Hazel Henderson
Founding President (Decd 05/22/2022)
Hazel Henderson is the founder of Ethical Markets Media, LLC and the creator of the Green Transition Scoreboard® and executive Producer of its TV series. She is a world-renowned futurist, evolutionary economist, a worldwide syndicated columnist, consultant on sustainable development, and author of The Axiom and Nautilus award-winning book Ethical Markets: Growing the Green Economy (2006) and eight other books. She co-edited, with Harlan Cleveland and Inge Kaul, The UN: Policy and Financing Alternatives, Elsevier Scientific, UK 1995 (US edition, 1996), and co-authored with Japanese Buddhist leader Daisaku Ikeda, Planetary Citizenship (2004).
Her editorials appear in 27 languages and in 200 newspapers syndicated by InterPress Service, Rome, New York, and Washington, DC, and her book reviews appear at www.ethicalmarkets.com (Books and Reviews). Her articles have appeared in over 250 journals, including (in the USA) Harvard Business Review, New York Times, Christian Science Monitor; and Challenge, Mainichi (Japan), El Diario (Venezuela), World Economic Herald (China), LeMonde Diplomatique (France) and Australian Financial Review. Her books are translated into German, Spanish, Japanese, Dutch, Swedish, Korean, Portuguese, and Chinese. She sits on several editorial boards, including The State of the Future Report, and E/The Environmental Magazine (USA), Resurgence and Foresight and Futures (UK).
Since founding Ethical Markets Media Certified B Corporation in 2004, Hazel stepped down from her many previous board memberships, including Worldwatch Institute (1975-2001), Calvert Social Investment Fund (1982-2005), and other associations, including the Social Investment Forum and the Social Venture Network. She remains on the International Council of the Instituto Ethos de Empresas e Responsabilidade Social, Sao Paulo, Brasil; the Program Council of FORUM 2000, Prague, Czechoslovakia, founded by their late President Vaclav Havel. She is a Fellow of the World Academy of Art & Science and World Business Academy. She created the Ethical Markets initiative on Transforming Finance and the EthicMark® Award for Communications Uplifting the Human Spirit and Society. www.ethicmark.org. And the global standard EthicMark® GEMS certifying only gems not mined from Mother Earth. www.ethicmarkgems.com
In addition, she has been Regent’s Lecturer at the University of California-Santa Barbara, held the Horace Albright Chair in Conservation at the theUniversityofCalifornia-Berkeley, and advised the U.S. Office of Technology Assessment, the National Academy of Engineering, and the National Science Foundation from 1974 to 1980. She holds Honorary Doctor of Science degrees from the University of San Francisco; Soka University (Tokyo); Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Massachusetts (USA); and Wilson College, Pennsylvania (USA). She is an active member of the National Press Club (WashingtonDC), the World Future Society (USA), She serves as an Honorary Judge for the KATERVA Global Awards for Sustainability.
Henderson has many awards and is listed in Who’s WhoUSA, Who’s Who in the World, Who’s Who in Business and Finance and Who’s Who in Science and Technology. She is an Honorary Member of the Club of Rome. She shared the 1996 Global Citizen Award with Nobelist A. Perez Esquivel of Argentina. In 2007, she was elected a Fellow of Britain’s Royal Society of Arts, founded in 1754. In 2010 and 2012 she was honored as one of the “Top 100 Thought Leaders in Trustworthy Business Behavior ” by Trust Across America; the Good Business New York™ Leading Women of 2012; and for her lifetime achievement, the Award for Natural Law and Order from the Maharishi University School of Management and the Reuters Award for Outstanding Contribution to Development of ESG & Investing at TBLI Europe. Her personal site is www.hazelhenderson.com and her recent articles can be found at www.ethicalmarkts.com.
Beth A. Binns
Co-Drector
Beth A. Binns became Co-Director of Ethical Markets Media in January of 2023. In addition, Beth is Co-Trustee of the Hazel Henderson Trust. Previously, she held several titles at EMM including Strategic Planning and Program Developer, Director of the EthicMark Awards, Member of the EthicMark Judges Panel.
Beth is a management consultant and strategic planner in the green economy. She builds partnerships across multiple stakeholder groups including businesses, non-profit organizations, academic institutions, state, federal and international institutions, foundations, and grant makers to impact the development of the green economy. She often is brought in at the start-up phase to provide strategic consulting to organizations and programs both for-profit and non-profit.
She had been a Vice President at ICF International for twelve years working primarily on building climate change programs for government agencies. Before joining ICF, Ms. Binns played an instrumental role, as a contractor, in the White House initiative on Education for Sustainability, an Agenda for Action. Ms. Binns’ international experience included serving as the Program Director of the International Academy of Environment in Geneva, Switzerland-a training and education center focused on providing national, state, and local leaders from developed and developing countries with the tools they need to implement environment and development programs. Beth’s non-profit work included strategic planning to help develop the Management Institute for Environment and Business and she was the founding director of the Social Venture Network. Ms. Binns started her career working in the private sector with environmental companies focused on energy efficiency, renewable technology, and organic food manufacturing.
Bio for Dr. Carol S. Spalding
Trustee of the Hazel Henderson Irrevocable Trust.
Joining Trustee Beth Binns, Hazel Henderson selected Dr. Carol S. Spalding to serve as a trustee for her Irrevocable Trust. She is a member of the Sustainability/Renewable Resource Sectors Research Advisory Board and a long time friend and mentee. She worked with Hazel as a producer for a video series of important topics that are now available through the Ethical Markets Media website. The videos are as timely now as when they were recorded at Florida State College at Jacksonville’s TV studio decades ago.
In 2008, Dr. Carol S. Spalding relocated to North Carolina to serve as the third President of the state’s eighth largest college, Rowan-Cabarrus Community College, after a significant leadership career at Florida State College at Jacksonville where she also served as interim president in 1998. She was the founding president of the Open Campus, leveraging continuing and corporate education to provide non-traditional credit delivery focused on military populations and online degree attainment.
Under her leadership at Rowan-Cabarrus, the College has passed four bond referendums, significantly increased its online enrollment, expanded its campuses from two to four, and has become the community colleges’ flagship at the North Carolina Research Campus (NCRC) home to the Dr. Carol S. Spalding Advanced Technology Center.
Rowan-Cabarrus enrolls over 20,000 students annually in 44 curriculum programs and its growing continuing education enterprise focusing on the essential public service workforce. An advocate for student success and the community college’s vital role in workforce and economic development, she served on the RowanWorks Economic Development Commission, Cabarrus Regional Chamber of Commerce and the regional Centralina Workforce Development Board, earning the Workforce Innovation and Opportunity Act (WIOA) Mark F. Whitley Chairman’s Award for Outstanding Service in 2023.
Completing two terms on the American Association of Community College’s board of directors, she continues her national service as treasurer of the AACC affiliated Instructional Technology Council and in a select group of presidents called “Advocates in Action” who work with the AACC’s legislative staff to influence federal legislation. She serves as vice chair of the North Carolina Community College Presidents’ Association professional development committee and is its liaison to the state’s community college foundation.
She has been recognized by the Florida and North Carolina community college systems for both leadership and partnerships. She was selected for the Florida Association of Community Colleges Administrator of the Year Award in 1995 and the Wells Fargo President of the Year Award by the North Carolina Community College System in 2019. With her talented teams, she has been acknowledged for creating effective partnerships throughout her career, most recently in 2019, earning the Distinguished Partners in Excellence Award from the North Carolina Community College System for the joint efforts in building workforce development facilities and programs in Kannapolis, NC. In Florida she led the Jacksonville city/county wide visioning project which won the Florida Department of Education’s “Florida Best” Award for Outstanding Business and Education Partnership in 2003 and 2004.
Dr. Spalding is a student of servant leadership well-grounded in her experience from her four-decade commitment to community leadership at the local, state, and national level. She served on the board of the National Association for Community Leadership, and elected chair in 2000. In her doctorate dissertation, she focused on the theory and practice of servant leadership.
Dr. Spalding earned her doctorate in Educational Leadership from Columbia University, a master’s in Human Resource Development from Pepperdine University and a bachelor’s in International Studies from the University of Louisville.
In addition to focusing on degree attainment, workforce and leadership at her colleges, Dr. Spalding experienced extensive professional development and has been active on many boards. She is a Senior Fellow at The American Leadership Forum, a scholarship recipient to The Aspen Institute Executive Seminar, the Art and Practice of Leadership Development program at the Kennedy School of Government and the Institute for the Management of Lifelong Education at the School of Education, both at Harvard University. She was selected for the first cohort of ELEVATENC:Higher Education developed by the Hunt Institute. Appointed by two Florida governors she chaired the Jacksonville Transportation Authority. She is a member of the International Women’s Forum Carolina and listed in Who’s Who in America 2022.
The founder of the North Carolina Research Campus David Murdock appointed Dr. Spalding, now chair, to his seat on the board of the David H. Murdock Research Institute. The research organization was designed to provide “groundbreaking research and development solutions at the intersection of human health, agriculture and nutrition” on the North Carolina Research Campus.
During her tenure as president, Rowan-Cabarrus Community College has become a catalyst for change in the region, partnering with county and economic development commissions, city governments and business and industry sectors to provide relevant workforce development to create better jobs for better lives.
Rowan-Cabarrus was selected as one of the 150 colleges by the Aspen Institute to compete for the Aspen prize in 2024-25.
Tommy Maletta
Editor of Ethical Markets
I work as the Editor of Ethical Markets Media and make sure the newsletter goes out smoothly every Monday, Wednesday, and Friday. I started volunteering here over 4 years ago and it has changed my trajectory on life, pushing me to get my Master of Environmental Science in honor of Hazel. Looking for the articles is the best part, because it lets me stay on top of the most recent developments across many different disciplines. Ethical Markets has a goal to be a guiding light in a sometimes-dark world, and finding the brightest path to a beautiful future is what I strive to do with these articles. I hope that more people will turn to Ethical Markets in the future for wisdom, guidance, and a place to learn.
In addition to Editor, I am a full-time auditor with my CPA focusing on Insurance Companies and Not-for-profits. I want to expand my Environmental Science knowledge with my Master degree to enter the growing field of Carbon Emission auditing. I think the best way to make business focus more on people and the planet and less on profit will be to start from the inside. My goal is to make business practices more transparent so consumers can make more informed decisions.
Video Production Team
Ethical Markets TV Series – EM TV
International Financial Reform – IFR
Transforming Finance – TF
Hazel Henderson, Series Creator, and Executive Producer:
EM TV, IFR, TF
See bio above.
Simran Sethi
Host/Writer – EM TV
“The decline of the U.S. economy and rise of corporate malfeasance, the increasing positioning of an ‘us versus them’ mentality and the continued degradation of the environment indicates a new way of engaging in and with the world is needed,” says Sethi. Ethical Markets is the first financial lifestyle show dedicated to redefining success in the global marketplace. Sethi started her television career while attending Smith College. Before graduating cum laude with a BA in Sociology and Gender Studies, she was offered the job of associate producer for MTV News and accepted the position following graduate studies in Urbino, Italy. After a prolific career in the United States—including production on the award-winning documentaries Hate Rock, Sex in the ’90s, and Help Not Wanted,
Sethi was asked to produce and anchor the news for MTV Asia in Singapore. She traveled and worked throughout Asia, where the stories that resonated most deeply were the remarkable tales of everyday people: “Everyone has an important story to tell. I have been in the fortunate position to hear them, learn from them, and share them with the world.”
Sethi has completed an MBA with distinction in sustainable management—integrating social and environmental values with practical business knowledge. She fuses this insight with her extensive experience in television reportage and passion for social and economic justice on Ethical Markets, the international series pioneered by futurist and author Hazel Henderson. In her spare time, Sethi dedicates herself to media advocacy: serving on the board of directors for the National Radio Project and on the advisory board for New York’s National Public Radio affiliate, WNYC. She is also developing a nutrition and food justice curriculum within her Harlem community and blogs on www.intentblog.com.
Sethi is also an environmental reporter for the Sundance Channel.
Bruce Merwin (Deceased, 2020)
Cinematographer/Editor
Bruce is an award-winning filmmaker who has a degree in cinematography from Columbia College. Bruce filmed with the Cinematographers Guild and edited with the Editors Guild for over twenty years, filming and editing with MGM, Columbia Pictures, Walt Disney Studios, Time Warner, BBC, ABC, NBC, CBS, IBM, AT&T, McDonald’s, Wendy’s, and Bank of America, to name a few. Bruce is active on the Internet and sells his own independent film projects online and helps other independent filmmakers profit from their films. Actors Bruce has worked with Audrey Hepburn, Sammy Davis Jr., Nicholas Cage, Anthony Quinn, Gary Cole, Patricia Clarkson, Carroll O’Connor, Tommy Lee Jones, Owen Wilson, Jennifer Aniston, Sean Young, Alexis Cruz, Tony Dow, Milton Berle, Dustin Hoffman, Steven Bauer, Warren Beatty, Jerry Mathers, Barbara Billingsley, Hulk Hogan, Demi Moore, Danny Glover, Helen Hunt, Tai Lihua, Cheng Cheng, Adrian Alonso, Chris Cooper, Rick Moranis, Steve Allen, Bernadette Peters, Dana Carvey, Dolly Parton and Dan Marino.
While filming with Disney, documenting the last days of the dusky seaside sparrow, Bruce realized that sustainability film work was very satisfying to him as a filmmaker. In Los Angeles, Bruce filmed Global Village, a film in seven languages that emphasized the spirit of mankind living in harmony. Bruce’s film for the Summer Haven River, Help Bring Back a Florida River, emphasized the need for mankind to shepherd Earth’s natural resources. Bruce’s work the last four seasons filming and editing with Ethical Markets Media, an independent media company promoting the emergence of a sustainable, green, more ethical and just economy worldwide has changed his ideas on man’s role in media production and made him a more responsible global citizen.
Ellyne Lonergan
Co-Executive Producer – EM TV
Ellyne founded GlassOnion Productions in 2000 after working in television production and management for 15 years. Since its inception, GlassOnion has been successful in working within various disciplines and in different programming formats for public broadcasting, network, and cable television. As GlassOnion principal, Ellyne maintains direct contact with clients as a producer of national programming. She is also trained as a director, editor, and videographer, though during her time at public broadcasting stations she managed several production departments before being named Senior Vice President at WJCT, Jacksonville. B.A. Franklin and Marshall College; M.A. Television, Radio, Film, Syracuse University. Lonergan is currently Senior Vice President of WEDU in Tampa, FL.
In Memorandum
Alan F. Kay, Ph.D. (Deceased) Honored advisor on public interest opinion research and socially-responsible business – A WWII draftee in the US infantry (1944-1946), Alan spent 7 months as a Japanese language interpreter in occupied Japan (1946). With a Ph.D. in mathematics from Harvard, Alan co-founded two public companies; one in research and development (1954-’63). In 1966, he founded AutEx, supplier of electronic “marketplace” systems to industry, the first B2B e-commerce company including pre-Internet email. In 1978, after selling AutEx (now owned by the Thomson) Kay awakened to the sad state of politics and governance. He became a donor and board member of policy organizations and an investor and advisor to start-up companies pioneering energy efficiency and pollution control technologies. In 1987 he established the art and science of public-interest polling. He is author of “Locating Consensus for Democracy – a Ten Year US Experiment”(2000), “Spot the Spin: the Fun Way to Keep Democracy Alive and Elections Honest” (2004), and numerous articles on business, government, and military topics, focusing on developing and supporting major social innovations. He serves on the board of the World Security Institute (formerly the Center for Defense Information) in Washington, DC; publishers of the E-Publications in Chinese, Russian, Arabic and Farsi languages avidly read by media in many countries (see www.alanfkay.com).