Written by Molly Haywood Newberry, Network Development Manager, Network of Wellbeing On 5th May 2026, I went to the book launch of The Elgar Companion to Creating a Regenerative Economy for Wellbeing – and left feeling something I hadn’t quite
By Martin Whitlock, Stop-GDP.org People from Totnes and the surrounding community gathered in the Methodist Church, on Thursday (4th February 2016), to hear Professor Lorenzo Fioramonti, a global thought leader in the “Beyond GDP” movement and author of Gross Domestic Problem:
GDP (Gross Domestic Product): “Measures everything except that which makes life worthwhile,” John F. Kennedy pointed out back in 1968. So why does GDP still have such a hold on our society? Why are we unable to shift our focus
Culture and context are significant contributors to individual and community wellbeing in ways that are often excluded from many approaches to measuring wellbeing. This video interview shares the perspective on relational wellbeing which requires an integrated approach. Personal processes are
An Opus Earth production for Network of Wellbeing. Dr Karen Scott is a research fellow at the Centre For Rural Economy at Newcastle University. Her research into qualitative measures of wellbeing is focused on the intersections between culture, wellbeing and the
Restoring and supporting people’s connection to Nature is vital for wellbeing, and rewilding is one powerful route towards this goal. This was one of the key messages heard from acclaimed writer George Monbiot and leading conservationist Alan Watson Featherstone at
Former Executive Director of NEF (the New Economics Foundation) Stewart Wallis offers an analysis of why we need a new economic system and points to what that might look like. Watch more and share: Watch more wellbeing-related videos >> Subscribe
The last few weeks have been difficult for many people in the UK. The debate, outcome and uncertainty following the UK’s EU referendum has heightened people’s emotions and left some feeling sad, some elated and many feeling confused. Unfortunately the
Sharing an understanding of wellbeing not as something that we can ‘have’ as an individual or small group, but as something that happens, that emerges in the inter-relations between personal, societal and environmental processes. The build up to Christmas often
An Opus Earth production for Network of Wellbeing. The annual Resurgence Festival of Wellbeing in 2015 comprised a day of “Wellbeing in Words” from inspirational speakers specialising in law, psychology, politics, economy, environment, spirituality, health and leadership held at the Bishopsgate
Natalie Bennett suggests we can use climate change as an opportunity to create a fairer society and a more balanced economy and that both wellbeing and climate change should be issues central to all shades of political opinion. Watch more
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