This was fwd to me from a friend in England. I recall a website was started
by the UK gov't earlier this year accepting input from the public on these
sorts of issues. The list responses were skeptical at best at that time.
Still, I like the 'talk'; it provides some criteria by which to measure the
'walk'. News coverage should provide details which I look fwd to studying.
Steve
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The Labour government in the UK has just initiated a "quality of life
barometer."
This is a set of indicators as to quality of life, not based on
conventional indicators such as GDP or economic growth, but on things like
air pollution levels, quality of the built environment, housing standards,
the state of the countryside, numbers of songbirds (as an indicator of the
environment) etc.
A big step in the right direction I think.
Kenn
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