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(VIDEO) GDP is so 20th century – Social Progress is the metric of the 21st century. Congrats Canada for being #1 among the G7

November 15, 2014

Social Impact, Sustainability Themed Videos

GDP is a measurement tool invented in the 20th century for the development challenges of the 20th century. In the 21st century need a tool that faces the new challenges that we face.

Capitalism 2.0: Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness

Adina Kaufman

March 17, 2014

Capitalism 2.0, Event Summaries

We've been living our lives as though the accumulation of wealth is the key to our dreams” and yet despite ever-increasing financial prosperity in North America, people’s ratings of happiness and well-being do not reflect a similar increase. Clearly there is a disconnect ...

Measuring Blind Growth (GDP) is a Flawed Approach: A Sustainable Economy will Measure Wellbeing

David Suzuki

March 9, 2014

Capitalism 2.0

The GDP measures the value of all transactions for goods and services. But many agree that its biggest flaw is that it say little about 'the welfare of a nation.

Measure more of what we want and watch wellbeing rise.

Brad Zarnett

January 20, 2014

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We've known for sometime that the financial metrics that we use to assess our economic progress aren't a good measure of our well being - introducing the Happy Planet Index.

Can the Happiness Index work in the United States?

Laura Musikanski

April 17, 2012

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Nevada City is a picturesque town nestled in the High Sierras of California. At the beginning of every year, it hosts an environmental film festival attended by roughly 5000 people, and pretty much all 3,000 of...

Can we overcome the inertia that sustains the ill-founded dominance of GNP?

Allen White

January 5, 2012

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What is economic progress? It depends upon one’s definition of the purpose of an economic system. In a prior post, I described the effort of a working group of the New Economy Network (NEN) in developing 10 ...

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