Happiness For Greater Lafayette Community Leadership
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Happiness Alliance presentation to Greater Lafayette Community Leadership on October 3, 2014. Discussion topics include what is the happiness movement, what are happiness measurement, who is using them and how, how can Lafayette use gross national happiness?
Transcript of Happiness For Greater Lafayette Community Leadership
Happiness Initiatives
A New Economic Paradigm
Gross National Happiness is more important than Gross National Product
Jigme Singye Wangchuk King of Bhutan 1972
Gross National
Happiness
- Material Wellbeing/Standard of Living
- Work
- Time Balance
- Arts & Culture
- Education
- Environment - Governance
- Health
- Community
- Social Support
- Affect (feelings)
- Satisfaction with Life - Psychological Wellbeing
Domain icons by Joumana Medlej at majnouna.com
What…is a happiness measurement?
Can Happiness be Measured?Answer: it already has
…by nation
Can Happiness be Measured?
Answer: YES
OECD’s Guidelines on Measuring Subjective Well-being which documents the validity and the status of happiness measurements.
Why measure happiness?
Gross Domestic ProductGross Domestic Product
What GDP counts:+ goods and services sold + oil spills, natural and manmade
disasters+ illness and death+ divorce+ accidents
What GDP does not count:- time with friends & family- volunteering, participating
in democratic process - gardening, educating
yourself - walking for exercise
the sum of all good and services produced in a year
Does GDP make us happy?
GDP in the US has
more than tripled
since 1950s.
Adjusted per capita
GDP since 1960 has
doubled since 2010
Happiness has remained stagnant and even fallen
Easterlin Paradox40 year study of nations across the globe
Up to a salary of $75K for family of four, long and short term happiness increases a lot with more money
After a salary of $75K, long term happiness increases are marginal or non-existent, short term increases in happiness do occur.
Purpose of government & life
Why measure happiness?
Granularity and defining issues
Capture the unobservable
Perception of hurting or thriving
A “guide societies toward desirable futures” in an experimenting society
Inclusivity – you are the data
UK
UK Office of Statistics
“To those who say this sounds like a distraction from the serious business of government, I say finding out what will improve lives and acting on it is the serious business of government.
"We'll continue to measure gross domestic product. But it is high time we admitted that, taken on its own, GDP is an incomplete way of measuring a country's progress.” – Prime Minister David Cameron
The spread of happiness
Surveyed 165,000 people between April 2011 and March 2012
Where Gross National Happiness Started - Bhutan
Genesis of the Nine Domains of GNH
Subjective and Objective indicators
Equal Weighting of Domains
Bhutan’s GNH report 2010What can Subjective and Objective Indicators tell us?
In the state of Gasa, people perceive themselves to have a similar standard of living to those in Thimphu
while the per capita income is lower.
State of Maryland
USA
Used by policy makers to determine priorities
and see how sustainability and long term prosperity change
over time.
Superseding GDP with Objective indicators
State of Vermont
USA
GPI +
the plus part
Using the GNH Index Survey
Gross National
Happiness
- Material Wellbeing/Standard of Living
- Work
- Time Balance
- Arts & Culture
- Education
- Environment - Governance
- Health
- Community
- Social Support
- Affect (feelings)
- Satisfaction with Life - Psychological Wellbeing
Domain icons by Joumana Medlej at majnouna.com
OutreachAssessing ImpactLeverage Points
Material Well-being/Standard of Living
In general, how much stress do you feel about your personal finances?
Overwhelming stressHigh stress
Moderate stressLow stress
No stress at all
Time Balance
In a typical week, how much of your time are you able to spend doing the kinds of things that you enjoy?
None of my timeNot much of my time
Some of my timeMost of my time
All of my time
Sick Leave Ordinances
City of San Francisco- Ch. 12W of SF Administrative Code in Paid Sick Leave Ordinance includes part time and temp workers
City of Seattle ordinance 123698 – municipal code for paid sick leave and paid safe time
Environment
How satisfied with you are the efforts being made to preserve the natural environment in your neighborhood.
Very dissatisfiedDissatisfied
Neither Satisfied nor DissatisfiedSatisfied
Very Satisfied
Wanted: Five to Seven Planets
If everyone on Earth consumed at the same level of the U.S
.
Bhutan’s Constitution: Preservation of the Natural Environment
60% natural habitat40% development
Bhutan’s Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) Policy of 2010 - encourages the development of an environmentally friendly, sustainable economy
Parking Days
Pop-Up Parks
What you can doTake the GHN Index How Happy Are YOU?
Find out Use the GNH Index for your project, city,
community, campus or company happycounts.org
Questions, comments, requests: [email protected]
EXTRA
My path to…My path to…
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industry
industry
mommom
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lawyerlawyer
director of
director of sustainability
sustainability
sustainable
sustainable
seattle
seattle
happiness
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Too much and too long, we seem to have surrendered community excellence Too much and too long, we seem to have surrendered community excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things. Our gross and community values in the mere accumulation of material things. Our gross national product ... if we should judge America by that - counts air pollution national product ... if we should judge America by that - counts air pollution and cigarette advertising, and ambulances to clear our highways of carnage. It and cigarette advertising, and ambulances to clear our highways of carnage. It counts special locks for our doors and the jails for those who break them. It counts special locks for our doors and the jails for those who break them. It counts the destruction of our redwoods and the loss of our natural wonder in counts the destruction of our redwoods and the loss of our natural wonder in chaotic sprawl. It counts napalm and the cost of a nuclear warhead, and chaotic sprawl. It counts napalm and the cost of a nuclear warhead, and armored cars for police who fight riots in our streets. It counts Whitman's rifle armored cars for police who fight riots in our streets. It counts Whitman's rifle and Speck's knife, and the television programs which glorify violence in order and Speck's knife, and the television programs which glorify violence in order to sell toys to our children.to sell toys to our children.
Yet the gross national product does not allow for the health of our children, the Yet the gross national product does not allow for the health of our children, the quality of their education, or the joy of their play. It does not include the quality of their education, or the joy of their play. It does not include the beauty of our poetry or the strength of our marriages; the intelligence of our beauty of our poetry or the strength of our marriages; the intelligence of our public debate or the integrity of our public officials. It measures neither our wit public debate or the integrity of our public officials. It measures neither our wit nor our courage; neither our wisdom nor our learning; neither our compassion nor our courage; neither our wisdom nor our learning; neither our compassion nor our devotion to our countrynor our devotion to our country; it measures everything, in short, except that ; it measures everything, in short, except that which makes life worthwhile.which makes life worthwhile. And it tells us everything about America except And it tells us everything about America except why we are proud that we are Americans. why we are proud that we are Americans.
- Robert Kennedy- Robert Kennedy
