Jean Hazel Henderson ( Mustard; 27 March 1933 – 22 May 2022) was a British American

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and environmental activist. She authored several books including ''Building a Win-Win World'', ''Beyond Globalization'', ''Planetary Citizenship'' (with

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), and ''Ethical Markets: Growing the Green Economy.''

Early life

Henderson was born on 27 March 1933, in

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, Somerset, England, the daughter of Kenneth and Dorothy May ( Jesseman) Mustard. She graduated from Clifton School in 1950. After graduation, she worked as a saleswoman, hotel clerk and telephone operator.

Career

In 1957, Henderson moved to New York City with her husband. She lived in an area of the city that was constantly covered in soot from garbage incinerators, forcing her to constantly wash the soot from her infant daughter. Her many complaints to city hall went nowhere, prompting her and Carolyn Konheim, another concerned parent, to form Citizens for Clean Air. The group made several early advances in clean air activism by lobbying for local, state, and federal pollution legislation. The group is responsible for getting the

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featured in weather reporting. At its height, the group was composed of 20,000 members, with about 75 percent of them being women. In the 1960s and 1970s, she wrote for the ''

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''. She advised the

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and the

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from 1974 to 1980. She was Regent's Lecturer at the

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, and held the Horace Albright Chair in Conservation at the

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, and worked as a travelling lecturer and panelist. In 2004, Henderson started Ethical Markets Media, LLC, to disseminate information on green investing,

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, green business, green energy, business ethics news, environmentally friendly technology, good corporate citizenship and sustainable development by making available reports, articles, newsletters and video gathered from around the world. In 2007, Henderson published the book ''Ethical Markets: Growing the Green Economy'' which became the basis of the Ethical Markets television series on

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. In her later career, she served on the boards of such publications as ''Futures Research Quarterly'', ''The State of the Future Report'', and ''E/The Environmental Magazine'' (US), ''Resurgence'', ''Foresight and Futures'' (UK). She was a member of the

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, the

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, the

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, and a fellow of the

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. She was listed in ''Who's Who in the World'', ''Who's Who in Science and Technology'', and in ''Who's Who in Business and Finance''.

Awards and honours

In 1967, she was named "citizen of the year" by the New York County Medical Society. In 1996, she received the Boston Research Center’s Global Citizen Award along with

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. In 2007, Henderson was elected a Fellow of the

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. Henderson was awarded Honorary Doctor of Science degrees from the

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, Soka University, and

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Personal life

In 1957, she married Carter Henderson, a writer for ''The Wall Street Journal''. Together they had a daughter. They divorced in 1981. In 1996, she married Alan F. Kay, an internet pioneer and social entrepreneur, was the founder of the electronic Wall Street trading platform AutEx. He died in 2016. Henderson died of skin cancer at her home in

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, on 22 May 2022.

Books

*''Ethical Markets: Growing the Green Economy'', Chelsea Green Publishing, 2006, *

coauthor, ''Planetary Citizenship'', Middleway Press, 2004, , 256 pgs *Hazel Henderson et al., ''Calvert-Henderson Quality of Life Indicators'', Calvert Group, 2000, , 392 pgs *''Beyond Globalization''. Kumarian Press, 1999, , 88 pgs *''Building a Win-Win World''. Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 1995, , 320 pgs *''Creating Alternative Futures''. Kumarian Press, 1996, , 430 pgs (original edition,

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, NY, 1978) *Hazel Henderson et al., ''The United Nations: Policy and Financing Alternatives''. Global Commission to Fund the United Nations, 1995, , 269 pgs *''Paradigms in Progress''. Berrett-Koehler Publishers, 1995, , 293 pgs (original edition, Knowledge Systems, 1991) *''Redefining Wealth and Progress: New Ways to Measure Economic, Social, and Environmental Change : The Caracas Report on Alternative Development Indicators''. Knowledge Systems Inc., 1990, , 99 pgs *''The Politics of the Solar Age''. Knowledge Systems Inc., 1988, , 433 pgs (original edition, Doubleday, NY, 1981)

References

External links

HazelHenderson.com
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