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3/11/2013 @ 4:12PM |103 views
Hazel Henderson: There is 21st Century Abundance Hiding in 19th Century Scarcity Politics
“We live in a world of abundance,” says Hazel Henderson, D.Sc.Hon., FRSA, president of Ethical Markets Media. As a futurist and evolutionary economist, Henderson used her insight to write Creating Alternative Futures: The End of Economics and Politics of the Solar Age. She is also author of the award-winning Ethical Markets: Growing the Green Economy. She leads theTransforming Finance initiative, created the Green Transition Scoreboard®, co-developed with Calvert the GDP alternative now renamed the Ethical Markets Quality of Life Indicators and co-organized the Beyond GDP conference for the European Commission. In preparation and subsequent to the EC conference, Ethical Markets has funded three Beyond GDP surveys, finding strong support worldwide for ESG metrics in national accounting. In 2012, she was named to the Post Growth Institute (En)Rich List as a top 100 luminary inspiring global prosperity beyond economic wealth and received the Award for Outstanding Contribution to Development of ESG & Investing at TBLI Europe.