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September 15, 2014
The Good Country Index: Ireland is Ranked The Highest
The Good Country Index measures how much each of 125 countries contributes to the planet and to the human race. Accordin...
September 12, 2014
Help Campaigns to Sign Petitions on the Internet
Avaaz.org Community Petitions is the largest online campaign community. Avaaz offers activists an online platform to s...
September 10, 2014
Biocultural Diversity: Threatened species, endangered languages
It is common to think of nature and culture as being quite different. However, Biocultural Diversity: Threatened species...
September 08, 2014
The World Bank: Measuring Wealth to Track Sustainability
The World Bank released a new edition of the World Bank's Little Green Data Book on World Environment Day, 5th June, 201...
September 05, 2014
City of Portland Begins Rollback of Investments in Wal-Mart
The City of Portland, Oregon, U.S.A., anounced that some of the holdings in city-owned Wal-Mart bonds will mature and it...
July 07, 2014
Seven Principles for Building Resilience
The Stockholm Resilience Centre has released a new introduction to the seven principles for building resilience in socia...
July 04, 2014
OuiShare Fest: Many collaborative economic activists came to Paris
The global network and think tank OuiShare held OuiShare Fest in Paris from May 5 -7, 2014. This festival is the largest...
June 19, 2014
No Small Change--Evaluating your community currency: free handbook
New Economic Foundation (NEF) released a handbook for community organisers who want to organise a local currency and/or ...
June 17, 2014
Rising GDP: don't believe the hype
New Economic Foundation (NEF) discusses the latest GDP figures showing that the U.K. has returned to growth, but this he...
June 15, 2014
The Social Progress Index 2014: An index that moves beyond simply measuring GDPNo Small Change--Evaluating your community currency: free handbook
The Social Progress Imperative, which is a non profit organization in the USA, has published the Social Progress Index 2...
May 28, 2014
The Global Youth Wellbeing Index: Are a large majority of the world's youth experiencing lower levels of well-being?
In April 2014, the International Youth Foundation (IYF) and the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) l...
May 26, 2014
UK Government: Pubs are Assets of Community Value
In the UK, 100 community pubs have been listed as "assets" of community value under the scheme of Community Right to Bid...
May 23, 2014
On International Day of Happiness, UN urges action to end poverty, build harmony
On international day of happiness, to promote social inclusion and intercultural harmony, senior United Nations official...
March 28, 2014
Amsterdam Embraces Sharing Economy
Source: Collaborative Consumption 'Amsterdam Embraces Sharing Economy' presents a new economic concept being developed ...
March 03, 2014
The Legatum Institute (LI) released The 2013 Legatum Prosperity Indexin October 2013
(Original text is from The Legatum Institute) The Legatum Prosperity Index is an annual ranking of 142 countries, based ...
June 12, 2013
Over Half of People Expect To Be 'Better Off' in 13 of 14 Asian Cities in Survey
Original text is from Japan for Sustainability According to the seventh "Global HABIT" report issued on February 15, 201...
October 29, 2012
High UN officials calling for sustainable economic "far-reaching vision"
(Original text is from Life Beyond Growth) http://lifebeyondgrowth.wordpress.com/2012/09/27/high-un-officials-calling-f...
October 25, 2012
World Bank to provide US$ 100 million loan in support of 'green' policy development in India
(Original text is from Life Beyond Growth) http://lifebeyondgrowth.wordpress.com/2012/09/27/world-bank-to-provide-us-10...
October 23, 2012
Green Economy Coalition surveying the 'green economy' and 'green growth' landscape after Rio+20
(Original text is from Life Beyond Growth) http://lifebeyondgrowth.wordpress.com/2012/09/27/green-economy-coalition-sur...
October 21, 2012
OECD World Forum 2012 confirms that world has embraced new measures of progress
(Original text is from Life Beyond Growth) http://lifebeyondgrowth.wordpress.com/2012/10/17/oecd-world-forum-2012-confi...
