Everyday environments and activities, from transportation to screen time to eating, are tailored nearly exclusively to prolonged sitting.
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Too much time sitting is linked to health risks, and also to lower quality of life. But in some contexts, such as reading, playing an instrument or socializing, sitting had positive associations.
An economist who has studied new ways to improve measures of gross domestic product explains what GDP is and how it could better reflect an economy and the well-being of its inhabitants.
Humans consume excessive resources with little or no benefits to well-being – and the politics of our economy are to blame. To counter the influence of industries in democracy, we must strike.
Finance minister Grant Robertson will announce New Zealand’s first budget that uses a well-being measures.
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Arthur Grimes, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington
New Zealand’s upcoming budget takes a well-being approach based on a suite of living standard indicators. But will this be different to what conservative governments elsewhere tried a decade ago?