Commentary by Hazel Henderson, Editor-in-Chief Good News from Mr. WU! The UN Report on Finance for Sustainable Development shows the global economics paradigm shifting: from today’s financial model of the global casino dominated by high-frequency trading and multi-trillions in derivative positions far exceeding the real world economy’s GDP – to …
AsiaIIX: Capital Markets for a Social Good
Pioneering Impact: A Conversation with Wayne Silby MCS Lifestyle Photography/IIX© During the Impact Forum, the IIX and Shujog staff had the honor of spending time with Wayne Silby, a pioneer and giant in the space of …
HENDERSON-SCHUMACHER LIBRARY HOSTS MEETING OF SRI PIONEERS
The Henderson-Schumacher Library at Ethical Markets Media hosted a meeting of SRI pioneers to mentor emerging leaders in SRI, co-convened with Ethical Markets’ Advisory Board member Susan Davis, president of Capital Missions. From November 18-20, 2011, the international group engaged in a 2 ½ day conversation on Transforming Finance 2.0, …
Report on EUROSTAT Conference on “Statistics for Policymaking: Europe 2020”
Report on EUROSTAT Conference on “Statistics for Policymaking: Europe 2020” By Lisa Cowan, EMBA, Ethical Markets European Correspondent The 2011 annual gathering of Europe’s key statisticians and policy makers was held in Brussels, March 2011. The conference was opened by Jose Manuel Barroso, President of the European Commission, who confirmed …
The Green Transition: A Personal Note from Hazel Henderson
The global economy is now at a tipping point – emerging from the 300-year fossil-fueled Industrial Era to the cleaner, greener information-rich renewable energy societies which I predicted in my The Politics of the Solar Age in 1981. Although prominently reviewed in the New York Times and based on six …
SB 2010 Power of “&” Meets Power of Emerging Measures
Hazel Henderson presented at the Sustainable Brands 2010 conference in Monterrey, California, on Re-Defining the Metrics of Success: The Emerging Measures of Qualitative Growth, presenting some of her newest thinking on why GDP serves poorly as the ultimate measure of progress. In this video of her presentation, she offers a …
Investors Put Gender on the Agenda
BETHESDA, Md.–(BUSINESS WIRE)– A coalition of global investors, managing over US $73 billion in assets, called on companies across the world today to increase representation of qualified women on boards of directors and in senior management. The call from Pax World, Calvert and Walden Asset Management, comes in response to …