Sep
24
The current economic logic says that if somewhere is making money, it’s doing well. But here at Happy City we've always been clear that that’s only part of the story. GDP is a measure of wealth, not wellbeing and using it as a sole metric to measure societal progress misses...
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Sep
18
Why is it that almost all the radical approaches to delivering a new economic vision are being led by women? From Jacinda Ardern in New Zealand to Nicola Sturgeon in Scotland, there is a North-to-South shared agenda calling for wellbeing to be put at the heart of government thinking. Here...
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Sep
02
We've added three new additional modules to the Happiness Pulse - making it possible to understand how people's wellbeing is connected to their workplace, housing or active life. You can add these new question sets (as well as the Community Pulse additional question module) onto the core Happiness Pulse question...
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Aug
01
We’re thrilled that wellbeing economics is continuing to make waves across the world. In June we wrote about the developments that were taking place when Jacinda Ardern announced New Zealand’s new wellbeing budget. Since then, wellbeing has been a regular feature in the news, with Nicola Sturgeon’s fantastic TED talk...
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Jun
03
What a month it’s been for wellbeing economics. For an organisation that’s spent ten years campaigning for a societal commitment to wellbeing, it’s been heartwarming to watch the trickle of ideas turning into a roar for action. First over 200 leading academics sent an open letter to the EU demanding...
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May
22
This mental health awareness week there’s been plenty in the news about how green space plays a role in mental health - from articles ranging from the role that community gardens can play in overcoming depression, to the Duchess of Cambridge’s woodland wellbeing space for the Chelsea Flower Show. But...
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Apr
30
We’re thrilled to be launching the 2019 edition of the Thriving Places Index, a new way to understand the strengths and challenges of where you live. The 2019 results for 373 local authorities in England and Wales are now live at www.thrivingplacesindex.org as well as maps and reports with analysis...
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Mar
20
We are delighted to announce the release of our all-new Happiness Pulse web-app, with support from the National Lottery Community Fund. The Happiness Pulse is a free online survey that combines a range of academic measures of wellbeing into a simple and interactive five minute survey. Anyone can use the...
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Mar
06
Who needs ‘community’? The short answer is we all do. As people have understood across generations and geography, we need each other, particularly when times are tough. Today sees the release of “Closing the Distance Between Us”, a major new report that Happy City has contributed to commissioned by...
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Mar
01
Centre for Thriving Places contributed to the ‘Closing the Distance Between Us’ report which was commissioned by Eden Project Communities Big Lunch team and published in March 2019. The report identified a widening gap in the relationship between people and their neighbours that is damaging our mental and physical health...
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