the ecology of happiness

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Aspirations and Better Ways

Living a middle class lifestyle, would you just want to give it up? Living in poverty, wouldn’t you be enticed by the images you see of better lives? This, of course, is the great problem that a transformation to better ways faces. The one, still smaller, part of the world’s population belonging to the middle [...]

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Showing “EcoHappy” – Images of the Multiply Better Lives

The good life is still, all too often, portrayed and seen as something like the lifestyles of the rich and famous. We are quite aware that these kinds of lifestyle may be costing the world, as even a decent standard of living for the entire world, based on current ways of doing things, likely would [...]

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” [...]

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