Purpose of Non-profits” – Interview with Linda Crompton – Principal, Crompton Consulting, LLC; former president of BoardSource (the national center for non-profit boards); Ethical Markets Transforming Finance Series 2013

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Steering Capital Toward Sustainability – interview with John Fullerton, “Transforming Finance” —  an Ethical Markets Media production © 2010

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Escaping the Web of Debt – interview with Ellen Brown, “Transforming Finance” —  an Ethical Markets Media production © 2010

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Finance Should Serve Society – interview with Steve Waddell, “Transforming Finance” —  an Ethical Markets Media production © 2010

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China’s New Development – interview with Zhouying Jin, “Transforming Finance” —  an Ethical Markets Media production © 2010

416 – “Fostering Homegrown Reliable Economies” – Stuart Valentine

“Fostering Homegrown Reliable Economies”

Stuart Valentine – Principal, Centerpoint Investment Strategies, Ethical Markets Transforming Finance Series 2013

418 – Promo – “Green Banking and Investing” – Interview with Ken La Roe

“Green Banking and Investing” – Interview with Ken La Roe – Founder, CEO and Chairman, First Green Bank, Florida; Ethical Markets Transforming Finance Series 2013

425 – Beyond Economics to Earth Systems Science – Interview with Michael Grunwald

“Beyond Economics to Earth Systems Science” – Interview with Michael Grunwald – TIME, Time.com, Senior National Correspondent; author, The New New Deal (2012); Ethical Markets Transforming Finance Series 2013

422 – Investing in Desert-Greening

“Investing in Desert Greening” — Discussion with Dennis Bushnell, chief

scientist, NASA Langley; Carl Hodges, founder, Seawater Foundation, and

Hazel Henderson, president, Ethical Markets Media; Ethical Markets

Transforming Finance Series 2014

424 – “Rating the Rating Agencies”

“Rating the Rating Agencies” — Discussion with Claudine Schneider, Congresswoman, US House of Representatives (R-RI), 1980-1990,Lawrence Bloom, FRICS, Co-Founder & Chairman, B.e Energy, and Hazel Henderson, president, Ethical Markets Media; Ethical Markets
Transforming Finance Series 2014

426 – “Transforming Wall Street” – Discussion with Kim Ann Curtin, author, CEO,

“Transforming Wall Street” – Discussion with Kim Ann Curtin, author, CEO,

The Wall Street Coach, and Hazel Henderson, president, Ethical Markets

Media; Ethical Markets Transforming Finance Series 2014

789 – Reforming Capital Markets and Corporate Governance

In this program, Hazel Henderson discusses with Linda Crompton, MA, MBA, pioneering Canadian bank president and mutual fund innovator, what reforms still are needed in capital markets. They review the challenges and progress over the past decades as ethical, green investing began to go mainstream which now in the USA alone comprises $6.57 trillion or 18% of total investments. Future expansion is expected as accounting reforms expose real risks such as water shortages and climate change excluded in traditional financial models.

791 – The Future of Business Education

In this program, Hazel Henderson explores innovative courses with Dr. Allison Roberts, Chair of the Business Administration Department, Flagler College. They critique the values underlying much traditional business education which still teach with obsolete textbooks and assumptions that self-interest competition is “human nature”. Old courses still assume the impacts of business activities harming others and their environmental costs can be “externalized” from company balance sheets. Dr. Roberts, whose doctorate is in health and labor economics, has designed a more scientific curriculum, taking account of social and technological changes that have changed the global economy. Dr. Roberts teaches broader analyses and strategies for business success and new scorecards so that her students can prosper in the 21^st century while contributing to more sustainable societies

720 – Asia’s Challenges to Western Economies

In this program, Hazel Henderson and Asian Markets Sustainability Analyst Matthew McGarvey, both China experts, review the new challenges China poses to Western economies as well as from other emerging economies in Asia. Western economists misunderstand the restructuring in China from exports toward domestic goals and shifting from polluting coal to wind, solar and the “circular economy” and their “Green GDP.” The new Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIG) led by China has attracted members like Britain and other European countries, as well as the IMF. Yet, the US Congress refused to join and is now out in the cold. The rush to new mega-trade deals in Asia and the need for new rules and metrics are explored.

793 – Artificial Intelligence: What Happens As Machines Take Over?

In this program, Hazel Henderson and NASA Chief Scientist Dennis Bushnell discuss 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. These computer pioneers believe this could pose existential danger to human civilization – because they may not share human values and may cause us great harm. Bushnell cites all the areas where computers are already smarter and more efficient than humans: in law, medicine, accounting and will be needed in NASA’s space program. Henderson worries about the societal impacts as ever more sectors of modern economies are digitized, now displacing white collar jobs beyond earlier manufacturing automation since the 1960s. While futurists envisioned “leisure societies,” shorter work weeks, guaranteed basic incomes and flowering of culture, art and human potentials – what we got was unemployment, stagnant wages and longer work hours.

786 – Privacy in the New Media Age: Part I

– In this program, Hazel Henderson explores with law professor Jon L. Mills, former speaker in Florida’s House of Representatives, his current book, Privacy in the New Media Age. The Internet, social media, blogs, “citizen-journalists” and global news distribution pose thorny issues in all countries. While the USA favors free speech over individual rights to privacy, European countries are protecting people’s “right to be left alone” and the deletion of old records of individual behavior which may jeopardize their future employment. While Facebook and Twitter facilitated the grassroots protests and rebellions of the “Arab Spring,” these social media also helped police to track down the dissidents and their prosecution. Prof. Mills points out that technological innovations always outrun the pace of law and public responses. Different rules apply in many countries and global agreements may take decades.

Rising Sea Levels Worldwide Part 1 – John Englander 796

In this program Hazel Henderson discusses with John Englander, geologist and oceans expert, author of Rising Tide on Main Street, the steady rise of global oceans due to global atmospheric levels of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases.  The Earth’s temperature continues rising as fossil fuels are burned, oceans absorb additional CO2, glaciers and ice sheets at the planet’s poles are melting.  Englander studies coastlines and show visual evidence of the effects on the World’s 20 most vulnerable cities: Boston, New York, Washington DC, Seattle, San Diego, as well as Shanghai, London, Bangkok and low-lying countries Holland, the Philippines and many small island sates.  In some areas, land is also sinking, and in others tectonic plates cause the land under, for example Los Angeles, to rise.  Since 2015, 195 countries have agreed to address these largely human-caused effects with transition management strategies: investments in adaptation, sea walls, more and higher levees, relocation of humans settlements and shifting to renewable energy.  Timeframes for action are reviewed.  Transition management begins with realistic views of global change.  Ethical Markets Transforming Finance Series, @2015

Common Good Capitalism – Terry Mollner 798

In this program, Hazel Henderson discusses transition management strategies and the likely next stage of capitalism with Terry Mollner, author of Common Good Capitalism: It’s Next! and board member of Ben and Jerry’s ice cream, now owned by global food giant Unilever.  Terry describes the saga of this negotiation with Ben and Jerry’s shareholders, their effort to remain independent and how their social mission was recognized and began to change Unilever.  Terry points to the current wave of mega-mergers in our global economy, where brands in food, air travel, communications and many other sectors end up cooperating as duopolies.  In this world beyond competition companies can reach a new level: changing their goals and business models so as to place top priority on cooperatively serving the common good with competitive profit-seeking taking second place.  How to square this with anti-trust conventions will be key.  These startling views will be hotly debated as human populations and economies learn transition management strategies as tools to develop further on our small finite planet. Ethical Markets Transforming Finance Series, @2015

Global system Change Part 1 – Frank Dixon 800

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 the famed, pioneering social auditing firm Innovest.  They discuss the ways in which global geopolitics is evolving in response to the systemic changes to our planet’s ecosystems due to human activities.  As water shortages, drought, floods and climate disruption effect more countries and populations, decision-makers in business government and civic society are seeing that all these problems are inter-linked.  Frank Dixon’s book, Global System Change, maps these global issues and connects the dots.  At the same time, Henderson points to the same new awareness by over 190 member countries of the United Nations in their 2015 agreement on the 17 issues addressed in their Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).  There is now evidence that humans are accepting responsibility for the changes created by unsustainable industrial development and moving toward integrated policies.  These realistic approaches to transition management can lead to cleaner, healthier, more equitable societies on which our survival may depend.  Ethical Markets Transforming Finance Series, @2015

Beyond Blood Stained Gems: New Science & Standards – Frank Dixon 802

In this program, Hazel Henderson explores with Frank Dixon, MBA, author of Global System Change, the damaging effects of the global gem mining industry, now a case study in transition management.  This industry has been the focus of many NGO critics since diamond mining is not only dangerous and polluting, but has helped fuel armed conflicts in many African countries.  Several UN resolutions have addressed the need to stop the flow of these “blood diamonds” and the global diamond cartel has responded with the Kimberley Certification which only certifies their diamonds are “conflict-free”.  This ignores the much larger problems of miners’ injuries, deaths, low wages and the pollution of water supplies and air in mining areas and communities.  Beyond these hazards is the fact that this gem mining industry is now obsolete and unnecessary, since science now produces identical gems in laboratories in many countries without human and environmental damage.  Thus Dixon examines Ethical Markets transition management tool: its global standard, EthicMark® GEMS which certifies only gems not mined from the Earth.  Dixon asks Henderson how this better standard was developed and how it can challenge this obsolete mining industry by this market-based transition to reform: EthicMark® GEMS can create a healthier new industry and many thousands of new jobs while saving lives, human misery and the environment – an illustration of positive transition management.  Ethical Markets Transforming Finance Series, @2015

Rise of the Benefit Corporation – Marcello Palazzi 804

In this program, Hazel Henderson discusses with Marcello Palazzi, MBA, president of the Progressio Foundation in Holland, his latest work in transition management by promoting the new business charter: the Benefit Corporation, which certifies companies  which focus beyond profitability to service and benefit society.  This new model is now legally chartered in 30 states in the USA, also in Latin America and Europe.  The founders of Certified B Corporations Jay Coen Gilbert, Andrew Kassoy and Bart Houlahan recently were awarded a coveted prized by the Aspen Institute.  Palazzi and Henderson explore examples of B Corporations, which include Ethical Markets Media.  This new socially responsible business model is enjoying rapid growth and includes several publicly traded corporations.  These examples are further case studies in positive transition management.  Ethical Markets Transforming Finance Series, @2015

The Personal Journey of Brazilian Leader Thais Corral 806

In this program, Hazel Henderson explores with award-winning civic leader, recognized in Brazil by the UN, Thais Corral, co-author of Leadership Is Global, her personal story.  Thais and her family came to Brazil from Spain, bringing their entrepreneurial skills and creativity.  Thais, a lifelong learner, spent years studying in Italy, other European countries, and the USA at the University of Chicago and Harvard.  She innovated 400 radio programs broadcasted to empower women across Brazil and became a co-founder of the global Women’s Environment Development Organization (WEDO) with US Congresswoman Bella Abzug.  Thais then founded the learning and leadership programs at Sinal do Vale, a large estate 30 minutes from Rio De Janeiro’s mains airport, where participants learn all the tools of transition management first hand.  Ethical Markets is partnering with Thais in this new educational program since Thais is a member of our global Advisory Board.   Ethical Markets Transforming Finance Series, @2015

13. The Future: Toward Full-Spectrum Accounting – Alice Tepper Marlin 808

In this program, Hazel Henderson discusses with Alice Tepper-Marlin, president-emeritus of SAI International and founder of 10-Squared, the future of accounting for ethical, social and environmental performance of portfolios, companies and governments.  This important tool of transition management is full-spectrum accounting, a multi-disciplinary method.  This goes beyond the earlier money-based models evaluating life-cycle costs and recognizing 6 kinds of capital: financial, built facilities, intellectual, social, human and natural capital.  These broader metrics are now promulgated globally by the International Integrated Reporting Council (IIRC) and the Global Reporting Initiative (GRI) and in the USA by Sustainable Accounting Standards Board (SASB), chaired by Michael Bloomberg.  At last, the obsolete models in traditional economics permitting social and environmental costs to be “externalized” is exposed as irresponsible.  Tepper-Marlin describes her latest venture 10-Squared, another transition management innovation and management tool for companies to achieve better social and environmental performance goals.  Ethical Markets Transforming Finance Series, @2015

810 – The Future of Finance: Sustainability or Collapse?

Hazel Henderson and UK investment pioneer Tessa Tennant look at the new consensus emerging in 2015 for the global transition from fossil fuels to clean, green, sustainable economies. Tennant serves on the British Green Investment Bank.  Now that 195 countries have signed on to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and the COP21 Climate Accords, this transition is accelerating worldwide.  © 2016 Ethical Markets

823 – “Your Money or Your Life”

“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.

“Greening The Global Food System”

“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.

825 “Reintegrating, Finance, Sustainability, and the Quality of Life” with Paul Ellis, Principal, Paul Ellis Consulting and Podcasts

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.

Show #5— “Transition to a Global Green Economy”

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

Show #7— “The Politics of Money”

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

Show #9— “Reforming Housing, Fannie and Freddie”

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

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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.