29 Nov 2011

From Corporate Ghost-Modernism to Anthropo-localism via... the Economics of Happiness

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The International Society for Ecology and Culture (ISEC) is a non-profit organization whose mission is to promote systemic solutions to today’s social and environmental crises. Its educational work seeks to reveal the root causes of those crises—from unemployment to climate change, from ethnic conflict to the loss of biodiversity— while promoting grassroots and policy-level strategies for ecological and community renewal.

a film by Helena Norberg-Hodge, Steven Gorelick & John Page


Far from the old institutions of power, people are starting to forge a very different future...


Featuring:
Vandana Shiva, Bill McKibben, David Korten, Michael Shuman, Juliet Schor, Richard Heinberg, Rob Hopkins, Andrew Simms, Zac Goldsmith, Samdhong Rinpoche, Clive Hamilton, Mohau Pheko, Keibo Oiwa and more...


Further measurement tools may be found via the Genuine Progress Index (GPI)...


... rather than the dated, environmentally eco-cidal Gross Domestic Product (GDP)!


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