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The New Economics Foundation (NEF's) leading aim is to create a new economy that serves people and the planet. For the past 20 years this foundation has been redefining wealth and progress: to judge systems and economies on how much they create the world we actually want, rather than how much money they generate. The Happy Planet Index explores and rates nations’ happiness based on this altered economic paradigm. Costa Rica rates the highest, while the US and England don’t measure in the top countries.
One might imagine that an organization with a focus on a happy planet might be made up of flowers-in-their-hair Birkenstock wearers. This British organization is filled with scientists and researchers who examine how public policy could promote personal and planetary well being. No comfortable clunky shoes required. The idea of personal well-being considers all people. They combine rigorous analysis and policy debate with practical solutions on the ground, often run and designed with the help of local people. NEF also creates new ways of measuring progress towards increased well-being and environmental sustainability.
NEF's centre for well-being was set up to promote the concept of well-being as legitimate and useful aim of policy and to provide people with the understanding and tools to redefine wealth in terms of well-being.
Some main areas of focus as stated in their free ebook: Are You Happy :
Re-think the global economy
NEF seeks to lay the foundation for a coherent and concrete alternative to the current global economic model backed by a broad and inclusive coalition of global civil society. This new global economic system will start from what we want to achieve – health, education and well-being – and work within our environmental limits. Radically re-defining poverty based on people having their social and economic needs met and showing just how bad the global economy is at delivering poverty reduction.
Safe-guard the environment
NEF works with environmental advocates, anti-poverty campaigners, leading scientists and policy analysts to develop a new architecture for protecting the world’s atmosphere and delivering a more equitable system for meeting human development needs. Working out what human development looks like in a carbon-constrained world and re-thinking development models.
Changing food systems
NEF calls for a new global food system that ends the environmentally wasteful and damaging way we trade what we eat – lifting local food out of the margins
Join or explore the NEF.
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