Synopses & Reviews
With insight, clarity, warmth, and enthusiasm Hazel Henderson announces the mature presence of the green economy. Mainstream media and big business interests have sidelined its emergence and evolution to preserve the status quo.
Throughout Ethical Markets Henderson weaves statistics and analysis with profiles of entrepreneurs, environmentalists, scientists, and professionals. Based on interviews conducted on her longstanding public television series, these profiles celebrate those who have led the highly successful growth of green businesses around the world.
Ethical Markets is the ultimate sourcebook on today's thriving green economy.
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"This book is a powerful and much needed antidote to the wide-spread hopelessness about our global ecological crisis. Hazel Henderson uses her flawless systemic analysis, great eloquence, and her unique gift for provocative, yet disarming aphorisms to show us not only that the transition to a sustainable future is possible with existing technologies and conceptual models, but also that it is already well on its way." --Fritjof Capra, author, The Web of Life and The Hidden Connections
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"Hazel Henderson has been pointing the way to a responsible future for decades, and with this book she now shows us that, lo and behold, the future is here! The stories she tells about the people who are bringing it to us are fascinating--and important."--James Gustave Speth, Dean, School of Forestry & Environmental Studies, Yale University
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"Hazel Henderson has come forth with a magnificent map for action at the precise moment in our evolutionary crisis when we must redirect our most basic behavior. Ethical Markets is a must read."--Barbara Marx Hubbard, author, Conscious Evolution: Awakening the Power of our Social Potential, president, Foundation for Conscious Evolution
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"This book is as thought provoking as its title. Henderson provides a comprehensive review of leading-edge global initiatives to sustain the planet, people and profits. As a pioneer activist, Henderson has both authority and intimate knowledge to document current efforts to sustain humanity and the quality of life. The book makes an invaluable contribution to its subject by providing examples and references for others to promote, adopt and/or develop the green economy."--Dr. Shann Turnbull, Principal, International Institute for Self-governance
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"Hazel Henderson has compiled the stories of key players both within and without the establishment who are giving voice to an awakening environmental consciousness and the need to green the economy."--David C. Korten, author, The Great Turning: From Empire to Earth Community and When Corporations Rule the World
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"Hazel Henderson has done it again. For decades she's managed to stay ahead of the curve in corporate social responsibility, lighting the path that others follow. If you want good news on where the world is heading, read this book."--Marjorie Kelly, author of The Divine Right of Capital, and co-founder of Business Ethics Magazine
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"There are thinkers, there are philosophers, there are prophets, and then there is Hazel Henderson. She sees the future and finds its seeds in the present. Visionary and practical, this book will make you feel better about the choices you make on behalf of humanity.--Jessica Lipnack and Jeff Stamps, co-authors of Virtual Teams and The Age of the Network (www.netage.com)
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"With her characteristic clarity and readability, Hazel Henderson maps emerging movements for social, economic and ecological change that all of us--whether we share her enthusiasm for them or not--need to know about."--Alvin Toffler, author of Future Shock and co-author with Heidi Toffler of Revolutionary Wealth
About the Author
Hazel Henderson, Ph.D., renowned economist, syndicated columnist, and consultant, created and produces the public television series "Ethical Markets". A fellow of the World Business Academy, she serves on several boards and shared the Global Citizen Award with Nobel Laureate A. Perez Esquivel of Argentina. Simran Sethi is an award-winning journalist who produced and anchored the news for MTV Asia, co-created the MTV India news division, and developed programming for the BBC and Doordarshan through her independent production company SHE TV. She is the host and scriptwriter of Ethical Markets and heads video strategy for TreeHugger.com--the leading environmental blog on the internet. Sethi is a media advocate, serving on the board of directors for the National Radio Project, and is passionate about food justice, currently developing a food curriculum within her local community. L. Hunter Lovins is the founder of Natural Capitalism, Inc. and Natural Capitalism Solutions and co-founder of the Rocky Mountain Institute. She is a professor at the Presidio School of Management's MBA in Sustainable Management program.
Table of Contents
Foreword
Introduction
1. Redefining Success
2. Global Corporate Citizenship
3. The Unpaid "Love" Economy
4. Green Building and Design
5. Community Investing
6. Fair Trade
7. Women-Owned Businesses
8. Renewable Energy
9. Shareholder Activism
10. Transformation of Work
11. Clean Food
12. Health and Wellness
13. The Future of Socially Responsible Investing
Acknowledgments
Bibliography
Index