GNHUSA envisions a happy and ecologically sustainable future. Measure what Matters.
Vermont Teacher, Katherine Riley from CVU recently returned from Bhutan helping integrate GNH into School curricula for sustainability
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National “Pursuit of Happiness Day” Friday, April 13, 2012
A national day of conversations, teach-ins, learning about happiness and well-being and how we can use measures of well-being to bring us to a sustainable and happy future. Organize an event in your community! This is a national project.		 Conference 2010
U.N. Resolution promotes Alternative Indicators
68 member countries of the U.N. General Assembly have co-sponsored a resolution to encourage countries to develop and use well-being measures to guide their development and policy. 
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Seattle City Council unanimously adopts Happiness Initiative.
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Seattle receives first Happiness Initiative Report Card See Seattle Data

GNHUSA and the Gund Institute for Ecological Economics at UVM are collaborating on GPI and GNH Surveys for Vermont.
These compehensive surveys will be used to provide a base for discussion on how best to achieve genuine progress toward healthy and happy communities and for use by state and local government. 

GNHUSA 2012: Well-being and the pursuit of happiness in Vermont   Friday June 1, 2012 Burlington, Vermont
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Our Second Conference on GNH will focus on how we can measure well-being and use those indicators to help shape policy in state and local government and in organizations. We will explore how we can work with our communities to further our pursuit of happiness based on what we are learning from Vermont and National Surveys.

Take the New GNH Happiness Survey now! 

Take the new GNH Happiness Initiative Survey. This online survey takes about 12 minutes and provides you with an interesting snapshot of your level of well-being across 10 Domains and a comparison with a national average of all persons in the US who have taken the survey. Your data is not personally identified to maintain  confidentiality and the statistics are aggregated in the reports. Help us grow the number of surveys. If you include your zip code on the form we will be able to accumulate data for different places. Have fun! Many people report that the questions are very interesting and provide new ways to think about our lives and our communities.

The Four Pillars of GNH
• the promotion of equitable and sustainable socio-economic development
• the preservation and promotion of cultural values
• the conservation of the natural environment, and
• the establishment of good governance.

 
Cafe’ Scientifique “Measuring Happiness” Chris Danforth describes his work with textual analysis and measuring Happiness in real time with Twitter feeds. Watch the Video

Robert F. Kennedy Challenges Gross Domestic Product – 1968 Watch Video

What is GNH? Watch Video


Gross National HappinessToolkit (coming soon)

 

 What people are saying about GNH?
“What you measure affects what you do, If you don’t measure the right thing, you don’t do the right thing.”
Nobel Prize winner Joseph Stiglitz

“The legacy of this crisis will be a worldwide battle over ideas – over what kind of economic system is likely to deliver the greatest benefit to the most people.”
Joseph Stiglitz, coined G-192, chaired group of experts that prepared General Assembly of the UN on the economic crisis in June 2009

“We should take seriously the idea of measuring our gross national happiness, because it brings us back to our founding ideals. It makes us ask: Are we improving as a nation in protecting and exercising our right to pursue happiness? What can we – what should we do differently? If we’re serious about pursuing happiness, what should we as citizens demand of our leaders, present and future?”
Arthur C. Brooks,  Gross National Happiness: Why Happiness Matters for America and How We Can Get More of It

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