...by http://www.neweconomics.org/gen/

See map: http://www.happyplanetindex.org/explore/global/index.html

Let's keep going till we are the most gorgeous, healthy and united.

Utterly fascinating. A website that has such contempt for the US that the only place that really compares to it is the Congo, Chad, Angola, the Sudan and the rest of sub Saharan Africa. Come on man

"The HPI is an innovative measure that shows the ecological efficiency with which human well-being is delivered around the world. It is the first ever index to combine environmental impact with well-being to measure the environmental efficiency with which country by country, people live long and happy lives. The second compilation of the global HPI, published in July 2009, shows that we are still far from achieving sustainable well-being and puts forward a vision of what we need to do to get there.

The Index doesn’t reveal the ‘happiest’ country in the world. It shows the relative efficiency with which nations convert the planet’s natural resources into long and happy lives for their citizens. The nations that top the Index aren’t the happiest places in the world, but the nations that score well show that achieving, long, happy lives without over-stretching the planet’s resources is possible.

The HPI shows that around the world, high levels of resource consumption do not reliably produce high levels of well-being, and that it is possible to produce high well-being without excessive consumption of the Earth’s resources. It also reveals that there are different routes to achieving comparable levels of well-being. The model followed by the West can provide widespread longevity and variable life satisfaction, but it does so only at a vast and ultimately counter-productive cost in terms of resource consumption".

I copied this explanation of their approach from their website. I would hope that their measurements are not tainted by personal opinions.

The attempt here is to quantify the environmental cost of human consumption of resources.

The highest possible score should be where completely sustainable lifestyles are achieved in a nation. No country has yet achieved this.

As I have posted here before, this is what I am interested in exploring.

Just watched The Eleventh Hour by Leonardo DiCaprio. The use and effect of resource extraction is documented and discussed.

Opinions?

Turey, is The Eleventh Hour a movie or docu?. I'm not familiar.

Yes I, it's a long documentary, so I guess it could be called movie length documentary.

http://11thhouraction.com/seethefilm

Give t'anks bredren.

I am not being sarcastic.

If BREDS needed help of any kind, I'm sure it would manifest.

Just ask. Or am I wrong?

BREDS has a track record and a stated willingness and maybe just needs some more hands on deck.

I certainly do. Or rather HMS Gaia does.

Or whatever you call the moist earthen skin on which we do our thing.

Deep Green, maybe. better than Deep XXXXXX.