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From ‘Progress’ to an Economics of Happiness

Blog From ‘Progress’ to an Economics of Happiness by Helena Norberg-Hodge. Photo by D. Jonez on Unsplash.

If there’s one thing I’d love world leaders to think about in connection with the UN’s International Day of Happiness, it’s that their measure of progress actually goes up with unhappiness and unrest. GDP, or Gross Domestic Product, which is […]

Filed Under: Economics of Happiness Conferences, Happiness, Localization Tagged With: consumerism, depression, Economics of Happiness, GDP, localization, mental health, progress, well-being

Humility and the myth of limitlessness

Blog 'Humility and the Myth of Limitlessness' by L. M. Sacasas. Photo by Hans Veth on Unsplash

I might be wrong about this, but it seems that over the last couple of years more and more people have been working their way to the conclusion that modern society is fundamentally broken – not just broken in a […]

Filed Under: Happiness, Inner transformation, Technology Tagged With: happiness, mental health, technology, well-being

Art as Activism: an interview with Brenna Quinlan

Art as Activism: an interview with Brenna Quinlan - blog by Henry Coleman of Local Futures

Brenna Quinlan’s passions are art, sustainability and education, and she combines these three into what she calls ‘Art as Activism’. Having lived and worked on permaculture sites around the world, her drawings convey the power of permaculture and localization principles, […]

Filed Under: Happiness, Localization Tagged With: community, happiness, localization, permaculture, well-being

6 Reasons People of Color Should Grow Their Own Food

6 Reasons for people of olour should grow their own food - blog Local Futures

In November 2007, my husband and I decided to leave our jobs in biotech, sell our Southern California suburban house, and buy an organic farm. Although we knew what we wanted to do, we had no clue where we would […]

Filed Under: Food and Farming, Happiness, Health, Local food, Uncategorized Tagged With: agriculture, community, farming, local food, racism, sustainability, well-being

World Localization Day is back!

June 20th 2021 marks the return of the international WLD campaign, which aims to galvanize the worldwide localization movement into a force for systemic change. This movement is made up of myriad initiatives and groups on every continent working to […]

Filed Under: Coronavirus, Environment, Happiness, Local energy, Local finance, Local food, Localization, Resistance and Renewal Tagged With: community, diversity, farming, local food, localization, sustainability, well-being

Progress and the modernization of Ladakh

One morning during breakfast, my family started talking about new policies of the government towards “Progress” to ensure road connectivity and freshwater pipelines to every house, which have been categorized as basic necessities. I agree that these facilities make life […]

Filed Under: Climate Change, Community, Development, Happiness Tagged With: climate change, community, development, happiness

Not Giving up on Happiness: Care of the Self and Well-Being in a Plague Year

The specter of plague haunts our world, and it brings with it not only the ghouls of disease and death but vast economic and social uncertainty of a sort only the most elderly among us remembers (the Great Depression and […]

Filed Under: Happiness, Health, Inner transformation Tagged With: depression, happiness, health, mental health, pandemic, well-being

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