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News You Need
Plan B Efficiency and Conservation Measures Drop Energy Demand by 2020
And Now a New Green Deal?
CLIMATE JUSTICE NOW! NETWORK: RADICAL NEW AGENDA URGENTLY NEEDED
Environment News Service (ENS) World News November 28, 2008
NGLS Update: International Conference on Financing Development
COME CLEAN, LARRY SUMMERS, ABOUT YOUR ROLE IN THE CREDIT DEFAULT SWAP MESS!
WHY OBAMA MISSED BRETTON WOODS II
European Economic and Social Committee adopts opinion on Beyond GDP
Oct. 22: European Economic and Social Council adopts “Beyond GDP” position paper.
Breakthrough for wind and solar. Check out the plan from ex-oil man Boone Pickens.
“Unlikely Alliances” Advertising Campaign Wins 2008 EthicMark® Award
How Specialists Control the Market, Richard W. Wendling, August 2008
Special Report from EARTH POLICY INSTITUTE: Mobilizing to save civilization
Globescan Report: Worldwide Support for True Wealth Measures Three-Quarters Say Governments Should Look Beyond Economics and Measure Social and Environmental Progress.
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Articles by Hazel Henderson
Dec. 1, 2008: Re-Designing Money Systems to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Accelerate the Growing Green Economy by Hazel Henderson, presented to the Green Economy Initiative Conference, UNEP, Geneva
The financial crisis of 2008 presents the best opportunity in over a century to simultaneously reform money systems and create additional mediums of exchange and financing mechanisms to accelerate the shift from the fossil-fuel/nuclear-Industrial Era to the greener information-rich Solar Age.
Nov. 25, 2008: COME CLEAN, LARRY SUMMERS, ABOUT YOUR ROLE IN THE CREDIT DEFAULT SWAP MESS
Dear Larry, now that you have been appointed as President-elect Obama’s economic supremo, we need you to explain why you enabled the unregulated CDS market to balloon to some $60 trillion!
Nov. 5, 2008: UPDATING FOSSILIZED ASSET-ALLOCATION CLASSES: “HERE COMES THE SUSTAINABILITY SECTOR!”
Most equity markets, security analysts and asset managers – all amplified by media – have missed what I have termed the SUSTAINABILITY SECTOR for the past 25 years.
October 27, 2008: ADVICE FOR SUMMITEERS ON REFORMING THE GLOBAL CASINO By Hazel Henderson
November 15, 2008, will at last see a summit on how to reform failed global finance. Invited to the USA, the heart of the failures, by President George W. Bush will be the “leaders” of global finance. Architects of the failure range from economic globalization enthusiasts Ronald Reagan, Margaret Thatcher, Alan Greenspan and free market Chicago School de-regulators and privatizers.
“And We All Thought Banks Had Money” by Hazel Henderson
The latest moves by governments and central banks around the world to inject massive new money into their banks, leaves average citizens outraged and mystified. Weren’t banks the places that guarded our deposits and then lent them out to borrowers to help build our communities and grow our businesses?
The Economic Crunch: What Lies Ahead, October 9, 2008 (Podcast)
In this podcast from the World Business Academy, Hazel Henderson and Rinaldo Brutoco discuss a full range of methods to address the financial meltdown (1 hour plus Q&A)
Awards
Simran Sethi, Host of Ethical Markets TV, Going green on OPRAH for Earth Day.
Simran Sethi Wins Emmy
Congratulations to Simran Sethi, host of Ethical Markets TV series, on winning a 2008 regional Emmy for "A School in the Woods," a PBS documentary about the environmental education program at Island Wood in Washington State. Simran 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. This is the most prestigious of her many awards and the first Emmy of which we're sure many more will come.
THE FIRST ANNUAL BUCKMINSTER FULLER CHALLENGE WINNER ANNOUNCED
We congratulate winner Dr. John Todd of the Buckminster Fuller Challenge Award. Dr. Todd is also on our Research Advisory Board and our Founder, Dr. Hazel Henderson, was one of the Judges.
MAY 2nd, 2008 NEW YORK CITY The Buckminster Fuller Institute is pleased to announce that Comprehensive Design for a Carbon Neutral World: The Challenge of Appalachia submitted by Dr. John Todd has been selected as the winner of the 2008 Buckminster Fuller Challenge.
Current Issues
Earth Policy News - Plan B Efficiency and Conservation Measures Drop Energy Demand by 2020
January 6th, 2009
January 6, 2009
Lester R. Brown
Earth Policy Institute
Plan B 3.0 Book Byte
http://www.earthpolicy.org/Books/Seg/PB3bp_ss2.htm
Projections from the International Energy Agency show global energy demand growing by close to 30 percent by 2020, setting the stage for massive growth in the carbon dioxide emissions that are warming our planet. But
dramatically ramping up energy efficiency would allow the world to not only avoid growth in energy demand but actually reduce global demand to below 2006 levels by 2020.
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ToYou from NewEnergyNews: Jan. 6, 2009
January 6th, 2009
Developing Renewables Newsletter: Jan. 6, 2009
January 6th, 2009
Final Results of the RTD4EDC project available: the potential for renewable energy in developing countries is high, the EU’s research policy can play an important role in realising this potential.
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Silver linings: Seven post-financial-crisis opportunities for healthier economies
January 6th, 2009
Originally published Nov. 12, 2008
Are there silver linings to the dark cloud of the financial crisis? It is a truism in our politics that only a crisis produces real change. So, looking on the positive side, what might we hope this crisis will bring forward? Here are seven outcomes worth seeking: Read more…
REDUCING FISHERFOLK’S VULNERABILITY LEADS TO RESPONSIBLE FISHERIES
January 6th, 2009
http://www.sflp.org/briefs/eng/01.pdfThe aim of this policy brief is to: Highlight the different ways in which small scale fisheries currently contribute to poverty alleviation and food security,with a focus on West Africa
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Radio/Video
 Advice for Summiteers on Reforming the Global Casino” (may take a while to load on some systems). Corporate Watchdog Radio, Nov. 5, 2008
Hazel Henderson on the Post-Wall Street Shift from a Global Casino to a Sustainable Economy (note that it takes a while to load on some systems). Corporate Watchdog Radio, October 21, 2008
The Economic Crunch: What Lies Ahead, October 9, 2008 (Podcast)
In this podcast from the World Business Academy, Hazel Henderson and Rinaldo Brutoco discuss a full range of methods to address the financial meltdown (1 hour plus Q&A)
Commentary from Hazel Henderson on the market meltdown called Chicago Boys’ Curse Comes Home to Wall Street. Corporate Watchdog Radio, September 23, 2008
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Speak Up on WomensRadio, hosted by Pat Lynch. Hazel speaking on The Truth About Digital Efficiency and Our Environment June 2008
Shift in Action from IONS. Shift in Action from IONS. Stephen Dinan interviews Hazel Henderson, talking about flaws in current economic systems. “Money is not wealth. The real wealth is the wealth of talented people, educated-healthy citizens, healthy ecological systems.” April 2008.
SummitSpeak with Susan Cavanaugh: Wisdom Leaders series with Hazel Henderson speaking on Earth Ethics, March 11, 2008
Marketplace Radio interview with Hazel Henderson”GDP Needs An Overhaul” July 2006
 Our Host, SimranSethi on “OPRAH” talking about green Holiday gift-giving Dec. 2006
Women’sRadio, Pat Lynch interviews Hazel Henderson on the evolution of Green Business over the last 20 years, Dec. 2006
Dreamtime Radio The Emerging Paradigm John English interview with Hazel Henderson on “The New Economy: Changing the Way Economics Changes our Planet” July 2006
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