Join Vala and several ASAP contributors in this research piece for the Geological Society as they explore the origins of GDP as a necessary metric back in 1944 and how it needs to evolve with growing inequality and natural resource depletion, and account for quality of life and happiness. This is an easy-to-read and straightforward […]
The Solutions Journal June 2012 The global economy rests on a knife’s edge. The financial crash of 2008 caused 50 trillion dollars and 80 million jobs to evaporate.1 And the wreck is not over. This article describes the major challenges facing the economy and proposes solutions. The Challenges The International Labor Organization sets forth the following […]
Click here to download the .pdf The world has changed dramatically. We no longer live in a world relatively empty of humans and their artifacts. We now live in the “Anthropocene,” era [1] in a full world where humans are dramatically altering our ecological life-support system [2]. Our traditional economic concepts and models were developed […]
The United Nations held its first ever International Day of Happiness on 20th March 2013. View the highlights video and factsheet distributed at this event. IDOH2013_FACT_SHEET_
