Sustainability

Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2000 11:19:03 -0300 (ADT)
From: "Donald J. Black" <dblack@chebucto.ns.ca>
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While local action is critical, there must also be action in the sphere of 
public/political life. Otherwise local action groups are outgunned
by the most powerful commercial interests and remain relatively isolated,
with always inadequate resources.

For those interested in communication and behaviour change on a wide 
scale, one of the most promising movements now taking place is the 
adoption in national economics of some form of a "genuine progress" index 
to supplement and ultimately replace the "gross national product" index,
which only measures commercial output and has no reference to
the actual health or well-being of people or the natural world.

Go to <www.cyberus.ca/choose.sustain> to connect with The 
Sustainability Project for information about Bill C-469, the Canada 
Well-Being Measurement Act, introduced 27 March 2000 by Joe Jordan, MP. 
This is "An Act to develop and provide for the publication of measures 
to inform Canadians about the health and well-being of people, 
communities and ecosystems in Canada."

The Sustainability Project is the work of Mike Nickerson, a Canadian 
grass-roots environmental educator who has been working toward this 
development quietly and consistently for many years.

Also, go to <www.gpiatlantic.org>, site for the Genuine Progress Index 
for Atlantic Canada.  They say: "Application of the Genuine Progress 
Index to Nova Scotia can serve as a pilot project for Canada. To that 
end, Statistics Canada has provided in-kind support in the form of data 
access, ongoing advice and consultation, and review of drafts. Wide 
interest in the GPI reports to date has led to projects developing 
Genuine Progress indicators at the community level."

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