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Recently, a number of people have asked me about what resources have been most useful thus far in developing the vision of community supported well-being. The post below is a simple listing of some of the materials that have helped inspire the vision thus far. Hope they are helpful!
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Fourth Sector [...]
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A recent article in YES! Magazine (The Old Economy’s Not Coming Back. So What’s Next?) lays out with great clarity the argument for why there is no better time then now to usher in the new economy, the idea “that the entire economic system must be radically restructured if critical social and environmental [...]
Continue Reading →Not only does stress make us feel out of sorts, new research just published in Nature shows that childhood stress can actually affect our DNA, and may lead to increased health problems later in life. What kind of stress do you have?
Continue Reading →USA Today reported this morning that Stress-busting drinks are a sensation and a growing market. While it may be true that as Peter Bianchi, CEO of Drank maker Innovative Beverage, says, “It’s a positive alternative to reaching for a bottle of pills or a six-pack of beer.” I have to wonder if products like [...]
Continue Reading →Happiness measures are wonderful. For the first time they are providing our data-driven world with a way to quantify what many of us feel intuitively – that GDP and other economic measures are a far cry from painting the overall picture of how we feel about our lives. So it’s great that the idea and [...]
Continue Reading →Much has been written about the environmental impact of all of the “stuff” we consume. This recent manifesto is a great example, offering that we should demand a minimum set of environmental standards and that would drive the ability to “design our way out of environmental trouble”.
In addition to the external waste and [...]
Continue Reading →Why do we believe the things we do? In the video “the Bomb in the Brain”, the theory described is that beliefs come from all kinds of trauma. The presentation leans heavily on the results of the ACE Study “an ongoing collaboration between the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and Kaiser Permanente…analyzing [...]
Continue Reading →This presentation is from the Foresight project Mental Capital and Wellbeing published in October 2008. The project commissioned the centre for well-being at nef (the new economics foundation) to develop ‘five ways to wellbeing’: a set of evidence-based actions to improve personal wellbeing. Foresight helps government to think systemically about the future. Find out more and read [...]
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