the ecology of happiness

living richer by living better, (not quite) incidentally "for the planet," too

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Hard Happiness

Life is difficult. This is a great truth … because once we truly see this truth, we transcend it. Once we truly know that life is difficult – once we truly understand and accept it – then life is no longer difficult. Because once it is accepted, the fact that life is difficult no longer matters. [...]

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How to Change

Things are going swell. And not well at all. Life is not too bad, and even the lives of those who have it really worse seem to be getting rather better. At the same time, the “better” the poor are moving towards is the same lifestyle that has not made those of us in “developed” [...]

Eco-Logically, Really, Better Lives

… or, Bringing Lifestyle Design Back to Earth, Making It Multiply-Good Putting things rather too simple (the way it’s often done), there are two choices nowadays:

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"Futureconomics, or the economics of the future," Vandana Shiva says, "is based on people and biodiversity and not on fossil fuels, energy slaves, toxic chemicals and monocultures. ... The new paradigm we are creating on the ground and in our minds enriches livelihoods, health of people and ecosystems and cultures." She is one of the few who think like a true ecologist of the good life, seeing the connections... #
Another must-read piece, by Arundhati Roy, laying bare the ugly underbelly of modern capitalism in unfree markets: Capitalism: A Ghost Story #
Essential reading from Charles Eisenstein (author of "Sacred Economics"), reflecting on the UN High Level Meeting on Well-Being and Happiness, going to the cause beyond our current unhappy ways... #
"America:" #1 in all the wrong ways, or "America the Possible", no longer "substituting growth and consumption for dealing with the real issues—for doing the things that would make us, and the country, better off."? #
Scientific-cosmic connection... (more...) #

Welcome to the ecology of happiness

The Ecology of Happiness looks behind the surface of “green,” at the ways in which a human life actually gets richer and happier when it is lived as the part of this world it really is, in order to bring the entrepreneurial, experimental, can-do attitude of those who want to “lifestyle design” into the world of sustainability, and open up the world of opportunity that lies beyond “eco”