For over fifty years, industrial societies’ policies in all sectors have been guided by economic forecasting and all the macroeconomic statistics and indicators from GDP to inflation, debt, deficits, unemployment — all measured by market-based prices. Yet since the financial meltdown of 2008, economists have been at a loss for their inability to forecast the …
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Hazel Henderson © 2022 Ethical Markets has been researching and reporting on our financialized global food system — a gigantic market-failure prone to speculation and perilously reliant on the planet’s 3% of fresh water, summarized in “Earth: the Water Planet“. We have identified many viable solutions: Expanding food supplies with nutritious salt loving plants, halophytes, …
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Achieving circular economies with innovative thinking and reshaping of whole sectors 4 FEBRUARY 2022, HAZEL HENDERSON The earliest markets for metaphysical reconstruction evolved continually from changing belief systems, religions, creation stories, cultural fashions, and later from science fiction, futures forecasting scenarios. These changing human styles of being and behaving are ubiquitously and profitably expressed in the …
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The current public interest in all forms of mass communication reflects a growing understanding of its central role in our national life. Not only do we have schools of communications at many of our colleges, but we have an increasing body of scholarly analysis of the mass media’s effects on our culture and our individual …
“Ethical Markets reminded us in September 2020 of the importance of daily free home tests. Read On! ~Hazel Henderson, Editor” ©Hazel Henderson 09/2020 The global spread of Covid-19, shows countries with these priorities, using widespread early testing, halted or slowed the pandemic and its toll on their populations. Such countries also had robust public health …
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“Progress or Collective Insanity?” ©Hazel Henderson 2021 Today, we are enslaving ourselves in efforts to keep up with ever-faster screen-based digitization of our societies, 5G speed, AI, IoT, cryptos, NFTs and virtual reality still boosted by illusions in venture capitalists’ dreams. As we know, all our global media have become humanity’s external nervous system, but …
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The UNEP Inquiry The Inquiry into the Design of a Sustainable Financial System has been initiated by the United Nations Environment Programme to advance policy options to improve the financial system’s effectiveness in mobilizing capital towards a green and inclusive economy—in other words, sustainable development. Established in January 2014, it published its final report, The …
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©Hazel Henderson 2021 Today, we are enslaving ourselves trying to keep up with ever-faster screen-based digitization of our societies, 5G speed, AI, IoT, cryptos, NFTs and virtual reality. Let’s step back, take a deep breath and remember our physics lessons: Our Information Age technologies all are based on ever more information, Big Data, software and …
