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Nic Marks: The Happy Planet Index on TED talk
Statistician Nic Marks asks why we measure a nation’s success by its productivity — instead of by the happiness and well-being of its people. He introduces the Happy Planet Index …, which tracks national well-being against resource use (because a happy life doesn’t have to cost the earth). Which countries rank highest in the HPI? […]
Money as a debt
August 25, 2011
Paul Grignon’s 47-minute animated presentation of “Money as Debt” tells in very simple and effective graphic terms what money is and how it is being created. A painless but hard-hitting educational tool for those concerned with the present unsustainable monetary system inCanada, theUnited Statesand most of the global economy.
Watch – it starts like a really boring video, but wait … this will probably turn out to be the most important you’ll ever seen.
August 25, 2011
2 million views for an old codger giving a lecture about arithmetic… ? What’s going on? Watch and see what Albert Bartlett has to say about the greatest shortcoming of our time … a collective illusion like we have seldom created in our common history!
Is GDP An Obsolete Measure of Progress? Time Online
August 25, 2011
An article by Judith D. Schwartz Since last summer the nation’s Gross Domestic Product (GDP) has gone up — indeed, it grew at a surprising 5.7% rate in the 4th quarter — seeming to confirm what we’ve been hearing: the recession is officially over. But wait — foreclosure and unemployment rates remain high, and food […]
The Consumption paradigm
August 21, 2011
For the last four centuries, the world has been dominated by the belief that everything that exists is material and that consciousness and inner states of being, things like happiness, love, well being and self esteem, are the result of physical/bio chemical processes taking place inside the body/brain complex. Consciousness is defined as a by-product of […]
Paul Hawken – 10years in/ten years out – Googlezeitgeist08
August 21, 2011
Environmentalist, entrepreneur, author of the acclaimed Blessed unrest, Paul Hawken speaks on the current global ecology of economy and the emergence of solutions worldwide – Googlezeitgeist, September 19, 2008
Measuring Real Progress by Ron Colman
August 20, 2011
Measuring Real Progress by Ron Colman All of us— politicians, economists, journalists, and the general public—have been completely hooked on the illusion that equates economic growth with well-being and prosperity. This was not the intention of those who created the GDP. Simon Kuznets, its principal architect, warned 40 years ago: The welfare of a nation […]
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August 25, 2011
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