** http://www.foe.co.uk/progress **
Gross Domestic Product (GDP) is the wrong headline indicator of progress
for our society. Friends of the Earth has just launched an interactive
website, which promotes the Index of Sustainable Economic Welfare (ISEW)
as a replacement indicator for Gross Domestic Product.
The site allows users to change the values which underpin the ISEW,
creating indices of their own. The site directly addresses concerns
which some UK commentators have with alternative economic indicators,
and will show the averaged results of different groups of user - from
academics and business people to environmentalists and politicians.
I hope that you can spare quarter of an hour to look at and use this
site - we feel that it shows ISEW to be a robust indicator of welfare,
and that your views and the values you choose will be of use in
developing alternative indicators further. There is a discussion group
on the website - we hope that that you will want to join and contribute
to this as well.
This website was developed by Friends of the Earth, with the Centre for
Environmental Strategy at the University of Surrey and the New Economics
Foundation.
Regards,
Simon Bullock
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Simon Bullock
Sustainable Development Research Unit
Friends of the Earth (England, Wales and Northern Ireland)
26-28 Underwood Street, London, N1 7JQ, UK
Tel: (+44) 0171 566 1683
Fax: (+44) 0171 490 0881
http://www.foe.co.uk/progress
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