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“International Fund Strategies”; Issue N 7, December 1997, London, UK

What do you understand by the term ‘risk’? It is linked with foresight, and that’s what futurists try to do. I look at the future as partly determined by things that human beings can’t control, and partly the result of decisions humans make about things they can control. With enough information and using probability theory, …

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Evolving Economies from Lose-Lose Vicious Circles to Win-Win Cooperation and Sustainability, March 1997

© Hazel Henderson, 1997Summary of Presentation for the “Managing for Sustainable Development” Plenary Session. Rio + 5 Forum Rio de Janeiro, Brazil March 13/19, 1997 Managing organizations and societies for sustainable development requires a transdisciplinary, systems approach. Clearly, this means that economics–even ecological economics, social economics, or any other hyphenated hybrid of this discipline and …

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Wired – “Win-Win World,” Issue 5.02 – February 1997

Win-Win World, Wired, February 1997 Futurist Hazel Henderson has a modest proposal: Abolish economics and make way for the economy of abundance. By Kevin Kelly Is a profession that missed the biggest change since the Industrial Revolution worth saving? British-born futurist Hazel Henderson doesn’t think so. A veteran technocrat – with stints at the US …

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Globalization: A Summon to Social Renewal in the 21st Century

Globalization: A Summon to Social Renewal in the 21st Century By Hazel Henderson Hazel Henderson offered these remarks at the Center’s Second Annual Global Citizen Awards Ceremony, held in 1996. Her award co-recipient that year was Nobel Peace Prize winner Adolfo Pérez Esquivel. Ms. Henderson is the author of many books, including Planetary Citizenship (2004), a dialogue …

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To an Unsung Hero

What fortunate people We who grew up under her wing! This is true courage: To toil each day for others. This is true valor: To keep faith with the future, Without compensation or recognition. Caring and sharing, honoring Nature Are de-valued in narrow economics, While guns, tanks and robots are paraded. Yet the “love economies” …

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Whole Earth Review – “To Stitch the World Back Together Again,” Issue 87 – Fall 1995

How would you describe what you do? I’m trying to be a practicing social innovator.  My goal, of course, is just to weigh in on the side of life in human evolution — that’s all.  I don’t really have any big pretensions about how much of a difference I’m going to make.  I always knew …

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Cosmic Economics

A work of art Lies buried in the morning sand. A sad lover seeks her necklace Eyes scouring The glorious, pristine beach At sunrise. Remembering the panic of loss The night before While walking this same way Companions joined the search That moonless hour Scudding clouds darkening the sky The lonely lover ponders her loss …

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