By Charles Eisenstein In George Orwell’s 1984, there is a moment when the Party announces an “increase” in the chocolate ration – from thirty grams to twenty. No one except for the protagonist, Winston, seems to notice that the ration has…
Just out from our colleagues at the Happiness Alliance: an overview of 2017 data compiled from the Happiness Index, an online questionnaire available at happycounts.org. This year’s “Happiness Report Card” is a combination of disquieting data points along with encouraging…
The use of population indicators is increasing across our society, but is hardly a new idea. Utilization of population indicators has been with us here in the United States from early in our country’s history – since taking a census,…
We are so pleased to announce that GNHUSA will be participating in the upcoming "Localize It: What Resilience Looks Like" conference in Royalton, Vermont at the Vermont Law School. The conference, one of four in the U.S. to be sponsored by…
Results from the 2017 Vermont Happiness study are in, and 78% of Vermonters say they’re happy. This study, a unique collaboration between Gross National Happiness USA, the Happiness Alliance, the Vermont State Data Center and the Center for Rural Studies, explores Vermonters’ dispositions across 11 life domains including social connectedness,…
"In his recent commentary Chamber of Commerce president William Moore cherry-picked some numbers to give a distorted perception of the economic life of Vermont. The real story is quite different. Moore says our smallest-in-the-country Gross State Product is 'bad news.'…