Memorial Day seems more about picnics than remembrance, but I want to remember Hazel Henderson, who died this week at age 89. You know that slogan, “”Think globally, act locally.” It was coined early in the 20th century, but she made it popular, and–bless her heart–kept the adverbs.
In 2004 she founded a media company to promote capitalism’s evolution “beyond maximizing profits for shareholders and management to benefiting all stakeholders.” That one was a failure.
Her most famous book (she wrote nine) was The Politics of the Solar Age, advocating use of renewable energy. We’re getting there, but oh so slowly.
She told a newspaper reporter that she remained self-employed because “I would have been fired off any job for insubordination.”
Ms. Henderson’s obit can be found in the Times, May 29, 2022, p. 23.
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