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Hazel Henderson
The official site for ecologist, economist and futurist Hazel Henderson. Browse articles, book excerpts, speech transcripts, tour schedules and an extensive links collection.
World Futures Society
The World Future Society was founded in 1966 and serves as a clearinghouse for ideas about social and technological change in the future. The non-profit WFS has over 30,000 members worldwide. Browse archives of The Futurist Magazine, monographs, reports and literature reviews. The site also features a bookstore, chapters, press room and specialist Web forums.
World Futures Studies Federation
The World Futures Studies Federation provides a global forum for discussing ideas, scenarios and visions of alternative, long-term and multi-cultural futures. The Federation has close ties with other futures organizations and the United Nations. This site details WFSF publications, conferences and individual researchers. The WFSF strives to create an inclusive environment to examine a range of educational, artistic, cultural and scientific viewpoints.
Worldwatch Institute
The Worldwatch Institute is a pre-eminent forum for resources on environmental sustainable societies, the needs of future generations and ecological-oriented business. Its annual State of the World report synthesizes data and information on emerging global environmental issues from diverse organizations and researchers. Browse a range of publications, press room and on-going research.
World Business Academy
The World Business Academy was founded by Willis Harman and Jagdish Parikh. The WBA is a forum for discussing 21st century approaches to business, including environmental/sustainable concepts. Learn about the benefits of membership and tap into a rapidly expanding global network.
Calvert Social Investment Fund
The Calvert Social Investment Fund is at the cutting-edge of investment culture. Hazel Henderson created the Calvert-Henderson Quality of Life Indicators in partnership with Calvert researchers. The Fund provides a diversity of mutual funds with environmental/socially conscious/sustainable orientations. Learn more about the Indicators and Calvert's portfolio of investment options.
Commission on Globalization
The Commission on Globalization provides a discussion forum for different stakeholders (business, government and NGOs) about globalization issues and long-term effects. The Commission gives an overview of different policies and partners with activist and social groups to fuel much-needed debate.
WETV
WETV offers global multimedia and television resources on environmental and sustainable issues. Browse their archives, learn about their programs and spread the news to other potential viewers.
New Economics Foundation
"The New Economics Foundation is the radical think tank. It is unique in bringing together the ideas, people, resources and influence to challenge business-as-usual. We create practical and enterprising solutions to the social, environmental and economic challenges facing the local, regional, national and global economies."
Social Venture Network
"Founded in 1987 by some of the nation's most visionary leaders in socially responsible entrepreneurship and investment, Social Venture Network (SVN) is a nonprofit network committed to building a just and sustainable world through business. SVN promotes new models and leadership for socially and environmentally sustainable business in the 21st century. We champion this effort through initiatives, information services and forums that strengthen our community and empower our members to work together on behalf of their shared vision."
Spaceship Earth
The EarthScope is a multimedia software tool created by the Buckminster Fuller Institute that includes the Calvert-Henderson Quality of Life Indicators. The software showcases two famous scenarios ("Business as Usual" and "Sustainability") that have underpinned the environmental and sustainable society debate. Features GIS-style displays of key indicators and analytical tools. The free Macromedia Flash player is required to view.
Good Governance and Participatory Development
Hazel Henderson presented this paper for the United Nations International Conference on Governance for Sustainable Growth and Equity (July 28-30, 1997). Henderson gives an in-depth analysis of why, in the Digital Age, international markets must be more carefully regulated, taxation systems need urgent reform and why the UN should be funded. Other topics include "full cost" pricing, public-private-civic partnerships, and the battle over global standards. Highly recommended reading.
Perfecting Democracy's Tools
This is a chapter excerpt from Hazel Henderson's book Paradigms In Progress (Indianapolis: Knowledge Systems, 1991) that discusses cybernetic models of democracy, the role of diversity generators and unifying concerns in business and how to reform industry pricing. Captures the trajectory of Hazel Henderson's thoughts in the mid-1990s and her replies to Ross Perot's presidential campaign.
Thinking Globally, Acting Locally: The Politics and Ethics of the Solar Age
Hazel Henderson gave the Horace M. Albright Conservation Lecture at the University of California's Berkeley campus (3 March 1982). Henderson focuses on the breakdown of the industrial production system, the looming environmental crises and the errors of Reagonomics. An excellent overview of Henderson's core ideas and how she critiques the political process.
Hazel Henderson Interview
Hazel Henderson talks in this interview (December 1997) about Buckminster Fuller, risk management, international diversification, systemic risks to the global financial system and global regulatory bodies. This interview conveys how Henderson has influenced cutting-edge financial institutions.
Paraview A Global Acupuncturist Active in the World
In this interview with Alexander Drake (2001), Hazel Henderson explains why she became interested in environmentally sustainable societies, the Calvert-Henderson Quality of Life Indicators, scarcity economics, cultural comparisons between the US and Japan, the "care economy" and how to create a culture that honors individual wisdom.
Hazel Henderson on Taming the Shrewd Market
In this New Presence Magazine interview (December 2000) conducted by Anne Beck and Andrew Stroehlein, Hazel Henderson examines how information technology is transforming the balance of power between central bankers, commodity traders and countries. Other topics include the militia movement, reforming the media, global standards as tools to impose conformity and reflections on the Forum 2000 conference. "In terms of getting central banking in the world that works, I think that the American people wouldn't even weigh in on that debate. They just want it to work: it's just a technical thing, like the IMF. You see, they don't trust the Fed. It's really weird, because all those people out in the woods in the US, in militia movements, are the very ones who understand just how badly operated the Fed is. They happen to be right."
Hazel Henderson: Healthier Communities and Economism
Hazel Henderson explains her stance on "economicism" in this Healthcare Forum interview (1994): why the GNP and other leading macroeconomic indicators give a misguided view of communities and sustainable growth. "Some communities have fought the gap between macroeconomic indicators and the community reality by inventing alternative local currencies and systems of exchange. This is a leading indicator of the failure of the macroeconomic system."
Discovering What Works: A Conversation With Hazel Henderson
In this Healthcare Forum Journal (September/October 1994) interview conducted by Joe Flower, Hazel Henderson outlines her "anti-economics" and "economicism". Henderson explains why she became an activist in the 1960s, locally-appropriate measures, an initiative in Jacksonville (Florida), the vagueness of "the business climate", hidden values in macroeconomic indicators and community-based initiatives.
Hazel Henderson: Economics In The Solar Age
This Sustainability interview (Spring 1990) conducted by Alan AtKisson reveals what happened after the media discovered "the environment" in 1990. Henderson details the formation of the South Economic Summit (with fifteen member nations) as an initiative to change the North-South divide. She suggests that her Quality of Life Indicators, if supported by a media campaign, could help to galvanize a new form of US politics. What "full cost pricing" would resemble and why "level playing fields" don't exist in neoliberal thought.
Preventing War and Global Recession: Change Globalization to a Win-Win Game
Hazel Henderson's essay (September 2001) warns of a US recession and expresses solidarity with the protesters and strategists who warned, prior to the 9/11 attacks, that America needed to rethink its military policies and shift resources to Humint ("human intelligence"). "These change-the-game strategies should be heeded and implemented before knee-jerk military strikes kill more poverty stricken innocents, whether in Afghanistan or in the wider conflict, and more terrorist attacks. Eye-for-an-eye dogmas belong to history — not the 21st century."
Mr. Bush's Win-Win Option
Hazel Henderson's essay (September 2001) outlines some "win-win" options for President George W. Bush to build a truly global coalition to curb terrorism in the wake of the 9/11 attack. Henderson's ideas include paying back UN debt, a Summit on Terrorism, ratifying global treaties, working with INTERPOL and taking a multilateral stance. A viewpoint on the options not taken.
Hazel Henderson: Global Networks
This article by Hazel Henderson appeared in Toward A Sustainable World Order (Fall 1993). Henderson explains how citizen groups and NGOs can play a key role in creating a sustainable society.
Scott London: Building A Win-Win World
Scott London summarizes Hazel Henderson's book Building A Win-Win World (Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 1996). London praises Henderson’s attack on "economicism" and abstract social indicators, her "quality of life" discussions with grassroots movements, and her insights on how to transform surveys and national dialogue. An introduction to why Henderson is known as America's most prominent alternative economic thinker.
Scott London: Paradigms In Progress
Scott London summarizes Hazel Henderson's book Paradigms In Progress (Indianapolis: Knowledge Systems, 1991). London outlines the basics of futurist thinking and sustainable economics, then examines the influence of Warren Bennis and Philip Slater on Henderson's work, how systems can reform democracy and the problems of policy-making. "In addition to the subjects already noted, she explores the population crisis, the widening gap between the world's haves and have-nots, gender inequality, acid rain and space debris, and the drive to develop renewable energy resources."
ENN Marketplace
An extensive bio for Hazel Henderson, featuring publication details and organizational affiliations.
ATI: Hazel Henderson Bio
An extensive bio for Hazel Henderson, including organizational affiliations, research and publications.
Hazel Henderson on Civic Society 2000
Hazel Henderson on why voluntary civic society is the missing "third sector" that would reconfigure business-government relationships.
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