Joining us today to fill in the development blanks is author and futurist Hazel Henderson
The bold text below shows how Hazel filled in the development blanks. We invite readers to fill in the blanks themselves by using the comment function below. While you are at it, why not respond to Hazel's suggestion below as well? Here goes:
In an era of limits, the new definition of development is equity, sufficiency, well-being and quality of life.
If I were casting a sequel of Nightmare on Development Street, my choice to play Freddie Krueger would be Larry Summers.
As part of the development agenda, water is key to survival.
As part of the development agenda, ecotourism is the model and should favor those who have never traveled.
Continued or increased dependence on the automobile will lead to more environmental pollution, congestion and inequality, and starve public transit.
The population explosion will lead to women demanding equal power and access to resources. This could help reach the three billion "avoided births" that correspond with the average number of children women prefer (see Ashok Khosla's lecture on the Ethical Markets TV website).
The most likely millennium development goal to be achieved is the empowering of women.
All of the millennium development goals will depend on reforming and downsizing unproductive finance by, for example, financial transactions taxes, etc.
The most glaring thing missing from the development agenda is gender parity: 50-50 decision-making at all levels from the family to the United Nations.
My favorite development success story is Kerala, India.
The sentence I would like to see others complete is: I have changed my personal lifestyle to reduce my ecological footprint by___________________________.
My Favorite Development Media
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I like this format.
Thanks, Anja. How are things in Austria?
I think the format jives pretty well with the way many people read blogs. There is no single answer, of course, and we are all sort of groping for something that will click in the new media, but I am a firm believer in trying to identify and understand the audience. Often people, including many well-meaning folks in the development world, practice what I call “supply side communications” – spewing out all sorts of important information that nobody ever looks at. Often groups, especially NGOs, are only interested in telling their stories according to the internal politics of their organizations; since they are not thinking about their audience, they end up without one. They spend all sorts of money to shout into a desert where nobody will hear them.
If there is no audience, there is no communication.
The mid-2010 update of our GREEN TRANSITION SCOREBOARD™ shows $1.64 trillion in private investment in companies growing the green economy since 2007. This is up from $1.24 trillion since the end of Dec. 2009. I have been tracking these technologies since the 1970s when I advised the U.S. Congress Office of Technology Assessment, the National Science Foundation and later the National Academy of Engineering. Many studies, computer models and reports indicate that investing $1 trillion annually until 2020 can ramp up material and energy efficiencies, reduce costs of wind, solar, geothermal, water, sustainable land-use and forestry, and together with smart infrastructure, transport, building and urban re-design, can accelerate the Green Transition worldwide. The Green Transition Scoreboard™ shows private investors are on track to meet this goal, setting the path for governments and institutional investors to follow.
This interview is now featured on Hazel Henderson’s website: http://www.hazelhenderson.com/interviews.html
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