The 2012 Happy Planet Index results
The HPI measures what matters: the extent to which countries deliver long, happy, sustainable lives for the people that live in them. The Index uses global data on life expectancy, experienced well-being and Ecological Footprint to calculate this.
Each of the three component measures is given a traffic-light score based on thresholds for good (green), middling (amber) and bad (red) performance.
Costa Rica wins again.
Ending extreme poverty the Adventure Project way. (Source)
Educational opportunities for women in Afghanistan are few by The Guardian on Flickr on Flickr.
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I don’t know how many of you all took economics classes, but I took at least 4 in college. I was lucky to have a macroeconomics professor who was somewhat unorthodox and told us about advances in the fields of behavioral and neuroeconomics that helped to undermine the overly simplistic assumptions…
“I started out just a mom fighting for the life of her child.” – Elizabeth Glaser (1947-1994)
Photo Credit: Mia Collis, Elizabeth Glaser Pediatric AIDS Foundation
Today, the global community has united in observing the World AIDS Day with a renewed commitment to getting to …
Bhutan and it’s Gross National Happiness policy
Since 1971, the country has rejected GDP as the only way to measure progress. In its place, it has championed a new approach to development, which measures prosperity through formal principles of gross national happiness (GNH) and the spiritual, physical, social and environmental health of its citizens and natural environment.
“People always ask how can you possibly have a nation of happy people? But this is missing the point,” he says. “GNH is an aspiration, a set of guiding principles through which we are navigating our path towards a sustainable and equitable society. We believe the world needs to do the same before it is too late.”
Shedding a different light, another article considers often neglected issues associated with the fervent pursuit of preserving Bhutanese culture;
Parts of the population have been explicitly cut out of the GNH plan. Llotshampas – ethnic Nepalese living in Bhutan – counted for a fifth of the national population before they were asked to leave as part of a “one country, one nation” campaign in 1991. “The police came to our house and asked for our papers,” remembers Devi Charan Dhungana. “They said, ‘You aren’t speaking Bhutanese or wearing Bhutanese dress. You have to leave.’” Refugee camps in Nepal still hold some 85,500 Llotshampas. Many, including Devi Charan, have resolved to resettle abroad.
2012 saw more social effort and engagement than ever by non-profits, and the infographic from MDG Advertising provides a handy overview. Based on statistics from a number of non-profit advocacy groups, it reflects a world of newfound potential for rallying people online for social good.
Full infographic is available on Mashable.
Essentially, we’re all magicians.
These bags (if clean!) would make great gift wrap.
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No one can make you feel inferior without your consent. ~Eleanor Roosevelt
