The speaker, Hazel Henderson, is the founder of Ethical Markets Media, LLC and the creator and co-executive Producer of its TV series. She is a world renowned futurist, evolutionary economist, a worldwide syndicated columnist, consultant on sustainable development, and author of The Axiom and Nautilus award-winning book Ethical Markets: Growing the Green Economy (2006) and eight other books. She co-edited, with Harlan Cleveland and Inge Kaul, The UN: Policy and Financing Alternatives, Elsevier Scientific, UK 1995 (US edition, 1996).
1. HAZEL HENDERSON, D.Sc.Hon., FRSA
President, Ethical Markets Media (USA and Brazil)
Author, Ethical Markets: Growing the Green Economy
Ethicalmarkets.com/EBF
Biomimicry.net
Introduction
and
Overview
2. =
FINANCE at the SERVICE
of
HUMAN DEVELOPMENT
+
EVOLUTION of ALL LIFE
on
EARTH
3. ETHICAL BIOMIMICRY FINANCEā¢
For 21st century āANTHROPOCENE AGEā:
starts with Science
ā¢ Earth Systems Science, NASA 1979
ā¢ Biology, Ecology
ā¢ Geology, Hydrology, Atmospheric Chemistry
ā¢ Human Behavioral Science
ā¢ Human Brain and Endocrinology
ā¢ Anthropology, Psychology, Sociology
ā¢ Ethical Biomimicry āInnovation
12. Implications for Traditional Economics and Finance
ā¢ Investment models fail
ā» focused on equilibrium
ā» based on theories, ideologies, norms
ā¢ Globalized Finance Systemic Risks
ā» unstable, HFT ā collapse
ā¢ Destabilizing Every Local Social System and Ecosystem
ā¢ Mistakes MONEY (unit of account) for WEALTH; discounts real
wealth and futureāerrors encoded in equilibrium math models
ā» e.g., Arrow-Debreu
ā¢ Based on Externalizing Costs
ā» e.g., Carbon āBubbleā equals trillions of dollars (Carbon Tracker)
13. Re-Training Economists and Asset
Managers, Investors:
ā¢ Few courses ā most business schools teach old
models
ā¢ Books, papers, speeches inadequate
ā¢ How to engage TRADITIONAL and MAINSTREAM
FINANCE, INVESTORS
ā¢ SRI, TBL, ESG, green, integrated ethical investments
have positive impact.
ā¢ Principles of Ethical Biomimicry Financeā¢ builds on
and deepens to include scientific basis for transition
from fossil Industrial Era to Solar Age
31. We invite you to add your name
to these co-signers!
And to help promote the use of the
Principles of Ethical Biomimicry Financeā¢
to the financial community and all investors!
Thank You
33. Strategies for Deals and Relationships
with Outside Investors, Funders and Banks
derived from Ethical Markets Media research and publications
ā¢ Full transparency, disclosure to all prospective funders simultaneously.
ā¢ Observance of all current rules and regulations required under the International Organization of
Securities Commissions (IOSCO), the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, the Sarbanes-Oxley Act,
Dodd-Frank, FINRA, et al.
ā¢ Interview, search and vet all prospective funders to identify their ethics, values beyond money,
performance in relation to these ethics and values. Seek only funders in full alignment with the company's
purpose, long-term goals, mission and values, and protect the initial āangelā investors from dilution.
ā¢ Reject funds with short-term financial payback and performance requirements or exit strategies of either
acquisition by a larger corporation or an initial public offering on existing stock exchanges.
ā¢ Seek more creative funding strategies which keep the company's long-term mission intact and do not
compromise integrity of management or its strategies.
ā¢ Seek financing from local sources, community banks and credit unions, while checking their mission
statements, policies for green, energy, materials efficiency and performance to their own standards, including
of fairness and management practices.
ā¢ Engage with appropriate crowdfunding groups with highest social and environmental standards and
those focused on green biomimicry startups that adhere to the Principles of Ethical Biomimicry Financeā¢.
ā¢ Seek to self-finance from internal, organic growth as the best option and keep external borrowing and
equity to a minimum.